CoopIS 2002 -- Call for Papers

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                     Tenth International Conference on
                 Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2002)

                  October 30 - November 1, Irvine, California
                 http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/coopis/2002

                  Proceedings to be published by IEEE Press

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 emphasize cooperation across multiple areas.

CoopIS 2002 is a joint event with two other conferences organized within the global theme "On the Move to meaningful Internet Systems 2002: Distributed Object and Applications (DOA) and Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE). All three events will be hosted in Irvine during the week October 28 - November 1, 2002. More details about the federated event can be found at http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf.

The CoopIS 2002 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 Security, privacy, trust, and quality of information
• Agent technologies, systems and architectures for CIS Markets, auctions, exchanges, and coalitions Negotiation protocols, matchmaking, and brokering Multi-agents and agent societies Self-organizing systems, service description Learning, perception, and actions in agents Distributed problem solving, peer-to-peer cooperation
• CIS applications and modeling E-commerce, e-government, supply chain Use of information in organizations Computer-supported cooperative work Enterprise knowledge management Data and knowledge modeling

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

IMPORTANT DATES

        Paper Submission Deadline:   May 31, 2002
        Acceptance Notification:     July 15, 2002
        Final Version Due:           August 20, 2002
        Conference:                  October 30 - November 1, 2002

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs

      Robert Meersman       Zahir Tari             Mike Papazoglou
      STARLab               RMIT University        Tilburg University
      Free University of    Department of          Infolab
      Brussels              Computer Science       PO Box 90153
      Building F-G 10,      City Campus, GPO Box   NL-5000 LE TILBURG
      Pleinlaan 2           2476V                  The Netherlands
      B-1050 Brussels       Melbourne, VIC 3001    mikep_at_kub.nl
      Belgium               Australia
      meersman_at_vub.ac.be    zahirt_at_cs.rmit.edu.au

Program Committee Co-Chairs

      Calton Pu             Stefano Spaccapietra
      Georgia Tech          EPFL
      USA                   Switzerland
      calton_at_cc.gatech.edu  stefano.spaccapietra_at_epfl.ch

Tutorial Chair

      Vipul Kashyap
      Telcordia, USA

Panel Chair

      Amit Sheth
      University of
      Georgia, USA

Organization Chair

      Douglas Schmidt
      DARPA and U.
      Irvine, USA

Publicity Chair

      Ugur Cetintemel
      Department of
      Computer Science
      Brown University,
      USA
      ugur_at_cs.brown.edu

Program Committee (TBA)

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A/Prof Zahir Tari                | (ph)  +61-3-9925-3782
RMIT, Dept of Computer Science   | (fax) +61-3-9662-1617
Box 2476V, VIC 3001              | zahirt_at_cs.rmit.edu.au
Australlia                       | www.cs.rmit.edu.au/~zahirt