The 16th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling - ER'97
3-6 November, 1997 Los Angeles, California, USA
http://osm7.cs.byu.edu/ER97
Visit our Web site for more information. Registration info and
advance program are included below. Our apologies if you receive
this notice more than once.
PLEASE NOTE: The post-conference workshops have been opened up so
that all who are interested may sign up to attend a workshop. You
must still pay the additional workshop registration fee.
SPONSORED BY the ER Institute and UCLA in cooperation with ACM/SIGMOD
CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
ER'97 returns to UCLA, the site of the first ER Conference in 1979.
To mark this event, a special symposium, Conceptual Modeling:
Historical Perspectives and Future Directions, will be held on the
Sunday prior to the conference and open to all ER'97 registrants.
The symposium will be summarized at an extra pre-conference panel
discussion on Monday evening. Both the symposium and the panel
will be chaired by Dr. Peter P. Chen, originator of the Entity-
Relationship model.
The program for ER'97 has been designed specifically to appeal to
consultants and information systems professionals outside the
computer industry, as well as information technology academics and
researchers in computer-company laboratories. To this end, three
conference sessions are devoted entirely to presentations by
leading researchers based in industry.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Michael L. Brodie Alan G. Merten
Senior Staff Scientist President
GTE Laboratories, Incorporated, USA George Mason University
PRECONFERENCE SYMPOSIUM
Conceptual Modeling: Historical Perspectives and Future Directions
General Organizers: Mark Foresti (forestim@rl.af.mil)
Ray Liuzzi (liuzzir@rl.af.mil)
Mike McNeil (mmcneil@bbn.com)
Leah Wong (wong@cod.nosc.mil)
Peter Chen (chen@bit.csc.lsu.edu)
Session Organizers: Mark Foresti (foresti@rl.af.mil)
Hannu Kangassalo
Benn Konsynski
Sham Navathe (sham@cc.gatech.edu)
WORKSHOPS
There will be three workshops held simultaneously on Thursday,
November 6 and continuing Friday, November 7. Workshops require an
additional registration fee. (Workshop 2 is cancelled.)
Workshop 1: Conceptual Modeling in Multimedia Information
Contact: Carlo Meghini (meghini@iei.pi.cnr.it)
The availability of non-textual ("multimedia") documents has
given a new twist to information retrieval research,
unfortunately setting even farther in the future the time in
which generalized, automatic indexing methods will allow
answering of content-based queries. Conceptual modeling and
knowledge representation methodologies offer a promising
approach to this problem.
Workshop 3: Cognition and Conceptual Modeling
Contact: Jeffrey Parsons (jeff@salmon.busi.mun.ca)
Cognition is the branch of cognitive psychology that seeks to
understand thought processes and the structure of knowledge.
This workshop will focus on using cognition to understand
existing conceptual modeling techniques, to guide the design of
new techniques, and to provide criteria for evaluating
techniques and methods.
Workshop 4: Behavioral Models and Design Transformations: Issues
and Opportunities in Conceptual Modeling
Contact: Stephen W. Liddle (liddle@byu.edu)
Researchers are devoting increasingly more energy to the problems
of behavioral modeling in conjunction with traditional conceptual
data modeling. The goals of this workshop are to better
understand theoretical aspects of behavioral models, and to use
that understanding to suggest transformations that would be
helpful in the design of active systems.
TUTORIALS
There will be two half-day tutorials held Monday, November 3.
Tutorials require an additional registration fee.
Tutorial 1: OML: A Metamodel and Notation for a Pure Object-
Oriented Software Development Environment
Contact: Brian Henderson-Sellers (brian@csse.swin.edu.au)
Modeling an O-O system is facilitated by a sound meta-model and
an accompanying notational tool which fully represents the pure
object-oriented ideas. Participants will learn how to apply
the notation in a business environment, and why meta-modeling
is important as an underpinning for notations and methodologies.
For system developers, analysts, and designers.
Tutorial 2: A Rapid, Metamodel-Based Methodology for Information
Systems Modeling
Contact: David Kerner (bizmodel@prodigy.com)
A unique approach to information systems modeling is presented
based on a generic model that is customized to the management
strategies of the organization. The model can be used to help
a business to better utilize its resources, to predict the
impact of strategic direction on information technology, to
insure correct measurement of Critical Success Factors, and to
identify out-of-control data. For practitioners.
INVITED TALKS
Sridhar Iyengar J. Patrick Thompson John Sweitzer
Unisys Fellow Program Manager Consulting Engineer
Unisys Corporation Microsoft Corporation IBM Corporation
ACCOMMODATIONS
ER'97 accommodations will be provided by the DoubleTree Hotel,
conveniently located in Westwood. Room reservations are now
being accepted on a space available basis at a rate of $94 per
night, single or double occupancy. One night's deposit is required
with each reservation. A valid major credit card guarantee is
acceptable in lieu of a cash deposit.
Contact: Double Tree Hotel-Los Angeles/Westwood
10740 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Tel: (310) 475-8711 Fax: (310) 475-5220
Toll Free Reservations: (800) 472-8556
CONFERENCE FEES
ACM Members $425
Non-members $475
Full-time students* $140
Tutorials $200 per session
($100 per session for full-time students)
Workshops $50 (attendance is now open to all)
All prices are quoted in US dollars, and all payments should be
made in that currency.
Conference registration includes admission to all sessions, a copy
of the conference proceedings, continental breakfasts each day,
coffee breaks, lunches, and the conference banquet.
Tutorials and workshop fees include lecture notes and coffee breaks.
*The student registration fee does not include proceedings, banquet
or lunches. Proof of full-time student status is required. You
may submit a photocopy of your student ID card or a letter signed
by your advisor.
Mail or fax registration information (include ACM member number and
indicate whether you will attend the preconference symposium) to:
Hua Yang, c/o Prof. Wesley W. Chu, ER '97
3731 Boelter Hall
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA USA 90095-1596
Inquiries may be directed to Hua Yang by email (hua@cs.ucla.edu),
telephone (310-206-0068) or fax (310-825-2273).
ADVANCE PROGRAM
Sun, Nov 2: Preconference Symposium
Mon, Nov 3: Half-Day Tutorials, Panel 1
Tue, Nov 4: Keynote 1, Automated Design, Temporal Modeling,
Invited Talk 1, Languages, Activity Modeling, Reception
Wed, Nov 5: Keynote 2, Applied Modeling, Object-Oriented Modeling,
Theoretical Issues in Modeling, Experience and
Applications, Distributed Systems, Panel 2, Banquet
Thu, Nov 6: Invited Talk 2, Integration, Tools, Workshops
Fri, Nov 7: Continuation of Post-Conference Workshops
AUTOMATED DESIGN
An Ontology for Database Design Automation (V.C. Storey, H. Ullrich, S. Sundaresan)
Exploiting Domain Knowledge During the Automated Design of Object-Oriented Databases (M. Lloyd-Williams)
Intelligent Support for Retrieval and Synthesis of Patterns for Object-Oriented Design (S. Purao & V.C. Storey)
TEMPORAL MODELING
A Conceptual Development Framework for Temporal Information Systems (I. Petrounias)
Temporal Features of Class Populations and Attributes in Conceptual Models (D. Costal, A. Olive & M-R. Sancho)
Managing Schema Evolution Using a Temporal Object Model (I.A. Goralwalla, D. Szafron, M.T. Ozsu & R.J. Peters)
LANGUAGES
Extended SQL Support for Uncertain Data (D. Dey & S. Sarkar)
Conceptual Queries Using ConQuer-II (A.C. Bloesch & T.A. Halpin)
Transaction-Based Specification of Database Evolution (L. Baekgaard)
ACTIVITY MODELING
Well-Behaving Rule Systems for Entity-Relationship and Object- Oriented Models (K-D. Schewe)
Behavior Consistent Refinement of Object Life Cycles (M. Schrefl & M. Stumptner)
ActivityFlow: Towards Incremental Specification and Flexible Coordination of Workflow Activities (L. Liu & C. Pu)
APPLIED MODELING
A Multi-Level Architecture for Representing Enterprise Data Models (D. Moody)
A Data Model for Customizing DB Schemas Based on Business Policies (J. Sekine, A. Kitai, Y. Ooshima & Y. Oohara)
Explaining Conceptual Models -- An Architecture and Design Principles (H. Dalianis & P. Johannesson)
OBJECT-ORIENTED MODELING
Extending an Object-Oriented Model: Multiple Class Objects (T. Hruska & P. Kolencik)
A Formal Approach to Metamodeling: A Generic Object-Oriented Perspective (V.B. Misic & S. Moser)
Object-Oriented Modeling with Associations and Roles (W.W. Chu & G. Zhang)
THEORETICAL ISSUES IN MODELING
Property Covering: A Powerful Construct for Schema Derivations (A. Analyti, N. Spyratos & P. Constantopoulos)
Inheritance Graph Hierarchy Construction Using Rectangular Decomposition of a Binary Relation and Designer Feedback (M.M. Gammoudi, J.D. Mendes & W.S. Pinto)
Towards an Object Database Approach for Managing Concept Lattices (K. Waiyamai & L. Lakhal)
EXPERIENCE AND APPLICATIONS (Industry Paper Session)
An Experience of Integration of Conceptual Schemas in the Italian Public Administration (C. Batini, G. Longobardi & S. Fornasiero)
Application-Oriented Design of Behavior: A Transformational Approach using RADD (M. Albrecht, M. Altus & M. Steeg)
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
A Java-Based Framework for Processing Distributed Objects (D. Wu, D. Agrawal, A.E. Abbadi & A. Singh)
Fragmentation Techniques for Distributing Object-Oriented Databases (E. Malinowski & S. Chakravarthy)
An Agent-Based Mobile System (N. Pissinou, K. Makki, M. Hong, L. Ji & A. Kumar)
INTEGRATION
Resolving Constraint Conflicts in the Integration of Entity-Relationship Schemas (M.L. Lee & T.W. Ling)
A Formal Framework for ER Schema Transformation (P. McBrien & A. Poulovassilis)
A Generative Approach to Database Federation (U. Hohenstein & V. Plesser)
TOOLS
A Virtual Reality Interface to an Enterprise Metadatabase L.W. Yee & C. Hsu
A Fully Flexible CAME in a CASE Environment A.N.W. Dahanayake, H.G. Sol & J.L.G. Dietz
A Rapid Development Model for MetaCASE Tool Design G. Maokai, L. Scott, Y. Xiao & R. Offen
-- Stephen W. Liddle, Ph.D. (mailto:liddle@byu.edu) School of Accountancy and Information Systems Marriott School of Management Brigham Young University, 585 TNRB, Provo, UT 84602-3068 Office: 801-378-8792 Fax: 801-378-5933My Home Page: http://msm.byu.edu/emp/swl MSM Home Page: http://msm.byu.edu OSM Research Group: http://osm7.cs.byu.edu ER'97 Conference: http://osm7.cs.byu.edu/ER97
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