Web Intelligence: Research and Development : First Asia Pacific Conference WI 2001 Maebashi City Japan October 23–26 2001 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First Asia Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence WI 2001 held in Maebashi City Japan in October 2001. The 28 revised full papers and 45 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 153 full length paper submissions. Also included are an introductory survey and six invited presentations. The book offers topical sections on Web information systems environments and foundations Web human media engineering Web information management Web information retrieval Web agents Web mining and farming and Web based applications