The WWW8 Program Committee was in charge of selecting the technical papers that appear in these Proceedings. The committee was divided into six tracks. The review process culminated on January 28, 1999, in a meeting in which 48 papers were selected for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the Proceedings.

The WWW8 Program Committee was in charge of selecting the technical papers that appear in these Proceedings. The committee was divided into six tracks, each with one or two vicechairs. 304 Submissions were received, which were extensively reviewed for originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation. The review process culminated on January 28, 1999, in a meeting in which 48 papers were selected for presentation at the conference and inclusion in the Proceedings. The submission and review process were completely Web-based, supported by the excellent WitanWeb software package, developed by Dr. Howard Johnson at the National Research Council of Canada. The technical program is of high quality, and the more than 90 committee members and more than 60 additional reviewers provided close to 1,000 thoughtful and expert reports.

Chapter Headings only.The Electronic Marketplace. Multimedia and User Interaction. XML. Web Server Performance. Customizing Web Sites. Searching and Discovery. Searching and Querying 1. Web Document Management. Hypermedia and Video. Searching and Mining the Web. Links. Server Performance.
Electronic Commerce, Security, and Applications.
Searching and Querying 2. Hypertext and Hypermedia. Protocols and Performance.
Panel Abstracts. Mobile computing and accessiblity. Why are all these Internet companies worth so much?. Web-based everything: are HTTP, DAV and XML enough?. Finding anything in the billion page Werb: are algorithms the key. Town meeting: successful Web design . Agents vs. direct manipulation: what's best to disentangle the Web?. Language on trial. The Web as an application platform.