Modern information systems differ in essence from their predecessors. They support operations at multiple locations and different time zones, are distributed and network-based, and use multidimensional data analysis, data warehousing, knowledge discovery, knowledge management, mobile computing, and other modern information processing methods.

1: Foundations of databases.- Object Views and Query Modification.- On Materialising Object—Oriented Views.- Indexing on Multivalued Attributes: Partial-Order Trees vs. Bitmaps.- 2: Knowledge Management, Data Mining, and Data Warehousing.- Knowledge Management, Metadata and Information Systems: An RDF-Compliant Version of the NKRL Language.- Precise Enterprises and Imperfect Data.- Statistical Quality Control of Warehouse Data.- Data Mining within DBMS Functionality.- Parameterised Patterns for Conceptual Modelling of Data Warehouses.- 3: Distributed Information Systems, Mobile Computing, and Agents.- Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design of Organisational Information Systems.- Development of Distributed Systems with JAVA™ and CORBA™ Issues and Solutions.- Configured Replication for Mobile Applications.- 4: Network-based Information Systems.- An Infrastructure for an Electronic Market of Scientific Literature.- Heterogeneous Database Browsing in WWW Based on Meta Model of Data Sources.- Building Digital Video Editing System Based on Dynamic Synchronous Transfer Mode Network.- 5: Information Systems and Software Engineering.- The Use of Aggregate Approach for Formal Specification and Simulation of Real-time Systems.- Using Software Reuse to Drive Requirements.- An Approach to Modelling Expertise in the Environment Pollution Evaluation System.- An GOAD Approach to Resolve Conflicting Management of Shared Objects Between Components.- Object-Oriented Design Frameworks: Formal Specification and Some Implementation Issues.- Problem Resolution Process for Software Porting Project — A Case Study.- 6: Knowledge Bases, Artificial Intelligence, and Information Systems.- Model Transformations for Knowledge Base Integration within the Framework of Structural Modelling.- Methodsof Partial Logic for Knowledge Representation and Deductive Reasoning in Incompletely Specified Domains.- 7: Activity Modelling and Workflow Management.- Skill-Management: A Building Block for Project Management with Flexible Teams.- Model of Reports Based Information System.- A New Approach to the Modelling, Design, and Implementation of Business Information Systems.- Integration of GIS and Expert Systems.- Author Index.