17. ER 1998: Singapore

• Title, Foreword, Program Chair's Message, Organization, Program Committee, Referees, Sponsors, Table of Contents.
  

Keynote 1

• Yoshioki Ishii:
  The Rise, Fall and Return of Software Industry in Japan. 1-6
  

Session 1: Conceptual Modeling and Design

• Thomas Feyer, Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Bernhard Thalheim:
  Conceptual Design and Development of Information Services. 7-20
  
• Jae Young Lee, Ramez Elmasri:
  An EER-Based Conceptual Model and Query Language for Time-Series Data. 21-34
  
• Sonia Bergamaschi, Claudio Sartori:
  Chrono: A Conceptual Design Framework for Temporal Entities. 35-50
  

Session 2: User Interface Modeling

• Olga De Troyer:
  Designing Well-Structured Websites: Lessons to Be Learned from Database Schema Methodology. 51-64
  
• Simon R. Rollinson, Stuart A. Roberts:
  Formalizing the Informational Content of Database User Interfaces. 65-77
  

Session 3: Information Retrieval on the Web

• David W. Embley, Douglas M. Campbell, Y. S. Jiang, Stephen W. Liddle, Yiu-Kai Ng, Dallan Quass, Randy D. Smith:
  A Conceptual-Modeling Approach to Extracting Data from the Web. 78-91
  
• Sourav S. Bhowmick, Wee Keong Ng, Ee-Peng Lim:
  Information Coupling in Web Databases. 92-106
  
• Tao Guan, Miao Liu, Lawrence V. Saxton:
  Structure-Based Queries over the World Wide Web. 107-120
  

Session 4: Semantics and Constraints

• Remigijus Gustas:
  Integrated Approach for Modelling of Semantic and Pragmatic Dependencies of Information Systems. 121-134
  
• Christian Soutou:
  Inference of Aggregate Relationships through Database Reverse Engineering. 135-149
  
• Sven Hartmann:
  On the Consistency of Int-cardinality Constraints. 150-163
  

Panel 1

• Kamalakar Karlapalem, Qing Li:
  Realizing Next Generation Internet Applications: Are There Genuine Research Problems, Or Is It Advanced Product Development? (Panel). 164
  

Keynote 2

• Paolo Atzeni:
  Web Sites Need Models and Schemes. 165-167
  

Session 5: Conceptional Modeling Tools

• Silvana Castano, Valeria De Antonellis, Michele Melchiori:
  ARTEMIS: A Process Modeling and Analysis Tool Environment. 168-182
  
• Oscar Pastor, Vicente Pelechano, Emilio Insfrán, Jaime Gómez:
  From Object Oriented Conceptual Modeling to Automated Programming in Java. 183-196
  
• Shahrul Azman Noah, Michael Lloyd-Williams:
  An Evaluation of Two Approaches to Exploiting Real-World Knowledge by Intelligent Database Design Models. 197-210
  

Session 6: Quality and Reliability Metrics

• Daniel L. Moody:
  Metrics for Evaluating the Quality of Entity Relationship Models. 211-225
  
• Donatella Castelli, Serena Pisani:
  A Transformational Approach to Correct Schema Refinements. 226-239
  
• Reinhard Schütte, Thomas Rotthowe:
  The Guidelines of Modeling - An Approach to Enhance the Quality in Information Models. 240-254
  

Industrial Session 1: Industrial Experiences in Conceptual Modeling

• Daniel L. Moody, Graeme G. Shanks, Peta Darke:
  Improving the Quality of Entity Relationship Models - Experience in Research and Practice. 255-276
  
• Antonio Grau, Juliana Küster Filipe, Mojgan Kowsari, Silke Eckstein, Ralf Pinger, Hans-Dieter Ehrich:
  The TROLL Approach to Conceptual Modeling: Syntax, Semantics and Tools. 277-290
  
• Bruce Campbell:
  Process Failure in a Rapidly Changing High-Tech Organisation: A System Dynamics View. 291-301
  

Session 7: Object-Oriented Database Management Systems

• Mengchi Liu, Min Guo:
  ROL2: A Real Deductive Object-Oriented Database Language. 302-315
  
• Lina Al-Jadir, Michel Léonard:
  Multiobjects to Ease Schema Evolution in an OODBMS. 316-333
  
• Yong S. Jun, Eunji Hong, Suk I. Yoo:
  Implementation of Automatic Lock Determination in C++-based OODBMSs. 334-347
  

Panel 2

• Bernhard Thalheim:
  Do We Need Information Modeling for the Information Highway? (Panel). 348
  

Session 8: Data Warehousing

• Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Christoph Quix, Matthias Jarke:
  Design and Analysis of Quality Information for Data Warehouses. 349-362
  
• Dimitri Theodoratos, Timos K. Sellis:
  Data Warehouse Schema and Instance Design. 363-376
  
• Tetsuya Furukawa, Fei Sha II:
  Reducing Algorithms for Materialized View Updates. 377-392
  

Industrial Session 2: Industrial Case Studies

• Eckhart von Hahn, Barbara Paech, Conrad Bock:
  Reengineering Conventional Data and Process Models with Business Object Models: A Case Study Based on SAP R/3 and UML. 393-406
  
• Allen Moulton, Stéphane Bressan, Stuart E. Madnick, Michael Siegel:
  An Active Conceptual Model for Fixed Income Securities Analysis for Multiple Financial Institutions. 407-420
  
• J. Sonderegger, P. Petry, J. L. Campos dos Santos, N. F. Alves:
  An Entomological Collections Database Model for INPA. 421-434
  

Session 9: Object-Oriented Approaches

• Ee-Peng Lim, Roger H. L. Chiang:
  A Global Object Model for Accommodating Instance Heterogeneities. 435-448
  
• Mark Richters, Martin Gogolla:
  On Formalizing the UML Object Constraint Language OCL. 449-464
  
• Ladjel Bellatreche, Kamalakar Karlapalem, Qing Li:
  Derived Horizontal Class Partitioning in OODBs: Design Strategies, Analytical Model and Evaluation. 465-479
  

• Author Index. 481-482