On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE

ZAHIR TARI, PhD, is Associate Professor at The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia.

Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS) 2006 International Conference.- CoopIS 2006 International Conference (International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems) PC Co-chairs' Message.- Keynote.- Workflow-Based Coordination and Cooperation in a Service World.- Distributed Information Systems I.- Distributed Triggers for Peer Data Management.- Satisfaction-Based Query Load Balancing.- Efficient Dynamic Operator Placement in a Locally Distributed Continuous Query System.- Distributed Information Systems II.- Views for Simplifying Access to Heterogeneous XML Data.- SASMINT System for Database Interoperability in Collaborative Networks.- Querying E-Catalogs Using Content Summaries.- Workflow Modelling.- WorkflowNet2BPEL4WS: A Tool for Translating Unstructured Workflow Processes to Readable BPEL.- Let's Dance: A Language for Service Behavior Modeling.- Dependability and Flexibility Centered Approach for Composite Web Services Modeling.- Aspect-Oriented Workflow Languages.- Workflow Management and Discovery.- A Portable Approach to Exception Handling in Workflow Management Systems.- Methods for Enabling Recovery Actions in Ws-BPEL.- BPEL Processes Matchmaking for Service Discovery.- Evaluation of Technical Measures for Workflow Similarity Based on a Pilot Study.- Dynamic and Adaptable Workflows.- Evolution of Process Choreographies in DYCHOR.- Worklets: A Service-Oriented Implementation of Dynamic Flexibility in Workflows.- Change Mining in Adaptive Process Management Systems.- Services Metrics and Pricing.- A Link-Based Ranking Model for Services.- Quality Makes the Information Market.- Bid-Based Approach for Pricing Web Service.- Formal Approaches to Services.- Customizable-Resources Description, Selection, and Composition: A Feature Logic Based Approach.-Defining and Modelling Service-Based Coordinated Systems.- Web Service Mining and Verification of Properties: An Approach Based on Event Calculus.- Trust and Security in Cooperative IS.- Establishing a Trust Relationship in Cooperative Information Systems.- A Unifying Framework for Behavior-Based Trust Models.- A WS-Based Infrastructure for Integrating Intrusion Detection Systems in Large-Scale Environments.- P2P Systems.- An Adaptive Probabilistic Replication Method for Unstructured P2P Networks.- Towards Truthful Feedback in P2P Data Structures.- Efficient Peer-to-Peer Belief Propagation.- Collaborative Systems Design and Development.- Designing Cooperative IS: Exploring and Evaluating Alternatives.- Natural MDA: Controlled Natural Language for Action Specifications on Model Driven Development.- Managing Distributed Collaboration in a Peer-to-Peer Network.- Collaborative Systems Development.- Developing Collaborative Applications Using Sliverware.- A Framework for Building Collaboration Tools by Leveraging Industrial Components.- Evaluation of a Conceptual Model-Based Method for Discovery of Dependency Links.- Cooperative IS Applications.- Advanced Recommendation Models for Mobile Tourist Information.- Keeping Track of the Semantic Web: Personalized Event Notification.- A Gestures and Freehand Writing Interaction Based Electronic Meeting Support System with Handhelds.- Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE) 2006 International Conference.- ODBASE 2006 International Conference (Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics) PC Co-chairs' Message.- Keynote.- SomeWhere: A Scalable Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure for Querying Distributed Ontologies.- Foundations.- Querying Ontology Based Database Using OntoQL (An Ontology Query Language).-Description Logic Reasoning with Syntactic Updates.- From Folksologies to Ontologies: How the Twain Meet.- Transactional Behavior of a Workflow Instance.- Metadata.- An Open Architecture for Ontology-Enabled Content Management Systems: A Case Study in Managing Learning Objects.- Ontology Supported Automatic Generation of High-Quality Semantic Metadata.- Brokering Multisource Data with Quality Constraints.- Design.- Enhancing the Business Analysis Function with Semantics.- Ontology Engineering: A Reality Check.- Conceptual Design for Domain and Task Specific Ontology-Based Linguistic Resources.- Ontology Mappings.- Model-Driven Tool Interoperability: An Application in Bug Tracking.- Reducing the Cost of Validating Mapping Compositions by Exploiting Semantic Relationships.- Using Fuzzy Conceptual Graphs to Map Ontologies.- Formalism-Independent Specification of Ontology Mappings - A Metamodeling Approach.- Information Integration.- Virtual Integration of Existing Web Databases for the Genotypic Selection of Cereal Cultivars.- SMOP: A Semantic Web and Service Driven Information Gathering Environment for Mobile Platforms.- Integrating Data from the Web by Machine-Learning Tree-Pattern Queries.- Agents.- HISENE2: A Reputation-Based Protocol for Supporting Semantic Negotiation.- An HL7-Aware Multi-agent System for Efficiently Handling Query Answering in an e-Health Context.- PersoNews: A Personalized News Reader Enhanced by Machine Learning and Semantic Filtering.- Contexts.- An Ontology-Based Approach for Managing and Maintaining Privacy in Information Systems.- Ontology-Based User Context Management: The Challenges of Imperfection and Time-Dependence.- Moving Towards Automatic Generation of Information Demand Contexts: An Approach Based on Enterprise Models and OntologySlicing.- Similarity and Matching.- Semantic Similarity of Ontology Instances Tailored on the Application Context.- Finding Similar Objects Using a Taxonomy: A Pragmatic Approach.- Towards an Inductive Methodology for Ontology Alignment Through Instance Negotiation.- Combining Web-Based Searching with Latent Semantic Analysis to Discover Similarity Between Phrases.- A Web-Based Novel Term Similarity Framework for Ontology Learning.- Errata.- Erratum.- Erratum: Web Service Mining and Verification of Properties: An Approach Based on Event Calculus.