Winfried Lamersdorf Boeken

Advanced research projects in office automation are described in this volume. The representation, management and utilization of office knowledge is an area of research which extends and integrates techniques from artificial intelligence, data base management systems, communication systems, programming languages, user interfaces, and organizational behaviour. Two invited papers are included: one is from W.B. Croft and L.S. Lefkowitz describing the Polymer project, which uses activities, domain-objects and agents to represent office knowledge. The other is from P.G. Cook, C.A. Ellis and G.L. Rein, who discuss the project Nick, which aims to support cooperative work by investigating the content, structure and protocols of meetings.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Trends in Electronic Commerce, TREC'98, held in Hamburg, Germany, in June 1998. The book presents 19 revised full papers selected from a total of 75 submissions. While focussing mainly on technological issues, the book also takes into account important social, administrative, regulatory, and legal aspects. The papers are organized in sections on business over the Internet, security and payment, middleware and brokerage, interorganisational workflow management, and agent technology.

Prof. Dr. Winfried Lamersdorf befaßt sich am FB Informatik der Universität Hamburg mit Datenbanken, insbesondere mit offenen und verteilten Kommunikations- und Informationssystemen. Zuvor war er, nach Studium und wissenschaftlicher Tätigkeit in München, Hamburg und an der University of Maryland, am Wissenschaftlichen- und anschließend am Netzwerkforschungszentrum der IBM in Heidelberg tätig. Prof. Lamersdorf ist seit 1986 an internationalen Normungsaktivitäten zum Thema RDA beteiligt.