Advances in Information Systems: 4th International Conference, ADVIS 2006, Izmir, Turkey, October 18-20, 2006

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advances in Information Systems, ADVIS 2006, held in Izmir, Turkey in October 2006.

The 38 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on information representation and exchange, databases and datawarehouses, semantic web and ontologies, data mining and knowledge discovery, information retrieval and knowledge representation, architecture of information systems, as well as distributed and wireless information systems.