Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS) 2003 International Conference.- Tenth Anniversasy of CoopIS: Cooperative Information Systems Then and Now.- PC Co-chairs’ Message.- “Almost Automatic” and Semantic Integration of XML Schemas at Various “Severity” Levels.- Managing the Evolution of Mediation Queries.- Semantics-Based Reconciliation for Collaborative and Mobile Environments.- A Distributed Rule Mechanism for Multidatabase Systems.- Identification and Modelling of Web Services for Inter-enterprise Collaboration Exemplified for the Domain of Strategic Supply Chain Development.- Advertising Games for Web Services.- Defining and Coordinating Open-Services Using Workflows.- Keeping Watch: Intelligent Virtual Agents Reflecting Human-Like Perception in Cooperative Information Systems.- BRAIN: A Framework for Flexible Role-Based Interactions in Multiagent Systems.- Profiling and Matchmaking Strategies in Support of Opportunistic Collaboration.- A Strategic Approach for Business-IT Alignment in Health Information Systems.- From Where to What: Metadata Sharing for Digital Photographs with Geographic Coordinates.- Process of Product Fragments Management in Distributed Development.- A Cooperative Approach to the Development of Expert Knowledge Bases Applied to Define Standard of Care in Glaucoma.- A Publish/Subscribe Scheme for Peer-to-Peer Database Networks.- Query Evaluation in Peer-to-Peer Networks of Taxonomy-Based Sources.- An InfoSpace Paradigm for Local and ad hoc Peer-to-Peer Communication.- Digging Database Statistics and Costs Parameters for Distributed Query Processing.- Forming Virtual Marketplaces with Knowledge Networks.- Providing a Progressive Access to Awareness Information.- Trusting Data Quality in Cooperative Information Systems.- Static Type-Inference for Trust in Distributed Information Systems.- Workflow Mining: Current Status and Future Directions.- On the Common Support of Workflow Type and Instance Changes under Correctness Constraints.- Animating ebXML Transactions with a Workflow Engine.- Dynamic Interconnection of Heterogeneous Workflow Processes through Services.- R-GMA: An Information Integration System for Grid Monitoring.- CREAM: An Infrastructure for Distributed, Heterogeneous Event-Based Applications.- Versions for Context Dependent Information Services.- Cache Invalidation for Updated Data in Ad Hoc Networks.- Taxonomy-Based Context Conveyance for Web Search.- An Analytical Study of Broadcast Based Cache Invalidation in Mobile Computing Networks.- Fine-Grained Parallelism in Dynamic Web Content Generation: The Parse and Dispatch Approach.- Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE) 2003 International Conference.- The Grid Needs You! Enlist Now.- From the “Eyeball” Web to the Transaction Web.- ODBASE 2003 PC Co-chairs’ Message.- Recording and Reasoning over Data Provenance in Web and Grid Services.- Preparing SCORM for the Semantic Web.- Ontology-Driven Knowledge Logistics Approach as Constraint Satisfaction Problem.- Dynamic Topic Mining from News Stream Data.- lora-2: A Rule-Based Knowledge Representation and Inference Infrastructure for the Semantic Web.- Understanding the Semantic Web through Descriptions and Situations.- Incremental Maintenance of Materialized Ontologies.- Scalable and Reliable Semantic Portals (SEAL) in Practice.- X-Learn: An XML-Based, Multi-agent System for Supporting “User-Device” Adaptive E-learning.- Mining Association Rules from Relational Data – Average Distance Based Method.- Clustering Schemaless XML Documents.- Automatic Expansion of Manual Email Classifications Based on Text Analysis.- Mining for Lexons: Applying Unsupervised Learning Methods to Create Ontology Bases.- The OntoWordNet Project: Extension and Axiomatization of Conceptual Relations in WordNet.- Ontology Based Query Processing in Database Management Systems.- OntoManager – A System for the Usage-Based Ontology Management.- Breaking the Deadlock.- Using Ontologies in the Development of an Innovating System for Elderly People Tele-assistance.- A Fuzzy Model for Representing Uncertain, Subjective, and Vague Temporal Knowledge in Ontologies.- Semantics and Modeling of Spatiotemporal Changes.- Maintaining Ontologies for Geographical Information Retrieval on the Web.- Ontology Translation on the Semantic Web.- The Semantics of the Compound Term Composition Algebra.- KNN Model-Based Approach in Classification.- Learning to Invoke Web Forms.- A Proposal for Management of RDF and RDF Schema Metadata in MOF.- Extending OO Metamodels towards Dynamic Object Roles.- Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA) 2003 International Conference.- Model Driven Architecture: Three Years On.- DOA 2003 PC Co-chairs’ Message.- Monitoring the Distributed Virtual Orchestra with a CORBA Based Object Oriented Real-Time Data Distribution Service.- Designing Telerobotic Systems as Distributed CORBA-Based Applications.- Implementation Experience with OMG’s SCIOP Mapping.- Enhancing Real-Time CORBA Predictability and Performance.- Jini Supporting Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing.- Capturing, Analysing, and Managing ECG Sensor Data in Handheld Devices.- Definition of a User Environment in a Ubiquitous System.- ReMMoC: A Reflective Middleware to Support Mobile Client Interoperability.- A Dynamic Distribution and Load Balancing Experiment with Synchronous Programming-Based Mobile Objects.- An Adaptive Transactional System – Framework and Service Synchronization.- From Distributed Objects to Hierarchical Grid Components.- Re-factoring Middleware Systems: A Case Study.- Dynamic Placement Using Ants for Object Based Simulations.- Developing Adaptive Distributed Applications: A Framework Overview and Experimental Results.- Separating the Concerns of Distributed Deployment and Dynamic Composition in Internet Application Systems.- Method-Based Caching in Multi-tiered Server Applications.- DLS: A CORBA Service for Dynamic Loading of Code.- On the Performance of a CORBA Caching Service over the Wide Internet.- Semi-automatic Parallelization of Java Applications.- Transparent Integration of CORBA and the .NET Framework.- Can Aspects Be Injected? Experience with Replication and Protection.- Analysing Mailboxes of Asynchronous Communicating Components.- TUPI: Transformation from PIM to IDL.- Active Data.- What Must (Not) Be Available Where?.- A CORBA-Based Transaction System for the Wireless Communication Environment.- Experiences with the Active Collections Framework.- Porting OMTTs to CORBA.