CFP: CoopIS 2005

Thu Jan 27 20:37:02 EST 2005

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		   13th International Conference on
             COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CoopIS 2005)
         	  Agia Napa, Cyprus, Oct 31 - Nov 4, 2005

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

             Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag

The Cooperative Information System (CIS) paradigm has been growing and
gaining substance in technological infrastructure (e.g., middleware
and Web technologies) and application areas (e.g., Business Process
Management, e-Commerce, e-Government, and virtual enterprises). The
paradigm involves large networks of information systems that manage
large amounts of information and computing services and cooperate
as-needed to fullfil their mission.

The CoopIS conference series has established a prestigious
international forum for exchanging ideas and results on scientific
research from a variety of Computer Science areas, such as CSCW,
Internet data management, electronic commerce, human-computer
interaction, workflow management, web services, agent technologies,
and software architectures.

As in previous years, CoopIS'05 will be part of a joint event with two
other conferences, Distributed Object and Applications (DOA) and
Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE). The
technical programme for the three conferences will be organized within
the global theme "On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems". All
three events will be hosted in Cyprus during the week October
31-November 4 2005. More details about the federated event can be
found at http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf.

CoopIS'05 is intended to provide a platform for a useful exchange
between theoreticians and practitioners, and to foster the
cross-fertilization of ideas in the following (but not limited) areas:

    * Business Process Management
          o Workflow management
          o Business intelligence
          o Configurable information systems
          o Web services, choreography
          o Business process execution languages

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

    * Agent technologies, systems and architectures for CIS
          o Peer-to-peer and agent technologies
          o Markets, auctions, exchanges, and coalitions
          o Negotiation protocols, matchmaking, and brokering
          o Multi-agents and agent societies
          o Self-organizing systems, service description
          o Thrust, learning, perception, and actions in agents
          o Distributed problem solving, peer-to-peer cooperation
          o Concurrent engineering and other groupware frameworks

    * CIS applications and modeling
          o E-commerce, e-government, supply chain, homecare, CAD,
            e-learning, e-teaching, transportation
          o Use of information in organizations
          o Computer-supported cooperative work
          o Enterprise knowledge management
          o Data and knowledge modeling
          o Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

    * Challenging issues
          o (Semantic) Interoperability
          o Multiple paradigms for CIS
          o Forms of transparency, negotiation, optimization (e.g.,
            queries, indexing, ...)
          o Multiple perspective representations
          o Reasoning techniques for CIS
          o Self-organisation and emergent behaviour in CIS and databases
          o Scalable infrastructures for discovery and composition of services in CIS
          o Multi-disciplinary approaches to CIS
          o CIS systems and the Semantic Web and Grid Services
          o Pervasive transactional processing 

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission Deadline   May 24, 2005
Paper Submission Deadline May 31, 2005
Acceptance Notification August 10, 2005
Final Version Due August 25, 2005
Conference October 31 - November 4, 2005

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality,
significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All
papers will be refereed by at least three members of the program
committee, and at least two will be experts from industry in the case
of practice reports. All submissions must be in English. Submissions
must not exceed 18 pages in the final camera-ready paper
style. Submissions must be laid out according to the final
camera-ready formatting instructions and must be submitted in PDF
format.

The paper submission site is located at:

http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/doa/2005/papers/

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 comply with the above formatting instructions for submitted
papers will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without
review.

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, VU Brussels, Belgium
    * Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia 

Program Committee Co-Chairs (coopis2005 at cs.rmit.edu.au)

    * Mohand-Said Hacid, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
    * John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
    * Barbara Pernici, Politecnico Di Milano, Italy 

Local Organising Chair (skevos at cs.ucy.ac.cy)

    * Skevos Evripidou, University of Cyprus 

Publicity Chair (bright at cs.pdx.edu)

    * Laura Bright, Portland State University, Oregon, USA 

Program Committee Members

    * Wil van der Aalst (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
    * Bernd Amann (UniversitÃ© de Pierre et Marie Curie, France)
    * Lefteris Angelis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
    * Alistair Barros (SAP Research Centre Brisbane, Australia)
    * Zohra Bellahsene (University Montpellier, France)
    * Boualem Benatallah (University of New South Wales, Australia)
    * Salima Benbernou (UCBL 1, France)
    * Djamal Benslimane (University Lyon 1, France)
    * Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA)
    * Athman Bouguettaya (Virginia Tech, USA)
    * Mokrane Bouzeghoub (University of Versailles, France)
    * Christoph Bussler (National University of Ireland, Ireland)
    * Barbara Carminati (University of Milano, Italy)
    * Fabio Casati (HP, USA)
    * Barbara Catania (Universita di Genova, Italy)
    * Henning Christiansen (Roskilde University, Denmark)
    * Bin Cui (Singapore-MIT Alliance)
    * Umesh Dayal (HP Labs, USA)
    * Alex Delis (University of Athens, Greece)
    * Drew Devereux (CSIRO, Australia)
    * Susanna Donatelli, (UniversitÃ  di Torino, Italy)
    * Marlon Dumas (QUT, Australia)
    * Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
    * Johann Eder (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
    * Rik Eshuis (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands)
    * Opher Etzion (IBM, Israel)
    * Elena Ferrari (University of Insubria-Como, Italy)
    * Avigdor Gal (Technion, Israel)
    * Paul Grefen (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
    * Manfred Hauswirth (EPFL, Switzerland)
    * Geert-Jan Houben, (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
    * Michael Huhns (University of South Carolina, USA)
    * Paul Johannesson (Stockholm University, Sweden)
    * Latifur Khan (University of Texas, USA)
    * Manolis Koubarakis (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
    * Akhil Kumar (Penn State, USA)
    * Winfried Lamersdorf (University of Hamburg, Germany)
    * Steven Laufmann (Qwest, USA)
    * Qing Li (City University of Hong Kong, China)
    * Maristella Matera (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
    * Massimo Mecella (UniversitÃ  di Roma, Italy)
    * Michael zur Muehlen, (Stevens Institute Technology, USA)
    * Werner Nutt (Heriot-Watt University at Edinburgh, UK)
    * Andreas Oberweis (AIFB, Germany)
    * Jean-Marc Petit (Universitaire des CÃ©zeaux, France)
    * Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina, Greece)
    * Alessandro Provetti (University of Messina, Italy)
    * Zbigniew W. Ras (UNCC, USA)
    * Manfred Reichert (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
    * Tore Risch (Uppsala University of Sweden)
    * Marie-Christine Rousset (University Paris Sud, France)
    * Kai-Uwe Sattler (TU Ilmenau, Germany)
    * Monica Scannapieco (UniversitÃ  di Roma, Italy)
    * Ralf Schenkel (Max-Planck-Institut fÃ¼r Informatik, Germany)
    * Antonio Si (Oracle, USA)
    * Farouk Toumani (ISIMA, France)
    * Susan Urban (Arizona State University, USA)
    * Athena Vakali (Aristotle University, Greece)
    * Mathias Weske (HPI, Germany)
    * Kyu-Young Whang (KAIST, South Korea)
    * Jian Yang (Macquarie University, Australia)
    * Ming Yung (CSIRO, Australia)
    * Arkady Zaslavsky (Monash University, Australia)
    * Leon Zhao (University of Arizona, USA)
    * Roger Zimmermann (University of Southern California, USA) 