Conceptual Modeling — ER 2002: 21st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling Tampere, Finland, October 7–11, 2002 Proceedings

For more than 20 years, the series of Conceptual Modeling – ER conferences has provided a forum for research communities and practitioners to present and - change research results and practical experiences in the ?elds of database design and conceptual modeling. Throughout the years, the scope of these conferences has extended from database design and speci?c topics of that area to more u- versal or re?ned conceptual modeling, organizing originally weak or ill-structured information or knowledge in more cultured ways by applying various kinds of principles, abstract models, and theories, for di?erent purposes. At the same time, many technically oriented approaches have been developed which aim to facilitate the implementation of rather advanced conceptual models. Conceptual modeling is based on the process of conceptualization, and it is the core of system structuring as well as justi?cation for information systems development. It supports and facilitates the understanding, explanation, pred- tion, and reasoning on information and knowledge, and their manipulation in the systems, in addition to understanding and designing the functions of the systems. The conceptualization process aims at constructing concepts relevant for the knowledge and information system in question. Concepts in the human mind and concept descriptions in computerized information systems are quite di?erent things by nature, but both should be taken into account in conceptual modeling. Usually concept descriptions are properly observed, but concepts in the human mind and their properties are often neglected quite carelessly. Conceptual Modelling and Ontology: Possibilities and Pitfalls....Pages 1-2 An Ontology for m-Business Models....Pages 3-6 Modeling Dynamics of Business Processes: Key for Building Next Generation of Business Information Systems....Pages 7-9 Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modelling....Pages 10-10 Advanced OO Modelling: Metamodels and Notations for the New Millennium....Pages 11-11 Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modelling: Advanced Concepts....Pages 12-12 Workflow Management in Electronic Commerce....Pages 13-14 Do We Need an Ontology of Ontologies?....Pages 15-15 Development of a Conceptual Data Model for Digital Spatio-Temporal Geographical Information, with Application to Several Themes and GIS....Pages 16-16 Using Semantic Rules Database to Dynamically Set up the ICSpace Virtual Building....Pages 17-17 On the Transformation of Object Oriented Conceptual Models to Logical Theories: From EROOS to ID-Logic....Pages 18-19 Component Construction of Database Schemes....Pages 20-34 Multirelational Semantics for Extended Entity-Relationship Schemata With Applications....Pages 35-49 A Meta-model for e-Contract Template Variable Dependencies Facilitating e-Negotiation....Pages 50-64 On the General Ontological Foundations of Conceptual Modeling....Pages 65-78 Finding and Characterizing Changes in Ontologies....Pages 79-89 Superimposed Schematics: Introducing E-R Structure for In-Situ Information Selections....Pages 90-104 Web extensions to UML: Using the MVC Triad....Pages 105-119 Wiccap Data Model: Mapping Physical Websites to Logical Views....Pages 120-135 Representing and Querying Semistructured Web Data Using Nested Tables with Structural Variants....Pages 135-151 On the Transformation of Object-Oriented Conceptual Models to Logical Theories....Pages 152-166 Reasoning with Goal Models....Pages 167-181 Registering Scientific Information Sources for Semantic Mediation....Pages 182-198 Multidimensional Modeling with UML Package Diagrams....Pages 199-213 Comparative Evaluation of Large Data Model Representation Methods: The Analyst’s Perspective....Pages 214-231 Extracting Conceptual Relationships from Specialized Documents....Pages 232-246 A Transactional Model for Data Warehouse Maintenance....Pages 247-262 The Account Data Model....Pages 263-275 A Semantic Model for Hypertext Data Caching....Pages 276-287 Understanding and Simulating Narratives in the Context of Information Systems....Pages 291-306 Global Schema Generation Using Formal Ontologies....Pages 307-321 Automatically Extracting Ontologically Specified Data from HTML Tables of Unknown Structure....Pages 322-337 On the Expressive Power of Data Integration Systems....Pages 338-350 Property-Based Semantic Reconciliation of Heterogeneous Information Sources....Pages 351-364 Conceptual integration of multiple partial geometric models....Pages 365-379 Evaluating the Quality of Process Models: Empirical Testing of a Quality Framework....Pages 380-396 Data Quality in Web Information Systems....Pages 397-413 Conceptual Modeling Quality - From EER to UML Schemas Evaluation....Pages 414-428 Conceptual Modeling for Customized XML Schemas....Pages 429-443 A Flexible Cost Model for Abstract Object-Oriented Database Schemas....Pages 444-462 Designing Valid XML Views....Pages 463-477 Conceptual Modelling And Ontology: Possibilities And Pitfalls / Ron Weber -- On Ontology For M-business Models / Yves Pigneur -- Modeling Dynamics Of Business Processes: Key For Building Next Generation Of Business Information Systems / Ilia Bider And Paul Johannesson -- Ontology-driven Conceptual Modelling / Nicola Guarino And Luc Schneider -- Advanced Oo Modelling: Metamodels And Notations For The New Millennium / Brian Henderson-sellers -- Ontology-driven Conceptual Modelling: Advanced Concepts / Nicola Guarino And Luc Schneider -- Workflow Management In Electronic Commerce / Paul Grefen -- Do We Need An Ontology Of Ontologies? / Heinrich C. Mayr. Stefano Spaccapietra, Salvatore T. March, Yahiko Kambayashi (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References And Index.