This edition of the Enterprise Information Systems book, now in the new LNBIP series by Springer-Verlag, includes the best papers from ICEIS 2008.

• EMBEDDING XPATH QUERIES INTO SPARQL QUERIES
  Matthias Droop, Markus Flarer, Jinghua Groppe, Sven Groppe, Volker Linnemann, Jakob Pinggera, Florian Santner, Michael Schier, Felix Schöpf, Hannes Staffler and Stefan Zugal

• ODDI - A FRAMEWORK FOR SEMI-AUTOMATIC DATA INTEGRATION
  Paolo Ceravolo, Ernesto Damiani, Marcello Leida, Zhan Cui and Alex Gusmini

• INTEROPERABILITY IN THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY
  Jon Atle Gulla

• TOWARDS A SEMIOTIC QUALITY FRAMEWORK OF SOFTWARE MEASURES
  Erki Eessaar

• SIZE AND EFFORT-BASED COMPUTATIONAL MODELS FOR SOFTWARE COST PREDICTION
  Efi Papatheocharous and Andreas S. Andreou

• AN ONTOLOGY DRIVEN DATA MINING PROCESS
  Laurent Brisson and Martine Collard

• BAYESIAN-NETWORKS-BASED MISUSE AND ANOMALY PREVENTION SYSTEM
  Pablo Garcia Bringas, Yoseba K. Penya, Stefano Paraboschi and Paolo Salvaneschi

• DISCOVERING MULTI-PERSPECTIVE PROCESS MODELS
  Francesco Folino, Gianluigi Greco, Antonella Guzzo and Luigi Pontieri

• RULES AS SIMPLE WAY TO MODEL KNOWLEDGE - CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN PROMISE AND REALITY
  Valentin Zacharias

• SEMANTIC ANNOTATION OF EPC MODELS IN ENGINEERING DOMAINS BY EMPLOYING SEMANTIC PATTERNS
  Andreas Bögl, Michael Schrefl, Gustav Pomberger and Norbert Weber

• INCREMENTAL ONTOLOGY INTEGRATION
  Thomas Heer, Daniel Retkowitz and Bodo Kraft

• DESIGNING BUSINESS PROCESS MODELS FOR REQUIRED UNIFORMITY OF WORK
  Kimmo Tarkkanen

• USING ASSOCIATION RULES TO LEARN CONCEPT RELATIONSHIPS IN ONTOLOGIES
  Jon Atle Gulla, Terje Brasethvik and Gøran Sveia Kvarv

• A CONCEPTUAL SCHEME FOR COMPOSITIONAL MODEL–CHECKING VERIFICATION OF CRITICAL COMMUNICATING SYSTEMS
  Luis Eduardo Mendoza Morales, Manuel I. Capel Tuñón, María A. Pérez and Kawtar Benghazi Ahklaki

• IMPROVEMENT OF A WEB ENGINEERING METHOD APPLYING SITUATIONAL METHOD ENGINEERING
  Kevin Vlaanderen, Francisco Valverde and Oscar Pastor

• USING BIT-EFFICIENT XML TO OPTIMIZE DATA TRANSFER OF XFORMS-BASED MOBILE SERVICES
  Jaakko Kangasharju and Oskari Koskimies

• EFFICIENT NEIGHBOURHOOD ESTIMATION FOR RECOMMENDATION MAKING
  Li-Tung Weng, Yue Xu, Yuefeng Li and Richi Nayak

• WEB INFORMATION RECOMMENDATION MAKING BASED ON ITEM TAXONOMY
  Li-Tung Weng, Yue Xu, Yuefeng Li, Yuefeng Li and Richi Nayak

• ENHANCING ENTERPRISE COLLABORATION USING CONTEXT-AWARE SERVICE BASED ON ASPECTS
  Khouloud Boukadi, Chirine Ghedira and Lucien Vincent

• INTEGRATION ARCHITECTURES BASED ON SEMANTIC WEB SERVICES: FAD OR MODEL FOR THE FUTURE? - FINDINGS OF A COMPREHENSIVE SWOT ANALYSIS
  Daniel Bachlechner

• WISDOM ON THE WEB: ON TRUST, INSTITUTION AND SYMBOLISMS - A PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION
  Emma Nuraihan Mior Ibrahim, Nor Laila Md. Noor and Shafie Mehad

• ENABLING END USERS TO PROACTIVELY TAILOR UNDERSPECIFIED, HUMAN-CENTRIC BUSINESS PROCESSES - “PROGRAMMING BY EXAMPLE” OF WEAKLY-STRUCTURED PROCESS MODELS
  Todor Stoitsev, Stefan Scheidl, Felix Flentge and Max Mühlhäuser

• MICROFORMATS BASED NAVIGATION ASSISTANT - A NON-INTRUSIVE RECOMMENDER AGENT: DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION
  Anca-Paula Luca and Sabin C. Buraga

• DESIGNING MOBILE MULTIMODAL ARTEFACTS
  Tiago Reis, Marco de Sá and Luís Carriço

• ANATOMY OF A VISUALIZATION ON-DEMAND SERVER - A SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE TO VISUALLY EXPLORE LARGE DATA COLLECTIONS
  Romain Vuillemot, Béatrice Rumpler and Jean-Marie Pinon

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.