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

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.

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