Conceptual modeling is fundamental to any domain where one must cope with complex real-world situations and systems because it fosters communication - tween technology experts and those who would bene?t from the application of those technologies. Conceptual modeling is the key mechanism for und- standing and representing the domains of information system and database - gineering but also increasingly for other domains including the new “virtual” e-environmentsandtheinformationsystemsthatsupportthem.Theimportance of conceptual modeling in software engineering is evidenced by recent interest in “model-drivenarchitecture”and“extremenon-programming”.Conceptualm- eling also plays a prominent rolein various technical disciplines and in the social sciences. The Annual International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (referred to as the ER Conference) provides a central forum for presenting and discussing current research and applications in which conceptual modeling is the major emphasis. In keeping with this tradition, ER 2005, the 24th ER Conference, spanned the spectrum of conceptual modeling including research and practice in areas such as theories of concepts and ontologies underlying conceptual m- eling, methods and tools for developing and communicating conceptual models, and techniques for transforming conceptual models into e?ective (information) system implementations. Moreover, new areas of conceptual modeling incl- ing Semantic Web services and the interdependencies of conceptual modeling with knowledge-based, logical and linguistic theories and approaches were also addressed.
Author(s): Iris Reinhartz-Berger (auth.), Lois Delcambre, Christian Kop, Heinrich C. Mayr, John Mylopoulos, Oscar Pastor (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3716 : Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 504
Tags: Database Management; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Models and Principles; Software Engineering
Front Matter....Pages -
Conceptual Modeling of Structure and Behavior with UML – The Top Level Object-Oriented Framework (TLOOF) Approach....Pages 1-15
How to Manage Uniformly Software Architecture at Different Abstraction Levels....Pages 16-30
Schema Integration Based on Uncertain Semantic Mappings....Pages 31-46
Combining Intention-Oriented and State-Based Process Modeling....Pages 47-62
Pattern-Based Analysis of the Control-Flow Perspective of UML Activity Diagrams....Pages 63-78
A Three-Layered XML View Model: A Practical Approach....Pages 79-95
Modeling Group-Based Education....Pages 96-111
Learning Process Models as Mediators Between Didactical Practice and Web Support....Pages 112-127
A Fundamental View on the Process of Conceptual Modeling....Pages 128-143
How to Tame a Very Large ER Diagram (Using Link Analysis and Force-Directed Drawing Algorithms)....Pages 144-159
A Multilevel Dictionary for Model Management....Pages 160-175
A MOF-Compliant Approach to Software Quality Modeling....Pages 176-191
Conceptual Modeling Based on Transformation Linguistic Patterns....Pages 192-208
Applying Modular Method Engineering to Validate and Extend the RESCUE Requirements Process....Pages 209-224
Security Patterns Meet Agent Oriented Software Engineering: A Complementary Solution for Developing Secure Information Systems....Pages 225-240
Kuaba Ontology: Design Rationale Representation and Reuse in Model-Based Designs....Pages 241-255
Ontology Creation: Extraction of Domain Knowledge from Web Documents....Pages 256-269
Choosing Appropriate Method Guidelines for Web-Ontology Building....Pages 270-287
Conceptual Model Based Semantic Web Services....Pages 288-303
Automatically Grounding Semantically-Enriched Conceptual Models to Concrete Web Services....Pages 304-319
Transforming Web Requirements into Navigational Models: AN MDA Based Approach....Pages 320-336
Accelerating Workflows with Fixed Date Constraints....Pages 337-352
Workflow Data Patterns: Identification, Representation and Tool Support....Pages 353-368
Actor-Oriented Design of Scientific Workflows....Pages 369-384
Blueprints and Measures for ETL Workflows....Pages 385-400
Vague Sets or Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets for Handling Vague Data: Which One Is Better?....Pages 401-416
A Semantic Approach to Query Rewriting for Integrated XML Data....Pages 417-432
A Taxonomy of Inaccurate Summaries and Their Management in OLAP Systems....Pages 433-448
XCM: Conceptual Modeling for Dynamic Domains....Pages 449-464
Precise Modeling and Verification of Topological Integrity Constraints in Spatial Databases: From an Expressive Power Study to Code Generation Principles....Pages 465-482
Topological Relationships Between Complex Lines and Complex Regions....Pages 483-496
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