17th International Conference on
COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CoopIS 2009)

Vilamoura, Algarve-Portugal, Nov 04 - 05 - 06, 2009

 

Acceptance rate of CoopIS in recent years was approx. 20%
Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag


Call for Papers of CoopIS 2009

Cooperative Information Systems provide communities of users with scalable and intelligent e-services in a large-scale networking environment. Building a scalable cooperative information system requires fundamentally technical breakthroughs to overcome those tough challenges that traditional rigid distributed systems did not face.

The CIS paradigm has traditionally encompassed distributed systems technologies such as middleware, business process management (BPM) and Web technologies. In recent years, many innovative technologies are emerging: Grid, P2P, Service Oriented Computing, Cloud computing, mashups, Web Services, Semantic Web and Knowledge Grid. These new technologies enable us to consider more aggressive solutions for building scalable cooperative information systems.

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 such as e-Business, e-Commerce, e-Government, e-Health and e-Science.

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/Web data management, electronic commerce, workflow management, knowledge flow, agent technologies, and software architectures, to name a few. In addition, the 2009 edition of CoopIs aims to highlight the impact of semantic computing and the future interconnection environment.
As in previous years, CoopIS'09 will be part of a joint event with other conferences, in the context of the OTM ("OnTheMove") federated conferences, covering different aspects of distributed information systems.

TOPICS OF INTEREST 

Topics that are addressed by CoopIS'09 are logically grouped in three broad areas, and include but are not limited to:

Process Management

  • 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
  • Sustainability of processes
  • Knowledge flow management

Advanced middleware and architectures

  • Service oriented middleware
  • Web services standards and runtimes
  • Grid computing, cloud computing and knowledge grid
  • Enterprise Grids architectures and services
  • Semantic interoperability and semantic grid
  • Web centric information and processing architectures
  • 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

  • Innovative CIS applications for the large organizations: e-business, e-commerce, e-government and e-culture.
  • Advances in e-science and Grid computing applications
  • Medical and biological information systems
  • Industrial applications of CIS
  • Semantic Web
  • Web 2.0

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline:  June 15, 2009   DEADLINE EXTENSION June 22, 2009
Acceptance Notification:  August 05, 2009
Camera Ready Due:  August 15, 2009
Registration Due:  August 20, 2009
OTM Conferences:  November 1 - 6, 2009

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Papers submitted to CoopIS'09 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference. All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All papers will be refereed by at least three members of the program committee, and at least two will be experts from industry in the case of practice reports. All submissions must be in English. Submissions must not exceed 18 pages in the final camera-ready paper style. Submissions must be laid out according to the final camera-ready formatting instructions and must be submitted in PDF format.

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

The paper submission site is located at:
http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper/subcoopis/
Failure to comply with the formatting instructions for submitted papers will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review.
Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings.

ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

General co-Chairs:

  • Robert Meersman, VU Brussels, Belgium
  • Tharam Dillon, Curtin University of Technology, Australia

CoopIS'09 Program Committee co-Chairs:

  • Hai Zhuge, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  • Ted Goranson, Earl Research, US
  • Moira C. Norrie, ETH Zurich, Switzerland


PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Ghaleb Abdulla, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Anurag Agarwal, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Antonia Albani, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Elias Awad, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
Joonsoo Bae, Chonbuk National Universiry, South Korea
Zohra Bellahsene, LIRMM- CNRS/Université Montpellier 2, France
Salima Benbernou, University Lyon 1, France
Djamal Benslimane, University of Lyon, France
M. Brian Blake, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
Klemens Böhm, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Christoph Bussler, Cisco Systems, Inc, USA
James Caverlee, Texas A&M University, USA
Yiling Chen, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Meng Chu Zhou, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA
Francisco Curbera, IBM, USA
Vincenzo D'Andrea, University of Trento, Italy
Ke Deng, University of Queensland, Australia
Xiaoyong Du, Renmin University of China, PR China
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Johann Eder, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
Rik Eshuis, Eindhoven University, The Netherlands
Opher Etzion, IBM Israel Software Lab
Renato Fileto, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Paul Grefen, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Michael Grossniklaus, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Amarnath Gupta, University of California San Diego, USA
Mohand-Said Hacid, Lyon University, France
Geert-Jan Houben, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Zhixing Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Patrick Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Canada
Paul Johannesson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of Westminster, England, UK
Dimka Karastoyanova, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Rania Khalaf, IBM research
Hiroyuki Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba
Akhil Kumar, Penn State University, USA
Allen Lee, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA
Frank Leymann, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Ling Li, ODU, USA
Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Sanjay K. Madria, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
Tiziana Margaria, University Potsdam, Germany
Leo Mark, Georgia Institute of Technology
Maristella Matera, DEI - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Massimo Mecella, Universita' di Roma, Italy
Ingo Melzer, DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany
Mohamed Mokbel, University of Minnesota, USA
Jörg Müller, Technische Universität Clausthal, Germany
Nirmal Mukhi, IBM T J Watson Research Center
Miyuki Nakano, University of Tokyo, Japan
Werner Nutt, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Andreas Oberweis, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Gérald Oster, University of Nancy, INRIA, France
Hervé Panetto, Nancy-University, France
Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Frank Puhlmann, inubit AG, Germany
Lakshmish Ramaswamy, University of Georgia, USA
Manfred Reichert, Ulm University, Germany
Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Ulm University, Germany
Rainer Ruggaber, SAP Research Center CEC Karlsruhe, Germany
Duncan Ruiz, Catholic University of RS, Brazil
Radhika Santhanam, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
Kai-Uwe Sattler, TU Ilmenau, Germany
Ralf Schenkel, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany
Jialie Shen, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Aameek Singh, IBM Almaden Research Center
Xiaoping Sun, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wei Tang, Teradata Corp. USA
Edison Tse, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Susan Urban, Texas Tech University, USA
Ricardo Valerdi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Willem-Jan Van den Heuvel, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Maria Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas Venezuela
John Warfield, George Mason University, USA
Mathias Weske, University of Potsdam, Germany
Li Xiong, Emory University, USA
Li Xu, ODU, USA
Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia
Leon Zhao, University of Arizona, USA
Aoying Zhou, East China Normal University, PR China