Metainformatics International Symposium, MIS 2004, Salzburg, Austria, September 15-18, 2004, Revised Selected Papers

PThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Metainformatics Symposium, MIS 2004, held in Salzburg, Austria in September 2004./PP/PPThe 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are devoted to finding useful abstractions, notations, analytical frameworks, formalisms, and systems that improve the understanding of the underlying structure of various disciplines and families of systems within computer science./P

Computer Aided Composition.- Supporting Tools for Designing-By-Contract in Component-Based Applications.- Access Rights – The Keys to Cooperative Work/Learning.- Flexible Notifications and Task Models for Cooperative Work Management.- Managing Ontological Complexity: A Case Study.- Looking Beyond Computer Applications: Investigating Rich Structures.- Towards a Generic Building Block for Component-Based Open Hypermedia Systems.- Applying Information Visualisation Techniques to Spatial Hypertext Tools.- An Agenda for Structural Computing Research.- Assessing the Impacts of Open Hypermedia Problems on Structural Computing.- Structural Engineering: Processes and Tools for Developing Component-Based Open Hypermedia Systems.- A Semantic Representation for Domain-Specific Patterns.- Describing Use Cases with Activity Charts.- Spatial Constraint Modelling with a GIS Extension of UML and OCL: Application to Agricultural Information Systems.- Location and Tracking Services for a Meta-UbiComp Environment.- Applying Structural Computing Paradigms to Domain Analysis.- Content Engineering: Bridging the Gap Between Content Creation and Consumption.- Blog Perspectives.