This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Advances in Information Systems, ADVIS 2000, held in Izmir, Turkey in October 2000. The 43 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 80 submissions. The book offers topical sections on data warehouses, databases, computer networks, constraint programming, content-based image retrieval, Internet technologies, information systems, information retrieval, and artificial intelligence.