The Computer Systems Department regularly hosts international visitors and maintains extensive links with local specialists. This subject capitalises on these resources as they become available and so presents material at a hight level by internationally recognised specialists. Topics are chosen from: combinatorial optimisation, computer-supported cooperative work, data mining and visualisation, e-commerce, high-performance and distributed computing applications, computer vision and image processing, interaction design and useability issues for mobile and web-based applications, networking, search and visualisation methodologies for the Internet, virtual worlds and communities, Web services and Semantic Web.