Internet-based information systems the second covering the large-scale in- gration of
heterogeneous computing systems and data resources with the aim of providing a global computing
space. Eachofthesefourconferencesencouragesresearcherstotreattheirrespective topics within a
framework that incorporates jointly (a) theory (b) conceptual design and development and (c)
applications in particular case studies and industrial solutions. Following and expanding the
model created in 2003 we again solicited and selected quality workshop proposals to complement
the more archival nature of the main conferences with research results in a number of selected
and more avant-garde areas related to the general topic of Web-based distributed c- puting. For
instance the so-called Semantic Web has given rise to several novel research areas combining
linguistics information systems technology and ar- ?cial intelligence such as the modeling
of (legal) regulatory systems and the ubiquitous nature of their usage. We were glad to see
that ten of our earlier s- cessful workshops (ADI CAMS EI2N SWWS ORM OnToContent MONET
SEMELS COMBEK IWSSA) re-appeared in 2008 with a second third or even ?fth edition sometimes
by alliance with other newly emerging workshops and that no fewer than three brand-new
independent workshops could be selected from proposals and hosted: ISDE ODIS and Beyond
SAWSDL. Workshop - diences productively mingled with each other and with those of the main c-
ferences and there was considerable overlap in authors.
