This book contains the best papers of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2005), held in Miami (USA) and organized by INSTICC (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Communication and Control) in collaboration with FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY, who hosted the event.

Invited Speakers.- EIS IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCH: AN ASSESSMENT AND SUGGESTIONS FOR THE FUTURE.- CHANGING THE WAY THE ENTERPRISE WORKS.- ENTERPRISE ONTOLOGY - UNDERSTANDING THE ESSENCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL OPERATION.- BUILDING SUCCESSFUL INTERORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS.- Databases and Information Systems Integration.- THE HYBRID DIGITAL TREE.- MUSICAL RETRIEVAL IN P2P NETWORKS UNDER THE WARPING DISTANCE.- CHANGE DETECTION AND MAINTENANCE OF AN XML WEB WAREHOUSE.- CHOOSING GROUPWARE TOOLS AND ELICITATION TECHNIQUES ACCORDING TO STAKEHOLDERS’ FEATURES.- ANALYTICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF STREAM-BASED JOIN.- Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems.- CONSTRUCTION OF DECISION TREES USING DATA CUBE.- AN APPLICATION OF NON-LINEAR PROGRAMMING TO TRAIN RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS IN TIME SERIES PREDICTION PROBLEMS.- INTELLIGENT SOLUTION EVALUATION BASED ON ALTERNATIVE USER PROFILES.- USING dmFSQL FOR FINANCIAL CLUSTERING.- KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS.- TOWARDS A CHANGE-BASED CHANCE DISCOVERY.- Information Systems Analysis and Specification.- EARLY DETECTION OF COTS FUNCTIONAL SUITABILITY FOR AN E-PAYMENT CASE STUDY.- PRESERVING THE CONTEXT OF INTERRUPTED BUSINESS PROCESS ACTIVITIES.- THE “RIGHT TO BE LET ALONE” AND PRIVATE INFORMATION.- PERSPECTIVES ON PROCESS DOCUMENTATION.- SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND INVESTMENT IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES.- QUALITY OF SERVICE IN FLEXIBLE WORKFLOWS THROUGH PROCESS CONSTRAINTS.- REAL TIME DETECTION OF NOVEL ATTACKS BY MEANS OF DATA MINING TECHNIQUES.- Software Agents and Internet Computing.- GENERIC FAULT-TOLERANT LAYER SUPPORTING PUBLISH/SUBSCRIBE MESSAGING IN MOBILE AGENT SYSTEMS.- BOOSTING ITEM FINDABILITY: BRIDGING THE SEMANTIC GAP BETWEEN SEARCH PHRASES AND ITEM INFORMATION.- INTEGRATING AGENTTECHNOLOGIES INTO ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS USING WEB SERVICES.- Human-Computer Interaction.- OPENDPI: A TOOLKIT FOR DEVELOPING DOCUMENT-CENTERED ENVIRONMENTS.- WHY ANTHROPOMORPHIC USER INTERFACE FEEDBACK CAN BE EFFECTIVE AND PREFERRED BY USERS.- DISTANCE LEARNING BY INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM.- A CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT FOR MEASURING THE USABILITY OF WEBAPPS USING PATTERNS.

The purpose of the 7th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) was to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the advances and business applications of information systems. Five simultaneous tracks have been held, covering different aspects of Enterprise Information Systems Applications, including Enterprise Database Technology, Systems Integration, Artificial Intelligence, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems Analysis and Specification, Internet Computing, Electronic Commerce and Human Factors. ICEIS focuses on real world applications: therefore authors were asked to highlight the benefits of Information Technology for industry and services. During the conference there was an interesting debate on how to solve business problems, using IT. Paper presentations included the description of advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques as well as general surveys indicating future directions for information systems and technologies. Papers included in the book are the best papers presented at the ICEIS 2005 conference.