Advanced Information Systems Engineering

Invited Talk.- Towards Self-Managing Large Scale Information Systems.- Autonomous Semantic Web Services.- Managing an XML Warehouse in a P2P Context.- Regular Papers.- Multivalued Dependencies and a 4NF for XML.- Query Processing and Optimization for Regular Path Expressions.- An Adaptive Document Version Management Scheme.- Integrating Security and Systems Engineering: Towards the Modelling of Secure Information Systems.- IBIS: Semantic Data Integration at Work.- Towards a Generic Model for Situational Method Engineering.- Modeling Organizational Architectural Styles in UML.- No-redundant Metrics for UML Class Diagram Structural Complexity.- Implementing UML Association, Aggregation, and Composition. A Particular Interpretation Based on a Multidimensional Framework.- Exploring Web-Based Information System Design: A Discrete-Stage Methodology and the Corresponding Model.- Analysing the Impact of Adding Integrity Constraints to Information Systems.- Introducing Custom Language Extensions to SQL:1999.- Aligning Application Architecture to the Business Context.- A Three-Tier View-Based Methodology for Adapting Human-Agent Collaboration Systems.- Deliberation in a Modeling and Simulation Environment for Inter-organizational Networks.- Information Integration in Schema-Based Peer-To-Peer Networks.- Processing Queries in a Large Peer-to-Peer System.- Consistent Process Execution in Peer-to-Peer Information Systems.- Translating and Searching Service Descriptions Using Ontologies.- On the Query Refinement in the Ontology-Based Searching for Information.- An Ontology-Driven Framework for the Management of Semantic Metadata Describing Audiovisual Information.- Designing a Federated Multimedia Information System on the Semantic Web.- Embedding Metrics into Information Systems Development Methods: An Application of Method Engineering Technique.- A Value-Oriented Approach to E-business Process Design.- Derivation Rules in Object-Oriented Conceptual Modeling Languages.- Issues