[CFP] CoopIS 2003

[Guillaume Pierre]

(Please excuse me if you received this Call for Participation several times.)

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                    Tenth International Conference on
               COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CoopIS 2003)

                         November 3-7, 2003, Sicily
               http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/coopis/2003
             Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag

                     ** 2002 acceptance rate is 1/4 **

The Cooperative Information System (CIS) paradigm has been growing and
gaining substantial importance in technological infrastructure (e.g.,
middleware and Web technologies) and application areas (e.g.,
e-Commerce, e-Government, virtual enterprises). CoopIS is the leading
conference for researchers and practitioners in CIS.  CoopIS brings
together researchers from a variety of disciplines such as
collaborative work, Internet data management, electronic commerce,
human-computer interaction, agent technologies, and software
architectures.  We encourage papers that emphasise cooperation across
multiple areas.

CoopIS 2003 is a joint event with two other conferences organised
within the global theme "On the Move to meaningful Internet Systems
2003: Distributed Object and Applications (DOA) and Ontologies,
Databases and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE)." All three events
will be hosted in Sicily during the week November 3-7, 2003. More
details about the federated event can be found at
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf.

The CoopIS 2003 has the theme Cooperation in Ubiquitous Computing. We
see an increasing number of computing systems and devices connected
everywhere.  The central issue in this vision is the need for these
computing systems and devices to cooperate.  We are particularly
interested in contributions that relate to the issue of cooperation
everywhere. Of course, submissions on all topics related to
cooperative information systems are encouraged, including (but not
limited to) the following:

   * Software and information services for CIS Web information systems
     and services Middleware technologies, mediators, and wrappers
     Interoperability, XML, semantic interoperability Multi-databases
     and workflow Mobile and wireless systems and protocols Ubiquitous
     computing environments and tools Human-Computer Interactions

   * Agent technologies, systems and architectures for CIS Markets,
     auctions, exchanges, and coalitions Negotiation protocols,
     matchmaking, and brokering Multi-agents and agent societies
     Self-organising systems, service description Learning,
     perception, and actions in agents Distributed problem solving,
     peer-to-peer cooperation

   * CIS applications and modelling E-commerce, e-government, supply
     chain Use of information in organisations Computer-supported
     cooperative work Enterprise knowledge management Data and
     knowledge modelling

   * Trustworthy CIS Security, privacy, and quality of information
     Trust models and trust management Cooperative access control
     policies, models, and mechanisms Security in dynamic coalitions

IMPORTANT DATES

    Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2003
    Acceptance Notification: August 10, 2003
    Final Version Due: August 20, 2003
    Conference: November 3-7, 2003

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality,
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All
submissions must be in English. Research submissions must not exceed
8,000 words. Submissions can either be in Postscript, MS Word, or PDF
format and should be done through the following URL:

      http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/submit.html

The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Author instructions can be found
at:

      http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically
excludes a paper from the proceedings.

ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS (fedconf at cs.rmit.edu.au)
Robert Meersman, Vrije Universiteit of Brussels, Belgium
Douglas Schmidt, University of California at Irvine, USA
Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS (coopis2003 at cs.rmit.edu.au)
Elisa Bertino, University of Milan, Italy
Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California, USA

PUBLICITY CHAIR
Guillaume Pierre, Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Ohio State University, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
TBA