The 31 papers discuss such topics as a model and software architecture for visualizing search results on the World Wide Web, a survey of longest common subsequence algorithms, an effective clustering algorithm to index high dimensional metric spaces, rotation-invariant histogram filters for similarity and distance measures between digital images, a fully compressed pattern matching algorithm for balanced straight-line programs, a word-stemming algorithm for the Spanish language, fast multi- pattern search algorithms for detecting intrusion, implementing document ranking within a logical framework, parallel searches using partitioned inverted files, and detecting prosodic stress and topics in spoken sentences. Subjects are not indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)