CoopIS 1996: Brussels, Belgium

Proceedings of the First IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'96), Brussels, Belgium, June 19-21, 1996, Organized by IFCIS, The Intn'l Foundation on Cooperative Information Systems, IEEE-CS Press, 1996, ISBN 0-8186-7505-5

Classification and Ontologies

Chair: Witold Litwin

Aris M. Ouksel, Iqbal Ahmed: Coordinating Knowledge Elicitation to Support Context Construction in Cooperative Information Systems. 4-13
Eduardo Mena, Vipul Kashyap, Amit P. Sheth, Arantza Illarramendi: OBSERVER: An Approach for Query Processing in Global Information Systems based on Interoperation across Pre-existing Ontologies. 14-25
Jonghyun Kahng, Dennis McLeod: Dynamic Classification Ontologies for Discovery in Cooperative Federated Databases. 26-35

Data Integration

Chair: James Geller

Paul W. P. J. Grefen, Jennifer Widom: Integrity Constraint Checking in Federated Databases. 38-47
Joseph Albert: Data Integration in the RODIN Multidatabase System. 48-57
Phan Minh Dung: Integrating Data from Possibly Inconsistent Databases. 58-65

Heterogeneous and Federated Databases

Chair: Klemens Böhm

Antonio Si, Chi C. Ying, Dennis McLeod: On Using Historical Update Information for Instance Identification in Federated Databases. 68-77
Mike P. Papazoglou, Nick Russell, David Edmond: A Translation Protocol Achieving Consensus of Semantics between Cooperating Heterogeneous Database Systems. 78-89
Karl Aberer, Klemens Hemm: A Methodology for Building a Data Warehouse in a Scientific Environment. 90-101

Workflow Management

Chair: Michael N. Huhns

Hans Schuster, Stefan Jablonski, Petra Heinl, Christoph Bussler: A General Framework for the Execution of Heterogenous Programs in Workflow Management Systems. 104-113
Joao Meidanis, Gottfried Vossen, Mathias Weske: Using Workflow Management in DNA Sequencing. 114-123
Johann Eder, Walter Liebhart: Workflow Recovery. 124-134
Stephan Baumann, Michael Malburg, Claudia Wenzel: May Document Analysis Tools Bridge the Gap Between Paper and Workflow? A Critical Survey. 135-142

Cooperative Query Processing

Chair: Stefano Spaccapietra

Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Yooshin Lee: An Adaptive Approach to Query Mediation Across Heterogeneous Information Sources. 144-156
Peter Scheuermann, Wen-Syan Li, Chris Clifton: Dynamic Integration and Query Processing with Ranked Role Sets. 157-166
Ramanathan Kavasseri, Todd Keating, Michael Wittman, Anupam Joshi, Sanjiva Weerawarana: Web Intelligent Query - Disconnected Web Browsing using Cooperative Techniques. 167-174

Panel I: Database research in Workflow Management Systems, do we have anything to contribute?

Gustavo Alonso: The Role of Database Technology in Workflow Management Systems (Panel Position Paper). 176-179

Potpourri

Chair: Matthias Jarke

Yehoshua Perl, James Geller, Huanying Gu: Identifying a Forest Hierarchy in an OODB Specification Hierarchy Satisfying Disciplined Modeling. 182-195
Witold Litwin, Marie-Anne Neimat: High-Availability LH* Schemes with Mirroring. 196-205

Architectures for Cooperation

Chair: Marc Volz

John Mylopoulos, Avigdor Gal, Kostas Kontogiannis, Martin Stanley: A Generic Integration Architecture for Cooperative Information Systems. 208-217
Günter von Bültzingsloewen, Arne Koschel, Ralf Kramer: Active Information Delivery in a CORBA-based Distributed Information System. 218-227
Thomas Kudrass, Andreas Loew, Alejandro P. Buchmann: Active Object-Relational Mediators. 228-239

Invited Talk

Chair: Michael L. Brodie

Horst Biller: From Distributed Database Management Systems to Cooperative Information Systems: We have the solutions, what are the problems? (Abstract). 246