Table of contents : Contents......Page 10 Preface......Page 6 Committees......Page 8 Additional Reviewers......Page 9 VOLYNE: Viewpoint Oriented Requirement Engineering for Lyee Methodology......Page 12 Component-based Interaction Design......Page 30 A Query-Meaning Recognition Method with a Learning Mechanism for Document Information Retrieval......Page 48 A Framework for a Simple Sentence Paraphrase Using Concept Hierarchy in SD-Form Semantics Model......Page 66 An Algebraic Approach for Specifying Compound Terms in Faceted Taxonomies......Page 78 A New Normal Form for Conceptual Databases......Page 99 An Ontological Approach to Unified Contract Management......Page 117 Towards Implicit Invocation of Web Services Functions......Page 122 Treecube: 3D Visualization Tool for Hierarchical Information......Page 126 Methodological Tools for Describing Children's Knowledge Construction Process in Multimedia Environment......Page 130 Coherent Enterprise Information Modelling in Practice......Page 134 Modelling a Process Repository for Enterprise Application Integration Based on Business Knowledge and Semantics......Page 141 A Meta-Level Active Multidatabase System Architecture for Heterogeneous Information Resources......Page 154 A Computational Method of Spatial and Temporal Equivalence with Context Recognition Functions for Document Databases......Page 172 Document Similarities in Web Based Collaborative Environments......Page 189 A Prototype of Semantic Retrieval for Video Data Using SD-Form......Page 196 Concepts, Language and Ontologies (from a Logical Point of View)......Page 204 A Dialogue Manager for Accessing Databases......Page 221 A Theory of Signs for Database Semantics......Page 231 3D Model Database System by Hand Sketch Query and its Intuitive Interface......Page 251 On Modeling Conceptual and Narrative Structure of Fairytales......Page 259 Web Application Wrapping by Demonstration......Page 277 Database Visualization Framework Based on Relational Data Model......Page 293 Contextual Search in Large Collections of Information Resources......Page 306 Finding Similar Stories by Using Sequences of Occurence Vectors......Page 314 Experiences in Computer Assisted XML-based Modelling......Page 318 Product Specifications Summarization and Product Ranking System Using User's Requests......Page 326 Author Index......Page 344