27. ER 2008: Barcelona, Spain

Keynotes

• Oscar Pastor:
  Conceptual Modeling Meets the Human Genome. 1-11
  
• Amit P. Sheth:
  Relationship Web: Spinning the Web from Trailblazing to Semantic Analytics. 12-14
  
• Moira C. Norrie:
  PIM Meets Web 2.0. 15-25
  

Novel Semantics

• Wilfred Ng:
  Developing Preference Band Model to Manage Collective Preferences. 26-40
  
• Shawn Bowers, Joshua S. Madin, Mark P. Schildhauer:
  A Conceptual Modeling Framework for Expressing Observational Data Semantics. 41-54
  
• Lei Jiang, Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos:
  Towards a Compositional Semantic Account of Data Quality Attributes. 55-68
  

Ontology

• Yi Cai, Ho-fung Leung:
  A Formal Model of Fuzzy Ontology with Property Hierarchy and Object Membership. 69-82
  
• Giancarlo Guizzardi, Gerd Wagner:
  What's in a Relationship: An Ontological Analysis. 83-97
  
• Vadim Ermolayev, Natalya Keberle, Wolf-Ekkehard Matzke:
  An Upper Level Ontological Model for Engineering Design Performance Domain. 98-113
  

Patterns

• Il-Yeol Song, Ritu Khare, Yuan An, Margaret Hilsbos:
  A Multi-level Methodology for Developing UML Sequence Diagrams. 114-127
  
• Valentina Presutti, Aldo Gangemi:
  Content Ontology Design Patterns as Practical Building Blocks for Web Ontologies. 128-141
  
• Samira Si-Said Cherfi, Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, Jacky Akoka:
  Quality Patterns for Conceptual Modelling. 142-153
  

Privacy, Compliance, Location

• Nadzeya Kiyavitskaya, Nicola Zeni, Travis D. Breaux, Annie I. Antón, James R. Cordy, Luisa Mich, John Mylopoulos:
  Automating the Extraction of Rights and Obligations for Regulatory Compliance. 154-168
  
• Raian Ali, Fabiano Dalpiaz, Paolo Giorgini:
  Location-Based Software Modeling and Analysis: Tropos-Based Approach. 169-182
  
• Mizuho Iwaihara, Kohei Murakami, Gail-Joon Ahn, Masatoshi Yoshikawa:
  Risk Evaluation for Personal Identity Management Based on Privacy Attribute Ontology. 183-198
  

Process mgt and Design

• Marcello La Rosa, Marlon Dumas, Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede, Jan Mendling, Florian Gottschalk:
  Beyond Control-Flow: Extending Business Process Configuration to Roles and Objects. 199-215
  
• Roel Wieringa, Vincent Pijpers, Lianne Bodenstaff, Jaap Gordijn:
  Value-Driven Coordination Process Design Using Physical Delivery Models. 216-231
  
• Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Manfred Reichert, Barbara Weber:
  Relaxed Compliance Notions in Adaptive Process Management Systems. 232-247
  

Process Models

• Chen Li, Manfred Reichert, Andreas Wombacher:
  On Measuring Process Model Similarity Based on High-Level Change Operations. 248-264
  
• Thomas Hornung, Agnes Koschmider, Georg Lausen:
  Recommendation Based Process Modeling Support: Method and User Experience. 265-278
  
• Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Manfred Reichert, Barbara Weber:
  On the Formal Semantics of Change Patterns in Process-Aware Information Systems. 279-293
  

Queries

• Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, Min Wang:
  Modeling and Querying E-Commerce Data in Hybrid Relational-XML DBMSs. 294-310
  
• Sergio Greco, Cristian Molinaro:
  Approximate Probabilistic Query Answering over Inconsistent Databases. 311-325
  
• Andrea Calì, Davide Martinenghi:
  Conjunctive Query Containment under Access Limitations. 326-340
  

Similarity and Coherence

• Khalid Saleem, Zohra Bellahsene:
  Automatic Extraction of Structurally Coherent Mini-Taxonomies. 341-354
  
• Antonio L. Furtado, Marco A. Casanova, Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa, Karin Koogan Breitman:
  Analysis and Reuse of Plots Using Similarity and Analogy. 355-368
  
• Yuan An, Il-Yeol Song:
  Discovering Semantically Similar Associations (SeSA) for Complex Mappings between Conceptual Models. 369-382
  

Space and Time

• Lotfi Bejaoui, Francois Pinet, Michel Schneider, Yvan Bédard:
  An Adverbial Approach for the Formal Specification of Topological Constraints Involving Regions with Broad Boundaries. 383-396
  
• Carlo Combi, Sara Degani, Christian S. Jensen:
  Capturing Temporal Constraints in Temporal ER Models. 397-411
  
• Peter McBrien:
  Temporal Constraints in Non-temporal Data Modelling Languages. 412-425
  

System Design

• Jesús Pardillo, Juan Trujillo:
  Integrated Model-Driven Development of Goal-Oriented Data Warehouses and Data Marts. 426-439
  
• George Papastefanatos, Panos Vassiliadis, Alkis Simitsis, Yannis Vassiliou:
  Design Metrics for Data Warehouse Evolution. 440-454
  
• Anat Aharoni, Iris Reinhartz-Berger:
  A Domain Engineering Approach for Situational Method Engineering. 455-468
  

Translation, Transformation, and Search

• Guoliang Li, Jianhua Feng, Lizhu Zhou:
  Retune: Retrieving and Materializing Tuple Units for Effective Keyword Search over Relational Databases. 469-483
  
• Fernando Silva Parreiras, Steffen Staab, Simon Schenk, Andreas Winter:
  Model Driven Specification of Ontology Translations. 484-497
  
• José Ignacio Panach, Sergio España, Ana M. Moreno, Oscar Pastor:
  Dealing with Usability in Model Transformation Technologies. 498-511
  

Demo

• Silvana Castano, Alfio Ferrara, Davide Lorusso, Stefano Montanelli:
  Ontology Coordination: The iCoord Project Demonstration. 512-513
  
• Ismael Sanz, María Pérez, Rafael Berlanga Llavori:
  Designing Similarity Measures for XML. 514-515
  
• Ling Lin, Yukai He, Hang Guo, Ju Fan, Lizhu Zhou, Qi Guo, Gang Li:
  SESQ: A Model-Driven Method for Building Object Level Vertical Search Engines. 516-517
  
• Fabrice Camous, Dónall McCann, Mark Roantree:
  HealthSense: An Application for Querying Raw Sensor Data. 518-519
  
• Bernhard Thalheim:
  Visual SQL: Towards ER-Based Object-Relational Database Querying. 520-521
  
• Il-Yeol Song, Ritu Khare, Yuan An, Suan Lee, Sang-Pil Kim, Jinho Kim, Yang-Sae Moon:
  SAMSTAR: An Automatic Tool for Generating Star Schemas from an Entity-Relationship Diagram. 522-523
  
• Ming Li, Murali Mani, Elke A. Rundensteiner:
  Constraint-Aware XSLT Evaluation. 524-525
  
• Hendrik Voigt, Thomas Ruhroth:
  A Quality Circle Tool for Software Models. 526-527
  
• Eran Toch, Iris Reinhartz-Berger, Avigdor Gal, Dov Dori:
  Generating and Optimizing Graphical User Interfaces for Semantic Service Compositions. 528-529
  
• Begoña Moros, Cristina Vicente-Chicote, José Ambrosio Toval Álvarez:
  REMM-Studio⁺: Modeling Variability to Enable Requirements Reuse. 530-531
  
• David W. Embley, Stephen W. Liddle, Deryle W. Lonsdale, George Nagy, Yuri A. Tijerino, Robert Clawson, Jordan Crabtree, Yihong Ding, Piyushee Jha, Zonghui Lian, Stephen Lynn, Raghav K. Padmanabhan, Jeff Peters, Cui Tao, Robby Watts, Charla Woodbury, Andrew Zitzelberger:
  A Conceptual-Model-Based Computational Alembic for a Web of Knowledge. 532-533
  
• Oscar Romero, Alberto Abelló:
  MDBE: Automatic Multidimensional Modeling. 534-535
  
• Gero Decker, Hagen Overdick, Mathias Weske:
  Oryx - Sharing Conceptual Models on the Web. 536-537
  
• Haggai Roitman, Avigdor Gal, Carmel Domshlak:
  Providing Top-K Alternative Schema Matchings with . 538-539
  
• Yair Wand, Carson Woo, Ohad Wand:
  Role and Request Based Conceptual Modeling - A Methodology and a CASE Tool. 540-541
  
• Andrew Smith, Nikos Rizopoulos, Peter McBrien:
  AutoMed Model Management. 542-543
  
• Xavier Burgués Illa, Xavier Franch, Josep M. Ribó Balust:
  QUINST: A Metamodeling Tool. 544-546
  
• Antonio Badia, Brandon Debes, Bin Cao:
  An Implementation of a Query Language with Generalized Quantifiers. 547-548