The Enterprise Information Systems IX book, now in the new LNBIP series by Springer-Verlag, includes the best papers from ICEIS 2007

• TRANSFORMATION OF LEGACY BUSINESS SOFTWARE INTO CLIENT-SERVER ARCHITECTURES
  Thomas Rauber and Gudula Rünger

• DETERMINING THE COSTS OF ERP IMPLEMENTATION
  Rob J. Kusters, Fred J. Heemstra and Arjan Jonker

• A VIRTUALIZATION APPROACH FOR REUSING MIDDLEWARE ADAPTERS
  Ralf Wagner and Bernhard Mitschang

• ONE-TO-MANY DATA TRANSFORMATION OPERATIONS - Optimization and Execution on an RDBMS
  Paulo Carreira, Helena Galhardas, João Pereira and Andrzej Wichert

• NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION IN BIOMEDICAL LITERATURE USING TWO-LAYER SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES
  Feng Liu, Yifei Chen and Bernard Manderick

• DELINEATING TOPIC AND DISCUSSANT TRANSITIONS IN ONLINE COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS
  Noriko Imafuji Yasui, Xavier Llorà, David E. Goldberg, Yuichi Washida and Hiroshi Tamura

• IMPRECISE EMPIRICAL ONTOLOGY REFINEMENT - Application to Taxonomy Acquisition
  Vít Novácek

• A DISTRIBUTED MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM TO SOLVE AIRLINE OPERATIONS PROBLEMS
  Antonio Castro and Eugenio Oliveira

• AN EVALUATION OF CASE HANDLING SYSTEMS FOR PRODUCT BASED WORKFLOW DESIGN
  Irene Vanderfeesten, Hajo A. Reijers and Wil M. P. van der Aalst

• AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH FOR BUSINESS PROCESS REDESIGN - Towards an Intelligent System
  Mariska Netjes, Selma Limam Mansar, Hajo A. Reijers and Wil M. P. van der Aalst

• DESIGNING AN APPROPRIATE INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGY FOR DIFFERENT SITUATIONS
  David Avison and Jan Pries-Heje

• MODEL-DRIVEN DESIGN OF CONTEXT-AWARE APPLICATIONS
  Boris Shishkov and Marten van Sinderen

• AN INSTRUMENT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE PRACTICE
  Marlies van Steenbergen, Martin van den Berg and Sjaak Brinkkemper

• DEVELOPING EXECUTABLE MODELS OF BUSINESS SYSTEMS
  Joseph Barjis

• OPTING FOR INNOVATION IN MOBILE APPLICATIONS
  Jens H. Hosbond, Peter A. Nielsen and Ivan Aaen

• REDUCING REQUIREMENTS TO EIS SPECIFICATIONS GAP USING RM-ODP ENTERPRISE VIEWPOINT
  Christophe Addinquy and Bruno Traverson

• TOWARDS A FORMAL VERIFICATION OF PROCESS MODEL'S PROPERTIES SIMPLEPDL AND TOCL CASE STUDY
  Benoît Combemale, Pierre-Loïc Garoche, Xavier Crégut, Xavier Thirioux and François Vernadat

• COMEX: COMBINATORIAL AUCTIONS FOR THE INTRA-ENTERPRISE EXCHANGE OF LOGISTICS SERVICES
  Oleg Gujo and Michael Schwind

• IMPROVING THE SEARCH AND CATALOGUING OF ITEMS IN C2C E-COMMERCE PORTALS
  Antonio Gallardo, Jose Jesus Castro-Schez, Milagros Hazas and Juan Moreno-Garcia

• SUMMARIZING DOCUMENTS USING FRACTAL TECHNIQUES
  M. Dolores Ruiz and Antonio B. Bailón

• CD-LOMAS: A COLLABORATIVE DISTRIBUTED LEARNING OBJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
  Andrea De Lucia, Rita Francese, Ignazio Passero and Genoveffa Tortora

• A WE-CENTRIC SERVICE FOR MOBILE POLICE OFFICERS TO SUPPORT COMMUNICATION IN AD-HOC GROUPS
  Ronald van Eijk, Nicole de Koning, Marc Steen and Erik Reitsma

• SILENT BILINGUAL VOWEL RECOGNITION - Using fSEMG for HCI based Speech Commands
  Sridhar Poosapadi Arjunan, Hans Weghorn, Dinesh Kant Kumar and Wai Chee Yau

The selection of papers for the book was mainly based in the evaluation provided by the program committee under the program chairs supervision. The conference attendance was also a factor. After the book is published the contact author of each paper will receive one complimentary copy.