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These contributions, compiled as a tribute to Professor Janis Bubenko on his retirement from the University of Stockholm, are in three sections: information society, approaches to information systems engineering, and concepts for information system.

Information Society: Imperfection and the human component: adding robustness to global information systems - Lockemann, Lukács. The B2B E-commerce revolution: convergence, chaos and holistic computing - Brodie. Experience-based knowledge management - Jarke. A 2025 scenario and vision on stream data management - Cardenas. Access as value addition - Ohlin. From information modelling to enterprise modelling - Loucopoulos. Horizontal and vertical integration of organisational IT systems - Wangler, Paheerathan. Information systems research - need for new methods of work - Lindencrona.- Approaches To Information Systems Engineering: A framework for component reuse in a metaCASE based software development - Lyytinen, Zhang. Method engineering with web-enabled methods - Brinkkemper. Developing data warehouses with quality in mind - Vassiliou. User software engineering: a retrospective - Wasserman. Application and process integration - concepts, issues and research directions - Johannesson, Wangler, Jayaweera. Transactions, processes and modularization - Berztiss. Metadata: the future of information systems - Jeffery. Intention driven component reuse - Rolland. Conceptual modelling and software components reuse: towards the unification - Pernici, Mecella, Batini.- Concepts For Information Systems: The plan recognition/plan generation paradigm - Furtado, Ciarlini. Frameworks of information modelling: construction of concepts and knowledge by using the intensional approach - Kangassalo. Towards a useful information concept - Lindgreen. Tropos: a framework for requirements-driven software development - Mylopoulos, Castro. On levels of business modelling, communication and model architectures - Nilsson. Past, present and future of time in conceptual modeling -Oliv. Co-operative concept modeling - Solvberg.