Conceptual Modeling - ER 2000

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2000, held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA in October 2000.The 37 revised full papers presented together with three invited papers and eight industrial abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 140 submitted papers. The book offers topical sections on database integration, temporal and active database modeling, database and data warehouse design techniques, analysis patterns and ontologies, Web-based information systems, business process modeling, conceptual modeling and XML, engineering and multimedia application modeling, object-oriented modeling, applying object-oriented technology, quality in conceptual modeling, and application design using UML.

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Invited Papers.- Data Warehouse Scenarios for Model Management.- Reflections on Computer Science and Information Systems Research.- From Entities and Relationships to Social Actors and Dependencies.- Database Integration.- A Pragmatic Method for the Integration of Higher-Order Entity-Relationship Schemata.- Explicit Modeling of the Semantics of Large Multi-layered Object-Oriented Databases.- Declarative Mediation in Distributed Systems.- Temporal and Active Database Modeling.- Temporal Constraints for Object Migration and Behavior Modeling Using Colored Petri Nets.- SQLST : A Spatio-Temporal Data Model and Query Language.- TBE: Trigger-By-Example.- Database and Data Warehouse Design Techniques.- Decomposition by Pivoting and Path Cardinality Constraints.- IS=DBS+Interaction: Towards Principles of Information System Design.- A Viewpoint-Based Framework for Discussing the Use of Multiple Modelling Representations.- Practical Approach to Selecting Data Warehouse Views Using Data Dependencies.- Database and Data Warehouse Design Techniques.- Semantic Analysis Patterns.- Tool Support for Reuse of Analysis Patterns - A Case Study.- Ontological Analysis of Taxonomic Relationships.- Web-Based Information Systems.- A Conceptual Model for the Web.- Adapting Materialized Views after Redefinition in Distributed Environments.- On Warehousing Historical Web Information.- Business Process Modeling.- On Business Process Model Transformations.- Towards Use Case and Conceptual Models through Business Modeling.- A Conceptual Modeling Framework for Multi-agent Information Systems.- Conceptual Modeling and XML.- Object Role Modelling and XML-Schema.- Constraints-Preserving Transformation from XML Document Type Definition to Relational Schema.- X-Ray - Towards Integrating XML and Relational Database Systems.- Engineering and Multimedia Application Modeling.- A Conceptual Model for Remote Data Acquisition Systems.- A Modeling Language for Design Processes in Chemical Engineering.- VideoGraph: A Graphical Object-Based Model for Representing and Querying Video Data.- Object-Oriented Modeling.- Object-Oriented Modelling in Practice: Class Model Perceptions in the ERM Context.- ROVER: A Framework for the Evolution of Relationships.- Improving the Reuse Possibilities of the Behavioral Aspects of Object-Oriented Domain Models.- Applying Object-Oriented Technology.- Algebraic Database Migration to Object Technology.- A Layered Software Specification Architecture.- A Reuse-Based Object-Oriented Framework Towards Easy Formulation of Complex Queries.- Quality in Conceptual Modeling.- Evaluating the Quality of Reference Models.- Measures for Assessing Dynamic Complexity Aspects of Object-Oriented Conceptual Schemes.- Measuring the Quality of Entity Relationship Diagrams.- Application Design Using UML.- Behavior Consistent Inheritance in UML.- The Viewpoint Abstraction in ObjectOriented Modeling and the UML.- XML Conceptual Modeling Using UML.- DAMA International Industrial Abstracts.- Metadata Engineering for Corporate Portals Using XML.- The Role of Information Resource Management in Managing a Corporate Portal.- The Five-Tier Five-Schema Concept.- Documenting Meta Data Transformations.- Advanced Data Model Patterns.- Information Quality at Every Stage of the Information Chain.- A Fact-Oriented Approach to Business Rules.- Personalized Digests of Sports Programs Using Intuitive Retrieval and Semantic Analysis.