W01: WEBH

First International Workshop on Electronic Business Hubs: XML, Metadata, Ontologies, and Business Knowledge on the Web

Organizer: Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore

 

Friday, September 7, 2001

 

OPENING SESSION

 

9.00 – 9.15             Welcome by S. Bressan

 

9.15 – 10.00

Content and Document Integration for B2B E-commerce

Borys Omelayenko, Dieter Fensel (Netherlands)

 

10.00 – 10.30

Semantic B2B Integration Server Technology as Infrastructure for Electronic Hubs

Christoph Bussler (Oracle Corporation, USA)

 

10.30 – 11.00         Coffee Break

 

SESSION: MEDIATION

 

11.00 – 11.30

Designing a Three-Layer Ontology in a Web-based Interconnection Scenario

Castano, V. De Antonellis, S. De Capitani di Vimercati, M. Melchiori (Italy)

 

11.30 – 12.00

Efficient XML Query Processing in Mediators

LiangHuai Yang, Lijun Chen, Shiwei Tang, Dongqing Yang (China)

 

12.00 – 12.30

An Architecture for Multidatabase Systems Based on CORBA and XML

Li Bing, Lu Zheng-Ding, Xiao Wei-Jun, Li Rui-Xuan, Zhang Wei and Mudar Sarem (China)

 

12.30 – 14.00         Lunch

 

SESSION: APPLICATIONS

 

14.00 – 14.30

Building Portals for E-Biology

Zoe Lacroix (ASU, USA)

 

14.30 – 15.00

Knowledge Representation Architecture for Context Interchange Mediation: Fixed Income Securities Investment Examples

Allen Moulton, Stuart E. Madnick, Michael D.Siegel (MIT, USA)

 

15.00 – 15.30

Requirements for XML Functionality in Relational Database Management Systems - An Informix Perspective

P.G. Brown, A.B. Chaudhri and M. Herbach (Informix Labs)

 

15.30 – 16.00         Coffee Break

 

SESSION: QUERY AND STORAGE

 

16.00 – 16.30

Converting Relational Database into XML Document

Joseph Fong, Francis Pang, Chris Bloor (Hong Kong)

 

16.30 – 17.00

Towards Grouping Constructs for Semistructured Data

Francois Bry, Dan Olteanu, Sebastian Schaffert (Germany)

 

17.00 – 17.30

Towards XML Metamodel Patterns for XML Data Modeling

Zaijun Hu, Gerhard Vollmar (Germany)

 

SESSION: E-BUSINESS

 

17.30 – 18.00

An e-Store Developing Model for minimizing the impact of  Procedural and Cultural Change within an Enterprise

Irene S.Y. Kwan (England)

 

18.00 – 18.30

Agent solution for e-business transactions

Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, Josef Altman, Wieland Schwinger, Werner Winiwarter (Austria)