Cooperative Information Systems: 9th International Conference, CoopIS 2001, Trento, Italy, September 5-7, 2001. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2172))

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2001, held in Trento, Italy in September 2001. The 29 revised full papers presented together with three invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on agent and systems; information integration; middleware, platforms, and architectures; models; multi and federated database systems; Web information systems; workflow management systems; and recommendation and information seeking systems. Generic Model Management: A Database Infrastructure for Schema Manipulation....Pages 1-6 The Evolution of Distributed Component Architectures....Pages 7-21 Data Integration Is Harder than You Thought....Pages 22-26 Implicit Culture for Multi-agent Interaction Support....Pages 27-39 Extending Multi-agent Cooperation by Overhearing....Pages 40-52 Mobile-Agent Based Distributed Web GIS....Pages 53-66 Local Distributed Agent Matchmaking....Pages 67-79 Deploying Distributed State Information in Mobile Agent Systems....Pages 80-94 Cooperative Meeting Scheduling among Agents Based on Multiple Negotiations....Pages 95-107 Autoplex: Automated Discovery of Content for Virtual Databases....Pages 108-122 Cooperation Strategies for Information Integration....Pages 123-134 Planning and Optimizing Semantic Information Requests Using Domain Modeling and Resource Characteristics....Pages 135-149 Integrating View Schemata Using an Extended Object Definition Language....Pages 150-163 Deriving “Sub-source” Similarities from Heterogeneous, Semi-structured Information Sources....Pages 163-178 P-Grid: A Self-Organizing Access Structure for P2P Information Systems....Pages 179-194 Moving Active Functionality from Centralized to Open Distributed Heterogeneous Environments....Pages 195-211 Generic Constraints for Content-Based Publish/Subscribe....Pages 211-225 Supporting Heterogeneous Users in Collaborative Virtual Environments Using AOP....Pages 226-238 A Process Service Model for Dynamic Enterprise Process Interconnection....Pages 239-254 Employing Multiuser Interactions in the Development of Synchronous Applications....Pages 255-269 Service Representation, Discovery, and Composition for E-marketplaces....Pages 270-284 Schema Design and Query Processing in a Federated Multimedia Database System....Pages 285-300 Global Semantic Serializability: An Approach to Increase Concurrency in Multidatabase Systems....Pages 301-315 Checking Integrity Constraints in Multidatabase Systems with Nested Transactions....Pages 316-328 The Internet Marketplace Template: An Architecture Template for Inter-enterprise Information Systems....Pages 329-343 Investigating the Evolution of Electronic Markets....Pages 344-355 Coordinating Web-Based Systems with Documents in XMLSpaces....Pages 356-370 Validating an Access Cost Model for Wide Area Applications....Pages 371-385 Querying and Splicing of XML Workflows....Pages 386-403 On Demand Business-to-Business Integration....Pages 403-417 Yoda: An Accurate and Scalable Web-Based Recommendation System....Pages 418-432 The Use of Machine-Generated Ontologies in Dynamic Information Seeking....Pages 433-447 Cooperative Information Systems have emerged as a central concept in a variety of applications, projects, and systems in the new era of e-business. The conference at which the papers in this volume were presented was the ninth international conference on the topic of Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2001), and was held in Trento, Italy on September 5-7, 2001. Like the previous conferences, CoopIS 2001 has been remarkably successful in bringing together representatives of many di?erent ?elds, spanning the entire range of e?ective web-based Cooperative Information Systems, and with interests ranging from industrial experience to original research concepts and results. The 29 papers collected here out of the 79 ones that were submitted, dem- strate well the range of results achieved in several areas such as agent te- nologies, models and architectures, web systems, information integration, m- dleware technologies, federated and multi-database systems. The papers th- selves, however, do not convey the lively excitement of the conference itself, and the continuing spirit of cooperation and communication across disciplines that has been the hallmark of these conferences. We would especially like to thank our keynote speakers: Philip A. Bernstein (Microsoft Research, USA), Edward E. Cobb (BEA Systems, USA), and Ma- izio Lenzerini (Universit`a di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy) for providing a portrait of the best contemporary work in the ?eld. We would also like to thank the many people who made CoopIS 2001 possible. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the three confederated conferences CoopIS 2002, DOA 2002, and ODBASE 2002, held in Irvine, CA, USA, in October/November 2002.The 77 revised full papers and 10 posters presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 291 submissions.