Technologies for E-Services

Constituting the preceedings of the third International Workshop on Technologies for E-Services, these papers address such topics as: database issues for e-services; b2b integration; model transformation; information fusion; process-based application development and information integration. The2002VLDBworkshoponTechnologiesforE-Services(VLDB-TES02)is the third workshop in a series of annual workshops endorsed by the VLDB Conference. Itservesasaforumfortheexchangeofideas,resultsandexperience intheareaofe-commerceande-business. VLDB-TES02tookplaceinHongKong,China. Itfeaturedthepresentation of14regularpapers,focusedonmajoraspectsofe-businesssolutions. Inad- tion,theworkshopinvited?veindustrialspeakerstosharetheirvision,insight, andexperiencewiththeaudience. Theworkshopwouldnothavebeenasuccesswithouthelpfrommanyp- ple. SpecialthanksgotoFabioCasati,whorecruitedtheworld-classspeakers from various e-business ?elds, Ludger Fiege who served as the publicity and publicationchair,andEleanaKafeza,whoorganizedandplannedthelocal- rangements. We also thank the authors for submitting their papers and the membersoftheprogramcommitteeandexternalreviewersfortheirthorough work,whichgreatlycontributedtothequalityofthe?nalprogram. Wehopethattheparticipantsfoundtheworkshopinterestingandstimul- ing,andwethankthemforattendingandforcontributingtothediscussions. Juli2002 Ming-ChienShan Mei-ChunHsu AlejandroBuchmann Organization WorkshopO?cers GeneralChair Ming-ChienShan,Hewlett-Packard shan@hpl. hp. com ProgramChairs Mei-ChunHsu,CommerceOne Meichun. Hsu@commerceone. com AlejandroBuchmann,DarmstadtUniversityofTechnology buchmann@informatik. tu-darmstadt. de IndustrialTrackChair FabioCasati,Hewlett-Packard casati@hpl. hp. com LocalArrangementsChair…