tutorials. I would also like to thank Yong Meng Teo (PublicityChair),andtheregionco-ordinators, AlbertoLaender, ErichNeuhold, Shiwei Tang, and Masaaki Tsubaki, for taking care of publicity. The following three workshops are also organized to discuss speci?c t- ics of data modeling and databases: ¿International Workshop on Data Wa- housing and Data Mining¿ organized by Sham Navathe (Workshop chair) and MukeshMohania(ProgramCommitteeChair),¿InternationalWorkshoponNew Database Technologies for Collaborative Work Support and Spatio-Temporal DataManagement¿organizedbyYoshifumiMasunaga,and¿InternationalWo- shop on Mobile Data Access¿ organized by Dik L. Lee. Ee Peng Lim took care of all detailed work related to the workshops. I would like to thank all these people who organized the workshops as well as the members of program committees. The workshop proceedings will be published jointly after the workshop.