Call for Papers

25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2006)

November 6-9, 2006, Tucson, Arizona, USA

Conference Web Site: http://adrg.eller.arizona.edu/ER2006/
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HONORARY CONFERENCE CHAIR
Peter P. Chen (Louisiana University, USA)

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Sudha Ram (University of Arizona, USA, ram@eller.arizona.edu )
Mohan R. Tanniru (University of Arizona, USA, mtanniru@eller.arizona.edu )

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
David W. Embley (Brigham Young University, USA, embley@cs.byu.edu )
Antoni Olive (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain, olive@lsi.upc.es )

PUBLICITY CHAIR & WEBMASTER
Huimin (Min) Zhao, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA, hzhao@uwm.edu )
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IMPORTANT DATES

Workshop proposals: December 15, 2005
Tutorial proposals: March 15, 2006
Panel proposals: April 10, 2006
Paper abstracts: April 3, 2006
Full papers: April 10, 2006
Poster and demonstration proposals: April 10, 2006
Industrial presentations: May 2, 2006
Notification: June 14, 2006
Camera-ready papers: July 12, 2006
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SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE

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.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Foundations
* cognitive strategies for model construction
* conceptual change and model/schema evolution
* formal semantics for conceptual modeling languages
* information and constraint preserving model mappings
* interpretation and usage of metadata
* model quality and metrics
* ontological and conceptual correctness in modeling
* theory of conceptualization

Methodologies, Tools, and Techniques
* design methodologies and languages and their evaluation (UML, XML, RDF, OWL etc.)
* information, data- and knowledge-base integration
* integration of ontologies
* management of large conceptual schemata
* model-driven approaches
* models/ontologies as interfaces between systems
* natural language techniques in modeling
* ontologies and ontology deployment
* ontology languages
* partially structured information and models
* reuse, patterns, frameworks, object-oriented, and post-object oriented design
* systems for managing and using conceptual information and models
* teaching modeling

Applications
* active and multi-agent systems
* conceptual-model-based information retrieval
* conceptual modeling aspects of data, information, and knowledge mining
* distance education and e-learning
* e-business and Web-based information systems
* enterprise and business process modeling
* geographic information systems
* human-computer interaction
* knowledge management and engineering
* perceiving and modeling social reality
* requirements modeling
* reverse engineering and reengineering
* software process modeling
* semantic web
* spatial, temporal, and multimedia aspects off conceptual models
* workflow management

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Since the proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series, authors must submit manuscripts using the LNCS style. See www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for style files and details. The suggested number of pages is 14, and the maximum number of pages is 16. Manuscripts not submitted in the LNCS style or having more than 16 pages will not be reviewed and thus automatically rejected. (The final, camera-ready version must not exceed 14 pages to avoid page charges.) Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for possible publication in Data & Knowledge Engineering.
 

TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOP CHAIR
John Roddick (Flinders University, Australia, roddick@infoeng.flinders.edu.au )

Workshop Proposals should address the following issues:
* Scope and novelty of the workshop,
* Expected submission and attendance rate,
* Format of workshop,
* Intended Program Committee,
* Anticipated highlights (including keynotes, panels, etc.),
* Details of any previous workshops.

Workshop proposals should include a draft Call for Papers indicating the relevant topics and the intended program committee. Please submit workshop proposals to the workshop chair by December 15, 2005. For more information see http://www.infoeng.flinders.edu.au/news/ER2006Workshops.html .

Tutorial proposals should address the following issues:
* The presenter(s),
* Scope and novelty of the tutorial,
* Expected audience and attendance rate,
* Format of tutorial, (90 minute, 3 hour or 6 hour),
* Details of any previous presentations on the same topic.

Tutorials may be presented as a 90-minute tutorial inside the conference, or as a half day (3 hour) or a full day (6 hour) pre-conference tutorial. Abstracts of accepted tutorials (1-2 pages, LNCS format) will be published in the Workshop Proceedings. Please submit tutorial proposals to the workshop chair March 15, 2006. For more information see http://www.infoeng.flinders.edu.au/news/ER2006Tutorials.html .


DEMOS AND POSTERS CO-CHAIRS
Akhilesh Bajaj (University of Tulsa, USA, akhilesh-bajaj@utulsa.edu )
Ramesh Venkataraman (Indiana University, USA, venkat@indiana.edu )

ER2006 provides a forum for ongoing work:
* poster reports on projects in progress,
* demonstrations of alpha- and beta-versions of not-for-profit software tools and products,
* invitations to cooperate on new project ideas.

These should provide a highly interactive and future-oriented added value to ER2006. Please send poster and demonstration proposals to the Demonstration and Poster Co-Chairs by April 10, 2006.

Format for Proposals: One side of one page maximum (excluding references & figures), with minimum font size 12, Times Roman. URL Links to software demos should be provided in the proposal if applicable.

Please email proposals by April 10, 2006 to either or both of the co-chairs.
 

INDUSTRIAL CO-CHAIRS
Arnie Rosenthal (Mitre Corporation, USA, arnie@mitre.org )
Len Seligman (Mitre Corporation, USA, seligman@mitre.org )

The ER2006 conference program includes an industrial track for presentations focusing on conceptual modeling issues arising in industrial practice. We solicit presentations which provide in-depth technical discussion of:
* use or evaluation of conceptual modeling tools to support real applications
* conceptual modeling for administering enterprise data and services
* important research problems from an industrial perspective
* requirements of novel applications
* lessons learned applying research results to real problems

By May 2, 2006 (firm), email one of the following directly to Len Seligman at seligman@mitre.org , with the subject "ER2006 industry track":
* 1-3 page abstract, summarizing the motivation and content of the proposed presentation, and also including a brief bio (max. 100 words), in Microsoft Word, PDF, or plain text, or
* 1-2 paragraph abstract (in Word, PDF, or plain text) plus draft presentation slides (in Powerpoint, PDF, or HTML)


PANELS CO-CHAIRs
Uday Kulkarni (Arizona State University, USA, uday.kulkarni@asu.edu )
Keng Siau (University of Nebraska,Lincoln, USA, ksiau@unlnotes.unl.edu )

ER 2006 solicits proposals for panel sessions related to the conference topics about which there is controversy and thus a need for public discussion. Panel proposals should specify the questions/issues the panel will discuss and should include a list of committed panelists. We strongly encourage panels that have a mixture of academic and industry panelists. We expect that a range of viewpoints will be represented in the panel session. The role of the panel moderator is to state the initial relevant issues and moderate the panel session. Each panelist will then make a short presentation of his/her position. The moderator will then direct a discussion/debate among the panelists and encourage audience interaction. Proposals should be submitted to the panel co-chairs, by April 10, 2006.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Alberto H. F. Laender (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Altigran S. da Silva (Universidade do Amazonas, Brazil)
Arne Solvberg (Norwegian Institute of Technology, Norway)
Barbara Pernici (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Bernhard Thalheim (University of Kiel, Germany)
Bogdan Czejdo (Loyola University New Orleans, USA)
Brian Henderson-Sellers (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
Carlos Heuser (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Christian S. Jensen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Christine Parent (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Colette Rolland (University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
Daniel Schwabe (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
Debabrata Dey (University of Washington, USA)
Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Dirk Draheim (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
Dongwon Lee (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Ee-Peng Lim (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA)
Elisabeth Metais (CEDRIC-CNAM of Paris, France)
Ernest Teniente (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Esperanza Marcos (Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain)
Gill Dobbie (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Heinrich C. Mayr (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
Il-Yeol Song (Drexel University, USA)
Jan L.G. Dietz (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Jean-Luc Hainaut (University of Namur, Belgium)
Jeffrey Parsons (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
Johann Eder (Universität Vienna, Austria)
John Krogstie (NTNU and SINTEF, Norway)
John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto, Canada)
Karen C. Davis (University of Cincinnati, USA)
Klaus-Dieter Schewe (Massey University, New Zealand)
Kyu-Young Whang (KAIST Korea)
Li Xu (University of Arizona South, USA)
Ling Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Lois Delcambre (Portland State University, USA)
Maria E Orlowska (The University of Queensland, Australia )
Mario Piattini (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
Mengchi Liu (Carleton University, Canada)
Michael Rosemann (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Motoshi Saeki (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Naveen Prakash (JayPee University of Information Technology, India)
Nicola Guarino (ISTC-CNR, Italy)
Oscar Diaz (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
Oscar Pastor (Technical University of Valencia, Spain)
Paolo Atzeni (Università Roma Tre, Italy)
Paul Johannesson (KTH, Sweden)
Peretz Shoval (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Peri Loucopoulos (The University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
Peter Scheuermann (Northwestern University, USA)
Piero Fraternali (Politecnico de Milano, Italy)
Qing Li (City University of Hong Kong, China)
Roel Wieringa (University of Twente Netherlands)
Roger Chiang (University of Cincinnati, USA)
Salvatore T. March (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Sandeep Purao (Penn State University, USA)
S.C. Cheung (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
Sham Navathe (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Shawn Bowers (Univ. of California, Davis, USA)
Shuigeng Zhou (Fudan University, China)
Silvana Castano (University of Milano, Italy)
Sonia Bergamaschi (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Stefan Conrad (University of Düsseldorf, Germany)
Stefano Ceri (Politécnico di Milano Italy)
Stefano Spaccapietra (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne, Switzerland)
Stephen Clyde (Utah State University, USA)
Stephen W. Liddle (Brigham Young University, USA)
Takao Miura (HOSEI University Japan)
Terry Halpin (Neumont University, USA)
Tetsuo Tamai (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Ting-Peng Liang (National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan)
Tony Morgan (Northface University, USA)
Veda C. Storey (Georgia State University, USA)
Vijay Khatri (Indiana University)
Wai Yin Mok (University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA)
Wilfred Ng (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
Yair Wand (The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
Yanchun Zhang (Victoria University, Australia)
Yasushi Kiyoki (Keio University, Japan)