MMCN 2001 -- Multimedia Computing and Networking 2002 - San Jose, California, USA, 18-25 January 2002. ETAPS 2002 -- European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software - Grenoble, France, 25 March - 2 April 2002. 2002 International Conference on Software Engineering - Buenos Aires, Argentina, 19-25 May 2002. USENIX 2002 -- Annual Technical Conference - Monterey, California, 9-14 June 2002. ACISP 2002 -- The 7th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy - Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, 3-5 July 2002. DSIAGE2002 -- Decision Making and Decision Support in the Internet Age - Cork, Ireland, 4-7 July 2002. Virtual Prototyping Today: Industrial Impact and Future Trends - Villa Caroli-Zanchi, Stezzano, Italy, 3 October 2002. CIKM 2002 -- ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management - SAIC Headquarters, McLean, Virginia, USA, 4-9 November 2002.