The papers offers sections on database integration, temporal and active database modelling, database and data warehouse design techniques, web-based information systems, conceptual modelling and XML, engineering and multimedia application modelling, object-oriented modelling, and other topics.

Invited Papers.- Data Warehouse Scenarios for Model Management.- Reflections on Computer Science and Information Systems Research.- From Entities and Relationships to Social Actors and Dependencies.- Database Integration.- A Pragmatic Method for the Integration of Higher-Order Entity-Relationship Schemata.- Explicit Modeling of the Semantics of Large Multi-layered Object-Oriented Databases.- Declarative Mediation in Distributed Systems.- Temporal and Active Database Modeling.- Temporal Constraints for Object Migration and Behavior Modeling Using Colored Petri Nets.- SQLST : A Spatio-Temporal Data Model and Query Language.- TBE: Trigger-By-Example.- Database and Data Warehouse Design Techniques.- Decomposition by Pivoting and Path Cardinality Constraints.- IS=DBS+Interaction: Towards Principles of Information System Design.- A Viewpoint-Based Framework for Discussing the Use of Multiple Modelling Representations.- Practical Approach to Selecting Data Warehouse Views Using Data Dependencies.- Database and Data Warehouse Design Techniques.- Semantic Analysis Patterns.- Tool Support for Reuse of Analysis Patterns — A Case Study.- Ontological Analysis of Taxonomic Relationships.- Web-Based Information Systems.- A Conceptual Model for the Web.- Adapting Materialized Views after Redefinition in Distributed Environments.- On Warehousing Historical Web Information.- Business Process Modeling.- On Business Process Model Transformations.- Towards Use Case and Conceptual Models through Business Modeling.- A Conceptual Modeling Framework for Multi-agent Information Systems.- Conceptual Modeling and XML.- Object Role Modelling and XML-Schema.- Constraints-Preserving Transformation from XML Document Type Definition to Relational Schema.- X-Ray - Towards Integrating XML andRelational Database Systems.- Engineering and Multimedia Application Modeling.- A Conceptual Model for Remote Data Acquisition Systems.- A Modeling Language for Design Processes in Chemical Engineering.- VideoGraph: A Graphical Object-Based Model for Representing and Querying Video Data.- Object-Oriented Modeling.- Object-Oriented Modelling in Practice: Class Model Perceptions in the ERM Context.- ROVER: A Framework for the Evolution of Relationships.- Improving the Reuse Possibilities of the Behavioral Aspects of Object-Oriented Domain Models.- Applying Object-Oriented Technology.- Algebraic Database Migration to Object Technology.- A Layered Software Specification Architecture.- A Reuse-Based Object-Oriented Framework Towards Easy Formulation of Complex Queries.- Quality in Conceptual Modeling.- Evaluating the Quality of Reference Models.- Measures for Assessing Dynamic Complexity Aspects of Object-Oriented Conceptual Schemes.- Measuring the Quality of Entity Relationship Diagrams.- Application Design Using UML.- Behavior Consistent Inheritance in UML.- The Viewpoint Abstraction in ObjectOriented Modeling and the UML.- XML Conceptual Modeling Using UML.- DAMA International Industrial Abstracts.- Metadata Engineering for Corporate Portals Using XML.- The Role of Information Resource Management in Managing a Corporate Portal.- The Five-Tier Five-Schema Concept.- Documenting Meta Data Transformations.- Advanced Data Model Patterns.- Information Quality at Every Stage of the Information Chain.- A Fact-Oriented Approach to Business Rules.- Personalized Digests of Sports Programs Using Intuitive Retrieval and Semantic Analysis.