Chin-Sheng Chen & Joaquim Filipe 
Enterprise Information Systems VII 

This book contains the best papers of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2005), held in Miami (USA) and organized by INSTICC (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Communication and Control) in collaboration with FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, who hosted the event. Following the route started in 1999, ICEIS has become a major point of contact between research scientists, engineers and practitioners on the area of business applications of information systems. This conference, which is now one of the largest annual conferences in the Information Systems area, has received an increased interest every year, especially from the international academic community. This year, five simultaneous tracks were held, covering different aspects related to enterprise computing, including: “Databases and Information Systems Integration”, “Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems”, “Information Systems Analysis and Specification”, “Software Agents and Internet Computing” and “Human-Computer Interaction”. The sections of this book reflect the conference tracks. ICEIS 2005 received 459 paper submissions from 41 different countries, in all continents. 89 papers were published and orally presented as full papers, i.e. completed work, 110 position papers reflecting work-in-progress were accepted for short presentation and another 90 for poster presentation. These numbers, leading to a “full-paper” acceptance ratio below 20%, show the intention of preserving a high quality forum.

Table of Content

Invited Speakers.- EIS IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCH: AN ASSESSMENT AND SUGGESTIONS FOR THE FUTURE.- CHANGING THE WAY THE ENTERPRISE WORKS.- ENTERPRISE ONTOLOGY – UNDERSTANDING THE ESSENCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL OPERATION.- BUILDING SUCCESSFUL INTERORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS.- Databases and Information Systems Integration.- THE HYBRID DIGITAL TREE.- MUSICAL RETRIEVAL IN P2P NETWORKS UNDER THE WARPING DISTANCE.- CHANGE DETECTION AND MAINTENANCE OF AN XML WEB WAREHOUSE.- CHOOSING GROUPWARE TOOLS AND ELICITATION TECHNIQUES ACCORDING TO STAKEHOLDERS’ FEATURES.- ANALYTICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF STREAM-BASED JOIN.- Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems.- CONSTRUCTION OF DECISION TREES USING DATA CUBE.- AN APPLICATION OF NON-LINEAR PROGRAMMING TO TRAIN RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS IN TIME SERIES PREDICTION PROBLEMS.- INTELLIGENT SOLUTION EVALUATION BASED ON ALTERNATIVE USER PROFILES.- USING dm FSQL FOR FINANCIAL CLUSTERING.- KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS.- TOWARDS A CHANGE-BASED CHANCE DISCOVERY.- Information Systems Analysis and Specification.- EARLY DETECTION OF COTS FUNCTIONAL SUITABILITY FOR AN E-PAYMENT CASE STUDY.- PRESERVING THE CONTEXT OF INTERRUPTED BUSINESS PROCESS ACTIVITIES.- THE “RIGHT TO BE LET ALONE” AND PRIVATE INFORMATION.- PERSPECTIVES ON PROCESS DOCUMENTATION.- SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND INVESTMENT IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES.- QUALITY OF SERVICE IN FLEXIBLE WORKFLOWS THROUGH PROCESS CONSTRAINTS.- REAL TIME DETECTION OF NOVEL ATTACKS BY MEANS OF DATA MINING TECHNIQUES.- Software Agents and Internet Computing.- GENERIC FAULT-TOLERANT LAYER SUPPORTING PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE MESSAGING IN MOBILE AGENT SYSTEMS.- BOOSTING ITEM FINDABILITY: BRIDGING THE SEMANTIC GAP BETWEEN SEARCH PHRASES AND ITEM INFORMATION.- INTEGRATING AGENTTECHNOLOGIES INTO ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS USING WEB SERVICES.- Human-Computer Interaction.- OPENDPI: A TOOLKIT FOR DEVELOPING DOCUMENT-CENTERED ENVIRONMENTS.- WHY ANTHROPOMORPHIC USER INTERFACE FEEDBACK CAN BE EFFECTIVE AND PREFERRED BY USERS.- DISTANCE LEARNING BY INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM.- A CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT FOR MEASURING THE USABILITY OF WEBAPPS USING PATTERNS.