Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the three confederated conferences CoopIS 2005, DOA 2005, and ODBASE 2005 held as OTM 2005 in Agia Napa, Cyprus in October/November 2005. This title presents 89 revised and 7 short papers together with 3 keynote speeches that were reviewed and selected from a total of 360 submissions.

Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA) 2005 International Conference (continued).- Evaluation of Three Approaches for CORBA Firewall/NAT Traversal.- On the Design of Access Control to Prevent Sensitive Information Leakage in Distributed Object Systems: A Colored Petri Net Based Model.- Offline Business Objects: Enabling Data Persistence for Distributed Desktop Applications.- Middleware Support for Dynamic Component Updating.- Two Ways of Implementing Software Connections Among Distributed Components.- On the Notion of Coupling in Communication Middleware.- A Task-Type Aware Transaction Scheduling Algorithm in J2EE.- Application Object Isolation in Cross-Platform Operating Environments.- Garbage Collection in the Presence of Remote Objects: An Empirical Study.- Peer-to-Peer Distribution Architectures Providing Uniform Download Rates.- JXTA Messaging: Analysis of Feature-Performance Tradeoffs and Implications for System Design.- An Aspect-Oriented Communication Middleware System.- Using AOP to Customize a Reflective Middleware.- Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE) 2005 International Conference.- ODBASE 2005 PC Co-Chairs’ Message.- Inferring Complex Semantic Mappings Between Relational Tables and Ontologies from Simple Correspondences.- Ontology Transformation and Reasoning for Model-Driven Architecture.- Multidimensional RDF.- GeRoMe: A Generic Role Based Metamodel for Model Management.- Probabilistic Iterative Duplicate Detection.- Efficient Processing of XPath Queries with Structured Overlay Networks.- Community Based Ranking in Peer-to-Peer Networks.- Ontology–Based Representation and Query Colour Descriptions from Botanical Documents.- Creating Ontologies for Content Representation—The OntoSeed Suite.- Fully Automatic Construction ofEnterprise Ontologies Using Design Patterns: Initial Method and First Experiences.- Automatic Ontology Extraction from Unstructured Texts.- Metadata Management in a Multiversion Data Warehouse.- Metadata Management for Ad-Hoc InfoWare – A Rescue and Emergency Use Case for Mobile Ad-Hoc Scenarios.- Managing Petri Nets in MOF Repositories.- A Meta-ontological Architecture for Foundational Ontologies.- Web Image Semantic Clustering.- Biomedical Retrieval: How Can a Thesaurus Help?.- Hybrid Model for Semantic Similarity Measurement.- Ontology-Based Spatial Query Expansion in Information Retrieval.- Security Ontology for Annotating Resources.- An Ontology for Mobile Agents in the Context of Formal Verification.- Evaluating Ontology Criteria for Requirements in a Geographic Travel Domain.- A Self-monitoring System to Satisfy Data Quality Requirements.- An Ontology- and Resources-Based Approach to Evolution and Reactivity in the Semantic Web.- Automatic Web Service Composition Based on Graph Network Analysis Metrics.- ODBASE 2005 Short Papers.- Two Reasoning Methods for Extended Fuzzy ALCH.- Expressing Preferences in a Viewpoint Ontology.- Architecting Ontology for Scalability and Versatility.- OWL-Based User Preference and Behavior Routine Ontology for Ubiquitous System.- Reasoning on Dynamically Built Reasoning Space with Ontology Modules.- An Efficient Branch Query Rewriting Algorithm for XML Query Optimization.- Automated Migration of Data-Intensive Web Pages into Ontology-Based Semantic Web: A Reverse Engineering Approach.