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.