May 9-12, 1995 Schloss Wilhelminen-Berg, Vienna, Austria
In cooperation with IEEE CS, ACM SIGOIS, ACM SIGMOD (pending approval)
An Evolving CIS Paradigm ------------------------
The paradigm for the next generation of information systems (ISs) will involve large numbers of ISs distributed over large, complex computer/communication networks. Such ISs will manage or have acces to large amounts of information and computing services. They will support individual or collaborative human work.
The Conference ---------------
The CoopIS-95 conference will provide a forum for the presentation and dissemination of research covering all aspects of CIS design, requirements, functionality, implementation, deployment, and evolution.
The CoopIS-95 conference programme will include technical sessions, invited presentations, panels and tutorials that deal with CISs and the integration of relevant technologies. In addition, CoopIS-95 plans to host special sessions on the industrial applicability of CIS technology. Further information about the conference and its programme can be obtained from the CoopIS-95 General and Program Co-Chairs by email at coopis@dke.univie.ac.at.
Information for Authors -----------------------
Authors must clearly relate the contribution of their work to the concept of CIS, rather than just describing aspects of a component technology (e.g., state assumptions or definitions as to the nature of CISs). Papers which illustrate their results in terms of an CIS application or address technology integration issues leading to CISs are particularly welcome.
Submission must be identified as one of three different categories: vision, research, and experience. Vision papers should present stimulating challenges, ideas, or visoins that lead to exciting and valuable CIS research directions. Vison papers will be evaluated with respect to innovation, realizable applications and technologies, and technical challenges posed (e.g., that do not currently admit of solutions). Research papers should advance the state of the art of CIS and will be evaluated using conventional scientific criteria. Experience papers should describe the practical applications of CIS concepts or methods. They will be evaluated in terms of lessons learned, research issues raised, and solutions to realistic challenges, such as those of legacy information systems.
Five copies of original and compelling unpublished papers up to 6000 words that are not under consideration for publication elsewhere during the reviewing period should be sent to the appropriate Programme Committee Co-Chair. Submissions must include contact information (contact name, postal and e-mail address, and phone number), a 100-word abstract, exact word count, and explicitly indicate the paper category (vision, research, or experience).
Suggested themes for submitted papers include (not limited to): ---------------------------------------------------------------
- CIS Principles - cooperation, intelligence, autonomy - CIS Architectures and communication protocols - novel open architectures, blackboard systems, multiagent planning frameworks, speech acts, advanced information services in support of interoperability - Business Process Management Systems: Architectures, Concepts, Technology (e.g. analysis, modeling, reengineering and evaluation of business processes) - Large-Scale Knowledge Bases for CIS - sharing and reuse of worldwide knowledge, knowledge of knowledge structures, trends and applications in this area - Core Technology for CIS - open distributed computing architectures, type systems, object models and advanced transaction models for interoperability, advanced query models and languages, active databases - CIS Implementation Techniques - novel programming languages for CISs, interoperability issues in distributed heterogeneous information bases, multi-database transaction scheduling and execution, rule bases - Integration Challenges - interoperability, multiple paradigms, forms of transparency, object and transaction model integration, global information (e.g., schemas, directories, repositories), semantic interoperability, negotiation, optimization (e.g., queries, indexing, ...) - Information Modeling and Reasoning techniques for CISs - multiple perspective representations, non-deductive forms of inference (inductive, analogical, case-based, ...), multiagent planning and problem solving - Advanced CIS Programming - workflows, transactions, information requests, policy/rule-driven systems, mega-programming, multiple programming paradigms - Information Engineering for CIS - information acquisition, classification and retrieval techniques and tools, information sharing and management - Re-Engineering - concepts, tools, and methodologies; re-engineer legacy and new information systems into CISs - CIS Evolution - concepts, tools, and techniques for CIS design, development, and maintenance - Information Agents - novel models and organizations, application of information agent technology in virtual laboratories, concurrent engineering and other groupware frameworks. - CIS Applications - current and future.
General Chair ------------- Dimitris Karagiannis Dept. Knowledge Engineering University of Vienna Bruenner Str. 72 A-1210 Vienna, Austria email: dk@dke.univie.ac.at
Program Co-Chairs -----------------
America (North & South) Steven C. Laufmann (USA) U S WEST Technologies 4001 Discovery Drive Boulder, CO, 80303, USA laufmann@advtech.uswest.com
Europe & Middle East Stefano Spaccapietra (CH) EPFL-DI-LBD CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland spaccapietra@di.epfl.ch
Far East, Africa & Australia Toshio Yokoi (Japan) Japan Electronic Dictionary Research Institue Ltd. Mita-Kokusai 1-4-28 Mita, Minato-ku Tokyo 108, Japan yokoi@edr.co.jp
Steering Committee ------------------ Michael L. Brodie, GTE-Laboratories, USA Michael N. Huhns, MCC, USA Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen, Germany John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada Mike Papazoglou, Queensland Uni. Technology, Australia Gunter Schlageter, FU Hagen, Germany
Program Committee -----------------
Alexander Borgida (USA) Michael L. Brodie (USA) Panos Constantopoulos (Greece) Umeshwar Dayal (USA) Misbah Deen (UK) Lois M. Delcambre (USA) Asuman Dogac (Turkey) Ahmed K. Elmagarmid (USA) Les Gasser (USA) J. L. Hainaut (Belgium) Yoshinori Hara (Japan) Igor Hawryszkiewycz (Australia) Michael N. Huhns (USA) Aranza Illaramendi (Spain) Toru Ishida (Japan) V. Jaganathan (USA) Matthias Jarke (Germany) Nick Jennings (UK) Leonid Kalinichenko (Russia) Yahiko Kambayashi (Japan) Hannu Kangassalo (Finland) Roger King (USA) Carig Knoblock (USA) Jacques Kouloumdjian (France) Eiji Kuwana (Japan) Maurizio Lenzerini (Italy) Michel Leonard (Switzerland) Victor Lesser (USA) Fred Lochovsky (Hong-Kong) Vincent Lum (Hong-Kong) Louis Marinos (Germany) Patrick Martin (Canada) Dennis McLeod (USA) Robert Meersman (Holland) Noria Morrie (ETHZ) Juzar Motiwalla (Singapore) John Mylopoulos (Canada) Erich Neuhold (Germany) Anne Ngu (Australia) Tamer Ozsu (Canada) Maurizio Panti (Italy) Mike Papazoglou (Australia) Charles Petrie (USA) Don Potter (USA) Andreas Reuter (Germany) Daniel Ries (USA) Marek Rusinkiewicz (USA) Felix Saltor (Spain) Gunter Schlageter (Germany) Sandip Sen (USA) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Katsumi Tanaka (Japan) A Min Tjoa (Austria) Patrick Valduriez (France) Carson Woo (Canada)
Important dates ---------------
December 15,1994 paper, panel, and tutorial submissions due February 1,1995 notification of acceptance March 1,1995 camera-ready version due
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