Cooperative Information Systems

Invited Paper.- Generic Model Management: A Database Infrastructure for Schema Manipulation.- The Evolution of Distributed Component Architectures.- Data Integration Is Harder than You Thought.- Agent Systems.- Implicit Culture for Multi-agent Interaction Support.- Extending Multi-agent Cooperation by Overhearing.- Mobile-Agent Based Distributed Web GIS.- Local Distributed Agent Matchmaking.- Deploying Distributed State Information in Mobile Agent Systems.- Cooperative Meeting Scheduling among Agents Based on Multiple Negotiations.- Information Integration.- Autoplex: Automated Discovery of Content for Virtual Databases.- Cooperation Strategies for Information Integration.- Planning and Optimizing Semantic Information Requests Using Domain Modeling and Resource Characteristics.- Integrating View Schemata Using an Extended Object Definition Language.- Deriving “Sub-source” Similarities from Heterogeneous, Semi-structured Information Sources.- Middleware, Platforms, Architectures.- P-Grid: A Self-Organizing Access Structure for P2P Information Systems.- Moving Active Functionality from Centralized to Open Distributed Heterogeneous Environments.- Generic Constraints for Content-Based Publish/Subscribe.- Supporting Heterogeneous Users in Collaborative Virtual Environments Using AOP.- Models.- A Process Service Model for Dynamic Enterprise Process Interconnection.- Employing Multiuser Interactions in the Development of Synchronous Applications.- Service Representation, Discovery, and Composition for E-marketplaces.- Multi and Federated Database Systems.- Schema Design and Query Processing in a Federated Multimedia Database System.- Global Semantic Serializability: An Approach to Increase Concurrency in Multidatabase Systems.- Checking Integrity Constraints inMultidatabase Systems with Nested Transactions.- Web Information Systems.- The Internet Marketplace Template: An Architecture Template for Inter-enterprise Information Systems.- Investigating the Evolution of Electronic Markets.- Coordinating Web-Based Systems with Documents in XMLSpaces.- Validating an Access Cost Model for Wide Area Applications.- Workflow Management Systems.- Querying and Splicing of XML Workflows.- On Demand Business-to-Business Integration.- Recommendation and Information Seeking Systems.- Yoda: An Accurate and Scalable Web-Based Recommendation System.- The Use of Machine-Generated Ontologies in Dynamic Information Seeking.