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Contains papers from a fall 2000 conference, in sections on object- oriented system development, applications of object technology, distributed systems and parallel systems, agents, database, components, and Web and Internet. Specific topics include improving object-oriented analysis by explicit change analysis, design consideration using the multimedia object repository, a protocol mapping model for distributed multimedia systems, counter inference of intelligent agents, spatiotemporal data modeling, implementing trading object services in COM, and using the Web and Jini to link vending machines and enterprise systems. Lacks a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.