Conceptual Modeling - ER '99 : 18th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling Paris, France, November 15-18, 1999 Proceedings

This book provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art, in conceptual modeling. It grew out of research papers presented at the 18th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER '99) and arranged by the editors. The plan of the conference is to cover the whole spectrum of conceptual modeling as it relates to database and information systems design and to offer a complete coverage of data and process modeling, database technology, and database applications. The aim of the conference and of these proceedings is to present new insights related to each of these topics. This book contains both selected and invited papers. The 33 selected papers are organized in 11 sessions encompassing the major themes of the conference, especially : - schema transformation, evolution, and integration - temporal database design - views and reuse in conceptual modeling - advanced conceptual modeling - business process modeling and workflows - data warehouse design. Besides the selected papers, 3 invited papers present the views of three keynote speakers, internationally known for their contribution to conceptual modeling and database research and for their active role in knowledge dissemination. Peter Chen presents the results of his ongoing research on ER model, XML, and the Web. Georges Gardarin presents the first results of an ESPRIT project federating various data sources with XML and XML-QL. Finally, Matthias Jarke develops a way to capture and evaluate the experiences gained about process designs in so-called process data warehouses. Three Levels of Reuse for Supporting the Evolution of Database Schemas....Pages 1-16 A Unified Framework for Supporting Dynamic Schema Evolution in Object Databases....Pages 16-30 An Incremental and Semi-automatic Method Inheritance Graph Hierarchy Construction....Pages 31-49 Developing an Object-Oriented Video Database System with Spatio-Temporal Reasoning Capabilities....Pages 50-61 Entity Evolution in IsA Hierarchies....Pages 62-80 Temporal ER Modeling with Description Logics....Pages 81-95 Automatic Migration and Wrapping of Database Applications — A Schema Transformation Approach....Pages 96-114 A Methodology for Clustering Entity Relationship Models — A Human Information Processing Approach....Pages 114-130 Designing Good Semi-structured Databases....Pages 131-145 Building Views over Semistructured Data Sources....Pages 146-160 Modeling and Maintaining Multi-view Data Warehouses....Pages 161-176 Object Views through Search Views of Web Datasources....Pages 176-187 Understanding and Modelling Business Processes with DEMO....Pages 188-202 A Methodology for Building a Repository of Object-Oriented Design Fragments....Pages 203-217 An Algorithm to Extract Is_A Inheritance Hierarchies from a Relational Database....Pages 218-232 DOTS: A Generic Infrastructure for Decision-Oriented Collaborative Task Support....Pages 233-247 Dockets: A Model for Adding Value to Content....Pages 248-263 Workflow Specification in TRAMs....Pages 263-278 From CASE to CARE (Computer-Aided Requirements Engineering)....Pages 278-292 Solving the Problem of Semantic Heterogeneity in Defining Mediator Update Translators....Pages 293-308 A Method for Requirements Elicitation and Formal Specification....Pages 309-325 Dealing with Semantic Heterogeneity During Data Integration....Pages 325-339 Detecting Redundancy in Data Warehouse Evolution....Pages 340-353 Modelling Data Warehouses and OLAP Applications by Means of Dialogue Objects....Pages 354-368 Resolving the “Weak Status” of Weak Entity Types in Entity Relationship Schemas....Pages 369-383 A Taxonomy of Recursive Relationships and Their Structural Validity in ER Modeling....Pages 384-399 Extending Functional Dependencies in Indefinite Sequence Relations....Pages 399-412 View Integration of Object Life-Cycles in Object-Oriented Design....Pages 413-430 Towards an Automatic Integration of Statecharts....Pages 430-445 Design Support for Database Federations....Pages 445-460 Operational Characterization of Genre in Literary and Real-Life Domains....Pages 460-474 Contextualization as an Abstraction Mechanism for Conceptual Modelling....Pages 475-490 Architectures for Evaluating the Quality of Information Models — A Meta and an Object Level Comparison....Pages 490-505 XML-based Components for Federating Multiple Heterogeneous Data Sources....Pages 506-519 A Process-Integrated Conceptual Design Environment for Chemical Engineering....Pages 520-537 ER Model, XML and the Web....Pages 538-538

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER '99, held in Paris, France, in November 1999.
The 33 revised full papers presented together with three invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 143 submissions. The book is divided into topical sections on supporting schema evolution, temporal database design, schema transformation, views and conceptual modeling, reuse in conceptual modeling, business process modeling and workflows, integrating application models, data warehouse design, modeling concepts, schema integration, and advanced conceptual modeling.

When a conceptual schema evolves the whole design process has to be re-examined to adapt it to the new situation.