C Batini

Cooperative Information Systems: 9th International Conference, Coopis 2001, Trento, Italy, September 5-7, 2001 Proceedings - Lecture Notes in Computer Science C Batini

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: 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 in Multidatabase 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."Publisher Marketing: This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ninth International Conference on Co-operative Information Systems, CoopIS 2001, held in Trento, Italy in September 2001. The 29 revised full papers presented together with three invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on: agent and systems; information integration; middleware, platforms, and architectures; models; multi and federated database systems; Web information systems; workflow management systems; and recommendation and information seeking systems.

Contributor Bio:  Batini, Carlo Carlo Batini is full professor of Computer Engineering at University of Milano Bicocca. He has been associate professor since 1983 and full professor since 1986. His research interests include cooperative information systems, information systems and data base modeling and design, usability of information systems, data and information quality. From 1995 to 2003 he was a member of the board of directors of the Authority for Information Technology in public administration, where he headed several large scale projects for the modernization of public administration. Monica Scannapieco is a research associate at the Computer Engineering Department of the University of Roma La Sapienza. Her research interests are data quality issues, including data quality dimensions, measurement and improvement techniques, dynamics of data quality, record matching. Contributor Bio:  Giorgini, Paolo Paolo Giorgini is Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Trento, Italy.