This book grew out of a Dagstuhl seminar organized by the volume editors in June 1997. After the seminar, submissions for this book were solicited both from and beyond the group of participants. A peer review process followed, from which only original papers of the highest quality on the state of the art in the field were accepted for presentation in the book. The volume is divided into parts on temporal database infrastructure, temporal query languages, and advanced applications. A comprehensive bibliography, glossaries for both temporal database and time granularity concepts, and summaries...

This text constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2000, held in Eilat, Israel in September 2000. The 24 revised full papers and six short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 74 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on workflow modelling, information retrieval, co-operative databases, information services, workflow execution, CSCW and organizational aspects.