CoopIS'98 Advance Program

Advance Program

Third IFCIS Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'98)

CoopIS'98 will feature a strong program of technical papers as well as two invited speakers and panel sessions. There will also be a reception and a New York City-style outing (dinner and a Broadway show).

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE

Subject to Change



              TH, AUG 20th            FR, AUG 21st           SA, AUG 22nd

 8:30- 9:30   Invited Talk        Invited Talk        8:30-10:00  S11: WFII  
              Jennifer Widom      Avi Silberschatz                S12: TRII  

 9:30-10:00   Coffee              Coffee              10:00-10:30 Coffee

10:00-12:00   S 1: WBIS           S 5: HDIS           10:30-12:00 Panel 2
              S 2: DDI            S 6: DDII  

12:00- 1:30   Lunch               Lunch

 1:30- 3:00   S 3: AG             S 7: MDB   
              S 4: TRI            S 8: MO  

 3:00- 3:30 - Coffee              Coffee

 3:30- 5:00 - Panel 1             S 9: WFI  
                                  S10: II

Invited Talks

Cooperative Information Integration and Exchange through Semistructured Data
Jennifer Widom, Stanford University
Gestalts: Internet Databases and Scalable Integration
Avi Silberschatz, Bell Labs

Panels

Panel 1: Cooperative IS Manifesto: Components of Solutions, Emphasis and Recipe for Success

Organizers: Matthias Jarke, Amit Sheth

Panel 2: Cooperative Information Systems: An Industrial Reality and a Research Fiction

Organizer: Michael L. Brodie

Technical Papers

SESSION 1: Web-Based Information Services (WBIS)

Information Services for the Web: Building and Maintaining Domain Models
S. Kerr, A. Gal, J. Mylopoulos

Wrapper Generation for Web Accessible Data Sources
J.-R. Gruser, L. Raschid, M. E. Vidal, L. Bright

Materializing the Web
M. De Rosa, T. Catarci, L. Iocchi, D. Nardi, G. Santucci

Jedi: Extracting and Synthesizing Information from the Web
G. Huck, P. Fankhauser, K. Aberer, E. Neuhold

SESSION 2: Distributed Databases - I (DDI)

Query Evaluation for Distributed Heterogeneous Relational Databases
Y. Chen, W. Benn

Interoperation of Independent, Heterogeneous and Distributed Databases: Methodology and CASE Support: the InterDB Approach
Ph. Thiran, J.-L. Hainaut, S. Bodart, A. Deflorenne, J.-M. Hick

A Generative Communication Service for Database Interoperability
W. Hasselbring, M. Roantree

Protecting the Quality of Service of Existing Information Systems
K. S. Beyer, M. Livny, R. Ramakrishnan

SESSION 3: Agents (AG)

Scheduling Non-Enforceable Contracts Among Autonomous Agents
T. Tesch, K. Aberer

Dynamic-Agents for Dynamic Service Provisioning
Q. Chen, P. Chundi, U. Dayal, M. Hsu

A Recipe Structure for Plan Execution in Dynamic Worlds
S. Au, J. Liang, N. Parameswaran

SESSION 4: Transactions I (TRI)

Using Multiple Mobile Agents for Distributed Transactions
H. Vogler, A. Buchmann

Execution Dependencies in Transaction Closures
K. Schwarz, C. Tuerker, G. Saake

A Novel Timestamp Ordering Approach for Co-existing Traditional and Cooperative Transaction Processing
Y. Zhang, Y. Kambayashi, Y. Yang, C. Sun

SESSION 5: Heterogeneous Distributed Information Services (HDIS)

A Meta-Wrapper for Scaling up to Multiple Autonomous Distributed Information Sources
M. E. Vidal, L. Raschid, J.-R. Gruser

Management of Work in Progress in Relational Information Systems
R. Ahmed, U. Dayal

Meta-Data Based Mediator Generation
T. Critchlow, M. Ganesh, R. Musick

Data Access Services and Automatic Generation of Cooperating Interfaces
G. Moro, A. Natali, C. Sartori

SESSION 6: Distributed Databases - II (DDII)

Towards an Inductive Design of Distributed Object Oriented Databases
F. Baiao, M. Mattoso, G. Zaverucha

A Client Group-Server DBMS Architecture and Inter-Client Communication Caching Schemes in the WAN Environment
K. Park, H. Kang

A Study of Least Privilege in CapBasED-AMS
P. C. K. Hung, K. Karlapalem, J. W. Gray III

Calculus-Based Transformations of Queries over Object-Oriented Views in a Database Mediator System
V. Josifovski, T. Risch

SESSION 7: Multidatabases (MDB)

OMS Connect: Supporting Multidatabase and Mobile Working through Database Connectivity
M. C. Norrie, A. Palinginis, A. Wuergler

Minimization of Resource Consumption for Multidatabase Query Optimization
C. Lee, C.-H. Ke, J.-B. Chang, Y.-H. Chen

A Dynamic and Adaptive Cache Retrieval Scheme for Mobile Computing Systems
W.-C. Peng, M.-S. Chen

SESSION 8: Modeling (MO)

Context in Information Bases
M. Theodorakis, A. Analyti, P. Constantopoulos, N. Spyratos

Context Mediation on Wall Street
A. Moulton, S. E. Madnick, M. D. Siegel

Information Integration: Conceptual Modeling and Reasoning Support
D. Calvanese, G. De Giacomo, M. Lenzerini, D. Nardi, R. Rosati

SESSION 9: Workflows (WFI)

Distributed Workflow Management: The TEAM Model
G. Piccinelli

Action Port Model: A Mixed Paradigm Conceptual Workflow Modeling Language
S. Carlsen

Managing Evolving Workflow Specifications
G. Joeris, O. Herzog

SESSION 10: Information Integration (II)

Merging Inheritance Hierarchies for Database Integration
I. Schmitt, G. Saake

Propagation of Semantic Modifications to an Integrated Schema
R. Motz, P. Fankhauser

A Flexible Architecture for Query Integration and Mapping
S. Adali, C. Bufi

SESSION 11: Workflows II (WFII)

Interworkflow System: Coordination of Each Workflow System among Multiple Organizations
K. Hiramatsu, K.-i. Okada, Y. Matsushita, H. Hayami

Integration of Statecharts
H. Frank, J. Eder

Cooperative Design for 3D Virtual Scenes
Y. Luo, R. Galli, M. Mascaro, P. Palmer

SESSION 12: Transactions II (TRII)

Using Constraints to Manage Long Duration Transactions in Spatial Information Systems
D. Kuo, V. Gaede, K. Taylor

Stable Transaction Management for Preserving the Global Integrity Constraints in Multidatabase Systems
K. Lee, S. Park

Reducing the Blocking in Two-Phase Commit Protocol Employing Backup Sites
P. K. Reddy, M. Kitsuregawa