Corpora: CoopIS'2000 - call for papers

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Wed, 20 Oct 1999 18:26:26 +0300

Call for Papers - CoopIS'2000
Fifth IFCIS International Conference on
Cooperative Information Systems
In Cooperation with VLDB'2000

Neptune Hotel
Eilat, Israel, September 6-8, 2000

http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/coopis2000.html

What is CoopIS ?

CoopIS is the leading conference for system cooperation.
Cooperation among systems has gained substantial importance in
recent
years: electronic commerce, virtual enterprises, and the middleware
paradigm are just some examples of this area.
Several levels of cooperation are present:

* The subject matter is the foundation and implementation of
cooperation
among systems.
* The CoopIS area is a meeting of disciplines which provide
concepts and
techniques. The relevant disciplines are: collaborative work,
distributed databases, distributed computing, electronic
commerce,
human-computer interaction, multi-agent systems, information
retrieval, and workflow systems.
* The CoopIS series provides a forum for well-known researchers,
that
are drawn from the stature and the tradition of these
conference
series, and has a leading role in shaping the future of the
cooperative information systems area. Opportunities for
informal
meetings between the conference delegates will be enhanced with
a
series of social events, including pre-conference exploration
of
Eilat, in-conference tour of the surrounding desert, and
post-conference excursion that will enable easy connection for
those
continuing to VLDB'2000 in Cairo.

CoopIS'2000 is the seventh conference in the series and the fifth
conference organized by the International Foundation on Cooperative
Information Systems (IFCIS). It is sponsored by the International
Foundation in Cooperative Information Systems (IFCIS), and the IBM
Research
Laboratory in Haifa (other sponsors pending). It replaces the
erstwhile
international workshops on Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems
(IMS)
and the conference series on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS
&
ICICIS).

The conference will be held in Eilat, A resort town and bustling
port,
combining sea and desert, Eilat lies at Israel's southernmost tip.
Sixty
minutes by plane from Tel-Aviv, Eilat is situated between the
wondrous
scenery of the deep azure Red Sea and the multitude Edom Mountains
and is a
paradise for sea-sports fans.

Important dates:

Submission Intention Notice Deadline March
13, 2000
Paper Submission Deadline March 27, 2000
Acceptance Notification May 29, 2000
Final Version Due June 26, 2000
Early registration deadline July 31, 2000
The Conference September 6-8,
2000

Who should submit papers ?

Papers are solicited in two categories: regular research papers and
industrial experience papers. The category should be clearly
identified.
Regular research papers should contain original research concepts
and
results in one or more technologies relevant to cooperative
information
systems. Industrial experience papers should describe technical or
key
business issues and lessons learned in developing, applying, and
deploying
relevant technologies, highlighting aspects of cooperation and
interoperation. Submitted papers should not be longer than 5000
words.
Submissions should be unpublished and should not be under
consideration by
another conference or journal. A few papers will be selected for
publication, after appropriate expansion and review, in the
International
Journal of Cooperative Information Systems. One of the main themes
will be
information services in the 21st century, and we particularly
welcome
papers related to this theme. We also encourage the submission of
all
topics related to cooperative information systems, including (but
not
limited to) the following:

* Agent Technology * Business Intelligence
Frameworks
* Business Process Modeling * Communication
infrastructure for collaboration
* Computer-supported Cooperative work * Cooperative
Information System Architectures
* Cooperative Information System foundations * Cooperative
Transactions
* Cooperative Transactions * Digital
Libraries
* Distributed Problem Solving * Distributed GIS

* Distributed Multimedia Systems * Distributed Object
Management
* Distributed Warehousing and mining * Electronic
Commerce
* Enterprise Knowledge management * Event Based
Systems
* Engineering Distributed systems * Federated and
Multi-database systems
* Human-Computer Interaction for cooperation * Information
Filtering
* Information Resource Discovery * Information Retrieval

* Information, Data and knowledge Modeling * Integration and
Interoperability
* Legacy Data Access and Management * Mediators,
Wrappers
* Middleware Technology * Meta-data and
Repositories
* Multi-agent Systems * Mobile Computing for
Cooperation
* Organizational Aspects of Cooperative * Semantic
Interoperability
Systems (including virtual organizations)
* Web-based Information Systems * Web-based Services

* Workflow Systems

Papers Submission

Papers will be submitted in an electronic fashion (Postscript or PDF
files)
to both program chairs.
A pre-submission intention notice to both program chairs with the
paper's
authors, title, and classification is requested.

The CoopIS'2000 team:

General Chairs
Avigdor Gal Michele
Missikoff
Rutgers University, USA IASI-CNR,
Italy
E-mail: avigal@rci.rutgers.edu E-mail:
missikoff@iasi.rm.cnr.it

Program Chairs
Opher Etzion Peter
Scheuermann
IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, Northwestern
University, USA
Israel
E-mail: opher@il.ibm.com E-mail:
peters@ece.nwu.edu

Publicity and Proceedings Chair
David Carmel
IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, Israel
E-mail: carmel@il.ibm.com

Organization Chairs
David Botzer Tova
Berger
IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, IBM Research
Laboratory in Haifa,
Israel Israel
E-mail: botzer@il.ibm.com E-mail:
tova@il.ibm.com

Program Committee Members:
o Yariv Aridor - IBM Research o Israel Ben-Shaul
Laboratory in Haifa, Israel Technion, Israel
o Alex Borgida - Rutgers o Mokrane
Bouzeghoub -
University, USA
Universite de Versailles, France
o Andrei Broder - Alta Vista , o Yuri
Brietbart - Bell Labs,
USA USA
o Tiziana Catarci - Universita' o Christopher
Clifton - Mitre,
di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy USA
o Umesh Dayal- HP Labs, o Stefan Decker -
Stanford University,
USA
USA
o Eric Dubois - University of o Asuman Dogac
- Middle East
Namur, Belgium
Technical University, Turkey
o Ahmed Elmagarmid - Purdue o Ramez Elmasri -
University of
University, USA Texas
at Arlington, USA
o Opher Etzion - IBM Research o Jihawei Han -
Simon Fraser
Laboratory in Haifa, Israel
University, Canada
(co-chair)
o David Hawking - CSIRO, o Mike Huhns -
University of
Australia
South Carolina, USA
o Stefan Jablonski - o Anant
Jhingran - IBM Waston
Universitaet
Research center, USA
Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
o Yahiko Kambayashi - Kyoto o Dimitris
Karagiannis -
University, Japan
Universitat Wien, Austria
o Kamal Karlapalem - University o Rao Kotagiri -
University of
of Science and Technology, Melbourne,
Australia
Hong Kong
o Ling Liu - Georgia Tech, USA o Stuart Madnick -
M.I.T, USA
o Robert Meersman - VUB, Belgium o Tova Milo -
Tel-Aviv

University, Israel
o Ren?eacute;e J. Miller - o Ami Motro -
George Mason
University of Toronto, Canada University, USA
o John Mylopoulos - University o Erich Neuhold -
GMD IPSI,
of Toronto, Canada
Germany
o Aris Ouksel - UIC, USA o Tamer Ozsu -
University of

Waterloo, Canada
o George Papadopoulos - o Mike Papazoglou -
Tilburg
University of Cyprus, Cyrpus University
, The Netherlands
o Evaggelia Pitoura - University o Yael Ravin - IBM
Watson
of Ioannina, Greece
Research center, USA
o Tore Risch - Uppsala o Jeff
Rosenschein - Hebrew
University, Sweden
University, Israel
o Ron Sacks Davis - RMIT, o Hans Schek - ETH
Zurich,
Australia
Switzerland
o Peter Scheuermann- o Peretz
Shoval - Ben-Gurion
Northwestern University, USA
University, Israel
(co-chair)
o Oded Shmueli -Technion, Israel o Jacob Slonim -
Dalhousie

University, Canada
o Arne Solvberg - Univ. of o Moshe
Tennenholtz - Technion,
Trondheim, Norway Israel
o Jeff Ullman - Stanford o Kyu-Young
Whang - Korea
University, USA
Advanced Institute of Science

and Technology , Korea
o Jian Yang - CSIRO, Australia

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David Carmel
Information Retrieval and Organization, IBM - HRL
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