Research in MultiOrganizational Processes and Semantic Information Brokering at the LSDIS.pdf

Research in Multi-Organizational Processes and Semantic Information Brokering at the LSDIS Lab Amit Sheth, John Miller, Krys Kochut, Budak Arpinar Large Scale Distributed Information Systems (LSDIS) Lab Department of Computer Science - The University of Georgia 415 Graduate Studies Research Center, Athens, GA 30602-7404 USA Phone: +1-706-542-2310; Fax: +1-706-542-2966 {amit, jam, kochut, budak }@ 1 Introduction components of a comprehensive approach to enterprise integration are: integration and The Large Scale Distributed Information Systems interoperability of applications and information Lab (LSDIS) at the University of Georgia was systems (as in Enterprise Application Integration), established in the Fall of 1994 to perform research coordination of activities through automated process and technology development on two complementary and workflow management, and collaboration themes in distributed information systems: Enabling between humans as well as effective interactions Infocosm and Processes for Networked between humans, applications and information Organizations. systems. Primary project in this theme has been Enabling Infocosm Theme. The merging of METEOR, with CaTCH as an associated project, and computers and