This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2000, held in Eilat, Israel in September 2000. The 24 revised full papers and six short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 74 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on workflow modeling, information retrieval, cooperative data bases, information services, workflow execution, CSCW and organizational aspects.
Workflow Modeling.- Formalizing (and Reasoning about) the Specifications of Workflows.- Advanced Workflow Patterns.- Extending UML with Workflow Modeling Capabilities.- Information Retrieval.- ConSearch: Using Hypertext Contexts as Web Search Boundaries.- Combining the Power of Searching and Querying.- Cooperative Indexing, Classification, and Evaluation in BoW.- Cooperative Databases.- Complex View Selection for Data Warehouse Self-Maintainability.- Integrating Snapshot Isolation into Transactional Federations.- An Evaluation of the Java-Based Approaches to Web Database Access.- Short Presentations.- A Framework for ASP-Marketplaces.- Exploring the Semantic Structure of Technical Document Collections: A Cooperative Systems Approach.- Organized Distributed Systems.- Managing Aging Data Using Persistent Views.- A Workflow System through Cooperating Agents for Control and Document Flow over the Internet.- Distributed View Expansion in Composable Mediators.- Information Services.- eResponder: Electronic Question Responder.- Efficient Matching for Web-Based Publish/Subscribe Systems.- A Software Retrieval Service Based on Knowledge-Driven Agents.- Workflow Execution.- Benchmarking and Configuration of Workflow Management Systems.- Workflow Modeling using Proclets.- Dealing with Logical Failures for Collaborating Workflows.- CSCW and Organizational Aspects.- A Negotiation Model for CSCW.- The Organizational Memory Information System PRINCE.- An Extensible Business Communication Language.- Mobile Cooperation.- Exploiting the Features of Asymmetry for Query Processing in a Mobile Computing Environment.- Data Lockers: Mobile-Agent Based Middleware for the Security and Availability of Roaming Users Data.- A Java Framework for Mobile Data Synchronization.- Multi Agents Systems.- Dynamic Pricing with Limited Competitor Information in a Multi-Agent Economy.- Multi-agent Cooperative Transactions for E-Commerce.- Cross-Organizational Transaction Support for Virtual Enterprises.
Overview
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2000, held in Eilat, Israel in September 2000. The 24 revised full papers and six short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 74 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on workflow modeling, information retrieval, cooperative data bases, information services, workflow execution, CSCW and organizational ...