Cooperation among systems has gained substantial importance in recent years: electronic commerce, virtual enterprises, and the middleware paradigm are just some examples of this area.

What is CoopIS ?

CoopIS is the leading conference for system cooperation.
Several levels of cooperation are present:

• The subject matter is the foundation and implementation of cooperation among systems.
• The CoopIS area is a meeting of disciplines which provide concepts and techniques. The relevant disciplines are: collaborative work, distributed databases, distributed computing, electronic commerce, human-computer interaction, multi-agent systems, information retrieval, and workflow systems.
• The CoopIS series provides a forum for well-known researchers, that are drawn from the stature and the tradition of these conference series, and has a leading role in shaping the future of the cooperative information systems area. Opportunities for informal meetings between the conference delegates will be enhanced with a series of social events, including pre-conference exploration of Eilat, in-conference tour of the surrounding desert, and post-conference excursion that will enable easy connection for those continuing to VLDB'2000 in Cairo.

CoopIS'2000 is the seventh conference in the series and the fifth conference organized by the International Foundation on Cooperative Information Systems (IFCIS). It is sponsored by the International Foundation in Cooperative Information Systems (IFCIS), and the IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa (other sponsors pending). It replaces the erstwhile international workshops on Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems (IMS) and the conference series on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS & ICICIS).

The conference will be held in Eilat, A resort town and bustling port, combining sea and desert, Eilat lies at Israel's southernmost tip. Sixty minutes by plane from Tel-Aviv, Eilat is situated between the wondrous scenery of the deep azure Red Sea and the multitude Edom Mountains and is a paradise for sea-sports fans.

Important dates:

Events Dates Submission Intention Notice Deadline March 13, 2000 Paper Submission Deadline March 27, 2000 Acceptance Notification May 29, 2000 Final Version Due June 26, 2000 Early registration deadline July 31, 2000 The Conference September 6-8, 2000


Who should submit papers ?

Papers are solicited in two categories: regular research papers and industrial experience papers. The category should be clearly identified. Regular research papers should contain original research concepts and results in one or more technologies relevant to cooperative information systems. Industrial experience papers should describe technical or key business issues and lessons learned in developing, applying, and deploying relevant technologies, highlighting aspects of cooperation and interoperation. Submitted papers should not be longer than 5000 words. Submissions should be unpublished and should not be under consideration by another conference or journal. A few papers will be selected for publication, after appropriate expansion and review, in the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems. One of the main themes will be information services in the 21st century, and we particularly welcome papers related to this theme. We also encourage the submission of all topics related to cooperative information systems, including (but not limited to) the following:

Agent Technology   Business Intelligence Framworks   Business Process Modeling   Communication infrastructure for collaboration   Computer-supported Cooperative Work   Cooperative Information System Architectures   Cooperative Information System Foundations   Cooperative Transactions   Digital Libraries   Distributed Problem Solving   Distributed GIS   Distributed Multimedia Systems   Distributed Object Management   Distributed Warehousing and Mining   Electronic Commerce   Enterprise Knowledge Management   Event Based Systems   Engineering Distributed Systems   Federated and Multi-database Systems   Human-Computer Interaction for Cooperation   Information Filtering   Information Resource Discovery   Information Retrieval   Information, Data and Knowledge Modeling   Integration and Interoperability   Legacy Data Access and Management   Mediators, Wrappers   Middleware Technology   Meta-data and Repositories   Multi-agent Systems   Mobile Computing for Cooperation   Organizational Aspects of Cooperative Systems (including virtual organizations)   Semantic Interoperability   Web-based Information Systems   Web-based Services   Workflow Systems


Papers Submission

Papers will be submitted in an electronic fashion (Postscript or PDF files) to both program chairs.
A pre-submission intention notice to both program chairs with the paper's authors, title, and classification is requested.

The CoopIS'2000 team:

General Chairs

Avigdor Gal Michele Missikoff Rutgers University, USA IASI-CNR, Italy E-mail: avigal@rci.rutgers.edu E-mail: missikoff@iasi.rm.cnr.it

Program Chairs

Opher Etzion Peter Scheuermann IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, Israel Northwestern University, USA E-mail: opher@il.ibm.com E-mail: peters@ece.nwu.edu

Publicity and Proceedings Chair

David Carmel IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, Israel E-mail: carmel@il.ibm.com

Organization Chairs

David Botzer Tova Berger IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, Israel IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, Israel E-mail: botzer@il.ibm.com E-mail: tova@il.ibm.com

Program Committee Members:

Yariv Aridor - IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, Israel   Israel Ben-Shaul - Technion, Israel   Alex Borgida - Rutgers University, USA   Mokrane Bouzeghoub - Universite de Versailles, France   Andrei Broder - Alta Vista , USA   Yuri Breitbart - Bell Labs, USA   Tiziana Catarci - Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy   Christopher Clifton - Mitre, USA   Umesh Dayal- HP Labs, USA   Stefan Decker - Stanford University, USA   Eric Dubois - University of Namur, Belgium   Asuman Dogac - Middle East Technical University, Turkey   Ahmed Elmagarmid - Purdue University, USA   Ramez Elmasri - University of Texas at Arlington, USA   Opher Etzion - IBM Research Laboratory in Haifa, Israel (co-chair)   Jiawei Han - Simon Fraser University, Canada   David Hawking - CSIRO, Australia   Mike Huhns - University of South Carolina, USA   Stefan Jablonski - Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany   Anant Jhingran - IBM Waston Research center, USA   Yahiko Kambayashi - Kyoto University, Japan   Dimitris Karagiannis - Universitat Wien, Austria   Kamal Karlapalem - University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong   Rao Kotagiri - University of Melbourne, Australia   Ling Liu - Georgia Tech, USA   Stuart Madnick - M.I.T, USA   Robert Meersman - VUB, Belgium   Tova Milo - Tel-Aviv University, Israel   Renée J. Miller - University of Toronto, Canada   Ami Motro - George Mason University, USA   John Mylopoulos - University of Toronto, Canada   Erich Neuhold - GMD IPSI, Germany   Aris Ouksel - UIC, USA   Tamer Ozsu - University of Waterloo, Canada   George Papadopoulos - University of Cyprus, Cyrpus   Mike Papazoglou - Tilburg University , The Netherlands   Evaggelia Pitoura - University of Ioannina, Greece   Yael Ravin - IBM Watson Research center, USA   Tore Risch - Uppsala University, Sweden   Jeff Rosenschein - Hebrew University, Israel   Ron Sacks Davis - RMIT, Australia   Hans Schek - ETH Zurich, Switzerland   Peter Scheuermann - Northwestern University, USA (co-chair)   Peretz Shoval - Ben-Gurion University, Israel   Oded Shmueli - Technion, Israel   Jacob Slonim - Dalhousie University, Canada   Arne Solvberg - Univ. of Trondheim, Norway   Moshe Tennenholtz - Technion, Israel   Jeff Ullman - Stanford University, USA   Kyu-Young Whang - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology , Korea   Jian Yang - CSIRO, Australia

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