This book constitutes the best papers of the Second International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, ICSOFT 2007, held in Barcelona, Spain, in July 2007, in conjunction with ENASE, the Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering working conference.

The 26 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers and 3 best papers from ENASE were carefully reviewed and selected from 292 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on programming languages, software engineering, distributed and parallel systems, information systems and data management, as well as knowledge engineering.

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This book contains the best papers of the Second International Conference on So- ware and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2007), held in Barcelona, Spain. It was org- ized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Communication and Control (INSTICC), co-sponsored by the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC), in cooperation with the Interdisciplinary Institute for Collaboration and Research on Enterprise Systems and Technology (IICREST). The purpose of ICSOFT 2007 was to bring together researchers and practitioners int- ested in information technology and software development. The conference tracks were "Software Engineering," "Information Systems and Data Management," "Programming Languages," "Distributed and Parallel Systems" and "Knowledge Engineering." Being crucial for the development of information systems, software and data te- nologies encompass a large number of research topics and applications: from imp- mentation-related issues to more abstract theoretical aspects of software engineering; from databases and data warehouses to management information systems and kno- edge-base systems; next to that, distributed systems, pervasive computing, data quality and other related topics are included in the scope of this conference.

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Invited Papers.- Benefits of Enterprise Ontology for the Development of ICT-Based Value Networks.- SOA Pragmatism.- Software and Data Technologies.- A Simple Language for Novel Visualizations of Information.- Generic Components for Static Operations at Object Level.- A Visual Dataflow Language for Image Segmentation and Registration.- A Debugger for the Interpreter Design Pattern.- Concepts for High-Perfomance Scientific Computing.- A Model Driven Architecture Approach to Web Development.- Reverse-Architecting Legacy Software Based on Roles: An Industrial Experiment.- A Supporting Tool for Requirements Elicitation Using a Domain Ontology.- Pattern Detection in Object-Oriented Source Code.- Testing the Effectiveness of MBIUI Life-Cycle Framework for the Development of Affective Interfaces.- Developer Stories: Improving Architecture in Agile Practice.- An Ontological SW Architecture Supporting Agile Development of Semantic Portals.- The Vcodex Platform for Data Compression.- Classification of Benchmarks for the Evaluation of Grid Resource Planning Algorithms.- A Disconnection-Aware Mechanism to Provide Anonymity in Two-Level P2P Systems.- Approximation and Scoring for XML Data Management.- Quantitative Analysis of the Top Ten Wikipedias.- A Semantic Web Approach for Ontological Instances Analysis.- Aspects Based Modeling of Web Applications to Support Co-evolution.- Recommending Trustworthy Knowledge in KMS by Using Agents.- Recent Developments in Automated Inferencing of Emotional State from Face Images.- Inconsistency-Tolerant Integrity Checking for Knowledge Assimilation.- Improving Cutting-Stock Plans with Multi-objective Genetic Algorithm.- Knowledge Purpose and Visualization.- Empirical Experimentation for Validating the Usability of Knowledge Packages in Transferring Innovations.- An Ontological Investigation in the Field of Computer Programs.- Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering.- Formal Problem Domain Modeling within MDA.- Model Based Testing for Agent Systems.- A Metamodel for Defining Development Methodologies.