Cooperative Information Systems: 7th International Conference, CoopIS 2000 Eilat, Israel, September 6-8, 2000 Proceedings

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 ser...