[ ARCHIVE ] 15th International Conference on COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, Nov 28-30, 2007

Acceptance rate of CoopIS'06 and CoopIS'05 was approx. 20%

Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag 

  

Cooperative Information Systems (CIS) are characterized by their ability to connect, support and manage large numbers of coordinated heterogeneous information and computing services that cooperate to fulfill a business, policy or scientific goal.

The CIS paradigm has traditionally encompassed distributed systems technologies such as middleware, business process management (BPM) and Web technologies. Over the last five years, two new architectural paradigms, service oriented architectures and Grid computing, have fundamentally altered the technological landscape of CIS systems. Service Oriented Computing (SOC) introduces the service abstraction (a remotely accessible software component) as the building block of both inter and intra organizational distributed applications and its supporting middleware. Grid computing on the other hand exploits the service paradigm to offer massive virtualization and resource sharing in distributed environments.

Cooperative Information Systems applications are heavily distributed and highly coordinated, often exhibiting inter-organizational interaction patterns and requiring distributed access and sharing of computing and information resources. Typically they fall under the categories of e-Business, e-Commerce, e-Government, e-Health, e-Science among others.

The CoopIS conference series has established itself as a major international forum for exchanging ideas and results on scientific research for practitioners in fields such as computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), middleware, Internet data management, electronic commerce, human-computer interaction, workflow management, agent technologies, and software architectures, to name a few. In addition, the 2007 edition of CoopIs aims to highlight the impact of service oriented computing and Grid computing in the CIS space.

As in previous years, CoopIS'07 will be part of a joint event with other conferences, in the context of the OTM ("On The Move") federated conferences, covering different aspects of distributed information systems.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics that are addressed by CoopIS'07 are logically grouped in three broad areas, and include but are not limited to:

  • Business Process Management and Compliance
    • Business Process Integration and Management
    • Cooperation Aspects in Business Process Management
    • Distributed Workflow Management and Systems
    • Service orchestration and service compositions
    • Process choreographies
    • Business process compliance
    • Integrated supply chains
    • Concurrent engineering and distributed groupware
    • Business level policies
    • Governance, risk and compliance models and runtimes
  • Advanced middleware and architectures and runtimes
    • Service oriented middleware
    • Web services standards and runtimes
    • Grid computing infrastructure
    • Enterprise Grids architectures and services
    • Web centric information and processing architectures
    • Semantic interoperability
    • Self-adapting and self-healing systems
    • Model driven middleware architectures
    • Multi-agent systems and architectures for CIS
    • Peer-to-peer technologies
    • Security and privacy in CIS
    • Quality of service in cooperative information systems
    • Mediation, matchmaking, and brokering architectures
    • Collaboration and negotiation protocols
    • Markets, auctions, exchanges, and coalitions
  • CIS Applications
    • Novel CIS applications for the large organizations: e-business, e-commerce, e-government
    • Advances in e-science and Grid computing applications
    • Medical and biological information systems
    • Industrial applications of CIS


ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

Francisco Curbera, IBM, USA
Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Mathias Weske, University of Potsdam, Germany


Program Committee Members

Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Bernd Amann, Université de Pierre et Marie Curie , France
Alistair Barros, SAP, Research Centre Brisbane, Australia
Zohra Bellahsene, Université Montpellier2, France
Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia
Salima Benbernou, University Lyon 1, France
Djamal Benslimane, University Lyon 1, France
Klemens Böhm, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Laura Bright, Portland State University, USA
Christoph Bussler, Cisco Systems, Inc USA
Malu Castellanos, HP Labs, USA
Vincenco D'Andrea, University of Trento, Italy
Umesh Dayal , HP Labs
Susanna Donatelli, Università di Torino, Italy
Marlon Dumas , Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Johannesson Eder, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven University, The Netherlands
Opher Etzion, IBM, USA
Klaus Fischer, DFKI, Germany
Avigdor Gal, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Paul Grefen, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Mohand-Said Hacid, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Geert-Jan Houben, TU Eindhoven & VUB Brussels
Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA
Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden
Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Rania Khalaf, IBM Research
Bernd Krämer , FernUniversität
Akhil Kumar, Penn State University, USA
Dominik Kuropka, University Potsdam, Germany
Tiziana Margaria, University Potsdam, Germany
Maristella Matera, DEI - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Massimo Mecella, Universita' di Roma, Italy
Ingo Melzer, DaimlerChrysler AG
Jörg Müller, Technische Universität Clausthal
Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S and University of Hannover, Germany
Werner Nutt, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Andreas Oberweis, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Cesare Pautasso, ETH Zurich
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Frank Puhlmann, Hasso Plattner Institut, Germany
Manfred Reichert, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Stefanie Rinderle, Ulm University, Germany
Rainer Ruggaber, SAP Research, USA
Kai-Uwe Sattler, TU Ilmenau, Germany
Ralf Schenkel, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik
Timos Sellis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Brigitte Trousse, INRIA, France
Susan Urban, Arizona State University, USA
Willem-Jan Van den Heuvel, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Wil Van der Aalst, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Maria Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas Venezuela
Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia
Kyu-Young Whang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Leon Zhao, University of Arizona, USA
Michael zur Muehlen, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA