7. ER 1988: Rome, Italy

• Title, Preface, Committees, Referees, Acknowledgements, Table of Contents.
  

Keynote Address

• Jerry Winkler:
  The Entity-Relationship Approach and the Information Resource Dictionary System Standard. 3-19
  

Panel and Tutorial Sessions

• Paolo Atzeni:
  Panel and Tutorial Sessions - Introduction. 23-24
  
• Stefano Spaccapietra, Yirki Nummenmaa, Rainer Melchert, Michael Schrefl, Paola Velardi:
  Interfaces for Advanced Data Base Systems: Iconic, Graphical, Natural Language Oriented - Panel. 25-46
  
• Yannis Vassiliou, Valeria De Antonellis, Klaus R. Dittrich, Michael V. Mannino, Shamkant B. Navathe:
  Data Bases and Knowledge Bases: Which Approach is Good for What? - Panel. 47-55
  
• Gaetano Santucci, Edward Beslmuller, Philippe Dumas, Paolo Ercoli, Nic Hopkins, Barbara Klain, Jerry Winkler:
  Design Methodologies and Standards in Governamental Organizations - Panel. 57-70
  
• Cheng Hsu, Roberto Ciampoli, Edwin Marison, Norbert Meissner, Erik G. Nilsson, Frederick N. Springsteel:
  The CASE Boom: Decadence or Renaissance of Methodologies? - Panel. 71-86
  

Industrial Session

• Maria Terranova:
  Industrial Session - Introduction, Foundation, Information Engineering Workbench, Excelerator, ECASET, GENOS, PAPICS, ASA, LOGISCOPE, TASIS-CASE, Mega CASE Tools, The MastER System, SECSI, DAFNE Methodology, Software through Pictures, Olivetti Open Architecture, PREDICT CASE, easyFIND, ER-Modeler. 89-125
  

Theoretical Foundations

• Uwe Hohenstein, Martin Gogolla:
  A Calculus for an Extended Entity-Relationship Model Incorporating Arbitrary Data Operations and Aggregate Functions. 129-148
  
• Jacques Hagelstein, André Rifaut:
  A Semantic Analysis of the Collection Concept. 149-164
  
• Jaroslav Pokorný:
  A Function: Unifying Mechanism for Entity-Oriented Database Models. 165-181
  

ER and Object Oriented Systems

• Shamkant B. Navathe, Mahan K. Pillalamarri:
  OOER: Toward Making the E-R Approach Object-Oriented. 185-206
  
• Giuseppe Di Battista, Maurizio Lenzerini:
  Object Modeling Based on Logic. 207-225
  

Data Modeling Tools

• Ferda N. Civelek, Asuman Dogac, Stefano Spaccapietra:
  An Expert System Approach to View Definition and Integration. 229-249
  
• Giuseppe Di Battista, Hannu Kangassalo, Roberto Tamassia:
  Definition Libraries for Conceptual Modelling. 251-267
  

User Interfaces and Query Languages

• Ivar P. Groette, Erik G. Nilsson:
  SICON, an Iconic Presentation Module For an E-R Database. 271-289
  
• Tiziana Catarci, Giuseppe Santucci:
  Query by Diagramm: A Graphic Query System. 291-308
  

ER and Object Oriented Systems

• Gerti Kappel, Michael Schrefl:
  A Behaviour Integrated Entity-Relationship Approach for the Design of Object-Oriented Databases. 311-328
  
• Kyung-Chang Kim, Won Kim, Darrell Woelk, Alfred G. Dale:
  Acyclic Query Processing in Object-Oriented Databases. 329-346
  

Data Modeling Tools

• Frederick N. Springsteel, Po-Jen Chuang:
  ERDDS: The Intelligent E-R-Based Database Design System. 349-368
  
• Tiziana Catarci, Fabrizio Massimo Ferrara:
  OPTIM_ER: An Automated Tool for Supporting the Logical Design Within a Complete CASE Environment. 369-388
  

Design Methodologies

• Veronica P. Tseng, Michael V. Mannino:
  Inferring Database Requirements from Examples in Forms. 391-405
  
• Charles F. Wagner:
  Implementing Abstraction Hierarchies. 407-422
  
• Ferdi Put:
  The ER Approach Extended with the Action Concept as a Conceptual Modelling Tool. 423-440
  

ER and Knowledge Based Systems

• Sonia Bergamaschi, Lorenzo Cavedoni, Claudio Sartori, Paolo Tiberio:
  On Taxonomic Reasoning in E/R Environment. 443-454
  
• Maria Teresa Pazienza:
  Using a Semantic Knowledge Base to Support a Natural Language Interface to a Text Database. 455-472
  
• Nelson Mendonça Mattos:
  Abstraction Concepts: The Basis for Data and Knowledge Modeling. 473-492
  

Data Modeling Tools and Systems

• Tok Wang Ling:
  External Schemas of Entity-Relationship Based Data Base Management Systems. 495-508
  
• Henri Habrias, Patrick Legrand:
  A Description of Rules through Occurring/Synthetic Cardinalities. 509-525