Advance Program WECWIS 2000
Milpitas, California
June 8-9, 2000

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Thursday, June 8, 2000 
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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

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
Business Issues in e-Commerce
   Speaker: Daniel Druker, General Manager, Hyperion e-Business Division

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Friday, June 9, 2000
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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

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

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

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?
    Speaker: 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

15:30-17:10
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

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