The articles in this eighth volume cover a wide variety of problems in the area of information modelling, information systems specification and knowledge bases, ranging from foundations and theories to systems construction and application studies. The contributions are grouped into the following major categories: systems specification and information modelling schemes; user interfaces and multimedia; knowledge organization database structuring; formal systems; knowledge and information; from conceptual modelling to software engineering; description and organization of concepts and objects; and learning systems and applications.

Volume editor: Hannu Kangassalo, etc.