The papers presented in this book were take from the 2nd East European Symposium on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, held in Poland in September 1998. The 25 revised full papers and six extended abstracts are organized into topical sections which cover query languages, optimization, collaborative systems, schema integration, storage and version management, object systems, knowledge discovery and the Web, and systems design. The abstracts are in a special section entitled "East Meets West".