Conceptual Modeling - ER 2008: 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Barcelona, Spain, October 20-24, 2008. Proceedings

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Conceptual Modeling Meets the Human Genome....Pages 1-11
Relationship Web: Spinning the Web from Trailblazing to Semantic Analytics....Pages 12-14
PIM Meets Web 2.0....Pages 15-25
Developing Preference Band Model to Manage Collective Preferences....Pages 26-40
A Conceptual Modeling Framework for Expressing Observational Data Semantics....Pages 41-54
Towards a Compositional Semantic Account of Data Quality Attributes....Pages 55-68
A Formal Model of Fuzzy Ontology with Property Hierarchy and Object Membership....Pages 69-82
What’s in a Relationship: An Ontological Analysis....Pages 83-97
An Upper Level Ontological Model for Engineering Design Performance Domain....Pages 98-113
A Multi-level Methodology for Developing UML Sequence Diagrams....Pages 114-127
Content Ontology Design Patterns as Practical Building Blocks for Web Ontologies....Pages 128-141
Quality Patterns for Conceptual Modelling....Pages 142-153
Automating the Extraction of Rights and Obligations for Regulatory Compliance....Pages 154-168
Location-Based Software Modeling and Analysis: Tropos-Based Approach....Pages 169-182
Risk Evaluation for Personal Identity Management Based on Privacy Attribute Ontology....Pages 183-198
Beyond Control-Flow: Extending Business Process Configuration to Roles and Objects....Pages 199-215
Value-Driven Coordination Process Design Using Physical Delivery Models....Pages 216-231
Relaxed Compliance Notions in Adaptive Process Management Systems....Pages 232-247
On Measuring Process Model Similarity Based on High-Level Change Operations....Pages 248-264
Recommendation Based Process Modeling Support: Method and User Experience....Pages 265-278
On the Formal Semantics of Change Patterns in Process-Aware Information Systems....Pages 279-293
Modeling and Querying E-Commerce Data in Hybrid Relational-XML DBMSs....Pages 294-310
Approximate Probabilistic Query Answering over Inconsistent Databases....Pages 311-325
Conjunctive Query Containment under Access Limitations....Pages 326-340
Automatic Extraction of Structurally Coherent Mini-Taxonomies....Pages 341-354
Analysis and Reuse of Plots Using Similarity and Analogy....Pages 355-368
Discovering Semantically Similar Associations (SeSA) for Complex Mappings between Conceptual Models....Pages 369-382
An Adverbial Approach for the Formal Specification of Topological Constraints Involving Regions with Broad Boundaries....Pages 383-396
Capturing Temporal Constraints in Temporal ER Models....Pages 397-411
Temporal Constraints in Non-temporal Data Modelling Languages....Pages 412-425
Integrated Model-Driven Development of Goal-Oriented Data Warehouses and Data Marts....Pages 426-439
Design Metrics for Data Warehouse Evolution....Pages 440-454
A Domain Engineering Approach for Situational Method Engineering....Pages 455-468
 Retune : Retrieving and Materializing Tuple Units for Effective Keyword Search over Relational Databases....Pages 469-483
Model Driven Specification of Ontology Translations....Pages 484-497
Dealing with Usability in Model Transformation Technologies....Pages 498-511
Ontology Coordination: The iCoord Project Demonstration....Pages 512-513
Designing Similarity Measures for XML....Pages 514-515
SESQ: A Model-Driven Method for Building Object Level Vertical Search Engines....Pages 516-517
HealthSense: An Application for Querying Raw Sensor Data....Pages 518-519
Visual SQL: Towards ER-Based Object-Relational Database Querying....Pages 520-521
SAMSTAR: An Automatic Tool for Generating Star Schemas from an Entity-Relationship Diagram....Pages 522-523
Constraint-Aware XSLT Evaluation....Pages 524-525
A Quality Circle Tool for Software Models....Pages 526-527
Generating and Optimizing Graphical User Interfaces for Semantic Service Compositions....Pages 528-529
REMM-Studio  +  : Modeling Variability to Enable Requirements Reuse....Pages 530-531
A Conceptual-Model-Based Computational Alembic for a Web of Knowledge....Pages 532-533
MDBE: Automatic Multidimensional Modeling....Pages 534-535
Oryx – Sharing Conceptual Models on the Web....Pages 536-537
Providing Top-K Alternative Schema Matchings with ${\\mathcal{O}}nto {\\mathcal{M}}atcher$ ....Pages 538-539
Role and Request Based Conceptual Modeling – A Methodology and a CASE Tool....Pages 540-541
AutoMed Model Management....Pages 542-543
QUINST: A Metamodeling Tool....Pages 544-546
An Implementation of a Query Language with Generalized Quantifiers....Pages 547-548
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