Second IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems
(CoopIS'97)

Kiawah Island, South Carolina, USA, June 24-27, 1997

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Call for Papers

Description

The Second 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, databases, and distributed computing. The Conference is devoted to cooperation and interoperability among all types of information systems. Specific topics of interest include the theoretical and practical aspects of the following

Information management via cooperating agents
Federated databases and multidatabases, including the issues of legacy data and applications, distribution, heterogeneity, autonomy, and security.
Multimedia information systems, including document management, metadata for digital media, and data transformation.
Global information systems, including information resource discovery, information brokering, electronic/information commerce, and electronic data interchanges.
Business process modeling and workflow modeling and management.
Information modeling and semantic interoperability.
Architectural issues in the above.
Data management issues, including collection, exchange, mining, simulation, and animation.
Core technologies, including DAI and multiagent systems, distributed object management, mediators, wrappers, advanced transaction models, negotiation, communication subsystems & infrastructure, and issues of storage, buffering and optimization.

Information For Authors

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.

Submit

a 100-200 word plain-text abstract by email to the nearest program chair. The format for the abstract is as follows: Title: title Authors: name[, name] Abstract: abstract
six copies of the manuscript to the same program chair

The Proceedings of CoopIS'97 will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

Proposals for panels can be sent to the panel chair at the address below.

Important Dates

Electronic Abstract Submission Deadline: February 3, 1997 Paper Submission Deadline: February 17, 1997 Panel Proposals Deadline: February 17, 1997 Author Notification: March 21, 1997 Camera Ready Version Due: April 22, 1997

General Chair

Prof. Michael N. Huhns Director, Center for Information Technology Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 301 South Main Street University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 USA huhns@sc.edu +1 (803) 777-5921 +1 (803) 777-8045 fax

Program Chairs

Americas Europe Asia & Pacific Rim

Munindar P. Singh Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Klas Arbee L.P. Chen Department of Computer Science Universitaet Ulm Department of Computer Science Withers 226 / Box 8206 Fakultaet fuer Informatik National Tsing Hua University North Carolina State University D-89069 Ulm, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C. Raleigh, NC 27695-8206 USA Germany Fax: 886-35-723694 singh@ncsu.edu klas@informatik.uni-ulm.de alpchen@cs.nthu.edu.tw

Panel Chair

Robert A Meersman VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Department of Computer Science STARlab --Building F-G/10 Pleinlaan 2 B-1050 Brussels Belgium meersman@vub.ac.be

Tutorial Chair

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos GTE Laboratories, Inc., MS-62 40 Sylvan Road Waltham, MA 02254 USA dimitris@gte.com

Demonstration Chair

Larry M. Stephens Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 301 South Main Street University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 USA stephens@sc.edu

Publicity Chair

Omran Bukhres Computer science Department Purdue University 723 West Michigan street, SL 280 Indianapolis, IN 46202 USA bukhres@cs.iupui.edu

Program Committee

Karl Aberer GMD-IPSI, Germany Gul Agha UIUC, USA Barbara Blaustein NSF, USA Mike Brodie GTE Labs, USA Ming-Syan Chen National Taiwan U, Taiwan Peter Dadam U Ulm, Germany Umesh Dayal HP Labs, USA Asuman Dogac Middle East Technical U, Turkey Ahmed Elmagarmid Purdue U, USA Avigdor Gal U Toronto, Canada Georges Gardarin Laboratoire PRISM, France James Geller NJIT, USA San-Yih Hwang National Sun Yat-Sen U, Taiwan Stefan Jablonski U Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Yahiko Kambayashi Kyoto University, Japan Vipul Kashyap MCC, USA Qing Li HKUST, Hong Kong Tok Wang Ling National U of Singapore, Singapore Witold Litwin U Paris 9 Dauphine, France Frederick Lochovsky HKUST, Hong Kong Hongjun Lu National U of Singapore, Singapore David Maluf Stanford U, USA Dennis McLeod U Southern California, USA Peter Muth U Saarlandes, Germany John Mylopoulos U Toronto, Canada Sham Navathe Georgia Tech, USA Erich Neuhold Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany Maria Orlowska U Queensland, Australia Aris M. Ouksel UIC, USA Rajeev Rastogi Bell Labs, USA Marek Rusinkiewicz MCC & U Houston, USA Felix Saltor U Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Hans-J. Schek ETH Zentrum, Switzerland VS Subrahmanian U Maryland, USA Katia Sycara CMU, USA Mario Tokoro Keio U & Sony, Japan Susan Urban Arizona State U, USA Kyu-Young Whang KAIST, Korea

Second IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'97)