Conceptual Modeling

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. Current Issues of Conceptual Modeling: A Summary of Selective Active Research Topics

   • Peter P. Chen

   Pages IX-XXIV

3. Conceptual Design of Parallel Systems

   • Jacky Akoka

   Pages 1-23

4. Conceptual Modeling Challenges for Model-Based Architecting and Software Engineering (MBASE)

   • Barry Boehm, Dan Port

   Pages 24-43

5. Deriving Global Conceptual Views from Multiple Information Sources

   • Silvana Castano, Valeria De Antonellis

   Pages 44-55

6. From Ancient Egyptian Language to Future Conceptual Modeling

   • Peter P. Chen

   Pages 56-64

7. Breaking the Database out of the Box: Models for Superimposed Information

   • Lois M. L. Delcambre

   Pages 65-72

8. Narratives and Temporal Databases: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

   • Antonio L. Furtado

   Pages 73-86

9. Using Conceptual Modeling and Intelligent Agents to Integrate Semi-structured Documents in Federated Databases

   • Georges Gardarin, Fei Sha

   Pages 87-99

10. Supporting the User: Conceptual Modeling & Knowledge Discovery

    • Terrance Goan

    Pages 100-104

11. Are Global Understanding, Communication, and Information Management in Information Systems Possible?

    • Hannu Kangassalo

    Pages 105-122

12. Enterprise Knowledge Management and Conceptual Modelling

    • Pericles Loucopoulos, Vagelio Kavakli

    Pages 123-143

13. Semantic Modeling in Accounting Education, Practice, and Research: Some Progress and Impediments

    • William E. McCarthy

    Pages 144-153

14. Perspectives in Modeling: Simulation, Database, and Workflow

    • John A. Miller, Amit P. Sheth, Krys J. Kochut

    Pages 154-167

15. The Challenges of Modeling Biological Information for Genome Databases

    • Shamkant B. Navathe, Andreas M. Kogelnik

    Pages 168-182

16. Trends and Scale-Up for Data Administration

    • Arnon Rosenthal, Len Seligman

    Pages 183-194

17. Conceptual Modeling for Multiagent Systems: Applying Interaction-Oriented Programming?

    • Munindar P. Singh

    Pages 195-210

18. Data and What They Refer to

    • Arne Sølvberg

    Pages 211-226

19. The Strength of ER Modeling

    • Bernhard Thalheim

    Pages 227-242

20. Interaction as a Framework for Modeling

    • Peter Wegner, Dina Goldin

    Pages 243-257

This volume contains a collection of selected papers presented at the Symposium on Conceptual Modeling, which was held in Los Angeles, California, on December 2, th 1997, immediately before the 16 International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER’97), which was held at UCLA. A total of eighteen papers were selected for inclusion in this volume. These papers are written by experts in the conceptual modeling area and represent the most current thinking of these experts. This volume also contains the summaries of three workshops that were held on 6 7 December 1997, immediately after the ER’97 conference at UCLA. The topics of these three workshops are: • Behavioral Modeling • Conceptual Modeling in Multimedia Information Seeking • What Is the Role of Cognition in Conceptual Modeling? Since these topics are not only very important but also very timely, we think it is appropriate to include the summary of these three workshops in this volume. Those readers interested in further investigating topics related to the three workshops can either look up the individual paper published on the Web or contact the authors directly. The summary paper by Chen at the beginning of this volume also includes the summary of several interesting speeches at the Symposium.

• Conceptual Modeling
• Database Design
• Enterprise Modeling
• Entity-Relationship Modeling
• Modeling for Multi-Agent Systems
• Simulation
• database
• modeling

• Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA

  Peter P. Chen

• Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (ESSEC), Cergy, France

  Jacky Akoka

• Department of Compyter Science, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

  Hannu Kangassalu

• Department of Computer Science, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany

  Bernhard Thalheim

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