Title: Cooperative information systems : 9th international conference, CoopIS 2001, Trento, Italy, September 5-7, 2001 : proceedings /
Authors: Batini, Carlo
Publisher: Springer,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Distributed databases International cooperation Congresses.; Computer networks Congresses; Computer science.; Computer networks; Database management; Information storage and retrieval systems; Multimedia systems.; Artificial intelligence.
Abstract: Cooperative Information Systems have emerged as a central concept in a variety of applications, projects, and systems in the new era of e-business. The conference at which the papers in this volume were presented was the ninth international conference on the topic of Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2001), and was held in Trento, Italy on September 5-7, 2001. Like the previous conferences, CoopIS 2001 has been remarkably successful in bringing together representatives of many di?erent ?elds, spanning the entire range of e?ective web-based Cooperative Information Systems, and with interests ranging from industrial experience to original research concepts and results. The 29 papers collected here out of the 79 ones that were submitted, dem- strate well the range of results achieved in several areas such as agent te- nologies, models and architectures, web systems, information integration, m- dleware technologies, federated and multi-database systems. The papers th- selves, however, do not convey the lively excitement of the conference itself, and the continuing spirit of cooperation and communication across disciplines that has been the hallmark of these conferences. We would especially like to thank our keynote speakers: Philip A. Bernstein (Microsoft Research, USA), Edward E. Cobb (BEA Systems, USA), and Ma- izio Lenzerini (Universit`a di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy) for providing a portrait of the best contemporary work in the ?eld. We would also like to thank the many people who made CoopIS 2001 possible.
Contents: Invited Paper -- Generic Model Management: A Database Infrastructure for Schema Manipulation -- The Evolution of Distributed Component Architectures -- Data Integration Is Harder than You Thought -- Agent Systems -- Implicit Culture for Multi-agent Interaction Support -- Extending Multi-agent Cooperation by Overhearing -- Mobile-Agent Based Distributed Web GIS -- Local Distributed Agent Matchmaking -- Deploying Distributed State Information in Mobile Agent Systems -- Cooperative Meeting Scheduling among Agents Based on Multiple Negotiations -- Information Integration -- Autoplex: Automated Discovery of Content for Virtual Databases -- Cooperation Strategies for Information Integration -- Planning and Optimizing Semantic Information Requests Using Domain Modeling and Resource Characteristics -- Integrating View Schemata Using an Extended Object Definition Language -- Deriving “Sub-source” Similarities from Heterogeneous, Semi-structured Information Sources --^ Middleware, Platforms, Architectures -- P-Grid: A Self-Organizing Access Structure for P2P Information Systems -- Moving Active Functionality from Centralized to Open Distributed Heterogeneous Environments -- Generic Constraints for Content-Based Publish/Subscribe -- Supporting Heterogeneous Users in Collaborative Virtual Environments Using AOP -- Models -- A Process Service Model for Dynamic Enterprise Process Interconnection -- Employing Multiuser Interactions in the Development of Synchronous Applications -- Service Representation, Discovery, and Composition for E-marketplaces -- Multi and Federated Database Systems -- Schema Design and Query Processing in a Federated Multimedia Database System -- Global Semantic Serializability: An Approach to Increase Concurrency in Multidatabase Systems -- Checking Integrity Constraints in Multidatabase Systems with Nested Transactions -- Web Information Systems --^ The Internet Marketplace Template: An Architecture Template for Inter-enterprise Information Systems -- Investigating the Evolution of Electronic Markets -- Coordinating Web-Based Systems with Documents in XMLSpaces -- Validating an Access Cost Model for Wide Area Applications -- Workflow Management Systems -- Querying and Splicing of XML Workflows -- On Demand Business-to-Business Integration -- Recommendation and Information Seeking Systems -- Yoda: An Accurate and Scalable Web-Based Recommendation System -- The Use of Machine-Generated Ontologies in Dynamic Information Seeking.