WECWIS 2000
Second International Workshop on
Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems
MILPITAS, CA June 8-9, 2000




Thursday, June 8, 2000

  • 08:30-09:50
    Chairs' Message
    Keynote Address

    The Global Trading Web: A Strategic Vision for the Internet Economy
    Speaker: Dr. Jay M. Tenebaum, VP and Chief Scientist, Commerce One Inc.
  • 09:50-10:20 Break

  • 10:20-12:00
    Session I. B2B E-commerce and Negotiations

    Architecture for Cross-Organizational Business Processes
    Y. Hoffner, H. Ludwig, C. Gulcu and P. Grefen

    Supporting Dynamic Constraints for Commerce Negotiations
    M. Iwaihara

    An Infrastructure for Meta-Auctions
    C. Bornhoevd, M. Cilia, C. Liebig and A. Buchmann

    A Bid Evaluation System for Internet Contract Negotiation
    Q.-B. Nguyen, M. A. Cohen and J.-Y. Chung

    Context-dependent Semantic Values for E-negotiation
    M. R. Lee
  • 12:00-13:30 Lunch

  • 13:30-15:10
    Session II. Infrastructure Issues

    A Scalable Approach for Subscription-Based Information Commerce
    A. Celik and A. Datta

    MONTANA: Towards a Web-Based Infrastructure to Improve lecture and research in a university environment
    R. Behrens

    Supporting Global Replicated Services by a Routing-Metric-Aware DNS
    W. Tang, F. Du and others

    Building Replicated Internet Services using TACT: A Toolkit for Tunable Availability and Consistency Tradeoffs
    H. Yu and A. Vahdat

    DWINS: A Dynamically-Configurable Web-based Information System
    X. Dong and F. Du
  • 15:10-15:40 Break

  • 15:40-17:40
    Session III. E-services, E-advertising, and E-markets

    Surveying the E-services Technical Landscape
    H. Kuno

    Agent-mediated Internet Advertising
    D. Siew and X. Yi

    Advanced Dynamic Property Evaluation for CORBA-Based Electronic
    Markets A. Schade, C. Facciorusso, S. Field and Y. Hoffner

    The Battle for Attention: The Implication of Consumer's Information Search on the Internet
    A. Peter and W. A. Tulskie, Jr.

    Information Kiosk System by Cooperation between Agents and Experts using Situation Adaptive Scenarios
    Y. Taniguchi, M. Hirotoshi, H. Yajima and N. Komoda

    eFlow: An Open, Flexible, and Configurable System for Service Composition
    F. Casati, S. Ilnicki, L. J. Jin and M. Shan
  • 18:30 Banquet keynote address: Business Issues in e-Commerce
    Daniel Druker, General Manager, Hyperion e-Business Division


    Friday, June 9, 2000
  • 08:30-09:50 Session IV.
    XML Related Issues

    A Generic Load/Extract Utility for Data Transfer between XML Documents and Relations Databases
    R. Bourret, C. Bornhovd and A. P. Buchmann

    DTD-Miner: A Tool for Mining DTD from XML Documents
    C.-H. Moh, E.-P. Lim and W.-K. Ng

    Distributed and Scalable XML Document Processing Architecture for E-Commerce Systems
    D. Cheung, S. D. Lee, T. Lee, W. Song, C. J. Tan

    Multimedia Presentation Components in E-commerce
    S. S.Y. Shim, J. Z. Gao and Y. Wang
  • 09:50-10:20 Break

  • 10:20-12:00 Session V.
    Architecture, Protocols, and Analyses

    E-representative:
    a scalability scheme for e-commerce
    W. Meira, Jr., D. Menasce, V. Almeida and R. Fonseca

    Failure Analysis of an E-commerce Protocol using Model Checking
    I. Ray and I. Ray

    Two Approaches for Pay-per-Use Software Construction
    L. C. Ferreira, R. Dahab, M. P. Aragao and J. A. P. Magalhaes

    Speeding Up Electronic Commerce Activities Using CapBasED-AMS
    E. Kafeza and K. Karlapalem

    Scheduling Algorithms for the Broadcast Delivery of Multimedia Products
    K. Ramamritham and V. Vinay
  • 12:00-13:30 Lunch
    B2C, B2B N2N, N2M: Why 2 is so instrumental?
    Mr. Mustafa A. Syed, Vice President Technology, VerticalNet, Inc.

  • 13:30-15:00 Session VI
    Industrial Panel: Can e-Business Intelligence Survive?
    Moderators: Drs. Llew Mason and Zijian Zheng, Blue Martini Software

  • 15:00-15:30 Break

  • 15:30-17:30 Session VII.
    E-Commerce Applications

    Development of Inter-college E-Commerce system through extending a legacy system
    H. Oiso and N. Komoda

    How E-Commerce can benefit from visualization
    M. Lux

    Construction of Online Catalog Topologies Using Decision Trees
    D. Yang, W.-K. Sung, S.-M. Yiu, D. Cheung, W.-S. Ho, T.-W. Lam and S.-D. Lee

    Aggregation Path Index for Incremental Web View Maintenance
    L. Chen and E. A. Rundersteiner

    An Architecture to Support Distributed Data Mining Services in E-Commerce Environments
    S. Krishnaswamy, A. Zaslavsky and S. W. Loke

    Dynamic 3D Visualization of Database-Defined Tree Structures on the WWW by Using Rewriting Systems
    H. Noser