Business process management (BPM) is an established research domain for computer
science, information systems, and management scholars. The record number
and wide scope of submissions to the eighth installation of the International
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We are delighted lo present the ECDL 2004 Conference proceedings from the
8th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Li-
braries at the University of Bath. Bath, UK. This followed an impressive and
geographically dispersed series of locations for previous events: Pisa (1997). ller-
aklion (1998),...
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There was a time not so long ago, well within the memory of many of us, when medical
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