Conceptual Modeling for Novel Application Domains: ER 2003 Workshops ECOMO, IWCMQ, AOIS, and XSDM, Chicago, IL, USA, October 13, 2003. Proceedings

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Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Preface to eCOMO 2003....Pages 3-4
Managing Evolving Business Workflows through the Capture of Descriptive Information....Pages 5-16
The Benefits of Rapid Modelling for E-business System Development....Pages 17-28
Prediction of Consumer Preference through Bayesian Classification and Generating Profile....Pages 29-39
Developing Web Applications from Conceptual Models. A Web Services Approach....Pages 40-51
A Framework for Business Rule Driven Web Service Composition....Pages 52-64
Virtual Integration of the Tile Industry (VITI)....Pages 65-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Preface to IWCMQ 2003....Pages 79-79
Multiperspective Evaluation of Reference Models – Towards a Framework....Pages 80-91
On the Acceptability of Conceptual Design Models for Web Applications....Pages 92-104
Consistency by Construction: The Case of MERODE....Pages 105-117
Defining Metrics for UML Statechart Diagrams in a Methodological Way....Pages 118-128
Visual SQL – High-Quality ER-Based Query Treatment....Pages 129-139
Multidimensional Schemas Quality: Assessing and Balancing Analyzability and Simplicity....Pages 140-151
Conceptual Modeling of Accounting Information Systems: A Comparative Study of REA and ER Diagrams....Pages 152-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Preface to AOIS 2003....Pages 167-167
Bringing Multi-agent Systems into Human Organizations: Application to a Multi-agent Information System....Pages 168-179
Reconciling Physical, Communicative, and Social/Institutional Domains in Agent Oriented Information Systems – A Unified Framework....Pages 180-194
An Agent-Based Active Portal Framework....Pages 195-204
Agent-Oriented Modeling and Agent-Based Simulation....Pages 205-216
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
REF: A Practical Agent-Based Requirement Engineering Framework....Pages 217-228
Patterns for Motivating an Agent-Based Approach....Pages 229-240
Using Scenarios for Contextual Design in Agent-Oriented Information Systems....Pages 241-243
Dynamic Matchmaking between Messages and Services in Multi-agent Information Systems....Pages 244-246
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Preface to XSDM 2003....Pages 249-249
A Sufficient and Necessary Condition for the Consistency of XML DTDs....Pages 250-260
Index Selection for Efficient XML Path Expression Processing....Pages 261-272
CX-DIFF: A Change Detection Algorithm for XML Content and Change Presentation Issues for WebVigiL....Pages 273-284
Storing and Querying XML Documents Using a Path Table in Relational Databases....Pages 285-296
Improving Query Performance Using Materialized XML Views: A Learning-Based Approach....Pages 297-310
A Framework for Management of Concurrent XML Markup....Pages 311-322
Object Oriented XML Query by Example....Pages 323-329
Automatic Generation of XML from Relations: The Nested Relation Approach....Pages 330-341
Toward the Automatic Derivation of XML Transformations....Pages 342-354
VACXENE: A User-Friendly Visual Synthetic XML Generator....Pages 355-365
A New Inlining Algorithm for Mapping XML DTDs to Relational Schemas....Pages 366-377
From XML DTDs to Entity-Relationship Schemas....Pages 378-389
Extracting Relations from XML Documents....Pages 390-401
Extending XML Schema with Nonmonotonic Inheritance....Pages 402-407
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