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Conceptual Modeling

31st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Florence, Italy, October 15-18, 2012, Proceeding

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7532)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

Conference series link(s): ER: International Conference on Conceptual Modeling

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Table of contents (49 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Keynotes

    1. Mega-modeling for Big Data Analytics

      • Stefano Ceri, Emanuele Della Valle, Dino Pedreschi, Roberto Trasarti
      Pages 1-15
    2. Spatial Keyword Querying

      • Xin Cao, Lisi Chen, Gao Cong, Christian S. Jensen, Qiang Qu, Anders Skovsgaard et al.
      Pages 16-29
    3. Of Cubes, DAGs and Hierarchical Correlations: A Novel Conceptual Model for Analyzing Social Media Data

      • Umeshwar Dayal, Chetan Gupta, Malu Castellanos, Song Wang, Manolo Garcia-Solaco
      Pages 30-49
  3. Understandability and Cognitive Approaches

    1. Understanding Constraint Expressions in Large Conceptual Schemas by Automatic Filtering

      • Antonio Villegas, Antoni Olivé, Maria-Ribera Sancho
      Pages 50-63
    2. Rules from Cognition for Conceptual Modelling

      • Jeannette Stark, Werner Esswein
      Pages 78-87
  4. Conceptual Modeling for Datawarehousing and Business Intelligence

    1. Using Domain Ontologies as Semantic Dimensions in Data Warehouses

      • Stefan Anderlik, Bernd Neumayr, Michael Schrefl
      Pages 88-101
    2. Sliced Column-Store (SCS): Ontological Foundations and Practical Implications

      • Yoones A. Sekhavat, Jeffrey Parsons
      Pages 102-115
    3. Schema Decryption for Large Extract-Transform-Load Systems

      • Alexander Albrecht, Felix Naumann
      Pages 116-125
  5. Extraction, Discovery and Clustering

    1. Fast Group Recommendations by Applying User Clustering

      • Eirini Ntoutsi, Kostas Stefanidis, Kjetil Nørvåg, Hans-Peter Kriegel
      Pages 126-140
    2. Understanding Tables on the Web

      • Jingjing Wang, Haixun Wang, Zhongyuan Wang, Kenny Q. Zhu
      Pages 141-155
    3. Towards Discovering Conceptual Models behind Web Sites

      • Inma Hernández, Carlos R. Rivero, David Ruiz, Rafael Corchuelo
      Pages 166-175
  6. Search and Documents

    1. A Distance-Based Spelling Suggestion Method for XML Keyword Search

      • Sheng Li, Junhu Wang, Kewen Wang, Jiang Li
      Pages 176-189
    2. Cross-Language Hybrid Keyword and Semantic Search

      • David W. Embley, Stephen W. Liddle, Deryle W. Lonsdale, Joseph S. Park, Byung-Joo Shin, Andrew J. Zitzelberger
      Pages 190-203
    3. Mapping Semantic Widgets to Web-Based, Domain-Specific Collections

      • Scott Britell, Lois M. L. Delcambre
      Pages 204-213
  7. Process Modeling I

    1. Evaluation Measures for Similarity Search Results in Process Model Repositories

      • Markus Guentert, Matthias Kunze, Mathias Weske
      Pages 214-227
    2. The MOSKitt4ME Approach: Providing Process Support in a Method Engineering Context

      • Mario Cervera, Manoli Albert, Victoria Torres, Vicente Pelechano
      Pages 228-241
    3. Extending Conceptual Data Model for Dynamic Environment

      • Nicolas Lumineau, Frédérique Laforest, Yann Gripay, Jean-Marc Petit
      Pages 242-251

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About this book

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2012, held in Florence, Italy, in October 2012. The 24 regular papers presented together with 13 short papers, 6 poster papers and 3 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from 141 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on understandability and cognitive approaches; conceptual modeling for datawarehousing and business intelligence; extraction, discovery and clustering; search and documents; data and process modeling; ontology based approaches; variability and evolution; adaptation, preferences and query refinement; queries, matching and topic search; and conceptual modeling in action.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di informatica e Automazione, Università Roma Tre, Roma, Italy

    Paolo Atzeni

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

    David Cheung

  • Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

    Sudha Ram

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