Eleventh Anniversasy of CoopIS:
Cooperative Information Systems Then and Now
John Mylopoulos
University of Toronto
e-mail: jm@cs.toronto.edu
The idea of focusing research on a new type of information
system was launched with a series of workshops, held at IJCAI'91 in
Sydney (Australia), Niagara-on-the-Lake (Canada), Como (Italy) and
Dagstuhl (Germany). This idea gained a foothold in the research
establishment with the First International Conference on (Intelligent
and) Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS for short) held in
Rotterdam in 1993, and never looked back since then.
We review some of the early proposals put forward in those early days,
and how these have evolved over the years. We also outline our current
work, which assumes that cooperative information systems of the future
will be agent-oriented software systems combining some of the features
of multi-agent systems in AI with methodological principles and
down-to-earth constructs from Software Engineering.
Biography
John Mylopoulos received his PhD degree from Princeton
University in 1970, and is now Professor of Computer Science at the
University of Toronto. John's research interests include Requirements
Engineering, Databases, and Knowledge-Based Systems. John was a
co-recipient of the most influential paper award at the International
Conference on Software Engineering (1994), is serving as president of
the Very Large Databases Endowment (1998-2002, 2002-2006), and is a
fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
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