University of Rostock, CS Dept., Database Research Group

Engineering Federated Information Systems (EFIS'99)

5.-7. May 1999 Kühlungsborn

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  • Call for Papers
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  • Location: workshop hotel "Arendsee"  
  • Proceedings have been published by and may be ordered from infix-Verlag (ISBN: 3-89601-013-1; price: 50.-DM)
  • EFIS'99 is sponsored by the special interest group on databases (Fachgruppe 2.5.1 "Datenbanken") of the German Informatics society (Gesellschaft für Informatik - GI) and the CS Department of the University of Rostock
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Organisation

Andreas Heuer, Holger Meyer

Database Research Group
CS Department
University of Rostock

Contact

Holger MeyerTel.:++49 (381) 498-3402
Andreas HeuerTel.:++49 (381) 498-3401
University of Rostock
CS Department
D-18051 Rostock
Germany Fax:++49 (381) 498-3426

EMail

efis99@informatik.uni-rostock.de

advance program

Wednesday 5.5.99

09:00-10:00 Invited Talk by Harald Gröger (IBM Germany, Würzburg)
"IBM DB2 DataJoiner: A commercially available federated database system"
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-12:00 Session "ODMG"
A. Skehill, M. Roantree (Dublin City Univ.)
Constructing Multidatabase Collections Using an Extended ODMG Object Model
U. Hohenstein, A. Ebert (Siemens, Munich, Germany)
An Integrated Toolkit for Building Database Federations
12:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Session "System Architectures"
M. Gaedke (U Karlsruhe), K. Turowski (U Magdeburg)
Generic Web-Based Federation of Business Application Systems for E-Commerce Applications
F.d.F. Rezende, G.d.S. Oliveira, R.C.G. Pereira, U. Hermsen, J. Rütschlin (DaimlerChrysler Research Lab, Ulm)
A Unified Database Interface for Multiple Heterogeneous Databases
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00-17:15 Session "CORBA"
R. Schenkel, G. Weikum (U Saarbrücken)
Experiences with Building Federated Transaction Manager based on CORBA OTS
A. Koschel, R. Kramer (FZI Karlsruhe)
Applying configurable event-driven services in heterogeneous distributed information systems (short)

Thursday, 6.5.99

09:00-10:00 Invited Talk by Felix Saltor (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Catalonia)
"On Semantic Issues in Federated Information Systems"
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-12:00 Session "Miscellanea"
J. Murphy (Dublin City Univ.)
The Minerva method: Layered Use Case Modelling for Requirements Modelling in Federated and Interoperable Systems (short)
W. Hasselbring (U Tilburg)
Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Engineering of Federated Information Systems (short)
K.-U. Sattler, G. Saake (U Magdeburg)
Supporting Information Fusion with Federated Database Technologies (short)
12:00 to evening Lunch & Social Event

Friday, 7.5.99

09:00-10:00 Invited Talk by Jane Grimson (Trinity College, Dublin)
"Engineering Federated Electronic Healthcare Records"
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-12:00 Session "Formal Approaches"
S. Balko, C. Türker (U Magdeburg)
Integration of Aggregation Constraints
H. Wache (U Bremen)
Towards Rule--Based Context Transformation in Mediators
12:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Session "Application Areas"
M. Christoffel (U Karlsruhe)
A Trader For Services In The Information Market (short)
M. Höding, K. Schwarz, S. Conrad, G. Saake, S. Balko, A. Diekmann, E. Hildebrandt, K.-U. Sattler, I. Schmitt, C. Türker (U Magdeburg)
SIGMA_{FDB}: Overview of the Magdeburg Approach to Database Federations (short)
F. Maio, M.G. Fugini (Politecnico di Milano)
Projects for FIS Engineering in the Public Administration Domain (short)
15:30 Coffee
16:00 final discussion

Saturday/Sunday

Sightseeing at your own