Conceptual Modeling – ER 2007: 26th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Auckland, New Zealand, November 5-9, 2007. Proceedings

Egon Börger (auth.), Christine Parent, Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Veda C. Storey, Bernhard Thalheim (eds.)3540755624, 9783540755623

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, requirements elicitation, and advanced applications.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Modeling Workflow Patterns from First Principles….Pages 1-20
Heart Modeling, Computational Physiology and the IUPS Physiome Project….Pages 21-21
Conceptual Schemas and Ontologies for Database Access: Myths and Challenges….Pages 22-22
Multidimensional Data Modeling for Business Process Analysis….Pages 23-38
Mining Hesitation Information by Vague Association Rules….Pages 39-55
A Model Driven Modernization Approach for Automatically Deriving Multidimensional Models in Data Warehouses….Pages 56-71
Cost-Based Fragmentation for Distributed Complex Value Databases….Pages 72-86
From Business Models to Service-Oriented Design: A Reference Catalog Approach….Pages 87-101
Teaching a Schema Translator to Produce O/R Views….Pages 102-119
Building a Tool for Cost-Based Design of Object-Oriented Database Schemas….Pages 120-131
Generic Schema Mappings….Pages 132-148
Relational Data Tailoring Through View Composition….Pages 149-164
On the Discovery of Preferred Work Practice Through Business Process Variants….Pages 165-180
Towards Automated Reasoning on ORM Schemes….Pages 181-197
From Declarative to Imperative UML/OCL Operation Specifications….Pages 198-213
An Ontological Metamodel of Classifiers and Its Application to Conceptual Modelling and Database Design….Pages 214-228
Handling Inconsistency of Vague Relations with Functional Dependencies….Pages 229-244
Querying Incomplete Data with Logic Programs: ER Strikes Back….Pages 245-260
Prioritized Preferences and Choice Constraints….Pages 261-276
Reasoning over Extended ER Models….Pages 277-292
On Order Dependencies for the Semantic Web….Pages 293-306
Collection Type Constructors in Entity-Relationship Modeling….Pages 307-322
Schema Exchange: A Template-Based Approach to Data and Metadata Translation….Pages 323-337
A Conceptual Modeling Methodology Based on Niches and Granularity….Pages 338-358
As We May Link: A General Metamodel for Hypermedia Systems….Pages 359-374
A Goal Oriented Approach for Modeling and Analyzing Security Trade-Offs….Pages 375-390
Rapid Business Process Discovery ( R- BPD)….Pages 391-406
Ontology-Driven Business Modelling: Improving the Conceptual Representation of the REA Ontology….Pages 407-422
A Comparison of Two Approaches to Safety Analysis Based on Use Cases….Pages 423-437
Using Unified Modeling Language for Conceptual Modelling of Knowledge-Based Systems….Pages 438-453
Tracing the Rationale Behind UML Model Change Through Argumentation….Pages 454-469
Exploring Alternatives for Representing and Accessing Design Knowledge About Enterprise Integration….Pages 470-484
Mining and Re-engineering Transactional Workflows for Reliable Executions….Pages 485-501
Cross: An OWL Wrapper for Reasoning on Relational Databases….Pages 502-517
Augmenting Traditional Conceptual Models to Accommodate XML Structural Constructs….Pages 518-533
VERT: A Semantic Approach for Content Search and Content Extraction in XML Query Processing….Pages 534-549
A Conceptual Model for Multidimensional Analysis of Documents….Pages 550-565
Automatic Hidden-Web Table Interpretation by Sibling Page Comparison….Pages 566-581
A Fine-Grained XML Structural Comparison Approach….Pages 582-598
Fine-Grained Compatibility and Replaceability Analysis of Timed Web Service Protocols….Pages 599-614
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