Conceptual Modeling ER'99

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Session 1 — Supporting Schema Evolution

   1. Three Levels of Reuse for Supporting the Evolution of Database Schemas

      • Donatella Castelli

      Pages 1-16

   2. A Unified Framework for Supporting Dynamic Schema Evolution in Object Databases

      • Boualem Benatallah

      Pages 16-30

   3. An Incremental and Semi-automatic Method Inheritance Graph Hierarchy Construction

      • Mohamed M. Gammoudi, Ibtissem Nafkha, Zair Abdelouahab

      Pages 31-49

3. Session 2 — Temporal Database Design

   1. Developing an Object-Oriented Video Database System with Spatio-Temporal Reasoning Capabilities

      • Shermann Sze-Man Chan, Qing Li

      Pages 50-61

   2. Entity Evolution in IsA Hierarchies

      • Antoni Olivé, Dolors Costal, Maria-Ribera Sancho

      Pages 62-80

   3. Temporal ER Modeling with Description Logics

      • Alessandro Artale, Enrico Franconi

      Pages 81-95

4. Session 3 — Schema Transformation

   1. Automatic Migration and Wrapping of Database Applications — A Schema Transformation Approach

      • Peter Mc Brien, Alexandra Poulovassi

      Pages 96-114

   2. A Methodology for Clustering Entity Relationship Models — A Human Information Processing Approach

      • Daniel L. Moody, Andrew Flitman

      Pages 114-130

   3. Designing Good Semi-structured Databases

      • Sin Yeung Lee, Mong Li Lee, Tok Wang Ling, Leonid A. Kalinichenko

      Pages 131-145

5. Session 4 — Views and Conceptual Modeling

   1. Building Views over Semistructured Data Sources

      • Silvana Castano, Valeria De Antonellis

      Pages 146-160

   2. Modeling and Maintaining Multi-view Data Warehouses

      • I. Stanoi, D. Agrawal, A. El Abbadi

      Pages 161-176

   3. Object Views through Search Views of Web Datasources

      • Zoé Lacroix

      Pages 176-187

6. Session 5 — Reuse in Conceptual Modeling

   1. Understanding and Modelling Business Processes with DEMO

      • Jan L. G. Dietz

      Pages 188-202

   2. A Methodology for Building a Repository of Object-Oriented Design Fragments

      • Tae-Dong Han, Sandeep Purao, Veda C. Storey

      Pages 203-217

   3. An Algorithm to Extract Is_A Inheritance Hierarchies from a Relational Database

      • Nadira Lammari

      Pages 218-232

7. Session 6 — Business Process Modeling and Workflows

   1. DOTS: A Generic Infrastructure for Decision-Oriented Collaborative Task Support

      • Jacques Lonchamp

      Pages 233-247

   2. Dockets: A Model for Adding Value to Content

      • Joachim W. Schmidt, Hans-Werner Sehring

      Pages 248-263

   3. Workflow Specification in TRAMs

      • Markus Kradolfer, Andreas Geppert, Klaus R. Dittrich

      Pages 263-278

8. Session 7 — Integrating Application Models

   1. From CASE to CARE (Computer-Aided Requirements Engineering)

      • Oscar Pastor, José H. Canós, Isidro Ramos

      Pages 278-292

This book provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art, in conceptual modeling. It grew out of research papers presented at the 18th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER '99) and arranged by the editors. The plan of the conference is to cover the whole spectrum of conceptual modeling as it relates to database and information systems design and to offer a complete coverage of data and process modeling, database technology, and database applications. The aim of the conference and of these proceedings is to present new insights related to each of these topics. This book contains both selected and invited papers. The 33 selected papers are organized in 11 sessions encompassing the major themes of the conference, especially : - schema transformation, evolution, and integration - temporal database design - views and reuse in conceptual modeling - advanced conceptual modeling - business process modeling and workflows - data warehouse design. Besides the selected papers, 3 invited papers present the views of three keynote speakers, internationally known for their contribution to conceptual modeling and database research and for their active role in knowledge dissemination. Peter Chen presents the results of his ongoing research on ER model, XML, and the Web. Georges Gardarin presents the first results of an ESPRIT project federating various data sources with XML and XML-QL. Finally, Matthias Jarke develops a way to capture and evaluate the experiences gained about process designs in so-called process data warehouses.

• Business Process Modeling
• Conceptual Modeling
• Data Warehouse Design
• Information Modeling
• Information System Design
• Workflow Management
• database
• modeling

• Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris Cedex 03, France

  Jacky Akoka

• Université de Versailles, Versailles Cedex, France

  Mokrane Bouzeghoub, Elisabeth Métais

• ESSEC, Cergy Cedex, France

  Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau

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