The evolution and popularity of the Internet and computing GRID has brought the cooperative computing research discipline to the Internet, for which we coined the term Cooperative Internet Computing (CIC). This conference brings together new and different approaches to CIC.The book contains the revised version of the 12 best papers presented at the conference, listed under four categories: theories and protocols of CIC, technologies and architecture of CIC, collaborative information retrieval, and CIC applications.This collection serves as a useful resource for those interested in the research and study of CIC.

Theories and Protocols of CIC: A Time Workflow Model with Temporal Logic Constraints and Its Verification (Q Yang et al.); A Persistent Conversation Protocol Supporting Anonymity and Security (C Wang et al.); Technologies and Architecture for Collaboration: An Overlay Multicast Routing Scheme for Messaging Among Co-servers (S Yang & M Shi); On Deployment of Economy Business Models and Grid Technologies in Grid Portal GOCPortal (K-C Li et al.); Commercial Economic Business Strategies and Models for Grid Computing Environments (K-C Li et al.); Collaborative Information Retrieval: Design and Anatomy of a Social Web Filtering Service (M G Noll & C Meinel); Evaluation of a Rating Inference Approach to Utilizing Textual Reviews for Collaborative Recommendation (C W K Leung et al.); Clustering Sitemaps for Effective Querying (P Ng & V T Y Ng); CIC Applications: Web-Based Collaborative Development Environment for an ISA Simulator (H Yanagisawa et al.); A Shared Infrastructure for Cooperative Sensing Applications (Z Liu et al.); UPnP Eventing with Multicast Support in Home Computing Network (C-L Hu et al.); A Web-Service-Based Open-Systems Architecture for Achieving Heterogeneity in Synchronous Collaborative Editing Systems (J A Preston & S K Prasad).