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Conference Nov. 6 - 9, 2006
25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2006)               Tucson, Arizona, USA
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Keynote Speeches

1. Peter Chen

2. Colette Rolland, From Conceptual Modeling to Requirements Engineering

3. Terri Mitchell

Main Conference

1. Database to Semantic Web Mapping using RDF Query Languages
Cristian Perez de Laborda, Stefan Conrad

2. The User Interface is the Conceptual Model
James F. Terwilliger, Lois M. L. Delcambre, Judith R. Logan

3. Notes for the conceptual design of interfaces
Simone Santini

4. A Framework for Integrating XML Transformations
Ce Dong, James Bailey

5. A Formal Framework for Reasoning on Metadata Based on CWM
Xiaofei Zhao, Zhiqiu Huang

6. Method Chunks for Interoperability
Jolita Ralyt
é, Per Backlund, Harald Kühn, Manfred A. Jeusfeld

7. A Multi-Perspective Framework for Organizational Patterns
Enzo Colombo, John Mylopoulos

8. A Quantitative Summary of XML Structures
Zi Lin, Bingsheng He, Byron Choi

9. A Scalable Solution for Detecting Optimal Deltas on Ordered Large XML Documents
Erwin Leonardi, Sourav S Bhowmick

10. Reasoning on UML Class Diagrams with OCL Constraints
Anna Queralt, Ernest Teniente

11. Preference Functional Dependencies for Managing Choices
Wilfred Ng

12. Deriving Concepts for Modeling Business Actions
Peter Rittgen

13. Towards a Theory of Genericity Based on Government and Binding
Alexander Bienemann, Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Bernhard Thalheim

14. Representation Theory versus Workflow Patterns – The Case of BPMN
Jan Recker, Petia Wohed, Michael Rosemann

15. Conceptualizing the Co-evolution of Organizations and Information Systems: An Agent-Oriented Perspective
Ning Su, John Mylopoulos

16. Ontology with Likeliness and Typicality of Objects in Concepts
Ching-man Au Yeung, Ho-fung Leung

17. Concept Modeling by The Masses: folksonomy structure and interoperability
Csaba Veres

18. Design and use of ER repositories: methodologies and experiences in eGovernment initiatives
C. Batini, D. Barone, M.F. Garasi, G. Viscusi

19. A Context Model for Semantic Mediation in Web Services Composition
Michael Mrissa, Chirine Ghedira, Djamal Benslimane, Zakaria Maamar

20. Modeling Service Compatibility with π-calculus for Choreography
Shuiguang Deng

21. Modeling Visibility in Hierarchical Systems
Debmalya Biswas, K. Vidyasankar

22. Towards a Reference Ontology for Business Models
B. Andersson, M. Bergholtz, A. Edirisuriya, T. Ilayperuma, P. Johannesson, B. Gregoire, M. Schmitt, E. Dubois, S. Abels, A. Hahn, J. Gordijn, H. Weigand, Benkt Wangler

23. On the Use of Association Redefinition in UML Class Diagrams
Dolors Costal, Cristina Gómez

24. Development of a user evaluations based quality model for conceptual modeling
Ann Maes, Geert Poels

25. A Model for Anticipatory Event Detection
Qi He, Kuiyu Chang, Ee-Peng Lim

26. Towards a Holistic Conceptual Modelling-based Software Development Process
Sergio España, Ignacio Panach, Inés Pederiva, Óscar Pastor

27. Optimising Abstract Object-Oriented Database Schemas
Joachim Biskup, Ralf Menzel

28. Domain Analysis for Supporting Commercial Off-The-Shelf Components Selection
Claudia Ayala, Xavier Franch

29. A Set of QVT Relations to Assure the Correctness of Data Warehouses by Using Multidimensional Normal Forms
Jose-Norberto Mazón, Juan Trujillo, Jens Lechtenbörger

30. Explicitly Representing Superimposed Information in a Conceptual Model
Sudarshan Murthy, Lois Delcambre, David Maier

31. The DeltaGrid Abstract Execution Model: Service Composition and Process Interference
HandlingYang Xiao, Susan D. Urban, Ning Liao

32. Schema-mediated Exchange of Temporal XML
DataCurtis Dyreson, Richard T. Snodgrass, Faiz Currim, Sabah Currim

33. A More Expressive Softgoal Conceptualization for Quality Requirements Analysis
Ivan J. Jureta, Stéphane Faulkner, Pierre-Yves Schobbens

34. Use Case Modelling and Refinement : A Quality-Based Approach
Samira SISAID, Jacky AKOKA, Isabelle COMYN-WATTIAU

35. Representing Transitive Propagation in OWL
Julian Seidenberg, Alan Rector

36. On Generating Content and Structural Annotated Websites using Conceptual Modeling
Sven Casteleyn, Peter Plessers, Olga De Troyer

37. In Defense of a Trope-Based Ontology for Conceptual Modeling: An example with the foundations of Attributes, Weak Entities and Datatypes
Stefano Borgo, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Claudio Masolo

ACM-L Workshop

1. “Understanding the Semantics of Data Provenance to Support Active Conceptual Modeling”
Sudha Ram and Jun Liu

2. “Adaptive and Context-Aware Reconciliation of Reactive and Pro-Active Behavior in Evolving Systems”
Peter Scheuermann and Goce Trajcevski

3. “A Common Core for Active Conceptual Modeling for Learning from Surprises”
Stephen W. Liddle and David W. Embley

4. “Actively Evolving Conceptual Models for Mini-world and Run-time Environment Changes”
P.Radha Krishna and Kamalakar Karlapalem

5. “Challenges to Conceptual Modeling”
Bernhard Thalheim

6. “Metaphor Modeling on the Semantic Web”
Bogdan D. Czejdo, Jonathan Biguenet, and John Biguenet

7. “Schema Changes and Historical Information in Conceptual Models in Support of Adaptive Systems”
Luqi and Douglas S. Lange

8. “Using Active Modeling in Counterterrorism”
Yi-Jen Su, Hewijin C. Jiau, and Shang-Rong Tsai

9. “To Support Emergency Management by Using Active Modeling: A case of Hurricane Katrina”
Xin Xu

10. “Using Ontological Modeling in a Context-Aware Summarization System to Adapt Text For Mobile Devices”
Luis Fernando Fortes Garcia, Jose Valdeni de Lima, Stanley Loh, and Jose Palazzo Moreira de Oliveira

11. “Active Learning in the Classroom: the Need for Active Conceptual Modeling”
Subhasish Mazurndar

12. “ACIK: Association Classifier based on Itemset Kernel” (tentative)
Yang Zhang, Yongge Liu, and Xu Jing
 

ECDM Workshop

1. A DAG Comparison Algorithm and its Application to Temporal Data Warehousing
Johann Eder, Karl Wiggisser

2. Handling Changes of Database Schemas and Corresponding Ontologies
Andreas Kupfer, Silke Eckstein, Karl Neumann, Brigitte Mathiak

3. Evolving the Implementation of EER Schemas: The Case of ISA Relationships
Eladio Dominguez, Jorge Lloret, Angel L. Rubio, Maria A. Zapata

4. Schema Change Operations for Versioning Complex Object Hierarchy in OODBs
Sang-Won Lee

5. Representing versions in XML documents using versionstamp
Luis Jesús Arévalo Rosado, Antonio Polo Márquez, Juan Mª Fernández González

6. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Recent Approaches to Schema Integration, Evolution and Versioning
John Roddick

QoIS Workshop

1. Integration of automatic navigational quality assessment and improvement on web application methodologies
Marcela Genero, Coral Calero, Cristina Cachero, Santiago Melia

2. Quality of Material Master Data and its Effect on the Usefulness of Distributed ERP Systems
Gerhard Knolmayer, Michael Röthlin

3. Towards Automatic Evaluation of Learning Object Metadata Quality
Xavier Ochoa, Erik Duval

4. Expressing and Processing Timeliness Quality Aware Queries: The DQ2L Approach
Chao Dong, Sandra Sampaio, Pedro Falcone Sampaio

5. Evaluating the Productivity and Reproducibility of a Measurement Procedure
Nelly Condori-Fernández, Oscar Pastor, Silvia Abrahao

6. HIQM: a Methodology for Information Quality Monitoring, Measurement, and Improvement
Cinzia Cappiello, Paolo Ficiaro, Barbara Pernici

SemWAT Workshop

1. Query Graph Model for SPARQL
Ralf Heese

2. An Architecture for Emergent Semantics
Sven Herschel, Ralf Heese, Jens Bleiholder

3. Automatic Creation of Web Services from Extraction Ontologies
Cui Tao, Yihong Ding, Deryle Lonsdale

4. Combining Declarative and Procedural Knowledge to Automate and Represent Ontology Mapping
Li Xu, David W. Embley, Yihong Ding

5. Visual Ontology Alignment for Semantic Web Applications
Jennifer Sampson, Monika Lanzenberger

6. Semantic Web Techniques for Personalization of eGovernment Services
Fabio Grandi, Federica Mandreoli, Riccardo Martoglia, Enrico Ronchetti, Maria Rita Scalas, Paolo Tiberio

CoMoGIS Workshop

1. VTPR-tree: An Efficient Indexing Method for Moving Objects with Frequent Updates
Wei Liao, Guifen Tang, Ning Jing, Zhinong Zhong

2. Time-aggregated Graphs for Modeling Spatio-Temporal Networks - An Extended Abstract
Betsy George, Shashi Shekhar

3. An ISO TC 211 conformant approach to model spatial integrity constraints in the conceptual design of geographical databases
Alberto Belussi, Mauro Negri, Giuseppe Pelagatti

4. A Progressive Transmission Scheme for Vector maps in low bandwidth environments based on device rendering
David Cavassana Costa, Anselmo Cardoso de Paiva, Mario Meireles Teixeira, Claudio de Souza Baptista

5. New Query Processing Algorithms for Range and k-NN Search in Spatial Network Databases
Jae-Woo Chang, Yong-Ki Kim, Sang-Mi Kim, Young-Chang Kim

6. A ONCE-Updating Approach on Moving Objects Indexing methods
Hoang Do Thanh Tung, Keun Ho Ryu

7. Map2Share - A System Exploiting Metadata to Share Geographical Information
L. Paolino, M. Sebillo, G. Tortora, G. Vitiello

8. Access Control in Geographic Databases
Liliana Kasumi Sasaoka, Claudia Bauzer Medeiros

CoSS Workshop

1. Building Semantic Web Services Based on a Model Driven Web Engineering Method
Victoria Torres, Vicente Pelechano, Oscar Pastor

2. Choreographies as Federations of Choreographies and Orchestrations
Johann Eder, Marek Lehmann, Amirreza Tahamtan

3. Designing Web Services for Supporting User Tasks. A Model Driven Approach
Arta Ruiz, Vicente Pelechano, Oscar Pastor

4. Teaching the new dogs old tricks: reusing existing knowledge for service oriented systems
Vojislav B. Misic

BP-UML Workshop

1. Extending the UML 2 Activity Diagram with Business Process Goals and Performance Measures
Korherr Birgit, List Beate

2. UN/CEFACT'S Modeling Methodology (UMM): A UML Profile for B2B e-Commerce
Birgit Hofreiter, Christian Huemer, Philipp Liegl, Rainer Schuster

3. Finite State History Modeling and its Precise UML-Based Semantics
Draheim Dirk, Gerald Weber, Christof Lutteroth

4. A UML Profile for Modeling Schema Mappings
Stefan Kurz, Michael Guppenberger, Burkhard Freitag

5. Capturing Security Requirements in Business Processes through a UML 2.0 Activity Diagrams Profile
Alfonso Rodríguez, Eduardo Fernández-Medina, Mario Piattini

6. Model to Text Transformation in Practice: Generating Code From Rich Associations Specifications
Manoli Albert, Javier Muñoz, Vicente Pelechano, Oscar Pastor

OIS Workshop

1. XBRL taxonomies and OWL ontologies for investment funds Ivan Cantador
Pablo Castells, Ruben Lara

2. A Semantic Transformation Approach for ISO 15926
Sari Hakkarainen, Lillian Hella, Darijus Strasunskas, Stine Tuxen

3. Modeling Considerations for Operational Product Ontology
Hyunja Lee, Junho Shim, Sue-kyung Lee , San-goo Lee

4. Ontologizing EDI Semantics
Douglas Foxvog, Christoph Bussler

5. Learning From WSDL RDF Mapping: Developing Ontologies From Standardized Languages
Jacek Kopecky

Demos/Posters

1. Designing Under the Influence of Speech-Acts-based Enterprise Integration Patterns
Karthikeyan Umapathy, Sandeep Purao

2. Does the Application Domain Really Matter? A Protocol Analysis Study to Explore Its Role in Conceptual Schema Understanding
Vijay Khatri, Iris Vessey

3. Geometry of Concepts
Olga Brazhnik

4. Auto-completion of Underspecified SQL queries
Terrence Mason, Ramon Lawrence

5. iQL: A Query Language for the Instance-Based Data Model
Jeffrey Parsons, Jianmin Su

Panels

1. Experimental Research on Conceptual Modeling: What Should We Be Doing and Why?
Geert Poels (Moderator), Andrew Burton-Jones (Panelist), Andrew Gemino (Panelist), Jeffrey Parsons (Panelist), V. Ramesh (Panelist)

2. Eliciting Data Semantics via Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches: Challenges and Opportunities
Vijay Khatri (Moderator), Carson Woo (Moderator), Lois Delcambre (Panelist), Yair Wand (Panelist), Mark Zozulia (Panelist), Barb Williams (Panelist)

Industrial Track Papers

1. The ADO.NET Entity Framework: Making the Conceptual Level Real
José A. Blakeley, S. Muralidhar, Anil Nori

2. XMeta Repository and Services
Lee Scheffler

3. IBM Industry Models: Experience, Management and Challenges
Pat G O’Sullivan, Dan Wolfson

4. Community Semantics For Ultra-Scale Information Management
Scott Renner

5. Policy Models for Data Sharing
Ken Smith

6. Managing Data in High Throughput Laboratories: An Experience Report from Proteomics
Thodoros Topaloglou
 

Tutorials

1. State of the Art in Modeling and Deployment of Electronic Contracts
Kamalakar Karlapalem and P. Radhakrishna.

2. Conceptual Modeling for Emerging Web Application Technologies
Dirk Draheim and Gerald Weber

3. Web Change Management and Delta Mining: Opportunities and Solutions
Sourav S Bhowmick and Sanjay Madria