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

by Carlo Batini (Editor), Fausto Giunchiglia (Editor), Paolo Giorgini (Editor), Massimo Mecella (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540425243
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	10/16/2001
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #2172
Edition description:	2001
Pages:	456
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of 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 inMultidatabase 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.