18. ER 1999: Paris, France

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  editor    = {Jacky Akoka and
               Mokrane Bouzeghoub and
               Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau and
               Elisabeth M{\'e}tais},
  title     = {Conceptual Modeling - ER '99, 18th International Conference on
               Conceptual Modeling, Paris, France, November, 15-18, 1999, Proceedings},
  booktitle = {ER},
  publisher = {Springer},
  series    = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume    = {1728},
  year      = {1999},
  isbn      = {3-540-66686-9},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Supporting Schema Evolution

• Donatella Castelli:
  Three Levels of Reuse for Supporting the Evolution in Object Databases. 1-15
  
• Boualem Benatallah:
  A Unified Framework for Supporting Dynamic Schema Evolution in Object Databases. 16-30
  
• Mohamed M. Gammoudi, Ibtissem Nafkha, Z. Abdelouahab:
  An Incremental and Semi-automatic Method Inheritance Graph Hierarchy Construction. 31-46
  

Temporal Database Design

• Shermann S.-M. Chan, Qing Li:
  Developing an Object-Oriented Video Database System with Spatio-Temporal Reasoning Capabilities. 47-62
  
• Antoni Olivé, Dolors Costal, Maria-Ribera Sancho:
  Entity Evolution in ISA Hierarchies. 62-80
  
• Alessandro Artale, Enrico Franconi:
  Temporal ER Modeling with Description Logics. 81-95
  

Schema Transformation

• Peter McBrien, Alexandra Poulovassilis:
  Automatic Migration and Wrapping of Database Applications - A Schema Transformation Approach. 96-113
  
• Daniel L. Moody, A. Flitman:
  A Methodology for Clustering Entity Relationship Models - A Human Information Processing Approach. 114-130
  
• Sin Yeung Lee, Mong-Li Lee, Tok Wang Ling, Leonid A. Kalinichenko:
  Designing Good Semi-Structured Databases and Conceptual Modeling. 131-145
  

Views and Conceptual Modeling

• Silvana Castano, Valeria De Antonellis:
  Building Views over Semistructured Data Sources. 146-160
  
• Ioana Stanoi, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi:
  Modeling and Maintaining Multi-View Data Warehouses. 161-175
  
• Zoé Lacroix:
  Object Views through Search Views of Web Datasources. 176-187
  

Reuse in Conceptual Modeling

• Jan L. G. Dietz:
  Understanding and Modelling Business Processes with DEMO. 188-202
  
• T. D. Han, Sandeep Purao, Veda C. Storey:
  A Methodology for Building a Repository of Object-Oriented Design Fragments. 203-217
  
• Nadira Lammari:
  An Algorithm to Extract IS-A Inheritance Hierarchies from a Relational Database. 218-232
  

Business Process Modeling and Workflows

• Jacques Lonchamp:
  DOTS: a Generic Infrastructure for Decision-Oriented Task Support. 233-247
  
• Joachim W. Schmidt, Hans-Werner Sehring:
  Dockets: A Model for Adding Value to Content. 248-262
  
• Markus Kradolfer, Andreas Geppert, Klaus R. Dittrich:
  Workflow Specification in TRAMs. 263-277
  

Integrating Application Models

• Oscar Pastor, José Hilario Canós Cerdá, Isidro Ramos:
  From CASE to CARE (Computer-Aided Requirements Engineering). 278-292
  
• Vânia Maria Ponte Vidal, Bernadette Farias Lóscio:
  Solving the Problem of Semantic Heterogeneity in Defining Mediator Update Translators. 293-308
  
• Maritta Heisel, Jeanine Souquières:
  A Method for Requirements Elicitation and Formal Specification. 309-324
  

Data Warehouse Design

• Zoubida Kedad, Elisabeth Métais:
  Dealing with Semantic Heterogeneity During Data Integration. 325-339
  
• Dimitri Theodoratos:
  Detecting Redundancy in Data Warehouse Evolution. 340-353
  
• Jana Lewerenz, Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Bernhard Thalheim:
  Modelling Data Warehouses and OLAP Applications by Means of Dialogue Objects. 354-368
  

Modeling Concepts

• Mira Balaban, Peretz Shoval:
  Resolving the "Weak Status" of Weak Entity Types in Entity-Relationships Schemas. 369-383
  
• James Dullea, Il-Yeol Song:
  A Taxonomy of Recursive Relationships and Their Structural Validity in ER Modeling. 384-398
  
• Wilfred Ng:
  Extending Functional Dependencies in Indefinite Sequence Relations. 399-412
  

Schema Integration

• Günter Preuner, Stefan Conrad:
  View Integration of Object Life-Cycles in Object-Oriented Design. 413-429
  
• Heinz Frank, Johann Eder:
  Towards an Automatic Integration of Statecharts. 430-444
  
• Kerstin Schwarz, Ingo Schmitt, Can Türker, Michael Höding, Eyk Hildebrandt, Sören Balko, Stefan Conrad, Gunter Saake:
  Design Support for Database Federations. 445-459
  

Advanced Conceptual Modeling

• Antonio L. Furtado, Angelo E. M. Ciarlini:
  Operational Characterization of Genre in Literary and Real-life Domains. 460-474
  
• Manos Theodorakis, Anastasia Analyti, Panos Constantopoulos, Nicolas Spyratos:
  Contextualization as an Abstraction Mechanism for Conceptual Modelling. 475-489
  
• Reinhard Schütte:
  Architectures for Evaluating the Quality of Information Models - a Meta and an Object Level Comparison. 490-505
  

Invited Papers

• Georges Gardarin, Fei Sha, Tuyet-Tram Dang-Ngoc:
  XML-based Components for Federating Multiple Heterogeneous Data Sources. 506-519
  
• Matthias Jarke, Thomas List, Klaus Weidenhaupt:
  A Process-Integrated Conceptual Design Environment for Chemical Engineering. 520-537
  
• Peter P. Chen:
  ER Model, XML and the Web. 538