A September 2008 conference brought together researchers and practitioners who are defining requirements in the areas of database and expert systems technologies. Papers from the conference are presented here, grouped according to workshops in areas including text- based information retrieval, data management in virtual engineering, multimedia data mining and management, management and interaction with multimodal information content, web semantics, XML data management tools and techniques, and secure systems methodologies using patterns. Other areas covered are data management in global data repositories, dynamic taxonomies and faceted search, computer users' behavior, evolutionary techniques in data processing, automated information extraction in media production, e-learning systems, flexible database and information system technology, engineering non-functional information for emerging systems, and semantic web architectures. There is no subject index. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
