Conceptual Modeling Perspectives

Conceptual modeling has always been one of the main issues in information systems engineering as it aims to describe the general knowledge of the system at an abstract level that facilitates user understanding and software development. This collection of selected papers provides a comprehensive and extremely readable overview of what conceptual modeling is and perspectives on making it more and more relevant in our society. It covers topics like modeling the human genome, blockchain technology, model-driven software development, data integration, and wiki-like repositories and demonstrates the general applicability of conceptual modeling to various problems in diverse domains. Overall, this book is a source of inspiration for everybody in academia working on the vision of creating a strong, fruitful and creative community of conceptual modelers. With this book the editors and authors want to honor Prof. Antoni Olivé for his enormous and ongoing contributions to the conceptual modeling discipline. It was presented to him on the occasion of his keynote at ER 2017 in Valencia, a conference that he has contributed to and supported for over 20 years. Thank you very much to Antoni for so many years of cooperation and friendship. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii A Tribute to Antoni Olivé on the Occasion of His Retirement (Janis Bubenko, Colette Rolland, Arne Sølvberg)....Pages 1-5 30 Years of Contributions to Conceptual Modeling (Jordi Cabot, Cristina Gómez, Maria-Ribera Sancho, Ernest Teniente)....Pages 7-23 Modeling Life: A Conceptual Schema-centric Approach to Understand the Genome (Óscar Pastor López, Ana León Palacio, José Fabián Reyes Román, Juan Carlos Casamayor)....Pages 25-40 Strategic Reading & Conceptual Modeling (Oscar Díaz)....Pages 41-53 Conceptual Modeling for Indicator Selection (Alejandro Maté, Juan Trujillo, John Mylopoulos)....Pages 55-68 Conceptual Modeling in Accelerating Information Ingest into Family Tree (David W. Embley, Stephen W. Liddle, Tanner S. Eastmond, Deryle W. Lonsdale, Joseph P. Price, Scott N. Woodfield)....Pages 69-84 Model Centered Architecture (Heinrich C. Mayr, Judith Michael, Suneth Ranasinghe, Vladimir A. Shekhovtsov, Claudia Steinberger)....Pages 85-104 Design-time Models for Resiliency (Andrea Marrella, Massimo Mecella, Barbara Pernici, Pierluigi Plebani)....Pages 105-120 Web System Development Using Polymorphic Widgets and Generic Schemas (Scott Britell, Lois M. L. Delcambre, Paolo Atzeni)....Pages 121-135 Model-Based Engineering for Database System Development (Bernhard Thalheim)....Pages 137-153 Quality Improvement of Conceptual UML and OCL Schemata through Model Validation and Verification (Martin Gogolla, Khanh-Hoang Doan)....Pages 155-168 CreatingWorlds with Words: Ontology-guided Conceptual Modeling for Institutional Domains (Paul Johannesson, Maria Bergholtz, Owen Eriksson)....Pages 169-184 Quality of Conceptual Models in Model Driven Software Engineering (John Krogstie)....Pages 185-198 A Unified Conceptual Framework for Managing Services in the Web Oriented Architecture (Devis Bianchini, Valeria De Antonellis, Michele Melchiori)....Pages 199-214 Handling the Evolution of Information Systems: An Overview of Challenges and Prospective Solutions (Michel Léonard, Jolita Ralyté)....Pages 215-229 On Warehouses, Lakes, and Spaces: The Changing Role of Conceptual Modeling for Data Integration (Matthias Jarke, Christoph Quix)....Pages 231-245 A Method for Emerging Technology Evaluation. Application to Blockchain and Smart Data Discovery (Jacky Akoka, Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau)....Pages 247-258 The Early Days of Entity-Relationship Modeling Retrospective on Dataid Project and Beyond (Carlo Batini, Stefano Ceri)....Pages 259-268