This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Worldwide Computing and Its Applications, WWCA'98, held in Tsukuba, Japan, in March 1998.
This volume presents 14 invited and survey papers together with 20 papers selected by the conference committee. The volume is divided into topical sections on distributed objects, distributed componentware, distributed systems platforms, Internet technology, mobile computing, interculture technology, collaborative media, collaborative support, information discovery and retrieval, novel network applications.

This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference on Worldwide Computing and Its Applications, WWCA'97, held in Tsukuba, Japan, in March 1997.
The volume presents 15 revised full papers selected from 50 submissions as well as 15 revised invited papers by leading researchers in this emerging area and two keynotes. The papers are organized in topical sections on distributed programming languages and systems, distributed object environments, cooperative computation, collaboration support Systems, collaborative media, novel distributed applications, Internet and protocols, distributed system platforms, mobile computing, and application gateways.