2:00pm to 5:00pm
G5612 (green region), Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong
Advances in Workflow Systems Technology
Prof. Kamal Karlapalem, Indian Institute of Information Technology

25 April 2001, Wednesday, Sheraton Hotel, SUNG Room

8:00 to 8:45 On-site Registration

8:45 to 9:00 Welcome by General Chair and Program Chairs

9:00 to 10:00 Keynote Address 1

• Challenges in Content Management for B2B Electronic Commerce
  Prof. Dieter Fensel, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  

10:30 to 12:00 AS1 Contracts

• Contracts in e-Commerce
  Hans Weigand, Lai Xu
• The Role of Contract and Component Semantics in Dynamic E-Contract Enactment Configuration
  Heiko Ludwig, Yigal Hoffner
• Dynamic License Agreement System for Reuse of Web Contents
  Michiko Yasukawa

13:30 to 15:00 AS2 Security Issues

• Secure E-Commerce Transactions, Modeling and Implementation Aspects
  Jian Tang, Ada Waichee Fu
• From Call for Tenders to Sealed-Bid Auction for Mediated eCommerce
  Omid Amirhamzeh Tafreschi, Markus Schneider, Peter Fankhauser, Bendick Mahleko, Thomas Tesch
• Web Notary Systems for Privacy Keeping E-Commerce
  Manen Ying, Yahiko Kambayashi, Kai Cheng, Yanchun Zhang

15:30 to 17:00 AS3 Process Interoperability

• Seamless Integration of Inquiry and Transaction Tasks in Web Applications
  Juan Jose Rodriguez, Oscar Diaz
• An XML-based Interorganizational Knowledge Mediation Scheme to Support B2B Solutions
  Silvana Castano, Valeria De Antonellis, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati
• Views for Inter-Organization Workflow in an E-Commerce Environment
  Dickson Chiu, Kamalakar Karlapalem, Qing Li

9:00 to 10:00 Keynote Address 2

• Managing Knowledge for Business Analysts: The Executive Information Portal
  Prof. John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
  

10:30 to 12:00 Panel Discussion

• Title: The Peer-2-Peer Paradigm in Electronic Commerce: a new kind application or do we need a new kind of information systems ?
  Panel Chair: Prof. Karl Aberer
  Panelists:
  John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto
  Marek Rusinkiewicz, Telcordia Technologies
  Dhirendra K. Srivastava, City University of Hong Kong
  Hans Weigand, Tilburg University

13:30 to 14:30 AS7 Applications Modeling

• A Model-based Approach to Portal Development
  Oscar Diaz, Felipe Ibanez, Jon Itturioz
• Constraints as Mobile Specifications in E-Commerce Application
  Kit-ying Hui, Peter M.D. Gray, Graham J.L. Kemp, Alun D.Preece

19:00 to 21:30 Conference Banquet

Serenade Chinese Restaurant, Cultural Centre

26 April 2001, Thursday, Sheraton Hotel, TANG Room II
Industrial Track

9:00 to 10:00 Keynote Address 2, SUNG Room

• Managing Knowledge for Business Analysts: The Executive Information Portal
  Prof. John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
  

10:30 to 11:10 IS1 Knowledge Management and Modelling

• Professional Services Automation: A semantics-based approach for Knowledge Management
  Vipul Kashyap, Siddhartha Dalal, Paul Tukey, and Cliff Behrens
• Organisation Modelling using LDAP
  Daniel K.C. Chan, Simon Yuen and Shing Chi Cheung

• Beyond Data Warehousing - Data Logistics
  Kamalakar Karlapalem
• Architecture of a Data Warehouse with a Database Proxy Server
  Shi-Ming Huang

13:30 to 14:30 IS3 Intelligent Enterprises

• Eguru: a Decision Support System for the assisted design of E-commerce architectures
  P. Missier, M.Bianchi, A. Zordan, and A. Umar
• Office Workflow System Based on the OAR Office Model
  Sandhya Desai, Nitesh Ambastha.,Venkatarayan and Binoy E.D.

• Rewriting Rules for Semantic Query Transformation in E-Commerce Applications
  Ismail K. Ibrahim, Werner Winiwarter and Stephane Bressan

15:30 to 16:10 IS5 Information Sharing and Retrieval, SUNG Room

• iDataprovider: an XML-based Mechanism for Internet Data Exchange Services and Applications
  Elvis Wai Chung Leung and Qing Li
• Information Retrieval by Semantically Correlated Filamentous Propagation (CFP)
  Thomas Kwok and Clifford A. Pickover

• Mining Is-Part-of Association Patterns from Semistructured Data
  Ke Wang and Huiqing Liu
• WHAT: A Web Hypertext Associated Trail Mining System
  Wilfred Ng and Candy Chan
• Towards Query Translation from XQL to SQL
  Joseph Fong and Tharam Dillon

27 April 2001, Friday, Sheraton Hotel, SUNG Room

9:00 to 10:00 Keynote Address 3

• Agent-based E-commerce
  Prof. Zhongzhi Shi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
  

10:30 to 12:00 AS4 Semantics Mining

• Capturing the Semantics of Web Log Data by Navigation Matrices
  Wilfred Ng
• Discovery of Semantic Relationships among Web Pages Based on Web Topic Structures
  Takeshi Matsukura, Hiroyuki Kondo, Yoichi Hirata, Katsumi Tanaka
• Web Sifter: An Ontological Web-Mining Agent for E-Business
  Anthony Scime, Larry Kerschberg

13:30 to 15:00 AS5 Using Metadata for Integration

• Infomediation for E-Business-Enabled Supply Chains: A Semantics-based Approach
  Sudha Ram, Yousub Hwang, Vijay Khatri
• An Analysis of Integration Problems of XML-Based Catalogues for B2B Electronic Commerce
  Borys Omelayenko, Dieter Fensel
• A Model to Support E-Catalog Integration
  Shamkant Navathe, Helen Thomas, Manit Satitsamitpong, Anindya Datta

15:30 to 17:00 AS6 Service Integration

• The IRules Project: Using Active Rules for the Integration of Distributed Software Components
  Susan Urban, Suzanne Dietrich, Yinghui Na, Ying Jin, Amy Sundermier, Akash Saxena
• Towards a Semantic Framework for Service Description
  Marlon Dumas, Justin O'Sullivan, Mitra Heravizadeh, David Edmond, Arthur ter Hofstede
• Ownership Semantics in the Financial Domain
  J.Geller, C.Rush, L.Liu, M.Halper, Y.Perl

9:00 to 14:00 Half-day Tour
Separate registration required; free for DS 9 participants

Itinerary: Victoria Peak, Repulse Bay Lookout, Stanley Market, Aberdeen

Victoria Peak
Nothing can beat a trip up the Peak, the highest mountain on the Hong Kong Island where the panoramic views of the city, harbour and outlying islands.

Repulse Bay Lookout
Renowned for its glorious views of the South China Sea and perhaps to some particularly for its air of romance as projected in the famous old movie "Love is a many splendored thing".

Stanley Market
Haunt of shopper's haven! Designers' fashion and casual wears are sold at wholesale prices. You will also find a wide variety of merchandise from world famous brands.

Aberdeen
Anchored in this typhoon shelter are many fisherfolds' homeborne boats where you will be fascinated by their style of living.

Lunch included

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