Besides them some of the hot topics related to information systems were included in the scope of this conference, such as data mining and kno- edge discovery, Web information systems development, information privacy and security, multimedia information systems, and network management.

Databases and Data Warehouses.- Temporality in Databases.- On Uncertainty and Data-Warehouse Design.- A Data Warehouse Engineering Process.- Aggregation and Analysis of Spatial Data by Means of Materialized Aggregation Tree.- An Object-Oriented Framework for Reconciliation and Extraction in Heterogeneous Data Federations.- On Optimising Data Access Via Materialised Methods in Object-Oriented Systems.- Some Modifications of Bucket-Based Algorithms for Query Rewriting Using Views.- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.- A Data Mining Application on Air Temperature Database.- Incremental Association Rule Mining Using Materialized Data Mining Views.- Outlier Effects on Databases.- Finding Maximal Similar Paths Between XML Documents Using Sequential Patterns.- Web Information Systems Development.- Using Ontologies for Collaborative Information Management: Some Challenges and Ideas.- The Construction of Domain Ontology and Its Application to Document Retrieval.- WetDL: A Web Information Extraction Language.- Towards Building Knowledge Centres on the World Wide Web.- Navigation Modelling from a User Services Oriented Approach.- Kreios: Towards Semantic Interoperable Systems.- Adaptive Architecture for Web Server Survivability.- Information Systems Development and Management.- Integration and Maintenance of Heterogeneous Applications and Data Structures.- A Component Language for Hybrid Solver Cooperations.- Non-interleaved Quadtree Node Codification.- Parameterized Formatting of an XML Document by XSL Rules.- A Middleware Approach to Storing and Querying XML Documents in Relational Databases.- Information Retrieval.- On Families of New Adaptive Compression Algorithms Suitable for Time-Varying Source Data.- Text Summarization and Singular Value Decomposition.- Sentence BoundaryDetection in Turkish.- Multiple Sets of Rules for Text Categorization.- Zipf’s Law and Mandelbrot’s Constants for Turkish Language Using Turkish Corpus (TurCo).- Letter Based Text Scoring Method for Language Identification.- Parallel and Distributed Data Processing.- Parallel Implementation of a VQ-Based Text-Independent Speaker Identification.- A Distributed Model of Neuronal Regulators Based on Message-Driven Software Component Architecture.- Winsim: A Tool for Performance Evaluation of Parallel and Distributed Systems.- Integrating Distributed Composite Objects into Java Environment.- Content-Based Distribution for Load Sharing in Locally Clustered Web Servers.- A Study on Grid Partition for Declustering High-Dimensional Data.- Design and Implementation of a Real-Time Static Locking Protocol for Main-Memory Database Systems.- Multimedia Information Systems.- Integrated Querying of Images by Color, Shape, and Texture Content of Salient Objects.- Trajectory-Based Video Retrieval for Multimedia Information Systems.- Using an Exact Radial Basis Function Artificial Neural Network for Impulsive Noise Suppression from Highly Distorted Image Databases.- A Histogram Smoothing Method for Digital Subtraction Radiography.- Efficient Liver Segmentation Based on the Spine.- Information Privacy and Security.- Practical and Secure E-Mail System (PractiSES).- A Preprocessor Adding Security to and Improving the Performances of Arithmetic and Huffman Codings.- Performance Evaluation of Digital Audio Watermarking Techniques Designed in Time, Frequency and Cepstrum Domains.- Evolutionary and Knowledge-Based Systems.- A Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Packing in 3D with Deepest Bottom Left with Fill Method.- Multi-objective Genetic Algorithm Based Clustering Approach and Its Applicationto Gene Expression Data.- An Application of Support Vector Machine in Bioinformatics: Automated Recognition of Epileptiform Patterns in EEG Using SVM Classifier Designed by a Perturbation Method.- Selection of Optimal Dimensionality Reduction Methods for Face Recognition Using Genetic Algorithms.- Performance Comparison of Genetic and Differential Evolution Algorithms for Digital FIR Filter Design.- Kidney Allocation Expert System with Case-Based Reasoning.- Software Engineering and Business Process Models.- Integrating AI and OR: An Industrial Engineering Perspective.- Framework for Knowledge-Based IS Engineering.- Modelling Variability in Requirements with Maps.- Kaliphimos: A Community-Based Peer-to-Peer Group Management Scheme.- On the Application of WF-Nets for Checking Hybrid IDEF0-IDEF3 Business Process Models.- Practical Investigation into the Maintainability of Object-Oriented Systems for Mission Critical Business.- Network Management.- A New MAC Protocol Design for WATM Networks.- Fuzzy Logic Based Congestion Avoidance in TCP/AQM Networks.- Distributed Group Access Control Architecture for Secure Multicast.- Virtual-IP Zone Algorithm in IP Micro Mobility Environments.- A Network Management Approach for QoS Evaluation of IP Multimedia Services.