Electronic information and communication in mathematics

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the ICM 2002 International Satellite Conference on Electronic Information and Communication in Mathematics, held in Beijing, China, in August 2002. The 18 revised andnbsp;reviewed papersnbsp;assess the state of the art of the production and dissemination of electronic information in mathematics. Among the topics addressed are models and standards for information and metainformation representation; data search, discovery, retrieval, and analysis; access to distributed and heterogeneous digital collections; intelligent user interfaces to digital libraries; information agents, and cooperative work on mathematical data; digital collection generation; business models; and data security and protection.