Cooperative Information Systems1997

Annotation Proceedings of the June 1997 conference, with sections on cooperation, rules and reasoning, cooperative multiagent systems for the Web, workflow management, interoperation, Internet access, practical applications of enterprise CIS, query processing, and bridging the gap between cooperative information systems and database systems. Topics include configuration detection as a problem of knowledge discovery in computer networks, design of a distributed workflow enactment service, an architecture for intelligent resource agents, semi-automatic wrapper generation for Internet information services, and a TV news retrieval system with interactive query function. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.