Since the late 1980s, the CAiSE conferences have provided a forum for
the p- sentation and exchange of research results and practical
experiences within the ?eld of Information Systems Engineering. CAiSE
2001 was the 13th conference in this series and was held from 4th to 8th
June 2001 in the resort of Int- laken located near the three famous
Swiss mountains - the Eiger, M] onch, and Jungfrau. The ?rst two days
consisted of pre-conference workshops and tutorials. The workshop themes
included requirements engineering, evaluation of modeling methods, data
integration over the Web, agent-oriented information systems, and the
design and management of data warehouses. Continuing the tradition of
recent CAiSE conferences, there was also a doctoral consortium. The p-
conference tutorials were on the themes of e-business models and XML
appli- tion development. The main conference program included three
invited speakers, two tuto- als, and a panel discussion in addition to
presentations of the papers in these proceedings. We also included a
special 'practice and experience' session to give
presentersanopportunitytoreportonanddiscussexperiencesandinvestigations
on the use of methods and technologies in practice.
Weextendourthankstothemembersoftheprogramcommitteeandallother referees
without whom such conferences would not be possible. The program
committee, whose members came from 20 di?erent countries, selected 27
hi- quality research papers and 3 experience reports from a total of 97
submissions. The topics of these papers span the wide-range of topics
relevant to information systems engineering - from requirements and
design through to implementation and operation of complex and dynamic
systems.
