Cooperative Information Systems (Coopis '98), 3rd International Conference Book

	Message from the General Chairs
	Message from the Program Chairs
	Conference Committee
	External Referees
	Information Services for the Web: Building and Maintaining Domain Models	4
	Wrapper Generation for Web Accessible Data Sources	14
	Materializing the Web	24
	Jedi: Extracting and Synthesizing Information from the Web	32
	Query Evaluation for Distributed Heterogeneous Relational Databases	44
	Interoperation of Independent, Heterogeneous and Distributed Databases. Methodology and CASE Support: the InterDB Approach	54
	A Generative Communication Service for Database Interoperability	64
	Protecting the Quality of Service of Existing Information Systems	74
	Scheduling Non-Enforceable Contracts among Autonomous Agents	86
	Dynamic-Agents for Dynamic Service Provisioning	95
	A Recipe Structure for Plan Execution in Dynamic Worlds	105
	Using Multiple Mobile Agents for Distributed Transactions	114
	Execution Dependencies in Transaction Closures	122
	A Novel Timestamp Ordering Approach for Co-existing Traditional and Cooperative Transaction Processing	132
	A Meta-Wrapper for Scaling up to Multiple Autonomous Distributed Information Sources	148
	Management of Work in Progress in Relational Information Systems	158
	Meta-Data Based Mediator Generation	168
	Data Access Services and Automatic Generation of Cooperating Interfaces	177
	Towards an Inductive Design of Distributed Object Oriented Databases	188
	A Client Group-Server DBMS Architecture and Inter-Client Communication Caching Schemes in the WAN Environment	198
	A Study of Least Privilege in CapBasED-AMS	208
	Calculus-Based Transformations of Queries over Object-Oriented Views in a Database Mediator System	218
	OMS Connect: Supporting Multidatabase and Mobile Working through Database Connectivity	232
	Minimization of Resource Consumption for Multidatabase Query Optimization	241
	A Dynamic and Adaptive Cache Retrieval Scheme for Mobile Computing Systems	251
	Context in Information Bases	260
	Context Mediation on Wall Street	271
	Information Integration: Conceptual Modeling and Reasoning Support	280
	Distributed Workflow Management: The TEAM Model	292
	Action Port Model: A Mixed Paradigm Conceptual Workflow Modeling Language	300
	Managing Evolving Workflow Specifications	310
	Merging Inheritance Hierarchies for Database Integration	322
	Propagation of Semantic Modifications to an Integrated Schema	332
	A Flexible Architecture for Query Integration and Mapping	341
	Interworkflow System: Coordination of Each Workflow System among Multiple Organizations	354
	Integration of Statecharts	364
	Cooperative Design for 3D Virtual Scenes	373
	Using Constraints to Manage Long Duration Transactions in Spatial Information Systems	384
	Stable Transaction Management for Preserving the Global Integrity Constraints in Multidatabase Systems	396
	Reducing the Blocking in Two-Phase Commit Protocol Employing Backup Sites	406
	Author Index	417