Advanced Information Systems Engineering 20th International Conferen

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2008, held in Montpellier, France, in June 2008. The 35 revised full papers and 9 revised short papers presented togethe

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Zohra Bellahsène Michel Léonard (Eds.)

Advanced Information Systems Engineering 20th International Conference, CAiSE 2008 Montpellier, France, June 16-20, 2008 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Zohra Bellahsène LIRMM–Laboratoire d’Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier UMR 5506 CNRS/Université Montpellier 2 161 Rue Ada, 34392 Montpellier, France E-mail: [email protected] Michel Léonard Université de Genève Centre Universitaire d’Informatique Département des Systèmes d’Information 24 Rue du Général Dufour, 1211 Genève 4, Switzerland E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2008929343 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.2, H.3-5, J.1, K.4.3-4, K.6, D.2, I.2.11 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application, incl. Internet/Web and HCI ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0302-9743 3-540-69533-8 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-69533-2 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York

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Preface

CAiSE 2008 was the 20th in the series of International Conferences on Advanced Information System Engineering. This edition continued the success of previous conferences, a success largely due to that fact that, since its first edition, this series has evolved in parallel with the evolution of the importance of information systems in economic development. CAiSE has been able to follow, and