26. ER 2007: Auckland, New Zealand

Keynotes

• Egon Börger:
  Modeling Workflow Patterns from First Principles. 1-20
  
• Peter J. Hunter:
  Heart Modeling, Computational Physiology and the IUPS Physiome Project. 21
  
• Enrico Franconi:
  Conceptual Schemas and Ontologies for Database Access: Myths and Challenges. 22
  

Data Warehousing and Data Mining

• Svetlana Mansmann, Thomas Neumuth, Marc H. Scholl:
  Multidimensional Data Modeling for Business Process Analysis. 23-38
  
• An Lu, Wilfred Ng:
  Mining Hesitation Information by Vague Association Rules. 39-55
  
• Jose-Norberto Mazón, Juan Trujillo:
  A Model Driven Modernization Approach for Automatically Deriving Multidimensional Models in Data Warehouses. 56-71
  

Design Methodologies and Tools

• Hui Ma, Markus Kirchberg:
  Cost-Based Fragmentation for Distributed Complex Value Databases. 72-86
  
• Amy Lo, Eric Yu:
  From Business Models to Service-Oriented Design: A Reference Catalog Approach. 87-101
  
• Peter Mork, Philip A. Bernstein, Sergey Melnik:
  Teaching a Schema Translator to Produce O/R Views. 102-119
  
• Joachim Biskup, Ralf Menzel:
  Building a Tool for Cost-Based Design of Object-Oriented Database Schemas. 120-131
  

Information and Database Integration

• David Kensche, Christoph Quix, Yong Li, Matthias Jarke:
  Generic Schema Mappings. 132-148
  
• Cristiana Bolchini, Elisa Quintarelli, Rosalba Rossato:
  Relational Data Tailoring Through View Composition. 149-164
  
• Ruopeng Lu, Shazia Wasim Sadiq:
  On the Discovery of Preferred Work Practice Through Business Process Variants. 165-180
  

Information Modelling Concepts and Ontologies

• Mustafa Jarrar:
  Towards Automated Reasoning on ORM Schemes. 181-197
  
• Jordi Cabot:
  From Declarative to Imperative UML/OCL Operation Specifications. 198-213
  
• Jeffrey Parsons, Xueming Li:
  An Ontological Metamodel of Classifiers and Its Application to Conceptual Modelling and Database Design. 214-228
  

Integrity Constraints

• An Lu, Wilfred Ng:
  Handling Inconsistency of Vague Relations with Functional Dependencies. 229-244
  
• Andrea Calì:
  Querying Incomplete Data with Logic Programs: ER Strikes Back. 245-260
  
• Wilfred Ng:
  Prioritized Preferences and Choice Constraints. 261-276
  

Logical Foundations of Conceptual Modelling

• Alessandro Artale, Diego Calvanese, Roman Kontchakov, Vladislav Ryzhikov, Michael Zakharyaschev:
  Reasoning over Extended ER Models. 277-292
  
• David Toman, Grant E. Weddell:
  On Order Dependencies for the Semantic Web. 293-306
  
• Sven Hartmann, Sebastian Link:
  Collection Type Constructors in Entity-Relationship Modeling. 307-322
  

Patterns and Conceptual Meta-modelling

• Paolo Papotti, Riccardo Torlone:
  Schema Exchange: A Template-Based Approach to Data and Metadata Translation. 323-337
  
• Sonia Berman, Daniel Thembinkosi Semwayo:
  A Conceptual Modeling Methodology Based on Niches and Granularity. 338-358
  
• Beat Signer, Moira C. Norrie:
  As We May Link: A General Metamodel for Hypermedia Systems. 359-374
  

Requirements Elicitation

• Golnaz Elahi, Eric S. K. Yu:
  A Goal Oriented Approach for Modeling and Analyzing Security Trade-Offs. 375-390
  
• Aditya Ghose, George Koliadis, Arthur Chueng:
  Rapid Business Process Discovery ( R- BPD). 391-406
  
• Frederik Gailly, Geert Poels:
  Ontology-Driven Business Modelling: Improving the Conceptual Representation of the REA Ontology. 407-422
  
• Tor Stålhane, Guttorm Sindre:
  A Comparison of Two Approaches to Safety Analysis Based on Use Cases. 423-437
  
• Mohd Syazwan Abdullah, Ian D. Benest, Richard F. Paige, Chris Kimble:
  Using Unified Modeling Language for Conceptual Modelling of Knowledge-Based Systems. 438-453
  
• Ivan Jureta, Stéphane Faulkner:
  Tracing the Rationale Behind UML Model Change Through Argumentation. 454-469
  

Reuse and Reengineering

• Karthikeyan Umapathy, Sandeep Purao:
  Exploring Alternatives for Representing and Accessing Design Knowledge About Enterprise Integration. 470-484
  
• Walid Gaaloul, Sami Bhiri, Armin Haller:
  Mining and Re-engineering Transactional Workflows for Reliable Executions. 485-501
  
• Pierre-Antoine Champin, Geert-Jan Houben, Philippe Thiran:
  Cross: An OWL Wrapper for Reasoning on Relational Databases. 502-517
  

Semi-structured Data and XML

• Reema Al-Kamha, David W. Embley, Stephen W. Liddle:
  Augmenting Traditional Conceptual Models to Accommodate XML Structural Constructs. 518-533
  
• Huayu Wu, Tok Wang Ling, Bo Chen:
  VERT: A Semantic Approach for Content Search and Content Extraction in XML Query Processing. 534-549
  
• Franck Ravat, Olivier Teste, Ronan Tournier, Gilles Zurfluh:
  A Conceptual Model for Multidimensional Analysis of Documents. 550-565
  

Web Information Systems and XML

• Cui Tao, David W. Embley:
  Automatic Hidden-Web Table Interpretation by Sibling Page Comparison. 566-581
  
• Joe Tekli, Richard Chbeir, Kokou Yétongnon:
  A Fine-Grained XML Structural Comparison Approach. 582-598
  
• Julien Ponge, Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati, Farouk Toumani:
  Fine-Grained Compatibility and Replaceability Analysis of Timed Web Service Protocols. 599-614