Conceptual Modeling — ER ’99: 18th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling Paris, France, November 15–18, 1999 Proceedings

Session 1 - Supporting Schema Evolution.- Three Levels of Reuse for Supporting the Evolution of Database Schemas.- A Unified Framework for Supporting Dynamic Schema Evolution in Object Databases.- An Incremental and Semi-automatic Method Inheritance Graph Hierarchy Construction.- Session 2 - Temporal Database Design.- Developing an Object-Oriented Video Database System with Spatio-Temporal Reasoning Capabilities.- Entity Evolution in IsA Hierarchies.- Temporal ER Modeling with Description Logics.- Session 3 - Schema Transformation.- Automatic Migration and Wrapping of Database Applications - A Schema Transformation Approach.- A Methodology for Clustering Entity Relationship Models - A Human Information Processing Approach.- Designing Good Semi-structured Databases.- Session 4 - Views and Conceptual Modeling.- Building Views over Semistructured Data Sources.- Modeling and Maintaining Multi-view Data Warehouses.- Object Views through Search Views of Web Datasources.- Session 5 - Reuse in Conceptual Modeling.- Understanding and Modelling Business Processes with DEMO.- A Methodology for Building a Repository of Object-Oriented Design Fragments.- An Algorithm to Extract Is_A Inheritance Hierarchies from a Relational Database.- Session 6 - Business Process Modeling and Workflows.- DOTS: A Generic Infrastructure for Decision-Oriented Collaborative Task Support.- Dockets: A Model for Adding Value to Content.- Workflow Specification in TRAMs.- Session 7 - Integrating Application Models.- From CASE to CARE (Computer-Aided Requirements Engineering).- Solving the Problem of Semantic Heterogeneity in Defining Mediator Update Translators.- A Method for Requirements Elicitation and Formal Specification.- Session 8 - Data Warehouse Design.- Dealing with Semantic Heterogeneity During Data Integration.- Detecting Redundancy in Data Warehouse Evolution.- Modelling Data Warehouses and OLAP Applications by Means of Dialogue Objects.- Session 9 - Modeling Concepts.- Resolving the "Weak Status" of Weak Entity Types in Entity Relationship Schemas.- A Taxonomy of Recursive Relationships and Their Structural Validity in ER Modeling.- Extending Functional Dependencies in Indefinite Sequence Relations.- Session 10 - Schema Integration.- View Integration of Object Life-Cycles in Object-Oriented Design.- Towards an Automatic Integration of Statecharts.- Design Support for Database Federations.- Session 11 - Advanced Conceptual Modeling.- Operational Characterization of Genre in Literary and Real-Life Domains.- Contextualization as an Abstraction Mechanism for Conceptual Modelling.- Architectures for Evaluating the Quality of Information Models - A Meta and an Object Level Comparison.- Invited Papers.- XML-based Components for Federating Multiple Heterogeneous Data Sources.- A Process-Integrated Conceptual Design Environment for Chemical Engineering.- ER Model, XML and the Web.

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