The Eighth International Baltic Conference on Databases and Information Systems took place on June 25 2008 in Tallinn, Estonia. This conference is continuing a series of successful bi-annual Baltic conferences on databases and information systems (IS). The aim is to provide a wide international forum for academics and practitioners in the field of databases and modern information systems for exchanging their achievements in this area. The original research results presented in Databases and Information Systems V mostly belong to novel fields of IS and database research such as database technology and the semantic web, ontology-based IS, IS and AI technologies and IS integration. The contribution of Dr. Jari Palomauml;ki showed how different ontological commitments affect the way we are modeling the world when creating an information system. As semantic technologies have been gaining more attention recently, a special session on semantic interoperability of IS was organized. The invited talks from each Baltic State gave a good insight how semantic interoperability initiatives are developing in each of the Baltic States and how they relate to the European semantic interoperability framework.

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Web Mining or the Wisdom of the Crowds	p. 3
AI at 50: From Programs to Solvers - Models and Techniques for General Intelligence	p. 4
Scalable and Efficient Multiagent Platform Closer to the Operating System	p. 7
Designing Norms in Virtual Organizations	p. 16
Distributed Barter-Based Directory Services	p. 24
Trading Paper Clips - An Analysis of "Trading Up" in Artificial Societies Without Altruists	p. 33
Validation and Experimentation of a Tourism Recommender Agent Based on a Graded BDI Model	p. 41
Agent Negotiation Dissolution	p. 51
On Partial Deduction and Conversational Agents	p. 60
Robustness in Recurrent Auctions for Resource Allocation	p. 70
Using Electronic Institutions for Hospitals Chronic Disease Management and Purchasing System	p. 80
Categorization and Social Norms Support	p. 88
How Hard Is a Commercial Puzzle: The Eternity II Challenge	p. 99
Random SAT Instances a la Carte	p. 109
Privacy in Distributed Meeting Scheduling	p. 118
Solving the Response Time Variability Problem by Means of Multi-start and GRASP Metaheuristics	p. 128
An Algorithm Based on Structural Analysis for Model-Based Fault Diagnosis	p. 138
Knowledge Discovery with Explained Case-Based Reasoning	p. 151
Improving Pseudobagging Techniques	p. 161
Knowledge Discovery on the Response to Neurorehabilitation Treatment of Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury Through an AI&Stats and Graphical Hybrid Methodology	p. 170
Using Ensemble-Based Reasoning to Help Experts in Melanoma Diagnosis	p. 178
Ergonomic Advice Through Case-Based Reasoning to Avoid Dangerous Positions Adopted Using the Computer	p. 186
Probabilistic Dynamic Belief Logic for Image and Reputation	p. 197
Aggregation Operators and Ruled Surfaces	p. 206
New Challenges: Group Decision System by Means of Entropy Defined Through Qualitative Reasoning Structures	p. 215
Voltage Sag Source Location from Extracted Rules Using Subgroup Discovery	p. 225
Statistical Monitoring of Injection Moulds	p. 236
On the Dimensions of Data Complexity Through Synthetic Data Sets	p. 244
Can Evolution Strategies Improve Learning Guidance in XCS? Design and Comparison with Genetic Algorithms Based XCS	p. 253
Intersection and Signed-Intersection Kernels for Intervals	p. 262
Representation of Discrete Quasi-Copulas Through Non-Square Matrices	p. 273
A System to Extract Social Networks Based on the Processing of Information Obtained from Internet	p. 283
A Negotiation Styles Recommenders Approach Based on Computational Ecology	p. 293
CABRO: Winner Determination Algorithm for Single-Unit Combinatorial Auctions	p. 303
Nearest Neighbor Technique and Artificial Neural Networks for Short-Term Electric Consumptions Forecast	p. 313
Pattern Discovery in Melanoma Domain Using Partitional Clustering	p. 323
Using Ant Colony Systems with Pheromone Dispersion in the Traveling Salesman Problem	p. 333
Building Policies for Scrabble	p. 349
Monocular Object Pose Computation with the Foveal-Peripheral Camera of the Humanoid Robot Armar-III	p. 355
The SLAM Problem: A Survey	p. 363
An Approach for Mail-Robot Navigation Using a CBR Technique	p. 372
Representing Qualitative Trajectories by Autonomous Mobile Robots	p. 380
Object-Based Place Recognition for Mobile Robots Using Panoramas	p. 388
Motion Segmentation: A Review	p. 398
On Fuzzy Description Logics	p. 411
An Interval-Based Approach for Fault Isolation and Identification in Continuous Dynamic Systems	p. 421
Effects of Orness and Dispersion on WOWA Sensitivity	p. 430
Keyword Index	p. 439
Author Index	p. 441
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