his collection of articles includes research from emerging technologies and leading edge studies on data modeling, database models, and database applications in information systems. General topics include industrial databases and applications, such as database model of engineering information, the management of evolving engineering design constraints, similarity searches for Voxelized CAD objects, use of the STEP-NC to complete a product development chain, semantic-based dynamic enterprise information integration, web service integration and management strategies for large-scale datasets, a case study of Wal-Mart’s business data warehouse, and a content-based approach to medical image database retrieval. Articles on generic database modeling cover conceptual modeling for XML and constraint-based multi-dimensional databases.