Welcome to ER2006!

The Conceptual Modeling Conference (ER'06) is the 25th edition of one of the most important conferences in data and process modeling, database technology, and database applications. This conference is a wide forum for researchers and industrial experts interested in all aspects of database and information systems design and usage. Besides the scientific conference, tutorials, posters, exhibitions and workshops on hot research topics are organized.

ER2006 Scope

Conceptual modeling has long been recognized as the primary means to enable software production in information systems and data engineering. Nowadays, conceptual modeling has become fundamental to any domain in which technologists have to cope with complex, real-world systems. Conceptual modeling fosters communication between technology experts and technology users, and it has become a key mechanism for understanding and representing computing systems and environments of all kinds, including the new e-applications and the information systems that support them.

The International Conference on Conceptual Modeling provides a premiere forum for presenting and discussing current research and applications in which the major emphasis is on conceptual modeling. Topics of interest span the entire spectrum of conceptual modeling including research and practice in areas such as theories of concepts and ontologies underlying conceptual modeling, methods and tools for developing and communicating conceptual models, and techniques for transforming conceptual models into effective implementations. Moreover, new areas of conceptual modeling focusing the interdependencies with knowledge-based, logical, linguistic, and philosophical theories and approaches are also of interest.

The proceedings of ER2006 will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer.

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