CFP: CoopIS 2004

                     C A L L   F O R   P A P E R S
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                       12th International Conference on
                COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CoopIS 2004)
                          Cyprus, Oct 25-29, 2004

                     http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/
     
                Acceptance rate of CoopIS is 1/5 in 2003
                Acceptance rate of CoopIS is 1/4 in 2002
            Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag


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., Business
Process Management, 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, workflow management, web
services, agent technologies, and software architectures.  We
encourage papers that emphasize cooperation across multiple
disciplines.

CoopIS 2004 is a joint event with two other conferences organized
within the global theme "On the Move to meaningful Internet Systems
2004: Distributed Object and Applications (DOA) and Ontologies,
Databases and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE)". All three events
will be hosted in Cyprus during the week October 25-29 2004. More
details about the federated event can be found at
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf.

The CoopIS 2004 has the theme "Towards process-aware cooperative
information systems." The WWW and related technologies have created an
interconnected world where it is easy to exchange
information. However, to create systems that enable true cooperation
the focus on information exchange is too limited. To reach common
goals parties need to agree on a process. Process-awareness plays an
important role at any level ranging from users and applications to
intra- and interorganizational entities.  Of course, submissions on
all topics related to cooperative information systems are encouraged,
including (but not limited to) the following:

Business Process Management

    * Workflow management
    * Business intelligence
    * Configurable information systems
    * Web services, choreography
    * Business process execution languages 

Software and information services for CIS

    * Web information systems and services
    * Middleware technologies, mediators, and wrappers
    * Interoperability, XML, semantic interoperability
    * Multi-databases
    * Mobile and wireless systems and protocols
    * Ubiquitous computing environments and tools
    * Security and privacy in CIS
    * Human-Computer Interactions 

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
    * Thrust, 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 

IMPORTANT DATES

    * Abstract Submission Deadline: May 30, 2004
    * Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2004
    * Acceptance Notification: July 31, 2004
    * Final Version Due: August 20, 2004
    * Conference: October 25-29, 2004

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/coopis/2004/papers/submit/

The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS
(Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Author instructions can be found
at: 

    http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

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

ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

General Co-Chairs (fedconf-MTgBGfZJYvW7NGdpmJTKYQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

    * Robert Meersman, VU Brussels, Belgium
    * Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia 

Program Committee Co-Chairs (coopis2004-MTgBGfZJYvW7NGdpmJTKYQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

    * Wil van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
    * Christoph Bussler, Digital Enterprise Research Institute,
      National University of Ireland, Ireland 
    * Avigdor Gal, Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 

Publicity Chair

    * Laura Bright, Oregon Graduate Institute, Oregon, USA 

Program Committee Members (to be completed)

    * Dave Abel (CSIRO, Australia)
    * Naveen Ashish (NASA Ames Research Center, USA)
    * Klemens Boehm(University of Magdeburg, Germany)
    * Tiziana Catarci(University of Roma, Italy)
    * Umesh Dayal (HP Labs, USA)
    * Alex Delis (Polytechnic University, USA)
    * Anne Doucet (University of Paris VI, France)
    * Marlon Dumas (QUT, Australia)
    * Elena Ferrari (University of Insubria-Como, Italy)
    * Paul Grefen (EUT, The Netherlands)
    * Mohand-Said Hacid (Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1)
    * Michael Huhns (University of South Carolina, USA)
    * Latifur Khan (University of Texas, USA)
    * Roger (Buzz) King (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
    * Akhil Kumar (Penn State, USA)
    * Claudia Medeiros (Unicamp, Brazil)
    * Andreas Oberweis (AIFB, Germany)
    * Beng Chin Ooi (Singapore National University, Singapore)
    * Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina, Greece)
    * Alessandro Provetti (University of Messina, Italy)
    * Tore Risch (Uppsala University of Sweden)
    * Cyrus Shahabi( University of Southern California, USA)
    * Antonio Si (Oracle)
    * Susan Urban (Arizona State University)
    * Athena Vakali (Aristotle University, Greece)
    * Mathias Weske (HPI, Germany)
    * Kyu-Young Whang (KAIST, South Korea)
    * Mike Wooldridge (University of Liverpool, UK)
    * Jian Yang (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
    * Kokou Yetongnon (Universite de Bourgogne, France)
    * Arkady Zaslavsky (Monash University, Australia)
    * Roger Zimmermann (University of Southern California, USA)



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