Cooperative Information Systems : 9th International Conference, CoopIS 2001, Trento, Italy, September 5-7, 2001, Proceedings

by Coopis 200 (2001 Trento, Italy); Giunchiglia, Fausto; Giorgini, Paolo; Mecella, Massimo; Batini, Carlo

• ISBN13: 9783540425243
• ISBN10: 3540425241
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2001, held in Trento, Italy in September 2001. The 29 revised full papers presented together with three invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on agent and systems; information integration; middleware, platforms, and architectures; models; multi and federated database systems; Web information systems; workflow management systems; and recommendation and information seeking systems.

Table of Contents

Invited Talks
Generic Model Management: A Database Infrastructure for Schema Manipulation	1	(6)
Philip A. Bernstein
The Evolution of Distributed Component Architectures	7	(15)
Edward E. Cobb
Data Integration Is Harder than You Thought (Extended Abstract)	22	(5)
Maurizio Lenzerini
Agent Systems
Implicit Culture for Multi-agent Interaction Support	27	(13)
Enrico Blanzieri
Paolo Giorgini
Paolo Massa
Sabrina Recla
Extending Multi-agent Cooperation by Overhearing	40	(13)
Paolo Busetta
Luciano Serafini
Dhirendra Singh Floriano Zini
Mobile-Agent Based Distributed Web GIS	53	(14)
Jihong Guan
Shuigeng Zhou
Aoying Zhou
Local Distributed Agent Matchmaking	67	(13)
Elth Ogston
Stamatis Vassiliadis
Deploying Distributed State Information in Mobile Agent Systems	80	(15)
Ralf-Dieter Schimkat
Michael Friedrich
Wolfgang Kuchlin
Cooperative Meeting Scheduling among Agents Based on Multiple Negotiations	95	(13)
Toramatsu Shintani
Takayuki Ito
Information Integration
Autoplex: Automated Discovery of Content for Virtual Databases	108	(15)
Jacob Berlin
Amihai Motro
Cooperation Strategies for Information Integration	123	(12)
Maurizio Panti
Luca Spalazzi
Loris Penserini
Planning and Optimizing Semantic Information Requests Using Domain Modeling and Resource Characteristics	135	(15)
Shuchi Patel
Amit Sheth
Integrating View Schemata Using an Extended Object Definition Language	150	(13)
Mark Roantree
Jessie B. Kennedy
Peter J. Barclay
Deriving ``Sub-source'' Similarities from Heterogeneous, Semi-structured Information Sources	163	(16)
Domenico Rosaci
Giorgio Terracina
Domenico Ursino
Middleware, Platforms, Architectures
P-Grid: A Self-Organizing Access Structure for P2P Information Systems	179	(16)
Karl Aberer
Moving Active Functionality from Centralized to Open Distributed Heterogeneous Environments	195	(16)
Mariano Cilia
Christof Bornhovd
Alejandro P. Buchmann
Generic Constraints for Content-Based Publish/Subscribe	211	(15)
Gero Muhl
Supporting Heterogeneous Users in Collaborative Virtual Environments Using AOP	226	(13)
Monica Pinto
Mercedes Amor
Lidia Fuentes
Jose M. Troya
Models
A Process Service Model for Dynamic Enterprise Process Interconnection	239	(16)
Karim Baina
Khalid Bendli
Claude Godart
Employing Multiuser Interactions in the Development of Synchronous Applications	255	(15)
Cornelia Haber
Service Representation, Discovery, and Composition for E-marketplaces	270	(15)
Willem-Jan van den Heuvel
Jian Yang
Mike P. Papazoglov
Multi and Federated Database Systems
Schema Design and Query Processing in a Federated Multimedia Database System	285	(16)
Henrike Berthold
Klaus Meyer-Wegener
Global Semantic Serializability: An Approach to Increase Concurrency in Multidatabase Systems	301	(15)
Angelo Brayner
Theo Harder
Checking Integrity Constraints in Multidatabase Systems with Nested Transactions	316	(13)
Anne Doucet
Stephane Gancarski
Claudia Leon
Marta Rukoz
Web Information Systems
The Internet Marketplace Template: An Architecture Template for Inter-enterprise Information Systems	329	(15)
Mark A. Cameron
Kerry L. Taylor
David J. Abel
Investigating the Evolution of Electronic Markets	344	(12)
John Debenham
Simeon Simoff
Coordinating Web-Based Systems with Documents in XMLSpaces	356	(15)
Robert Tolksdort
Dirk Glaubitz
Validating an Access Cost Model for Wide Area Applications	371	(15)
Vladimir Zadorozhny
Louiqa Raschid
Tao Zhan
Laura Bright
Workflow Management Systems
Querying and Splicing of XML Workflows	386	(17)
Vassilis Christophides
Richard Hull
Akhil Kumar
On Demand Business-to-Business Integration	403	(15)
Liangzhao Zeng
Boualem Benatallah
Anne H. H. Ngu
Recommendation and Information Seeking Systems
Yoda: An Accurate and Scalable Web-Based Recommendation System	418	(15)
Cyrus Shahabi
Farnoush Banaei-Kashani
Yi-Shin Chen
Dennis McLeod
The Use of Machine-Generated Ontologies	433	(16)
Giovanni Modica
Avigdor Gal
Hasan M. Jamil
Author Index	449