THE COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS PARADIGM

The paradigm for cooperative information systems (CISs) involves large numbers of information systems (ISs) distributed over large, complex computer/communication networks (e.g., Intranets, the Internet, the World Wide Web). Such ISs will manage or have access to large amounts of information and computing services and will need to cooperate with each other. They will support both individual and collaborative human work.

THE CONFERENCE

The Third IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS) is the premier event in Cooperative Information Systems. It is sponsored by the International Foundation on Cooperative Information Systems (IFCIS), and replaces the erstwhile international workshops on Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems (IMS) and the conference series on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS & ICICIS).

Cooperative Information Systems - the area and the conference - brings together scientists and ideas from artificial intelligence, computer-supported cooperative work, databases, distributed computing, and user interfaces.

Submitted papers should address cooperation and interoperability among information systems. Specific topics related to the theoretical and practical aspects of cooperative information systems may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Advanced transaction models
• Agents for cooperative information management
• Business process modeling and reengineering
• Communication subsystems and infrastructure
• Digital libraries
• Distributed AI
• Distributed object management
• Electronic commerce
• Federated databases and multidatabases
• GIS and spatial databases
• Information and data modeling
• Information resource discovery
• Integration and interoperability
• Legacy data access and management
• Mediators, wrappers, negotation
• Metadata use and management
• Multiagent systems
• Multimedia information systems
• Mobile databases
• Semantic interoperability
• Workflow modeling and management

Papers should clearly indicate how they are related to and how the results reported contribute to the theme of the conference.

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS - PAPERS AND PANELS

Original research and industrial papers are solicited. Papers should not be longer than 5000 words. Industrial papers should describe technical or key business issues in applying the relevant technology, which should highlight aspects of cooperation and interoperation. Submissions should be unpublished and not under consideration by another conference or journal. Panel proposals should address leading-edge research issues in cooperative information systems.

The following items should be submitted:

• A cover page, to be submitted by email to the nearest program chair (in ASCII) as follows:
  
  
  • Title: title
  • Authors: name[, name]
  • Address: address
  • Telephone: telephone
  • Fax: fax
  • E-mail: e-mail address
  • Keywords: keyword[, keyword[, keyword]]
  • Abstract: abstract (100-200 words)


• Six hard-copies of the manuscript, including the cover page, to be sent to the same program chair. Authors are encouraged to submit papers in the final conference format. We will be using the style of the IEEE Computer Society Press. Please see http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm for details. We now have a LaTeX style file for you to use. Its name is latex8.sty (just click and, if necessary, use the save feature of your browser to get a copy). There are three other accompanying LaTeX files that you should also use along with the style file: (1) sample.tex (a sample LaTeX source file that utilizes latex8.sty. Please use this as a template for your paper); (2) latex8.bst (the bibliographic style file); (3) latex8.bib (an example BibTeX file). Again, you should download all four files.

Proposals, requests or suggestions for panels should be sent to the panel chair. We welcome suggestions for panels that would make CoopIS'98 compelling to you and the CoopIS community.

IMPORTANT DATES

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

GENERAL CHAIRS

PROGRAM CHAIRS

PANEL CHAIR

PUBLICITY CHAIR

FINANCE CHAIR

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

David J. Abel, CSIRO, Australia
Nabil Adam, Rutgers U, U.S.A.
Sonia Bergamaschi, U Modena & CSITE-CNR, Italy
Alexander Borgida, Rutgers U, U.S.A.
Michael Brodie, GTE Laboratories, U.S.A.
Janis A. Bubenko, Royal Institute of Technology & Stockholm U, Sweden
Sang K. Cha, Seoul Natl. U, Korea
Vinay Chaudhri, SRI International, U.S.A.
Arbee L.P. Chen, Natl. Tsing Hua U, Taiwan
Panos Constantopoulos, U Crete & FORTH, Greece
Umesh Dayal, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, U.S.A.
Monica Divitini, The Norwegian U of Science and Technology, Norway
Eric Dubois, U Namur, Belgium
Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Purdue U, U.S.A.
Hele-Mai Haav, Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia
Michael Halper, Kean U, U.S.A.
Eui-Kyung Hong, Seoul City U, Korea
Michael Huhns, U South Carolina, U.S.A.
Kamalakar Karlapalem, HKUST, Hong Kong
Myoung Ho Kim, KAIST, Korea
Masaru Kitsuregawa, U Tokyo, Japan
Matthias Klusch, Technical U Chemnitz, Germany
Alfred Kobsa, GMD-FIT, Germany
Rao Kotagiri, U Melbourne, Australia
John Krogstie, Andersen Consulting, Norway
Stephen Laufmann, U S WEST Advanced Technologies, U.S.A.
Chiang Lee, Natl. Cheng-Kung U, Taiwan
Dik L. Lee, HKUST, Hong Kong
Sang Ho Lee, Soongsil U, Korea
Sang-goo Lee, Seoul Natl. U, Korea
Tok Wang Ling, Natl. U of Singapore, Singapore
Hongjun Lu, Natl. U of Singapore, Singapore
Kalle Lyytinen, U Jyvaskyla, Finland
Bonnie McKellar, Western Connecticut State U, U.S.A.
Dennis McLeod, U Southern California, U.S.A.
Leszek A. Maciaszek, Macquarie U, Australia
Patrick Martin, Queen's U, Canada
Yoshifumi Masunaga, U Library and Information Science, Japan
Florian Matthes, Technical U Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
Giorgio De Michelis, U Milano, Italy
Shojiro Nishio, Osaka U, Japan
Moira C. Norrie, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Antoni Olive Ramon, U Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona
Tamer Oszu, U Alberta, Canada
Aris M. Ouksel, U Illinois at Chicago
George A. Papadopoulos, U Cyprus, Cyprus
Mike P. Papazoglou, Tilburg U, The Netherlands
Alain Pirotte, U Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Klaus Pohl, RWTH-Aachen, Germany
Wolfgang Prinz, GMD, Germany
Pearl Pu, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Ron Sacks-Davis, CiTRi/RMIT, Australia
Gunter Schlageter, Fern U Hagen, Germany
Dong-Guk Shin, U Connecticut, U.S.A.
Peretz Shoval, Ben-Gurion U of the Negev, Israel
Munindar Singh, North Carolina State U, U.S.A.
Huaiqing Wang, City U of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Carson Woo, U British Columbia, Canada
Yelena Yesha, UMBC & NASA, U.S.A.
Masatoshi Yoshikawa, NAIST, Japan
Eric Yu, U Toronto, Canada