This book is the result of the 11 th International Conference on Information Systems Development -Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice, held in Riga, Latvia, September 12-14,2002. The purpose of this conference was to address issues facing academia and industry when specifying, developing, managing, reengineering and improving information systems. Recently many new concepts and approaches have emerged in the Information Systems Development (ISD) field. Various theories, methodologies, methods and tools available to system developers also created new problems, such as choosing the most effective approach for a specific task, or solving problems of advanced technology integration into information systems. This conference provides a meeting place for ISD researchers and practitioners from Eastern and Western Europe as well as from other parts of the world. Main objectives of this conference are to share scientific knowledge and interests and to establish strong professional ties among the participants. The 11th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD'02) continues the tradition started with the first Polish-Scandinavian Seminar on Current Trends in Information Systems Development Methodologies, held in Gdansk, Poland in 1988. Through the years this Seminar has evolved into the International Conference on Information Systems Development. ISD'02 is the first ISD conference held in Eastern Europe, namely, in Latvia, one of the three Baltic countries.

These proceedings contain 25 contributed papers presented at the 13th East- EuropeanConferenceAdvances on Databases and InformationSystems (ADBIS 2009) held September 7-10, 2009, in Riga, Latvia. The Call for Papers attracted 93 submissions from 28 countries. In a rigorous reviewing process the inter- tional Program Committee of 64 members from 29 countries selected these 25 contributions for publication in this volume; in addition, there is the abstract of an invited talk by Matthias Brantner. Furthermore, 18 additional contributions were selected for short presentations and have been published in a separate v- ume of local proceedings by the organizing institution. Topically, the accepted paperscoverawidespectrumofdatabaseandinformationsystemtopicsranging from query processing and optimization via query languages, design methods, data integration, indexing and caching to business processes, data mining, and application oriented topics like XML and data on the Web. The ADBIS 2009conference continued the series of ADBIS conferencesor- nized every year in di?erent countries of Easternand Central Europe, beginning in St. Petersburg (Russia, 1997), Poznan (Poland, 1998), Maribor (Slovenia, 1999), Prague (Czech Republic, as a joint ADBIS-DASFAA conference, 2000), Vilnius(Lithuania,2001), Bratislava(Slovakia,2002), Dresden(Germany,2003), Budapest(Hungary,2004), Tallinn(Estonia,2005), Thessaloniki(Greece,2006), Varna (Bulgaria, 2007), and Pori (Finland, 2008). The conferences are initiated and supervised by an international Steering Committee, which consists of r- resentatives from Armenia, Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Serbia, S- vakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine, and is chaired by Professor Leonid Kaliniche

We would like to thank the authors, who submitted papers, and the program committees members, who did a great job of paper reviewing. We acknowledge the ADBIS 2009 Organizing and Steering Committees for their cooperation in organizing the workshop sessions. We hope that you ?nd the results presented here interesting and useful. September 2009 Janis Grundspenkis Yannis Manolopoulos Irena Mlynkova Mikolaj Morzy Martin Necasky Oksana Nikiforova Leonids Novickis Janis Osis Robert Wrembel Conference Organization Executive Committee General Chair JanisGrundspenkis(RigaTechnicalUniversity, Latvia) Program Chair Tadeusz Morzy (Poznan University of Technology, Poland) Gottfried Vossen (University of Munster .. , Germany) Program Committee Paolo Atzeni Italy Guntis Barzdins Latvia Andreas Behrend Germany Andras Benczur Hungary Maria Bielikova Slovakia Bostjan Brumen Slovenia Alina Campan USA Albertas Caplinskas Lithuania Sharma Chakravarthy USA Alfredo Cuzzocrea Italy Alin Deutsch USA Johann Eder Austria Janis Eiduks Latvia Johann Gamper Italy Jarek Gryz Poland Hele-Mai Haav Estonia Theo Haerder Germany Mirjana Ivanovic Serbia Hannu Jaakola Finland Manfred A. Jeusfeld The Netherlands Leonid Kalinichenko Russia Ahto Kalja Estonia Audris Kalnins Latvia Marite Kirikova Latvia Margita Kon-Popovska FYRO Macedonia Sergei Kuznetsov Russia Mehmed M.

This volume is the result of the 11th International Conference on Information Systems Development: Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice, held in Riga, Latvia, September 12-14, 2002. The purpose of this conference was to address issues facing academia and industry when specifying, developing, managing, reengineering and improving information systems. This volume should be a useful reference for anyone in the fields of general management, systems and control theory, software engineering and operation systems.