Conceptual Modeling - ER 2007

Conceptual modeling is fundamental to the development of complex systems, because it provides the key communication means between systems developers, end-usersandcustomers.Conceptualmodelingprovideslanguages,methods and tools to understandandrepresentthe applicationdomain;to elicitate,concep- alizeandformalizesystemrequirementsanduserneeds;tocommunicatesystems designs to all stakeholders; to formally verify and validate system designs on high levels of abstractions; and to minimize ambiguities in system development. Initially, conceptual modeling mainly addressed data-intensive information s- tems and contributed to data modeling and database application engineering. The area of conceptual modeling has now matured to encompass all kinds of application areas such as e-applications (including e-business and e-learning), web-based systems (including the semantic web and ubiquitous systems), life science and geographic applications. The annual International Conference on Conceptual Modeling serves as the premiere forum for presenting and discussing researchand applications in all - eas associatedwith conceptual modeling. This year,the Call for Papers solicited contributions dealing with logical and philosophical foundations of conceptual modeling, information modeling concepts including ontologies, correctness in modeling, web-based and mobile information systems, semi-structured data and XML, information and database integration, information retrieval, organization andevaluation,designmethodologiesandtools,reuse,re-engineeringandreverse engineering, quality assurance in conceptual modeling, conceptual change and evolution, data warehousing and data mining, spatial and temporal modeling, business process and work?ow modeling, knowledge management, requirementselicitation, and advanced applications.

Autorentext
Christine Parent is a full professor, at the Computer ScienceDepartment, University of Burgundy at Dijon, France. She is part-time professor at HEC INFORGE of the University of Lausanne. She got her Ph.D. from the University of Paris VI, in 1987. She has been teaching and researching in data management systems since 1970. She authored many papers in well-known journals and conferences on the development of an extended entity-relationship approach, on schema integration methodologies and spatio-temporal database modeling. She gave several tutorials on these topics and served on many program committees of international conferences.

Klappentext
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2007, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in November 2007. The 37 revised full papers presented together with 3 keynote lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data warehousing and data mining, design methodologies and tools, information and database integration, information modelling concepts and ontologies, integrity constraints, logical foundations of conceptual modelling, patterns and conceptual meta-modelling, requirements elicitation, reuse and reengineering, semi-structured data and XML, as well as Web information systems and XML.

Inhalt
Keynotes.- Modeling Workflow Patterns from First Principles.- Heart Modeling, Computational Physiology and the IUPS Physiome Project.- Conceptual Schemas and Ontologies for Database Access: Myths and Challenges.- Data Warehousing and Data Mining.- Multidimensional Data Modeling for Business Process Analysis.- Mining Hesitation Information by Vague Association Rules.- A Model Driven Modernization Approach for Automatically Deriving Multidimensional Models in Data Warehouses.- Design Methodologies and Tools.- Cost-Based Fragmentation for Distributed Complex Value Databases.- From Business Models to Service-Oriented Design: A Reference Catalog Approach.- Teaching a Schema Translator to Produce O/R Views.- Building a Tool for Cost-Based Design of Object-Oriented Database Schemas.- Information and Database Integration.- Generic Schema Mappings.- Relational Data Tailoring Through View Composition.- On the Discovery of Preferred Work Practice Through Business Process Variants.- Information Modelling Concepts and Ontologies.- Towards Automated Reasoning on ORM Schemes.- From Declarative to Imperative UML/OCL Operation Specifications.- An Ontological Metamodel of Classifiers and Its Application to Conceptual Modelling and Database Design.- Integrity Constraints.- Handling Inconsistency of Vague Relations with Functional Dependencies.- Querying Incomplete Data with Logic Programs: ER Strikes Back.- Prioritized Preferences and Choice Constraints.- Logical Foundations of Conceptual Modelling.- Reasoning over Extended ER Models.- On Order Dependencies for the Semantic Web.- Collection Type Constructors in Entity-Relationship Modeling.- Patterns and Conceptual Meta-modelling.- Schema Exchange: A Template-Based Approach to Data and Metadata Translation.- A Conceptual Modeling Methodology Based on Niches and Granularity.- As We May Link: A General Metamodel for Hypermedia Systems.- Requirements Elicitation.- A Goal Oriented Approach for Modeling and Analyzing Security Trade-Offs.- Rapid Business Process Discovery (R-BPD).- Ontology-Driven Business Modelling: Improving the Conceptual Representation of the REA Ontology.- A Comparison of Two Approaches to Safety Analysis Based on Use Cases.- Using Unified Modeling Language for Conceptual Modelling of Knowledge-Based Systems.- Tracing the Rationale Behind UML Model Change Through Argumentation.- Reuse and Reengineering.- Exploring Alternatives for Representing and Accessing Design Knowledge About Enterprise Integration.- Mining and Re-engineering Transactional Workflows for Reliable Executions.- Cross: An OWL Wrapper for Reasoning on Relational Databases.- Semi-structured Data and XML.- Augmenting Traditional Conceptual Models to Accommodate XML Structural Constructs.- VERT: A Semantic Approach for Content Search and Content Extraction in XML Query Processing.- A Conceptual Model for Multidimensional Analysis of Documents.- Web Information Systems and XML.- Automatic Hidden-Web Table Interpretation by Sibling Page Comparison.- A Fine-Grained XML Structural Comparison Approach.- Fine-Grained Compatibility and Replaceability Analysis of Timed Web Service Protocols.