This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of eight international workshops held in
conjunction with the 28th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling ER 2009 in Gramado
Brazil in November 2009. The 33 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and
selected from 100 submissions. Topics addressed by the workshops are active conceptual modeling
of learning (ACM-L) conceptual modeling in the large (CoMoL) evolving theories of conceptual
modeling (ETheCoM) workshop on foundations and practices of UML (FP-UML) joint international
workshop on metamodels ontologies semantic technologies and information systems for the
semantic web (MOST-ONISW) quality of information systems (QoIS) requirements Intentions and
goals in conceptual modeling ( RIGiM) and semantic and conceptual issues in geographic
information systems (SeCoGIS).