Conceptual Modeling: Current Issues and Future Directions

Peter P. Chen (auth.), G. Goos, J. Hartmanis, J. van Leeuwen, Peter P. Chen, Jacky Akoka, Hannu Kangassalu, Bernhard Thalheim (eds.)3540659269, 9783540659266

This volume contains a collection of selected papers presented at the Symposium on Conceptual Modeling, which was held in Los Angeles, California, on December 2, th 1997, immediately before the 16 International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER’97), which was held at UCLA. A total of eighteen papers were selected for inclusion in this volume. These papers are written by experts in the conceptual modeling area and represent the most current thinking of these experts. This volume also contains the summaries of three workshops that were held on 6 7 December 1997, immediately after the ER’97 conference at UCLA. The topics of these three workshops are: • Behavioral Modeling • Conceptual Modeling in Multimedia Information Seeking • What Is the Role of Cognition in Conceptual Modeling? Since these topics are not only very important but also very timely, we think it is appropriate to include the summary of these three workshops in this volume. Those readers interested in further investigating topics related to the three workshops can either look up the individual paper published on the Web or contact the authors directly. The summary paper by Chen at the beginning of this volume also includes the summary of several interesting speeches at the Symposium.

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Table of contents :
Current Issues of Conceptual Modeling: A Summary of Selective Active Research Topics….Pages IX-XXIV
Conceptual Design of Parallel Systems….Pages 1-23
Conceptual Modeling Challenges for Model-Based Architecting and Software Engineering (MBASE)….Pages 24-43
Deriving Global Conceptual Views from Multiple Information Sources….Pages 44-55
From Ancient Egyptian Language to Future Conceptual Modeling….Pages 56-64
Breaking the Database out of the Box: Models for Superimposed Information….Pages 65-72
Narratives and Temporal Databases: An Interdisciplinary Perspective….Pages 73-86
Using Conceptual Modeling and Intelligent Agents to Integrate Semi-structured Documents in Federated Databases….Pages 87-99
Supporting the User: Conceptual Modeling & Knowledge Discovery….Pages 100-104
Are Global Understanding, Communication, and Information Management in Information Systems Possible?….Pages 105-122
Enterprise Knowledge Management and Conceptual Modelling….Pages 123-143
Semantic Modeling in Accounting Education, Practice, and Research: Some Progress and Impediments….Pages 144-153
Perspectives in Modeling: Simulation, Database, and Workflow….Pages 154-167
The Challenges of Modeling Biological Information for Genome Databases….Pages 168-182
Trends and Scale-Up for Data Administration….Pages 183-194
Conceptual Modeling for Multiagent Systems: Applying Interaction-Oriented Programming?….Pages 195-210
Data and What They Refer to….Pages 211-226
The Strength of ER Modeling….Pages 227-242
Interaction as a Framework for Modeling….Pages 243-257
A Summary of the ER’97 Workshop on Behavioral Modeling….Pages 258-271
What Is the Role of Cognition in Conceptual Modeling? A Report on the First Workshop on Cognition and Conceptual Modeling….Pages 272-280
Conceptual Modeling in Multimedia Information Seeking….Pages 281-286
Future Directions of Conceptual Modeling….Pages 287-301