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

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

June 25
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 9:00 Plenary Session
 9:30 Invited Talk 1: Georges Gardarin, Universite de Versailles - St. Quentin
      - Federating Object-Oriented and Relational Databases: The IRO-DB Experience
10:30 Break
11:00 Session 1: Cooperation
      - Shin'ichi Konomi, Kazuhiro Sakata, et al.
        Cooperative View Mechanisms in Distributed Multiuser Hypermedia
        Environments
      - Rose Sturm, Peter C. Lockemann
        Collision of Constrained Work Spaces: A Unifying Concept for
        Design interactions
      - Klingemann, Tesch, Waesch
        Enabling Cooperation among Disconnected Mobile Users
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Session 2: Rules and Reasoning
      - Yuko Murayama
        Configuration Detection as a Problem of Knowledge Discovery in
        Computer Networks
      - M.Berndtsson, Sharma Chakravarthy, Brian Lings
        Task Sharing among Agents Using Reactive Rules
      - Frederic Koriche
        Fault-Tolerant and Approximate Reasoning in Multisource Environments
15:30 Break
16:00 Panel 1:  Cooperative Multiagent Systems for the Web
                Moderator:  Anupam Joshi
17:30 End

18:00 Welcoming Reception, Poster Session, and Technology Demonstrations
      Venue: On the Veranda

June 26
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 8:30 Session 3: Workflow Management
      - Patrick C. K. Hung, Kamalakar Karlapalem
        A Paradigm for Security Enforcement in CapBasED-AMS
      - M.Altinel, Esin Gokkoca, I.Cingil, E.Nesime, P.Koksal, A.Dogac
        Design and Implementatino of a Distributed Workflow Enactment Service
      - Thomas Bauer, Peter Dadam
        A Distributed Execution Environment for Large-Scale Workflow
        Management Systems with Subnets and Server Migration
10:00 Break
10:30 Session 4: Interoperation
      - Rongquen Chen
        Precise Detection and Proper Handling of View
        Maintenance Anomalies in a Multidatabase Environment
      - Israel Ben-Shaul
        HADAS: A Network-Centric Framework for Interoperability Programming
      - Ling Ling Yan
        Accessing Heterogeneous Data Through Homogenization
        and Integration Mediators
      - Manos Theodorakis, Panos Constantopoulos
        On Context-Based Naming in Information Bases
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Session 5: Internet Access
      - Jon A. Pastor, Suzanne L. Taylor, Donald P. McKay, and Robin McEntire
        Intelligent Resource Agent Architecture
      - Naveen Ashish
        Semi-automatic Wrapper Generation for Internet
        Information Sources
      - Kuhanandha Mahalingam
        An Ontology Tool for Query Formulation in an Agent-Based Context
15:30 Break
16:00 Panel 2:  Practical Aspects of Deploying CIS in Industry
                Moderator:  Steve Laufmann
17:30 End

19:00 Conference Banquet
      Venue: Around the pool, overlooking the ocean

June 27
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 9:00 Invited Talk 2:  Ted Rybeck, President, Benchmarking Partners
      - Benchmark Business Integration
10:00 Break
10:30 Session 6: Query Processing
      - Yasuo Ariki, Y. Sugiyama
        A TV News Retrieval System with Interactive Query Function
      - Mark Vermeer, Peter M.G. Apers
        Processing Queries on Complex Objects in Interoperable Databases
      - Michael Stillger, Johann K. Obermaier, J. Ch. Freytag
        AQuES: An Agent-based Query Evaluation System
      - Anisoara Nica
        On Translating Loosely-Specified Queries into Executable Plans
        in Large-Scale Information Systems
12:30 Lunch and IFCIS Annual Board Meeting
14:00 Panel 3: Active Databases and Agents in Cooperative Information Systems
               Moderator:  Sharma Chakravarthy
15:30 Conference Wrap-Up