This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of six workshops held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2007 in Nancy, France, in December 2007.

The 44 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for presentation in the six workshops. The Workshop on Approaches and Architectures for Web Data Integration and Mining in Life Sciences (WebDIM4LS 2007) focuses on the effective and efficient management and transformation of scientific data in the life sciences. The Collaborative Knowledge Management for Web Information Systems workshop (WEKnow 2007) discusses issues related to information acquisition through collaborative Web crawling, classification, and clustering. Methods and techniques to support governance and compliance in Web information systems are considered in the Governance, Risk and Compliance in Web Information Systems workshop (GDR 2007). The Human-friendly (Web) Service Description, Discovery and Matchmaking workshop (Hf-SDDM 2007) focuses on annotations of services that facilitates service requestors to easily find and use them. Models and mechanisms for personalization as well as personalized access and context acquisition are discussed in the Personalized Access to Web Information workshop (PAWI 2007). In the Web Usability and Accessibility workshop (IWWUA 2007) concepts, models and languages to improve Web information systems with respect to their usability and accessibility are investigated.

The LNCS Journal on Data Semantics is devoted to the presentation of notable work that, in one way or another, addresses research and development on issues related to data semantics. Based on the highly visible publication platform Lecture Notes in Computer Science, this new journal is widely disseminated and available worldwide.

The scope of the journal ranges from theories supporting the formal definition of semantic content to innovative domain-specific applications of semantic knowledge. The journal addresses researchers and advanced practitioners working on the semantic web, interoperability, mobile information services, data warehousing, knowledge representation and reasoning, conceptual database modeling, ontologies, and artificial intelligence.

The LNCS Journal on Data Semantics is devoted to the presentation of notable work that, in one way or another, addresses research and development on issues related to data semantics. The scope of the journal ranges from theories supporting the formal definition of semantic content to innovative domain-specific applications of semantic knowledge.

This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at the 15th International S- posiumonMethodologiesforIntelligentSystems, ISMIS2005, heldinSaratogaSprings, NewYork,25 28May,2005. ThesymposiumwasorganizedbySUNYatAlbany. Itwas sponsored by the Army Research Of?ce and by several units of the University at Albany including its Division for Research, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of C- puter Science, and Institute for Informatics, Logics, and Security Studies (formerly the Institute for Programming and Logics). ISMIS is a conference series that was started in 1986 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Since then it has been held in Charlotte (North Carolina), Knoxville(Tennessee), Turin(Italy), Trondheim(Norway), Warsaw(Poland), Zakopane (Poland), Lyon (France), and Maebashi City (Japan). The Program Committee selected the following major areas for ISMIS 2005: intelligent information systems, knowledge discovery and data mining, knowledge - formation and integration, knowledge representation, logic for arti?cial intelligence, soft computing, Web intelligence, Web services, and papers dealing with applications of intelligent systems in complex/novel domains. The contributed papers were selected from almost 200 full draft papers by the Program Committee members: Troels Andreasen, Peter Baumgartner, Boualemn Benatallah, Salima Benbernou, Veronique Benzaken, Petr Berka, Elisa Bertino, Alan Biermann, Jacques Calmet, Sandra Carberry, Juan Carlos Cubero, Luigia Carlucci Aiello, Shu-Ching Chen, Christine Collet, Agnieszka Dardzinska, Ian Davidson, Robert Demolombe, Jitender Deogun, Jon Doyle, Tapio Elomaa, Attilio Giordana, Jerzy Grzymala-Busse, MirsadHadzikadic, ReinerHaehnle, JanuszKacprzyk, VipulKashyap, Jan Komorowski, Jacek Koronacki, Tsau Young Lin, Donato Malerba, David Maluf, Davide Martinenghi, Stan Matwin, Natasha Noy, Werner Nutt, James Peters, Jean-Marc Petit, Vijay Raghavan, Jan Rauch, Gilbert Ritschard, Erik Rosenthal, Marie-Christine Rousset, Nahid Shahmehri, Andrzej Skowron, Dominik Slezak, Nicolas Spyratos

ThisvolumeconstitutestheproceedingsoftheSixthInternationalConferenceon Flexible Query Answering Systems, FQAS 2004, held in Lyon, France, on June 24-26, 2004. FQAS is the premier conference for researchers and practitioners concerned with the vital task of providing easy, ?exible, and intuitive access to information for every type of need. This multidisciplinary conference draws on several research areas, including databases, information retrieval, knowledge representation, soft computing, multimedia, and human-computer interaction. With FQAS 2004, the FQAS conference series celebrated its tenth anniversary as it has been held every two years since 1994. The overall theme of the FQAS conferences is innovative query systems aimed at providing easy, ?exible, and intuitive access to information. Such systems are intended to facilitate retrieval from information repositories such as databases, libraries, and the Web. These repositories are typically equipped with standard query systems that are often inadequate for users. The focus of FQAS is the development of query systems that are more expressive, informative, cooperative, productive, and intuitive to use.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, ISMIS 2002, held in Lyon, France, in June 2002.The 63 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from around 160 submissions. The book offers topical sections on learning and knowledge discovery, intelligent user interfaces and ontologies, logic for AI, knowledge representation and reasoning, intelligent information retrieval, soft computing, intelligent information systems, and methodologies.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, ISMIS 2015, held in Lyon, France, in October 2015. The 31 revised full papers presented together with 18 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data mining methods; databases, information retrieval, recommender systems; machine learning; knowledge representation, semantic web; emotion recognition, music information retrieval; network analysis, multi-agent systems; applications; planning, classification; and textual data analysis and mining.