International Journal on Intelligent Cooperative Information Systems (IJICIS)

AIMS AND SCOPE

The purpose of the International Journal on Intelligent Cooperative Information Systems (IJICIS) is to provide the forum within which both the AI and DBS research communities can come to understand the intricacies of intelligent cooperative work. The existence of this forum would contribute towards the evolution of ICIS, thereby leading to its appreciation by the wider computer science community and its integration into the next generation of computing systems.

IJICIS addresses a two-sided problem: how can the information systems technology of the future benefit from AI, and what can information technology offer to contemporary and future AI sys- tems. Specifically, the journal will provide a platform for the exchange of ideas and for the identification of the potential roles and nature of the emerging notion of ICIS. It will examine a wide spectrum of issues related to interdisciplinary research and development in ICIS. It will help assess the state-of-the- art and future prospects of ICIS.

CALL FOR PAPERS

IJICIS welcomes papers describing original ideas and new results on the foundations and role of intelligent and coopera- tive information systems. Methodology oriented or practical con- tributions, solid theoretical results, and empirical studies that are expected to have a potential impact on the emerging field of ICIS are also invited. Suggested topics include but are not lim- ited to:

Novel Architectures for ICIS,

Advanced Modeling and Reasoning Techniques for Intelligent Information Processing,

Knowledge Engineering Techniques in ICIS,

Higher Level Descriptive Programming Languages for ICIS,

Data/Knowledge Representation and Management Techniques for Coordinating Multiple Cooperating Agents,

Interoperability Issues in Distributed, Heterogeneous Knowledge Bases

Techniques for Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving,

Techniques for Partitioning and Composing Data and Knowledge,

Effective Techniques for Cooperative Problem Solving,

Active Decision Support Systems,

Cooperative User Interfaces for Problem Solving and Effective Decision Making.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

Please submit 5 copies of your paper to any Editor-in- Charge.

Mike Papazoglou				Timos Sellis
School of Information Systems		Department of Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Information Technology	Division of Computer Science
Queensland University of Technology	National Technical University of Athens
GPO Box 2434				Zographou 157 73
Brisbane. QLD 4001			Athens
AUSTRALIA				GREECE
mikep@snow.fit.qut.edu.au		timos@theseas.ntua.gr

Articles are to be in English and typed double-spaced on one side of white A4 sized paper. Page 1 should contain the article title (not more than 15 words), author(s), affiliation(s), and the name and complete mailing address of the person to whom correspondence should be sent. Page 2 should contain a short abstract. References should be indicated in the text by numbers in square brackets and listed at the end of the paper by number in the order in which they are cited. All contributions will be acknowledged and refereed.

EDITORIAL BOARD

Editors in Charge:

 Mike P. Papazoglou, Queensland University of Technology
     (mikep@snow.fit.qut.edu.au)
 Timos K. Sellis, University of Maryland, USA
     (timos@cs.umd.edu)

Regional Editors:

 John G. Hughes, Univ. of Ulster, Ireland
 Yahiko Kambayashi, Kyoto Univ., Japan
 Matthew Morgenstern, Xerox Advanced Information Systems, USA

Associate Editors:

 Bruce I. Blum, The Johns Hopkins University
 Alex Borgida, Rutgers Univ.
 Nick Bourbakis, IBM, San Jose
 Ronald Brachman, AT&T Bell Labs
 Michael Brodie, GTE Labs, USA
 Janis Bubenko, University of Stockholm
 Robert Colomb, CSIRO, Sydney
 Les Gasser, Univ. of Southern California
 Carl Hewitt, MIT
 Michael Huhns, MCC
 Richard Hull, Univ. of Southern California
 Sushil Jajodia, George Mason Univ.
 Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen
 Gail Kaiser, Columbia Univ.
 Dimitris Karagiannis, FAW Univ. of Ulm
 Masaru Kitsuregawa, Univ. of Tokyo
 Victor Lesser, Univ, of Massachusetts, Amherst
 Fred Lochovsky , Univ. of Toronto
 Vincent Lum, Naval Postgraduate School
 Ron Morrison, Univ. of St. Andrews
 John Mylopoulos, Univ. of Toronto
 Nick Roussopoulos, University of Maryland
 Robin B. Stanton, Australian National University
 Dennis Tsichritzis, Univ. of Geneva
 Patrick Valduriez, INRIA-France
 Norihiko Yoshida, Kyushu Univ.

INAUGURAL ISSUE PAPERS

F. Manola, M. Brodie, D. Georgakopoulos, S. Heiler, M. Hornick:
	"Distributed Object Management"

D. Tsichritzis, O. Nierstratz, S. Gibbs: 
	"Beyond Objects Again Objects"

R. Motschnig-Pitrick, J. Mylopoulos: 	
	"Classes and Instances"

A. Borgida:
	"From Types to Frames: Natural Semantics Specifications for
	 Description Logics"


M. Jarke, C. Maltzahn, T. Rose: 	
	"Sharing Process: Teamwork Support in Design Repositories"

M. P. Papazoglou, S. Laufmann, T. K. Sellis:
	"An Organizational Framework  for Cooperating Intelligent
	 Information Systems"

C. C. Woo, F. H. Lochovsky:
	"Knowledge Communication in Intelligent Information Systems"

W. Kim, Y-J. Lee:
	"On Supporting Triggers in Object-Oriented Database Systems"

K. Huff, J. Mylopoulos:
	 Summary of the Niagara-on-the-lake workshop on
	"Developing Intelligent Information Systems: A Workshop Sumary"

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