To obtain on your own

1. Database Systems: Achievements and Opportunities Into the 21st Century.
2. Andreas Reuter and Friedemann Schwenkreis, ConTracts - A Low-Level Mechanism for Building General-Purpose Workflow Management Systems. IEEE Data Engineering, 18(1):4-10, Mar 1995.
   Reuter's paper in the March 95 issue. Pages 4-10.

   Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Mark Hornick, and Amit Sheth, An Overview of Workflow Management: From Process Modeling to Workflow Automation Infrastructure. Distributed and Parallel Databases, 3(2), Apr 1995.

   Krithi Ramamritham and Panos K. Chrysanthis, A Taxonomy of Correctness Criteria in Database Applications.. The VLDB Journal, 5(1): 85-97, Jan 1996.

   To be handed out

   Craig A. Knoblock, Yigal Arens, and Chun-Nan Hsu, Cooperating Agents for Information Retrieval. International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, 122-133, 1994.

   In the course pack

   Munindar P. Singh and Michael N. Huhns, Automating Workflows for Service Order Processing: Integrating AI and Database Technologies. IEEE Expert, volume 9, number 5, October 1994

   Michael N. Huhns, Munindar P. Singh, and Tomasz Ksiezyk Global Information Management via Local Autonomous Agents. FGCS Workshop on Heterogeneous Cooperative Knowledge Bases, Tokyo, Japan, December 1994.

   Gio Wiederhold, Mediators in the Architecture of Future Information Systems. IEEE Computer, 25(3):38-49, Mar 1992.

   Bill Curtis, Marc I. Kellner, and Jim Over, Process Modeling. Communications of the ACM, 35(9): 75-90, Sep 1992.

   Charles T. Davies, Jr., Data Processing Spheres of Control. IBM Systems Journal, 17(2):179-198, 1978.

   Munindar P. Singh, Toward Interaction-Oriented Programming. Technical Report TR-96-15, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, May 1996.

   Gio Wiederhold, Peter Wegner, and Stefano Ceri, Toward Megaprogramming. Communications of the ACM, 35(11): 89-99, Nov 1992.