Conceptual Modeling for Novel Application Domains

ER2003,the22ndInternationalConferenceonConceptualModelinginChicago, Illinois, hosted four workshops on emerging and maturing aspects of conceptual modeling. While the entity-relationship approach is used to address data (base) modeling, the increasingly connected information infrastructure demands - swers that can handle complexity and can develop models about systems that aremaintainable. Wereceivedsevenexcellentproposalsforworkshopstobeheld at ER 2003, out of which we selected the following four based on peer reviews: ConceptualModelingApproachesforE-Business(eCOMO2003)brought- gether researchers and practitioners interested in conceptual modeling te- niques for e-business. The International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling Quality (IWCMQ 2003) concentrated on approaches to quality assurance in the modeling p- cess. The International Bi-Conference Workshop on Agent-Oriented Information Systems (AOIS 2003) was devoted to investigating the agent paradigm for information systems development. Finally,theInternationalWorkshoponXMLSchemaandDataManagement (XSDM 2003) addressed the impact of XML on topics like data integration, change management, and the Semantic Web. All four workshops highlighted relatively new viewpoints on conceptual - deling. Conceptual modeling as such has been greatly in?uenced and shaped by the entity-relationship model of Peter Chen. However, new developments like object-orientation and the World-Wide Web require adaptions and new te- niques. No longer can developers assume that they can completely understand or model the information system. The new developments create challenges in various directions; some of these were discussed in detail in the four ER 2003 workshops: E-Business and E-Commerce. TheriseoftheInternethascreatednew opportunities for de?ning and enacting business relations between partners. The question is how information systems can help in ?nding business partners, cr- tingnewservices,andenactingthosenewservices.

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opportunities for de?ning and enacting business relations between partners. The question is how information systems can help in ?nding business partners, cr- tingnewservices,andenactingthosenewservices.

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Conceptual Modeling Approaches for E-Business at ER 2003 (eCOMO 2003).- Preface to eCOMO 2003.- Managing Evolving Business Workflows through the Capture of Descriptive Information.- The Benefits of Rapid Modelling for E-business System Development.- Prediction of Consumer Preference through Bayesian Classification and Generating Profile.- Developing Web Applications from Conceptual Models. A Web Services Approach.- A Framework for Business Rule Driven Web Service Composition.- Virtual Integration of the Tile Industry (VITI).- Second International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling Quality at ER 2003 (IWCMQ 2003).- Preface to IWCMQ 2003.- Multiperspective Evaluation of Reference Models Towards a Framework.- On the Acceptability of Conceptual Design Models for Web Applications.- Consistency by Construction: The Case of MERODE.- Defining Metrics for UML Statechart Diagrams in a Methodological Way.- Visual SQL High-Quality ER-Based Query Treatment.- Multidimensional Schemas Quality: Assessing and Balancing Analyzability and Simplicity.- Conceptual Modeling of Accounting Information Systems: A Comparative Study of REA and ER Diagrams.- Agent-Oriented Information Systems at ER 2003 (AOIS 2003).- Preface to AOIS 2003.- Bringing Multi-agent Systems into Human Organizations: Application to a Multi-agent Information System.- Reconciling Physical, Communicative, and Social/Institutional Domains in Agent Oriented Information Systems A Unified Framework.- An Agent-Based Active Portal Framework.- Agent-Oriented Modeling and Agent-Based Simulation.- REF: A Practical Agent-Based Requirement Engineering Framework.- Patterns for Motivating an Agent-Based Approach.- Using Scenarios for Contextual Design in Agent-Oriented Information Systems.- Dynamic Matchmaking between Messagesand Services in Multi-agent Information Systems.- International Workshop on XSDM at ER 2003 (XSDM 2003).- Preface to XSDM 2003.- A Sufficient and Necessary Condition for the Consistency of XML DTDs.- Index Selection for Efficient XML Path Expression Processing.- CX-DIFF: A Change Detection Algorithm for XML Content and Change Presentation Issues for WebVigiL.- Storing and Querying XML Documents Using a Path Table in Relational Databases.- Improving Query Performance Using Materialized XML Views: A Learning-Based Approach.- A Framework for Management of Concurrent XML Markup.- Object Oriented XML Query by Example.- Automatic Generation of XML from Relations: The Nested Relation Approach.- Toward the Automatic Derivation of XML Transformations.- VACXENE: A User-Friendly Visual Synthetic XML Generator.- A New Inlining Algorithm for Mapping XML DTDs to Relational Schemas.- From XML DTDs to Entity-Relationship Schemas.- Extracting Relations from XML Documents.- Extending XML Schema with Nonmonotonic Inheritance.