Physics and Contemporary Needs van Oystaeyen large enterprises have approximately a 9781447154839 large enterprises have approximately a petabyte of operational data stored in hundreds of data repositories supporting thousands of applications The planning and management of the scientific and social programme of the Conference were carried out jointly by the "Ethylene Research Group" of ENSAlIN"P (Toulouse) and Agropole Congres Service (Agen) The lectures delivered at the college covered a wide spectrum of physics and indicated similarity of methodology used in various branches of physics as well as practical applications of some of the topics discussed These proceedings contain only regular lectures delivered there but