Conceptual Modeling - ER 2008

1. Front Matter

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2. Keynotes

   1. Conceptual Modeling Meets the Human Genome

      • Oscar Pastor

      Pages 1-11

   2. Relationship Web: Spinning the Web from Trailblazing to Semantic Analytics

      • Amit Sheth

      Pages 12-14

   3. PIM Meets Web 2.0

      • Moira C. Norrie

      Pages 15-25

3. Novel Semantics

   1. Developing Preference Band Model to Manage Collective Preferences

      • Wilfred Ng

      Pages 26-40

   2. A Conceptual Modeling Framework for Expressing Observational Data Semantics

      • Shawn Bowers, Joshua S. Madin, Mark P. Schildhauer

      Pages 41-54

   3. Towards a Compositional Semantic Account of Data Quality Attributes

      • Lei Jiang, Alex Borgida, John Mylopoulos

      Pages 55-68

4. Ontology

   1. A Formal Model of Fuzzy Ontology with Property Hierarchy and Object Membership

      • Yi Cai, Ho-fung Leung

      Pages 69-82

   2. What’s in a Relationship: An Ontological Analysis

      • Giancarlo Guizzardi, Gerd Wagner

      Pages 83-97

   3. An Upper Level Ontological Model for Engineering Design Performance Domain

      • Vadim Ermolayev, Natalya Keberle, Wolf-Ekkehard Matzke

      Pages 98-113

5. Patterns

   1. A Multi-level Methodology for Developing UML Sequence Diagrams

      • Il-Yeol Song, Ritu Khare, Yuan An, Margaret Hilsbos

      Pages 114-127

   2. Content Ontology Design Patterns as Practical Building Blocks for Web Ontologies

      • Valentina Presutti, Aldo Gangemi

      Pages 128-141

   3. Quality Patterns for Conceptual Modelling

      • Samira Si-Saïd Cherfi, Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, Jacky Akoka

      Pages 142-153

6. Privacy, Compliance, Location

   1. Automating the Extraction of Rights and Obligations for Regulatory Compliance

      • Nadzeya Kiyavitskaya, Nicola Zeni, Travis D. Breaux, Annie I. Antón, James R. Cordy, Luisa Mich et al.

      Pages 154-168

   2. Location-Based Software Modeling and Analysis: Tropos-Based Approach

      • Raian Ali, Fabiano Dalpiaz, Paolo Giorgini

      Pages 169-182

   3. Risk Evaluation for Personal Identity Management Based on Privacy Attribute Ontology

      • Mizuho Iwaihara, Kohei Murakami, Gail-Joon Ahn, Masatoshi Yoshikawa

      Pages 183-198

7. Process mgt and Design

   1. Beyond Control-Flow: Extending Business Process Configuration to Roles and Objects

      • Marcello La Rosa, Marlon Dumas, Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede, Jan Mendling, Florian Gottschalk

      Pages 199-215

   2. Value-Driven Coordination Process Design Using Physical Delivery Models

      • Roel Wieringa, Vincent Pijpers, Lianne Bodenstaff, Jaap Gordijn

      Pages 216-231

   3. Relaxed Compliance Notions in Adaptive Process Management Systems

      • Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Manfred Reichert, Barbara Weber

      Pages 232-247

8. Process Models

   1. On Measuring Process Model Similarity Based on High-Level Change Operations

      • Chen Li, Manfred Reichert, Andreas Wombacher

      Pages 248-264

Conceptual modeling has long been recognized as the primary means to enable so- ware development in information systems and data engineering. Conceptual modeling provides languages, methods and tools to understand and represent the application domain; to elicit, conceptualize and formalize system requirements and user needs; to communicate systems designs to all stakeholders; and to formally verify and validate systems design on high levels of abstraction. The International Conference on Conceptual Modeling provides a premiere forum for presenting and discussing current research and applications in which the major emphasis is on conceptual modeling. Topics of interest span the entire spectrum of conceptual modeling including research and practice in areas such as theories of concepts and ontologies underlying conceptual modeling, methods and tools for - veloping and communicating conceptual models, and techniques for transforming conceptual models into effective implementations. The scientific program of ER 2008 featured several activities running in parallel. The core activity was the presentation of the 33 research papers published in this volume, which were selected by a large Program Committee (PC) Co-chaired by Qing Li, Stefano Spaccapietra and Eric Yu. We thank the PC Co-chairs, the PC members and the additional referees for the hard work done, often within a short time. Thanks are also due to Moira Norrie from ETH Zurich, Oscar Pastor from the Universitat Politècnica de València, and Amit Sheth from the Wright State Univ- sity for accepting our invitation to present keynotes.

• coherence
• compliance
• conceptual modelling
• design
• design patterns
• formal model
• modeling
• ontology
• privacy
• process management
• process model
• risk evaluation
• semantics
• temporal constraints
• uml

• Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

  Qing Li

• EPFL-IC-IIF-LBD, Station 14 - INJ 236, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

  Stefano Spaccapietra

• Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  Eric Yu

• Universitat Politècnica Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

  Antoni Olivé

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