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

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

Program & Organizing Committees

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 Wolfgang Klas Arbee L.P. Chen Department of Computer Science Fakultaet fuer Informatik Department of Computer Science Withers 226 / Box 8206 Universitaet Ulm 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 
Local Organization Chair
Jack Corley SCRA Trident Research Center 5300 International Boulevard North Charleston, SC 29418 USA +1-803-760-3370 +1-803-760-3250 fax corley@scra.org

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