The two-volume set LNCS 7565 and 7566 constitutes the refereed proceedings of three confederated international conferences: Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2012), Distributed Objects and Applications - Secure Virtual Infrastructures (DOA-SVI 2012), and Ontologies, DataBases and Applications of SEmantics (ODBASE 2012) held as part of OTM 2012 in September 2012 in Rome, Italy. The 53 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 169 submissions. The 22 full papers included in the first volume constitute the proceedings of CoopIS 2012 and are organized in topical sections on business process design; process verification and analysis; service-oriented architectures and cloud; security, risk, and prediction; discovery and detection; collaboration; and 5 short papers.

The two-volume set LNCS 7565 and 7566 constitutes the refereed proceedings of three confederated international conferences: Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2012), Distributed Objects and Applications - Secure Virtual Infrastructures (DOA-SVI 2012), and Ontologies, DataBases and Applications of SEmantics (ODBASE 2012) held as part of OTM 2012 in September 2012 in Rome, Italy. The 53 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 169 submissions. The 31 full papers included in the second volume constitute the proceedings of DOA-SVI 2012 with 10 full papers organized in topical sections on privacy in the cloud; resource management and assurance; context, compliance and attack; and ODBASE 2012 with 21 full papers organized in topical sections on using ontologies and semantics; applying probalistic techniques to semantic information; exploiting and querying semantic information; and managing and storing semantic information.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2007, held in Brisbane, Australia, in September 2007.

The 21 revised full papers, 1 industrial paper, and 8 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 152 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on business process maturity and performance, business process modeling, case studies, compliance and change, process configuration and execution, formal foundations of BPM, business process mining, and semantic issues in BPM.

Das Buch wendet sich als ein umfassender Kurs uber Realisierungsformen verteilter Informationssysteme und deren Grundlagen an Studierende, Wissenschaftler und Praktiker. Es vermittelt Grundlagenwissen uber die in den verschiedenen Teilbereichen auftretenden Problemstellungen und diskutiert die technologischen Alternativen. Fur Studenten eignet sich das Buch zum Selbststudium. Anhand eingestreuter Ubungsaufgaben und Musterlosungen kann das Gelernte uberpruft werden. Fur Wissenschaftler stellt das Buch einen "roten Faden" durch dieses breite Gebiet dar; uber Literaturhinweise konnen die interessierenden Themen weiterverfolgt werden. Dem Praktiker vermittelt das Buch einen Uberblick uber die wesentlichen Zusammenhange und hilft, gravierende Fehlentscheidungen bei der Realisierung solcher Systeme zu vermeiden."