Conceptual Modeling - ER '98

Keynote 1:.- The Rise, Fall and Return of Software Industry in Japan.- Session 1: Conceptual Modeling and Design.- Conceptual Design and Development of Information Services.- An EER-Based Conceptual Model and Query Language for Time-Series Data.- Chrono: A Conceptual Design Framework for Temporal Entities.- Session 2: User Interface Modeling.- Designing Well-Structured Websites: Lessons to Be Learned from Database Schema Methodology.- Formalizing the Informational Content of Database User Interfaces.- Session 3: Information Retrieval on the Web.- A Conceptual-Modeling Approach to Extracting Data from the Web.- Information Coupling in Web Databases.- Structure-Based Queries over the World Wide Web.- Session 4: Semantics and Constraints.- Integrated Approach for Modelling of Semantic and Pragmatic Dependencies of Information Systems.- Inference of Aggregate Relationships through Database Reverse Engineering.- On the Consistency of Int-cardinality Constraints.- Panel 1:.- Realizing Next Generation Internet Applications: Are There Genuine Research Problems, or Is It Advanced Product Development?.- Keynote 2:.- Web Sites Need Models and Schemes.- Session 5: Conceptual Modeling Tools.- ARTEMIS: A Process Modeling and Analysis Tool Environment.- From Object Oriented Conceptual Modeling to Automated Programming in Java.- An Evaluation of Two Approaches to Exploiting Real-World Knowledge by Intelligent Database Design Tools.- Session 6: Quality and Reliability Metrics.- Metrics for Evaluating the Quality of Entity Relationship Models.- A Transformational Approach to Correct Schema Refinements.- The Guidelines of Modeling - An Approach to Enhance the Quality in Information Models.- Industrial Session 1: Industrial Experiences in Conceptual Modeling.- Improving the Quality ofEntity Relationship Models-Experience in Research and Practice.- The Troll Approach to Conceptual Modelling: Syntax, Semantics, and Tools.- Process Failure in a Rapidly Changing High-Tech Organisation: A System Dynamics View.- Session 7: Object-Oriented Database Management Systems.- ROL2: A Real Deductive Object-Oriented Database Language.- Multiobjects to Ease Schema Evolution in an OODBMS.- Implementation of Automatic Lock Determination in C++-Based OODBMSs.- Panel 2:.- Do We Need Information Modeling for the Information Highway?.- Session 8: Data Warehousing.- Design and Analysis of Quality Information for Data Warehouses.- Data Warehouse Schema and Instance Design.- Reducing Algorithms for Materialized View Updates.- Industrial Session 2: Industrial Case Studies.- Reengineering Conventional Data and Process Models with Business Object Models: A Case Study Based on SAP R/3 and UML.- An Active Conceptual Model for Fixed Income Securities Analysis for Multiple Financial Institutions.- An Entomological Collections Database Model for INPA.- Session 9: Object-Oriented Approaches.- A Global Object Model for Accommodating Instance Heterogeneities.- On Formalizing the UML Object Constraint Language OCL.- Derived Horizontal Class Partitioning in OODBs: Design Strategies, Analytical Model, and Evaluation.