On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, OTM 2010 Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, IS, DOA and ODBASE (Tharam and Herrero eds), Hersonissos, Greece, October 25-29, 2010, Proceedings, Part I and II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 18th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'2010)
Résumé
Cooperative Information Systems (CIS) provide enterprises and communities of users with flexible, scalable and intelligent services in large-scale networking environments. Building a scalable cooperative information system requires technical breakthroughs to overcome tough challenges that traditional rigid distributed systems did not face. The new grand challenge in the modern enterprise is now dealing with assessing and benchmarking the realistic benefits of social- and community-based collaborative computing against the traditional integrated approaches. The CIS paradigm has traditionally encompassed distributed systems technologies such as middleware, business process management (BPM) and Web technologies. In recent years, several innovative technologies are emerging: SaaS, cloud computing, Internet of Service, Internet of Things, Service Oriented Computing, mash-ups, Web Services, Semantic Web and Knowledge Grid. These new technologies enable us to consider more aggressive solutions for building scalable cooperative information systems. 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 2010 edition of CoopIS aims to highlight the impact of social and community networks, cloud computing, semantic computing and the future internet enterprise systems collaborative issues for collaborative information systems. We are very pleased to share the proceedings comprising the exciting technical program with you. This year's conference included eight full-paper research sessions, three short-paper research sessions, and one industry panel. The industry panel entitled Cooperative Information Systems for Highly Configurable Infrastructures will feature 3 industry-oriented speakers. The program covered a broad range of topics in the areas of design and development of cooperative information systems: business process technologies, process modelling and management, services computing, information processing and management, workflow, ontology, and business applications. We were very pleased to have Wil van der Aalst keynote speaker that has given a talk with the title "Configurable Services in the Cloud: Supporting variability while enabling cross-organizational process mining". This high-quality program would not have been possible without the authors who chose CoopIS as a venue to submit their publications to, and the Program Committee members who dedicated their efforts and time to the review and the online PC meeting discussions. We received about 143 submissions from 30 countries and 5 continents. Every paper received at least three independent reviews. Through a careful two-phase review process, consisting of PC members' independent reviews and online PC meeting discussions, 28 full papers and 12 short papers were selected and included in this year's technical program. We are grateful for the dedication and excellent job of the CoopIS 2010 PC members, who are experts in the field.