Conceptual Modeling - ER 2004: 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Shanghai, China, November 8-12, 2004. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (3288))

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2004, held in Shanghai, China, in November 2004. The 57 revised full papers presented together with three invited contributions and 8 demonstration and poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 295 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on conceptual modeling, datawarehouses, schema integration, data classification and mining, web-based information systems, query processing, web services, schema evolution, conceptual modeling applications, UML, XML modeling, and industrial presentations. Front Matter....Pages - Entity Resolution: Overview and Challenges....Pages 1-2 Towards a Statistically Semantic Web....Pages 3-17 The Application and Prospect of Business Intelligence in Metallurgical Manufacturing Enterprises in China....Pages 18-29 Conceptual Modelling – What and Why in Current Practice....Pages 30-42 Entity-Relationship Modeling Re -revisited....Pages 43-54 Modeling Functional Data Sources as Relations....Pages 55-68 Roles as Entity Types: A Conceptual Modelling Pattern....Pages 69-82 Modeling Default Induction with Conceptual Structures....Pages 83-95 Reachability Problems in Entity-Relationship Schema Instances....Pages 96-109 A Reference Methodology for Conducting Ontological Analyses....Pages 110-121 Pruning Ontologies in the Development of Conceptual Schemas of Information Systems....Pages 122-135 Definition of Events and Their Effects in Object-Oriented Conceptual Modeling Languages....Pages 136-149 Enterprise Modeling with Conceptual XML....Pages 150-165 Graphical Reasoning for Sets of Functional Dependencies....Pages 166-179 ER-Based Software Sizing for Data-Intensive Systems....Pages 180-190 Data Mapping Diagrams for Data Warehouse Design with UML....Pages 191-204 Informational Scenarios for Data Warehouse Requirements Elicitation....Pages 205-216 Extending UML for Designing Secure Data Warehouses....Pages 217-230 Data Integration with Preferences Among Sources....Pages 231-244 Resolving Schematic Discrepancy in the Integration of Entity-Relationship Schemas....Pages 245-258 Managing Merged Data by Vague Functional Dependencies....Pages 259-272 Merging of XML Documents....Pages 273-285 Schema-Based Web Wrapping....Pages 286-299 Web Taxonomy Integration Using Spectral Graph Transducer....Pages 300-312 Contextual Probability-Based Classification....Pages 313-326 Improving the Performance of Decision Tree: A Hybrid Approach....Pages 327-335 Understanding Relationships: Classifying Verb Phrase Semantics....Pages 336-347 Fast Mining Maximal Frequent ItemSets Based on FP-Tree....Pages 348-361 Multi-phase Process Mining: Building Instance Graphs....Pages 362-376 A New XML Clustering for Structural Retrieval....Pages 377-387 Link Patterns for Modeling Information Grids and P2P Networks....Pages 388-401 Information Retrieval Aware Web Site Modelling and Generation....Pages 402-419 Expressive Profile Specification and Its Semantics for a Web Monitoring System....Pages 420-433 On Modelling Cooperative Retrieval Using an Ontology-Based Query Refinement Process....Pages 434-449 Load-Balancing Remote Spatial Join Queries in a Spatial GRID....Pages 450-463 Expressing and Optimizing Similarity-Based Queries in SQL....Pages 464-478 XSLTGen: A System for Automatically Generating XML Transformations via Semantic Mappings....Pages 479-492 Efficient Recursive XML Query Processing in Relational Database Systems....Pages 493-510 Situated Preferences and Preference Repositories for Personalized Database Applications....Pages 511-523 Analysis and Management of Web Service Protocols....Pages 524-541 Semantic Interpretation and Matching of Web Services....Pages 542-554 Intentional Modeling to Support Identity Management....Pages 555-566 WUML: A Web Usage Manipulation Language for Querying Web Log Data....Pages 567-581 An Agent-Based Approach for Interleaved Composition and Execution of Web Services....Pages 582-595 A Probabilistic QoS Model and Computation Framework for Web Services-Based Workflows....Pages 596-609 Lossless Conditional Schema Evolution....Pages 610-623 Ontology-Guided Change Detection to the Semantic Web Data....Pages 624-638 Schema Evolution in Data Warehousing Environments – A Schema Transformation-Based Approach....Pages 639-653 Metaprogramming for Relational Databases....Pages 654-667 Incremental Navigation: Providing Simple and Generic Access to Heterogeneous Structures....Pages 668-681 Agent Patterns for Ambient Intelligence....Pages 682-695 Modeling the Semantics of 3D Protein Structures....Pages 696-708 Risk-Driven Conceptual Modeling of Outsourcing Decisions....Pages 709-723 A Pattern and Dependency Based Approach to the Design of Process Models....Pages 724-739 Use of Tabular Analysis Method to Construct UML Sequence Diagrams....Pages 740-752 An Approach to Formalizing the Semantics of UML Statecharts....Pages 753-765 Applying the Application-Based Domain Modeling Approach to UML Structural Views....Pages 766-779 A Model Driven Approach for XML Database Development....Pages 780-794 On the Updatability of XML Views Published over Relational Data....Pages 795-809 XBiT: An XML-Based Bitemporal Data Model....Pages 810-824 Enterprise Cockpit for Business Operation Management....Pages 825-827 Modeling Autonomous Catalog for Electronic Commerce....Pages 828-830 GiSA: A Grid System for Genome Sequences Assembly....Pages 831-833 Analytical View of Business Data: An Example....Pages 834-837 Ontological Approaches to Enterprise Applications....Pages 838-840 FASTAXON: A System for FAST (and Faceted) TAXONomy Design....Pages 841-843 CLOVE: A Framework to Design Ontology Views....Pages 844-849 iRM: An OMG MOF Based Repository System with Querying Capabilities....Pages 850-851 Visual Querying for the Semantic Web....Pages 852-853 Query Refinement by Relevance Feedback in an XML Retrieval System....Pages 854-855 Semantics Modeling for Spatiotemporal Databases....Pages 856-857 Temporal Information Management Using XML....Pages 858-859 SVMgr : A Tool for the Management of Schema Versioning....Pages 860-861 GENNERE: A Generic Epidemiological Network for Nephrology and Rheumatology....Pages 862-864 Panel: Beyond Webservices – Conceptual Modelling for Service Oriented Architectures....Pages 865-865 Back Matter....Pages - On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we would like to welcome you to the proccedings of the 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2004). This conference provided an international forum for technical discussion on conceptual modeling of information systems among researchers, developers and users. This was the third time that this conference was held in Asia; the?rst time was in Singapore in 1998 and the second time was in Yokohama, Japan in 2001. China is the third largest nation with the largest population in the world. Shanghai, the largest city in China and a great metropolis, famous in Asia and throughout the world, is therefore a most appropriate location to host this conference. This volume contains papers selected for presentation and includes the two keynote talks by Prof. Hector Garcia-Molina and Prof. Gerhard Weikum, and an invited talk by Dr. Xiao Ji. This volume also contains industrial papers and demo/poster papers. An additional volume contains papers from 6 workshops. The conference also featured three tutorials: (1) Web Change Management andDelta Mining: Opportunities andSolutions, by SanjayMadria, (2)A Survey of Data Quality Issues in Cooperative Information Systems, by Carlo Batini, and (3) Visual SQL - An ER-Based Introduction to Database Programming, by Bernhard Thalheim. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2004, held in Shanghai, China, in November 2004. The 57 revised full papers presented togehter with three invited contributions and 8 demonstration and poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 295 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on conceptual modeling, datawarehouses, schema integration, data classification and mining, web-based information systems, query processing, web services, schema evolution, conceptual modeling applications, UML, XML modeling, and industrial presentations The age of information explosion poses tremendous challenges regarding the intelligent organization of data and the effective search of relevant information in business and industry (e.g., market analyses, logistic chains), society (e.g., health care), and virtually all sciences that are more and more data-driven (e.g., gene expression data analyses and other areas of bioinformatics).