Cooperative Information Systems

1. Front Matter

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2. Workflow Modeling

   1. Formalizing (and Reasoning about) the Specifications of Workflows

      • Goce Trajcevski, Chitta Baral, Jorge Lobo

      Pages 1-17

   2. Advanced Workflow Patterns

      • W. M. P. van der Aalst, A. P. Barros, A. H. M. ter Hofstede, B. Kiepuszewski

      Pages 18-29

   3. Extending UML with Workflow Modeling Capabilities

      • Guido Wirtz, Mathias Weske, Holger Giese

      Pages 30-41

3. Information Retrieval

   1. ConSearch: Using Hypertext Contexts as Web Search Boundaries

      • Zhanzi Qiu, Matthias Hemmje, Erich J. Neuhold

      Pages 42-53

   2. Combining the Power of Searching and Querying

      • Sara Cohen, Yaron Kanza, Yakov Kogan, Werner Nutt, Yehoshua Sagiv, Alexander Serebrenik

      Pages 54-65

   3. Cooperative Indexing, Classification, and Evaluation in BoW

      • Dror G. Feitelson

      Pages 66-77

4. Cooperative Databases

   1. Complex View Selection for Data Warehouse Self-Maintainability

      • Dimitri Theodoratos

      Pages 78-89

   2. Integrating Snapshot Isolation into Transactional Federations

      • Ralf Schenkel, Gerhard Weikum

      Pages 90-101

   3. An Evaluation of the Java-Based Approaches to Web Database Access

      • Stavros Papastavrou, Panos Chrysanthis, George Samaras, Evaggelia Pitoura

      Pages 102-113

5. Short Presentations

   1. A Framework for ASP-Marketplaces

      • Gerrit Tamm, Oliver Günther

      Pages 114-119

   2. Exploring the Semantic Structure of Technical Document Collections: A Cooperative Systems Approach

      • Andreas Becks, Stefan Sklorz, Matthias Jarke

      Pages 120-125

   3. Organized Distributed Systems

      • Gil Tidhar, Elizabeth A. Sonenberg

      Pages 126-131

   4. Managing Aging Data Using Persistent Views

      • Janne Skyt, Christian S. Jensen

      Pages 132-137

   5. A Workflow System through Cooperating Agents for Control and Document Flow over the Internet

      • A. Dogac, Y. Tambag, A. Tumer, M. Ezbiderli, N. Tatbul, N. Hamali et al.

      Pages 138-143

   6. Distributed View Expansion in Composable Mediators

      • Timour Katchaounov, Vanja Josifovski, Tore Risch

      Pages 144-149

6. Information Services

   1. eResponder: Electronic Question Responder

      • David Carmel, Menachem Shtalhaim, Aya Soffer

      Pages 150-161

   2. Efficient Matching for Web-Based Publish/Subscribe Systems

      • João Pereira, Françoise Fabret, François Llirbat, Dennis Shasha

      Pages 162-173

   3. A Software Retrieval Service Based on Knowledge-Driven Agents

      • E. Mena, A. Illarramendi, A. Goñi

      Pages 174-185

7. Workflow Execution

   1. Benchmarking and Configuration of Workflow Management Systems

      • Michael Gillmann, Ralf Mindermann, Gerhard Weikum

      Pages 186-197

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 series provides a forum for well-known researchers who are drawn by the stature and the tradition of these conference series and has a leading role in shaping the future of the cooperative information systems area. CoopIS 2000 is the seventh conference in the series and the fifth conference organized by the International Foundation on Cooperative Information Systems (IFCIS). It is sponsored by the IFCIS, the IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa and Compaq, Tandem labs Israel. It replaces the former international workshops on Interoperability in Multidatabase systems (IMS) and the conference series on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS & ICICIS). In response to the call for papers 74 papers were submitted. Each of them was reviewed by at least three reviewers, and at the end of this process 24 papers were accepted for presentation at the conference. Six additional papers were selected for short presentations. In addition the conference includes two panels, two keynote speakers (Professor Calton Pu from Georgia Tech and Professor Sheizaf Rafaeli from Haifa University) and one tutorial. A special issue of the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems will follow. August 2000 Opher Etzion & Peter Scheuermann

• Benchmarking
• Collaborative Work
• Cooperative Information Agents
• Cooperative Information Systems
• Electronic Commerce
• Internet
• Multi Agent Systems
• Web-Based Information Services
• classification
• communication
• data warehouse
• database
• distributed systems
• information system

• Dept. of EECS, Northwestern Univ.,  

  Peter Scheuermann

• IBM Haifa Research Lab, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel

  Opher Etzion

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