This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2004, held in Riga, Latvia in June 2004. talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on enterprise modeling, data integration, conceptual modeling, workflows, methodologies for IS development, databases, methodologies for IS development, databases, support for collaboration between individuals and organizsations, Web-based systems, requirements engineering, ontologies, and data warehousing.

Enterprise modeling (EM) has gained substantial popularity both in the academic community and among practitioners. A variety of EM methods, approaches, and tools are being developed and offered on the market. In practice they are used for various purposes such as business strategy development, process restructuring, as well as business and IT architecture alignment and governance. PoEM 2009 - the second IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on The Practice of Enterprise Modeling took place in November in Stockholm, Sweden. The conference series is a dedicated forum where the use of EM in practice is...

This volume compiles the papers accepted for presentation at the 16thWorking C- ference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2010), held in Essen during June 30 and July 1-2, 2010. Since 1994, when the first REFSQ took place, requirements engineering (RE) has never ceased to be a dominant factor influencing the quality of software, systems and services. Initially started as a workshop, the REFSQ working conference series has now established itself as one of the leading international forums to discuss RE in its (many) relations to quality. It seeks reports of...