Engineering federated information systems: report of EEFIS '99 workshop

After the successful first International Workshop on Engineering Federated Database Systems (EFDBS'97) in Barcelona in June 1997 [CEH+ 97], the goal of this second workshop was to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in various issues in the development of federated information systems, whereby the scope has been extended to cover database and non-database information sources (the change from EFDBS to EFIS reflects this). This report provides details of the workshop content and the conclusions reached in the final discussion.