Cooperation among systems has gained substantial importance in recent years: electronic commerce virtual enterprises and the middleware paradigm are just some examples in this area. CoopIS is a multi-disciplinary conference, which deals with all aspects of cooperation. The relevant disciplines are: collaborative work, distributed databases, distributed computing, electronic commerce, human-computer interaction, multi-agent systems, information retrieval, and workflow systems. The CoopIS series provides a forum for well-known researchers who are drawn by the stature and the tradition of these conference series and has a leading role in shaping the future of the cooperative information systems area. CoopIS 2000 is the seventh conference in the series and the fifth conference organized by the International Foundation on Cooperative Information Systems (IFCIS). It is sponsored by the IFCIS, the IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa and Compaq, Tandem labs Israel. It replaces the former international workshops on Interoperability in Multidatabase systems (IMS) and the conference series on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS & ICICIS). In response to the call for papers 74 papers were submitted. Each of them was reviewed by at least three reviewers, and at the end of this process 24 papers were accepted for presentation at the conference. Six additional papers were selected for short presentations. In addition the conference includes two panels, two keynote speakers (Professor Calton Pu from Georgia Tech and Professor Sheizaf Rafaeli from Haifa University) and one tutorial. A special issue of the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems will follow. August 2000 Opher Etzion & Peter Scheuermann
Author(s): Goce Trajcevski, Chitta Baral, Jorge Lobo (auth.), Peter Scheuermann, Opher Etzion (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1901
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 340
Tags: Database Management; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Computer Communication Networks; Information Storage and Retrieval; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
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Formalizing (and Reasoning about) the Specifications of Workflows....Pages 1-17
Advanced Workflow Patterns....Pages 18-29
Extending UML with Workflow Modeling Capabilities....Pages 30-41
ConSearch: Using Hypertext Contexts as Web Search Boundaries....Pages 42-53
Combining the Power of Searching and Querying....Pages 54-65
Cooperative Indexing, Classification, and Evaluation in BoW....Pages 66-77
Complex View Selection for Data Warehouse Self-Maintainability....Pages 78-89
Integrating Snapshot Isolation into Transactional Federations....Pages 90-101
An Evaluation of the Java-Based Approaches to Web Database Access....Pages 102-113
A Framework for ASP-Marketplaces....Pages 114-119
Exploring the Semantic Structure of Technical Document Collections: A Cooperative Systems Approach....Pages 120-125
Organized Distributed Systems....Pages 126-131
Managing Aging Data Using Persistent Views....Pages 132-137
A Workflow System through Cooperating Agents for Control and Document Flow over the Internet....Pages 138-143
Distributed View Expansion in Composable Mediators....Pages 144-149
eResponder: Electronic Question Responder....Pages 150-161
Efficient Matching for Web-Based Publish/Subscribe Systems....Pages 162-173
A Software Retrieval Service Based on Knowledge-Driven Agents....Pages 174-185
Benchmarking and Configuration of Workflow Management Systems....Pages 186-197
Workflow Modeling using Proclets....Pages 198-209
Dealing with Logical Failures for Collaborating Workflows....Pages 210-223
A Negotiation Model for CSCW....Pages 224-235
The Organizational Memory Information System PRINCE....Pages 236-250
An Extensible Business Communication Language....Pages 251-262
Exploiting the Features of Asymmetry for Query Processing in a Mobile Computing Environment....Pages 263-274
Data Lockers: Mobile-Agent Based Middleware for the Security and Availability of Roaming Users Data....Pages 275-286
A Java Framework for Mobile Data Synchronization....Pages 287-298
Dynamic Pricing with Limited Competitor Information in a Multi-Agent Economy....Pages 299-310
Multi-agent Cooperative Transactions for E-Commerce....Pages 311-322
Cross-Organizational Transaction Support for Virtual Enterprises....Pages 323-334
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