23 to 24 April 2001, Monday to Tuesday

Conference Tutorials/Seminars

• Semantic B2B Integration - Concepts, Architecture, Implementation and Deployment
  Christoph Bussler, Oracle Corporation
• The Semantic Web
  Prof. Dieter Fensel, Free University of Amsterdam
• Workflow Management in Electronic Commerce
  Prof. Paul Grefen, University of Twente

Industrial Track Tutorials

• Application XML Enabling - a Holistic Approach
  Dr. Daniel K.C. Chan, Systek Information Technology Ltd.
• Advances in Workflow Systems Technology
  Prof. Kamal Karlapalem, Indian Institute of Information Technology
• Conceptual Modeling for Knowledge Management
  Prof. John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto

25 April 2001, Wednesday

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

10:00 to 10:30 Coffee Break

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

12:00 to 13:30 Lunch

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
• Trusted Web Warehouse Systems for e-Commerce
  Mahen Ying, Yahiko Kambayashi, Kai Cheng, Yanchun Zhang

15:00 to 15:30 Tea Break

15:30 to 17:00 AS3 Process Interoperability

• Seamless Integration of Inquiry and Transaction Integration 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

26 April 2001, Thursday

9:00 to 10:00 Keynote Address 2

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

10:00 to 10:30 Coffee Break

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

11:10 to 12:00 IS2 Knowledge Management and Data Warehousing

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

12:00 to 13:30 Lunch

13:30 to 14:10 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.

14:10 to 15:00 IS4 Query Transformation

• Towards Query Translation from XQL to SQL
  Joseph Fong and Tharam Dillon
• Rewriting Rules for Semantic Query Transformation in E-Commerce Applications
  Ismail K. Ibrahim, Werner Winiwarter and Stephane Bressan

15:00 to 15:30 Tea Break

15:30 to 16:10 IS5 Information Sharing and Retrieval

• iDataprovider: an XML-baesd 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

16:10 to 17:00 IS6 Knowledge Discovery

• 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

27 April 2001, Friday

9:00 to 10:00 Keynote Address 3

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

10:00 to 10:30 Coffee Break

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

12:00 to 13:30 Lunch

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

15:00 to 15:30 Tea Break

15:30 to 16:30 AS6 Service Integration

• The IRules Project: Using Active Rules for the Integration of Distrubuted 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

17:00 to 21:30 Conference Banquet

28 April 2001, Saturday

9:00 to 10:00 Keynote Address 4

• Middleware for the eBusiness
  Dr. Rainer von Ammon, BEA Systems - The E-Commerce Transactions Company, Aschheim-Dornach, Germany
  

10:00 to 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 to 12:00 AS7 Applications Modeling

• A Tag-Centric Approach to Portal Development
  Felipe Ibanez, Oscar Diaz, Jon Itturioz
• Ownership Semantics in the Financial Domain
  J.Geller, C.Rush, L.Liu, M.Halper, Y.Perl
• Constraints as Mobile Specifications in E-Commerce Application
  Kit-ying Hui, Peter M.D. Gray, Graham J.L. Kemp, Alun D.Preece

12:00 to 13:30 Lunch

13:30 to 15:00 Closing 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: TBD

15:00 Closing of DS-9

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