Information Systems and e-Business Technologies 2nd International United Information Systems Conference, UNISCON 2008, Klagenfurt, Austria, April 22-25, 2008, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of UNISCON 2008 held in Klagenfurt, Austria, during April 22-25, 2008.

UNISCON combines the ECOMO workshop series and the ISTA conference series. The 19 papers dealing with conceptual modeling, model-driven software development and information systems applications represent a 30% selection from the original set of submissions.

They are completed by two keynote lectures and 35 papers from internationally renowned researchers, invited in honor of Heinrich C. Mayr, whose 60th birthday is also celebrated at this event, that he originally created.

Keynotes.- Standardizing Methodology Metamodelling and Notation: An ISO Exemplar.- Dependable Systems — Wishful Thinking or Realistic Expectation?.- Invited Talks.- Interoperability Governance for e-Government.- Foundational Data Modeling and Schema Transformations for XML Data Engineering.- Integration of Semantic XForms and Personal Web Services as a Tool to Bridge the Gap between Personal Desktops and Global Business Processes.- A Slicing Technique for Business Processes.- Public Adoption of Digital Multimedia — Why Is It Lagging behind Expectations? (Extended Abstract).- Model-Driven Security Engineering of Service Oriented Systems.- Towards Truly Flexible and Adaptive Process-Aware Information Systems.- From Human Knowledge to Process Models.- Temporal Consistency of View Based Interorganizational Workflows.- Engineering Design Performance (Extended Abstract).- Integration — Reflections on a Pivotal Concept for Designing and Evaluating Information Systems.- Aspect Based Conceptual Modelling of Web Applications.- The Influence of Mobile Computing to Information Systems Technology.- Engineers Discovering the “Real World” — From Model-Driven to Ontology-Based Software Engineering.- Holistic Engineering of Ultra-Highspeed Mobile Information and Communication Systems.- A Framework for Building Mapping Operators Resolving Structural Heterogeneities.- Metamodeling: Some Application Areas in Information Systems.- Collaborative Model Driven Software Development for SOA-Based Systems.- A Meta-model-Driven Tool Integration Development Process.- Information and Communication Systems for Mobile Emergency Response.- Tacit Knowledge Management: Do We Need a Re-orientation of Traditional KM Approaches?.- Collaborative Software Development: A Case Study of ModelInterdependencies.- Conceptual Modelling in an Evolving World.- An Ontological-Based Approach to Analyze Software Production Methods.- Towards a Theory of Services.- Evolving and Implanting Web-Based E-Government-Systems in Universities.- Facets of Media Types.- e-Skills and Standards — Prerequisites to Fully Exploit the Potential of ICT in Europe.- ASM Foundations of Database Management.- Software Quality — Experiences in System Development and Operation.- Adaptive Macro-designing Technology for Complex Process Control Systems.- Mokum for Correctness by Design in Relation to MDA.- Conceptual Model — Meeting of Cultures.- Operational Business-IT Alignment in Value Webs.- Towards Virtual Sales Assistants: State-of-the-Art and Research Challenges.- ISTA Papers.- An Investigation into Improving the Load Balance for Term-Based Partitioning.- A UML-Rewriting Driven Architectural Proposal for Developing Adaptive Concurrent IS.- A Framework for Designing and Recognizing Sketch-Based Libraries for Pervasive Systems.- A Conceptual Framework for Handling Complex Administrative Processes in E-Government.- Fuzzy Time Intervals for Simulating Actions.- Conceptual Design of a Method to Support IS Security Investment Decisions.- A Query Language for Rational Tree Structures.- A Learning Object Composition Model.- Gathering Preference Data from Restricted Natural Language.- Patterns for Screenography.- A Model of Self-organized Criticality in Emergent Web Systems.- Towards Prototyping-Based Technology for Adaptive Software Development.- Management of Multi-services Structures Through an Access Control Framework.- Contract-Based Exception Handling Process Patterns.- Mobile Applications for the Academic Environment.- eCOMO Papers.- Modeling Trust Relationships in CollaborativeEngineering Projects.- Loosening the Hierarchy of Cross-Company Electronic Collaboration.- (Meta-)Models, Tools and Infrastructures for Business Application Integration.- The Impact of Structuredness on Error Probability of Process Models.