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WISE 2006 washeld in Wuhan, China, during October 23-26,hosted by Wuhan University. As more and more diverse information becomes available on the - ternet and in the Web, novel theoretical and technical approaches to building and improving Web information systems become of vital importance to the f- therdevelopmentofinformationtechnology.Followingthesuccessfulconferences from2000to2005,WISE2006providedapremiumforumforresearchers,prof- sionals,and industrialpractitioners fromaroundthe worldto share their rapidly evolving knowledge and to report on new advances in Web information systems. WISE2006received183submissionsfrom20countriesworldwide.Fromthese submissions, the Program Committee selected 37 regular papers and 17 short papers, corresponding to an acceptance ratio of 20% and 9%, respectively. This volume also includes invited keynote papers, given by three leading experts at ¨ WISE 2006: M. Tamer Ozsu (University of Waterloo), Katsumi Tanaka (Kyoto University) and Lizhu Zhou (Tsinghua University). The submission and review process worked as follows. Each submission was assigned to three or four Program Committee members for review. During the discussion phase PC members and PC chairs carefully analyzed in particular papers that received divergent evaluations. Based on the review scores and the results of the discussions, the Program Chairs made the ?nal decision. Three workshops were held in conjunction with WISE 2006. The workshop papers are published in a separate proceedings by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS 4256).

Information systems --- Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics --- Computer. Automation --- ICT (informatie- en communicatietechnieken) --- IR (information retrieval) --- bedrijfseconomie --- informatica --- maatschappij --- informatiesystemen --- database management --- informatica management --- robots

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The 26th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling in Auckland, New Zealand, hosted six workshops which allowed participants to focus their p- sentations and discussions on advanced topics that cannot easily ?t the general conference scope. Thirteen good quality proposals were received and nine were selected. Due to the similarity of their scope, two pairs were suggested to merge, leading to seven proposals. One workshop attracted fewer submissions than expected, so that its selected papers were integrated into the conference. Finally, six wo- shopswerekept.Interestingly,fourofthem(FP-UML,ONISW,QoIS,SeCoGIS) were a sequel of workshops that were held in the last few years, while two were new (CMLSA, RIGiM), exhibiting both the maturity and the innovation of the workshops. Following the call for papers, we received 114 complete submissions, from which 40 quality papers wereselected, giving an acceptance rate of 35% (a fairly standard score for workshops). The following six workshops were organized: - ConceptualModellingforLifeSciencesApplications (CMLSA2007),chaired by Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen and Sven Hartmann. This workshopaddressed the speci?c challenges posed by the large data volumes, the complexity and the data and software heterogeneity involved by life science applications. - Foundations and Practices of UML (FP-UML 2007), chaired by Juan Trujillo and Je?rey Parsons. The third edition of this workshop gathered researchers and practitioners on topics related to data warehouses, security, model transformation, state diagrams development and model quality.

Geology. Earth sciences --- Information systems --- Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics --- Computer. Automation --- ICT (informatie- en communicatietechnieken) --- IR (information retrieval) --- bedrijfseconomie --- informatica --- informatiesystemen --- database management --- KI (kunstmatige intelligentie) --- informatica management --- geologie --- robots