The objective is to advance understanding about how the object technology can empower information systems in organizations, on techniques for designing effective and efficient information systems and methods and development tools for information systems engineering.

INVITED TALKS.- Object Databases: Connectivity with Relational Systems and ODMG Standard (Summary).- Standardization for 00 A & D?.- MODELLING ISSUES.- A Characterization of Aggregation.- Object-Oriented Hierarchies and Their Resulting Complex Systems.- Multiple Viewpoints of IS-A Inheritance Hierarchies through Normalization and Denormalization Mechanisms.- QUERIES AND VIEWS.- Deductive Queries in ODMG Databases: the DOQL Approach.- Incremental Maintenance of Materialized Path Query Views.- A Multidatabase Layer for the ODMG Object Model.- REUSE.- The Re-use of Multimedia Objects by Software Agents in the Kimsac System.- Design Patterns as Litmus Paper to Test the Strength of Object-Oriented Methods.- Reuse by Appropriation of Software Elements in Information Systems.- Improving Productivity in Building Data-Oriented Information Systems - Why Object Frameworks Are Not Enough.- METHOD ISSUES.- “The Truth Is Out There?”: A Survey of Business Objects.- Patterns for Extending an 00 Model with Temporal Features.- DESIGN ISSUES.- Representation of Multi-level Composite Objects in Relational Databases.- Complex Methods and Class Allocation in Distributed OODBSs.- MODELLING ISSUES.- Specialization of Object Lifecycles.- An Enhanced Definition of Composition and its use for Abstraction.- How to Introduce Emergence in Object Evolution.- EVOLUTION AND INTEROPERABILITY.- Defining Rules for Schema Transformation.- Ontology of Object-Oriented Database Evolution.- Capacity-Augmenting Schema Changes on Object-Oriented Databases: Towards Increased Interoperability.- METHOD ISSUES.- Model Engineering Using Charts of Concepts: Application to the Model oftheUML.- A CASE Tool for the Modeling of Methods and Information Systems.- A Semi-automatic Process of Identifying Overlaps andInconsistencies between Requirements Specifications.- DESIGN ISSUES.- Consistency Analysis on Lifecycle Model and Interaction Model.- Subjective Method Interpretation in Object-Oriented Modeling.- Composition of UML Design Models: A Tool to Support the Resolution of Conflicts.- PANEL: 00 TRENDS AND PERSPECTIVES.- An Object-Oriented Architecture Model for International Information Systems? An Exploratory Study.- A Perspective on Foundations of Object-Oriented Information Systems.- Author Index.

GPSR Compliance The European Union's (EU) General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) is a set of rules that requires consumer products to be safe and our obligations to ensure this. If you have any concerns about our products you can contact us on ProductSafety@springernature.com. In case Publisher is established outside the EU, the EU authorized representative is: Springer Nature Customer Service Center GmbH Europaplatz 3 69115 Heidelberg, Germany ProductSafety@springernature.com