The following topics are dealt with: Internet computing; space system; robotic system; large scale data integration; manufacturing system; command and control; information assurance; soft computing; agent based system; evolutionary computing; knowledge management; e-government; biomedical system; component based design; heuristic search; heuristic optimization; software architecture; components integration; multimedia reuse; multimedia integration; data mining; knowledge discovery; human machine information system; fuzzy system; neural system; software engineering reuse; natural language understanding; AI; decision support system; sensory fusion; and information fusion