On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE

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

Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS) 2004 International Conference.- CoopIS 2004 International Conference (International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems) PC Co-chairs' Message.- Keynote.- Business Process Optimization.- Workflow/Process/Web Services, I.- Discovering Workflow Transactional Behavior from Event-Based Log.- A Flexible Mediation Process for Large Distributed Information Systems.- Exception Handling Through a Workflow.- Workflow/Process/Web Services, II.- A Flexible and Composite Schema Matching Algorithm.- Analysis, Transformation, and Improvements of ebXML Choreographies Based on Workflow Patterns.- The Notion of Business Process Revisited.- Workflow/Process/Web Services, III.- Disjoint and Overlapping Process Changes: Challenges, Solutions, Applications.- Untangling Unstructured Cyclic Flows - A Solution Based on Continuations.- Making Workflow Models Sound Using Petri Net Controller Synthesis.- Database Management/Transaction.- Concurrent Undo Operations in Collaborative Environments Using Operational Transformation.- Refresco: Improving Query Performance Through Freshness Control in a Database Cluster.- Automated Supervision of Data Production - Managing the Creation of Statistical Reports on Periodic Data.- Schema Integration/Agents.- Deriving Sub-schema Similarities from Semantically Heterogeneous XML Sources.- Supporting Similarity Operations Based on Approximate String Matching on the Web.- Managing Semantic Compensation in a Multi-agent System.- Modelling with Ubiquitous Agents a Web-Based Information System Accessed Through Mobile Devices.- Events.- A Meta-service for Event Notification.- Classification and Analysis of Distributed Event Filtering Algorithms.- P2P/Collaboration.- A Collaborative Model for Agricultural SupplyChains.- FairNet - How to Counter Free Riding in Peer-to-Peer Data Structures.- Supporting Collaborative Layouting in Word Processing.- A Reliable Content-Based Routing Protocol over Structured Peer-to-Peer Networks.- Applications, I.- Covering Your Back: Intelligent Virtual Agents in Humanitarian Missions Providing Mutual Support.- Dynamic Modelling of Demand Driven Value Networks.- An E-marketplace for Auctions and Negotiations in the Constructions Sector.- Applications, II.- Managing Changes to Engineering Products Through the Co-ordination of Human and Technical Activities.- Towards Automatic Deployment in eHome Systems: Description Language and Tool Support.- A Prototype of a Context-Based Architecture for Intelligent Home Environments.- Trust/Security/Contracts.- Trust-Aware Collaborative Filtering for Recommender Systems.- Service Graphs for Building Trust.- Detecting Violators of Multi-party Contracts.- Potpourri.- Leadership Maintenance in Group-Based Location Management Scheme.- TLS: A Tree-Based DHT Lookup Service for Highly Dynamic Networks.- Minimizing the Network Distance in Distributed Web Crawling.- Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE) 2004 International Conference.- ODBASE 2004 International Conference (Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics) PC Co-chairs' Message.- Keynote.- Helping People (and Machines) Understanding Each Other: The Role of Formal Ontology.- Knowledge Extraction.- Automatic Initiation of an Ontology.- Knowledge Extraction from Classification Schemas.- Semantic Web in Practice.- Generation and Management of a Medical Ontology in a Semantic Web Retrieval System.- Semantic Web Based Content Enrichment and Knowledge Reuse in E-science.- The Role of Foundational Ontologies in Manufacturing DomainApplications.- Intellectual Property Rights Management Using a Semantic Web Information System.- Ontologies and IR.- Intelligent Retrieval of Digital Resources by Exploiting Their Semantic Context.- The Chrysostom Knowledge Base: An Ontology of Historical Interactions.- Text Simplification for Information-Seeking Applications.- Information Integration.- Integration of Integrity Constraints in Federated Schemata Based on Tight Constraining.- Modal Query Language for Databases with Partial Orders.- Composing Mappings Between Schemas Using a Reference Ontology.- Assisting Ontology Integration with Existing Thesauri.