The Next Generation of Information Systems: From Data to Knowledge

The next generation of information systems — from intelligence to distribution and cooperation.- A data and operation model for advanced database systems.- An object-oriented data model to represent uncertainty in coupled artificial intelligence — database systems.- Common architectures for databases and knowledge-based systems.- The construction of maintainable knowledge bases.- Adding qualitative reasoning to an organizational database for management decision support.- Building human-centered intelligent cooperative information systems with IKEA.- Database organisation for qualitative analysis: the NUDIST™ system.- Using a prolog engine to integrate multiple knowledge sources: the KCM/Help-desk project.- From relations to objects: A translation methodology for an object oriented front-end to RDBMSs.- A framework for cooperative adaptable information systems.- Problem solving in federative environments: The FRESCO concept of cooperative agents.- Heterogeneous database integration architecture based on a conversation theoretic skeleton.- Coarse-grained distributed agents for transparent access to remote information.- A forward-chaining information framework.- Using negotiation and coordination in multiagent Intelligent Cooperative Information Systems.- A distributed cooperative agents architecture for software development.- Knowledge selection in large knowledge bases.