This is the first part of the two-volume set of the proceedings of the On the Move Confederated International Conferences held as On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004 in Agia Napa, Cyprus in October 2004. It has been published as part of the Springer “Lecture Notes in Computer Science” series (LNCS 3290/3291).
The two parts constitute the refereed proceedings of the three confederated conferences--Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS) 2004, Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE) 2004, and Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA) 2004. Part 1 (LNCS 3290) starts with a preface from the editors; each section begins with a message from the section editors, an abstract of the keynote address, and the speaker’s biography. This volume contains the 34 papers of CoopIS 2004 and 13 papers from ODBASE 2004; the remaining papers appear in the second volume of the set (LNCS 3291). There is also an exhaustive author index at the end of the book.
The papers included cover various aspects of developing Internet- and intranet-based systems for organizations and e-businesses, like cooperative information systems, data management, data mining, data semantics, distributed databases, distributed objects, the Internet, interoperability, ontology management, the semantic Web, Web services, Web-based information systems, workflow management systems, and the World Wide Web. The papers included form a good mix of theory, conceptual design and development, and applications and solutions.
The papers from CoopIS 2004 specifically deal with database management, workflow and process management, Web services, schema integration, peer-to-peer (P2P) computing and collaboration, and security. The 34 papers are grouped into 11 categories.
There are nine papers on workflow, process, and Web services. They deal with topics such as workflow mining, business intelligence, transactional workflows, knowledge modeling, distributed information systems, exception handling of workflow management systems, schema matching, workflow patterns, business process, process changes, cyclic business process models, and Petri net-based approaches for process-aware information systems.
The three papers in the “Database Management/Transaction” section deal with issues like concurrent undo operations in collaborative environments, query performance improvement, and automated supervision of data production. The “Schema Integration/Agents” section contains four papers that focus on problems like deriving sub-schema similarities from semantically heterogeneous Extensible Markup Language (XML) sources, supporting similarity operations based on approximate string matching on the Web, managing semantic compensation in a multiagent system, and modeling with ubiquitous agents.
There are two papers in the “Events” category, one dealing with event notification and the other with distributed event filtering algorithms. The four papers included in the “P2P/Collaboration” section offer solutions for problems like developing collaborative models for agricultural supply chains, countering free riding in P2P data structures, supporting collaborative layout design in word processing, and creating content-based routing protocols over structured P2P networks.
The six papers in the “Applications” section deal with topics like intelligent virtual agents, demand-driven value networks, e-marketplaces, coordination of human and technical activities, e-home systems, and intelligent home environments. The three papers in the “Trust/Security/Contracts” section cover topics like trust-aware collaborative filtering, service graphs for building trust, and detecting violators of multiparty contracts. The last section, “Potpourri,” has three papers on leadership maintenance in mobile environments, a P2P lookup service, and distributed Web crawling.
The papers from ODBASE 2004 focus on ontology management, information mining and discovery, knowledge representation, information integration and retrieval, knowledge representation, semantic Web services, and text processing. Thirteen of the conference’s 31 papers are included in this volume. The two papers on knowledge extraction deal with automatic initiation of ontology and knowledge extraction from classification schemas. The “Semantic Web in Practice” section includes four papers that cover topics like ontology generation and management, semantic Web-based content enrichment and knowledge reuse, foundational ontologies, and intellectual semantic Web information systems.
“Ontologies and IR” covers topics such as intelligent retrieval of digital resources, the ontology of historical interactions, and text simplification for information-seeking applications. The last section of this volume, “Information Integration,” deals with topics like the integration of integrity constraints, a query language for databases with partial orders, a reference ontology, and ontology alignment and merging.
This book is written for researchers and professionals. There are excellent illustrations, diagrams, graphs, charts, and tables accompanying the individual papers; they add statistical information that is relevant to the particular study or finding. In the papers developing algorithms, pseudocode or code segments are provided to illustrate the implementations. Reading the book from cover to cover is a difficult, if not an impossible, task. The best way to read the book is to start with the papers that interest you most.
