From em02@gte.com Mon Nov 15 17:33:24 EST 1993 Article: 5074 of news.announce.conferences Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu news.announce.conferences:5074 Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!news.mic.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!sparky!rick From: em02@gte.com (Emon Mortazavi) Subject: CFP: Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'94) Message-ID: <1993Nov14.182158.22889@sparky.sterling.com> Sender: rick@sparky.sterling.com (Richard Ohnemus) Organization: GTE Laboratories, Inc. Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1993 18:21:58 GMT Approved: rick@sparky.sterling.com Expires: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 08:00:00 GMT Lines: 279 X-Md4-Signature: 8d926a6310fff3e206345a413af1f3d3 CALL FOR PAPERS SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CoopIS'94) Formerly "Intelligent & Cooperative Information Systems (ICICIS)" May 17-20, 1994 Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Canada Supported by the Information Technology Research Centre of Ontario Sponsored by the University of Toronto In cooperation with ACM SIGOIS and ACM SIGMOD (pending approval) TSUNAMI - THE TIDAL WAVE IS HERE -------------------------------- Within most organizations, worldwide, mission critical information systems (ISs) already cooperate or are being converted to do so to meet basic business requirements. Due to the lack of appropriate concepts, techniques, and tools, this is being done using primitive means thereby creating problems that will dwarf those of current legacy information systems. This conference is devoted to addressing this tidal wave facing the information systems community. COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS: THE NEXT GENERATION AND THE CHALLENGE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The paradigm for the next generation of ISs will involve large numbers of ISs distributed over large, complex computer/communication networks. This ranges from the vast and visionary Electronic Superhighway, to the large and complex billing system of a telephone company, an even to the small patient information system in a one-doctor office. Such ISs will manage or have access to large amounts of information and computing services. They will support individual or collaborative human work. Computation will be conducted concurrently over the network by software systems that range from conventional to advanced application systems including expert systems, and multiagent planning systems. Information and services will be available in many forms through legacy and new information repositories that support a host of information services. Communication among component systems will be done in a centralized or distributed fashion, using communication protocols that range from conventional ones to those based on distributed AI. We call such next generation ISs Cooperative Information Systems (CIS). Soon, the operation of a one-doctor office may critically depend on its ISs' ability to cooperate with foreign ISs not just for reimbursement (i.e., required by insurance organizations) but also for patients (e.g., exchanging information in medical crises). Demand for more efficient processes and use of all resources will come from economic and business conditions (e.g., competition, imperative for wider marketplaces, and cooperation and distribution in the production of goods and services) that have led to downsizing and re-engineering . IS technology, one of the largest costs of many organizations, can be the problem, or part of the solution. The demands are pervasive from vast organizations to very small. The requirements span conventional organizational and legal boundaries such as countries, companies (e.g., virtual companies), disciplines (e.g., concurrent engineering spanning a products entire life span). The CIS paradigm is evolving to meet these demands thus raising challenges for the supporting technologies. Unlike previous major computing advances based on single technologies, the CIS paradigm will evolve from the integration of many, currently disjoint technologies. Database Systems will contribute information management techniques, particularly for distributed or heterogeneous databases, as well as efficient implementation techniques for information bases. Artificial Intelligence will contribute knowledge representation and reasoning techniques, on the one hand, and distributed problem solving and planning techniques in a multiagent environment on the other. Operating Systems will contribute resource management techniques over large distributed computer/communications networks. Programming Languages will contribute languages and type/object systems for cooperative programming. Software/Knowledge/Information Engineering will contribute design and development environments/shells and methodologies for CIS development and evolution. Computer Communications will provide the necessary underlying communication and interconnection technology. Other relevant technologies include: Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Distributed Computing, Organizational Computing, and Interoperability. The challenge is to effectively combine these technologies and their contributions to meet CIS requirements. A significant challenge is to overcome the existing boundaries to achieve a common understanding of the relevant issues. CIS will become reality through research in concepts, methodologies, techniques, and tools for the efficient - and transparent - integration of computing resources that are accessible over large computer/communications networks which may become indistinguishable from the CISs themselves. More important is the technology transfer and communication required between the significant, practical situations, which exemplify the requirements, and the research community that tries to address them. But most important is an increased common understanding across the existing boundaries as to the nature of the problems, the requirements, and adequate approaches to address them. THE CONFERENCE -------------- The CoopIS-94 conference will provide a forum for the presentation and dissemination of this research covering all aspects of CIS conception, requirements, functionality, implementation, deployment, and evolution. The CoopIS-94 conference programme will include technical sessions, invited presentations, panels, and tutorials that deal with CISs and the integration of relevant technologies. In addition, CoopIS-94 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 General and Program Co-Chairs and by anonymous FTP from ftp.cs.toronto.edu (128.100.1.105) under directory pub/coopis or by sending e-mail to coopis@cs.toronto.edu. TOPICS OF INTEREST (not limited to:) ------------------ CIS Systems Issues: o CIS Principles - cooperation, intelligence, autonomy o CIS Architectures and communication protocols - novel open architectures, blackboard systems, multiagent planning frameworks, speech acts, advanced information services in support of interoperability o 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 o CIS Implementation Techniques - novel programming languages for CISs, interoperability issues in distributed heterogeneous information bases, multi-database transaction scheduling and execution, rule bases o 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, ...) CIS Modelling, Migration, and Evolution: o CIS Applications - current and future o Information Modeling and Reasoning techniques for CISs - multiple perspective representations, non-deductive forms of inference (inductive, analogical, case-based, ...), multiagent planning and problem solving o Advanced CIS Programming - workflows, transactions, information requests, policy/rule-driven systems, mega-programming, multiple programming paradigms o Information Engineering for CIS - information acquisition, classification and retrieval techniques and tools, information sharing and management o Re-Engineering - concepts, tools, and methodologies; re-engineer legacy and new information systems into CISs o CIS Evolution - concepts, tools, and techniques for CIS design, development, and maintenance o Information Agents - novel models and organizations, application of information agent technology in virtual laboratories, concurrent engineering and other groupware frameworks. 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: visions, research, and experience. Vision papers should present stimulating challenges, ideas, or visions that lead to exciting and valuable CIS research directions. Vision 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 5000 words that are not under consideration for publication elsewhere during the reviewing period should be sent to the appropriate Programme Committee Co-Chair. Restricted electronic submission may be acceptable. For instructions contact the appropriate PC 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). The edited proceedings of CoopIS-94 will appear as a book from a major international publisher. Selected articles will be considered for publication in the International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- December 1, 1993 paper, panel, and tutorial submissions due February 1, 1994 notification of acceptance March 1, 1994 camera-ready version due GENERAL CHAIR ------------- John Mylopoulos Dept. Computer Science University of Toronto 6 King's College Road, Toronto M5S 1A4, Canada jm@cs.toronto.edu PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ----------------- America (North & South) Europe & Middle East Far East, Africa, Australia Michael L. Brodie Matthias Jarke Mike P. Papazoglou Distributed Object Informatik V School of Computing Department Information Systems GTE Laboratories Incorporated RWTH Aachen Queensland Univ. Technology 40 Sylvan Road Ahornstr. 55 GPO Box 2434 Waltham, MA 02254, USA 52074 Aachen, Germany Brisbane QLD 4001, Australia brodie@gte.com jarke@informatik.rwth-aachen.de mikep@fitmail.fit.qut.edu.au PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Philip A. Bernstein (USA) Robert Meersman (Holland) Patrick Bobbie (USA) Wolfgang Nejdl (Germany) Alexander Borgida (USA) Anne Ngu (Australia) Manfred Broy (Germany) Maurizio Panti (Italy) Tung Bui (Hong-Kong) Charles Petrie (USA) Umeshwar Dayal (USA) Andreas Reuter (Germany) Misbah Deen (UK) Daniel R. Ries (USA) Lois M.L. Delcambre (USA) Bob Rockwell (Germany) Eric Dubois (Belgium) Marek E. Rusinkiewicz (USA) Ahmed K. Elmagarmid (USA) Josef Schaefer (Germany) Opher Etzion (Israel) Hans Schek (Switzerland) Less Gasser (USA) Gunter Schlagter (Germany) Igor Hawryszkiewycz (Australia) Timos Sellis (Greece) Karen Huff (USA) Amit P. Sheth (USA) Michael N. Huhns (USA) Abraham Silberschatz (USA) Yahiko Kambayashi (Japan) Evangelos Simoudis (USA) Dimitri Karagiannis (Austria) Stefano Spaccapietra William Kent (USA) (Switzerland) Steven C. Laufmann (USA) Ronald Stamper (Holland) Ron Lee (Holland) Michael Stonebraker (USA) Maurizio Lenzerini (Italy) Zahir Tari (Australia) Victor Lesser (USA) Patrick Valduriez (France) Fred Lochovsky (Hong-Kong) Carson Woo (Canada) Vincent Lum (Hong-Kong) Yelena Yesha (Baltimore) Frank A. Manola (USA) Norihiko Yoshida (Japan) Louis Marinos (Germany) John Zeleznikow (Australia) Article 5075 of news.announce.conferences: Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu news.announce.conferences:5075 Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!news.mic.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!sparky!rick From: em02@gte.com (Emon Mortazavi) Subject: Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'94): Submission Instructions Message-ID: <1993Nov14.182202.22939@sparky.sterling.com> Sender: rick@sparky.sterling.com (Richard Ohnemus) Organization: GTE Laboratories, Inc. Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1993 18:22:02 GMT Approved: rick@sparky.sterling.com Expires: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 08:00:00 GMT Lines: 247 X-Md4-Signature: d7306c5b4e02332f2a21c1301f741538 SUBMISSIONS TO CoopIS'94 Second International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS-94) May 17-20, 1994 Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Canada FIRM Submission Deadline: As with many other conferences, CoopIS'94 will have a FIRM deadline ("official" = "real"). As stated in the Call for Papers, all submissions must be received by DECEMBER 1, 1993 (or postmarked November 26 and sent by airmail) to be considered. To avoid problems with electronic submissions, we strongly suggest a deadline of November 26, 1993 (see explanation below). Specific paper submission guidelines for CoopIS'94 are provided in this message and in the call for papers. Postscript versions of the call for papers and other information about the conference can be obtained by anonymous FTP from ftp.cs.toronto.edu (128.100.1.105) under directory pub/coopis or by sending e-mail to coopis@cs.toronto.edu. Submission Information Submission must be identified as one of three different categories: visions, research, or experience. Vision papers should present stimulating challenges, ideas, or visions that lead to exciting and valuable CIS research directions. Vision 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. Authors must clearly relate the contribution of their work to the concept of Cooperative Information System (CIS), rather than just describing aspects of a component technology (e.g., state your 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. Please follow guidelines. Papers that do not meet the criteria given in the call for papers will not be considered. To assist you further, the program committee review form against which your paper will be evaluated in included at the end of this message. Five copies of original and compelling unpublished papers up to 5000 words that are not under consideration for publication elsewhere during the reviewing period should be sent to the appropriate Programme Committee Co-Chair. Restricted electronic submission may be acceptable. For instructions contact the appropriate PC 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). TOPIC(S) OF THE SUBMISSION Authors are asked to state which of the following topics the paper addresses (these are elaborated further in the Call for Papers): CIS Systems Issues: ___ : CIS Principles ___ : CIS Architectures and communication protocols ___ : Core Technology for CIS ___ : CIS Implementation Techniques ___ : Integration Challenges CIS Modelling, Migration, and Evolution: ___ : CIS Applications ___ : Information Modeling and Reasoning techniques for CISs ___ : Advanced CIS Programming ___ : Information Engineering for CIS ___ : Re-Engineering ___ : CIS Evolution ___ : Information Agents ___ : Other (please specify):___________________________________ HARD COPY SUBMISSION (to the correct PC co-chair) Americas (North & South) Michael L. Brodie CoopIS PC Co-Chair Distributed Object Computing Department GTE Laboratories Inc. 40 Sylvan Road Waltham, MA 02254, USA coopis94NA@gte.com Europe & Middle East Matthias Jarke Informatik V RWTH Aachen Ahornstr. 55 52074 Aachen, Germany jarke@informatik.rwth-aachen.de Far East, Africa, Australia Mike P. Papazoglou School of Information Systems Queensland Univ. Technology GPO Box 2434 5 Brisbane QLD 4001, Australia mikep@fitmail.fit.qut.edu.au ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION REQUIRMENTS (to the correct PC co-chair) Printing PS papers is often problematic (see below). We are treating this as an experiment. If we can't get your paper to print (with very little effort on our part) then your paper will not be accepted electronically and you will have to submit in hard copy form under the FIRM Dec 1 deadline. Hence, you must provide enough time for such a contingency. 1) Electronic Submission Deadline We suggest a deadline of November 26 to ensure the paper prints prior to the FIRM Dec 1 deadline for hard copy submission. 2) Test Your PS versions Before Submitting We encourage you to submit your paper to us electronically, and in postscript format. Even though postscript language is the same everywhere, the way postscript files are made on different machines, and the way some non-postscript printers emulate the language are, unfortunately, not the same. We have had problems with postscript files made on Macintosh machines which didn't print on non-Apple printers and vice versa. Areas of potential problems include inclusion of font definitions, incompatible printer headers, and embedded figures. Therefore, if you plan to submit your paper in postscript format, please make sure that your postscript file prints correctly on generic, true postscript printers. Also, as a rule of thumb, don't use fonts which are not included with most postscript printers. If our printer cannot find the right font, it will substitute a default font which may ruin layout of your paper. Also let us know on what machine you made your postscript file. This information will help us in case of a problem, even though we do not have the time to try to fix serious problems. 3) Protocol for Submission Prior to electronic submission, send notice of submission to: coopis94NA@gte.com (for the Americas) coopis94E@informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Europe and Middle East) coopis94F@fitmail.fit.qut.edu.au (Far East,Africa, Australia) In your message include the information about the machine and the software that you used to create the postscript file (e.g., FrameMaker on Sun, or Microsoft Word on Macintosh). At this time, please provide all the requested information concerning contact address, category of paper, and topic areas (see above). After receiving an acknowledgment of your intent to submit electronically, submit your paper, and wait for an acknowledgment (for confirmation of submission, receipt, and successful printout, i.e., acceptance). Your paper will not be consider submitted until it has been printed successfully, logged, and acknowledged. If your paper does not print, it will not be accepted and you must submit in the hard copy by the December 1 deadline. CoopIS94 REVIEW FORM Below is the review form against which your paper will be evaluated by the program committee. You may want to ensure that your paper meets the criteria against which it will be evaluated. ---------This page for the Authors-------------------------- CoopIS-94 2nd Int'l Conf on Cooperative Information Systems REVIEW REPORT ---------------------------------------------------------- Paper Number: Authors: Title: -----------CoopIS-94 Topics Section (To be provided by authors):----------- Topic Areas of the Paper CIS Systems Issues: ___ : CIS Principles ___ : CIS Architectures and communication protocols ___ : Core Technology for CIS ___ : CIS Implementation Techniques ___ : Integration Challenges CIS Modelling, Migration, and Evolution: ___ : CIS Applications ___ : Information Modeling and Reasoning techniques for CISs ___ : Advanced CIS Programming ___ : Information Engineering for CIS ___ : Re-Engineering ___ : CIS Evolution ___ : Information Agents ___ : Other (please specify) --CoopIS-94 Criteria Section (To be completed by reviewer)--- Answers: Y (=yes), N (=no) ___ : Less than 5,000 words ? ___ : CIS assumptions/definition given ? ___ : Contributions clearly related to (some) concept of CIS ? ___ : Contributions illustrated in terms of CIS application(s) ? ___ : Addresses technology integration issues leading to CISs ? -Ratings Section (To be completed by reviewer)-------------- Rating scale: Reject: 0-3 Weak Reject: 4-5 Weak Accept:6-7 Accept:8-10 For All papers ___ : Originality/Innovation ___ : Significance of topic (cf. those in call for papers) ___ : Technical quality ___ : Relevance to CoopIS (cf. topics and challenges in call for papers) ___ : Presentation: clear, readable, well illustrated, well structured, ... ___ : Overall rating (i.e., accept or reject the whole thing?) For Scientific papers only: ___ : Advances the state of the art relevant to CIS For Vision papers only: ___ : Visionary (vs. advanced product concept) ___ : Compelling (vs. fall asleep reading or listening) ___ : Opportunities posed (vs. narrow, non-applicable) ___ : Technical challenge(s) raised (vs. existing solutions) ___ : Realizable application(s) or technologies (vs. impossible) For Experience papers only: ___ : Clear lesson(s) learned ___ : General applicability of lessons learned (vs. solution to isolated problem) ___ : Research issues raised ----------------------------------------------------- Referee+s expertise on the topic: [ ] Low [ ] Medium [ ] High ----------------------------------------------------------- Amount of rewriting required: [ ] Low [ ] Medium [ ] High ------Comments Section (To be completed by reviewer)------- Comments to Authors: Main contribution(s): Positive aspect(s): Negative aspect(s): Further comments: