21. ER 2002: Tampere, Finland
Stefano Spaccapietra, Salvatore T. March, Yahiko Kambayashi (Eds.): Conceptual Modeling - ER 2002, 21st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Tampere, Finland, October 7-11, 2002, Proceedings. Springer 2002 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 3-540-44277-4
Keynote Addresses
Ron Weber: Conceptual Modelling and Ontology: Possibilities and Pitfalls. 1-2
Yves Pigneur: An Ontology for m-Business Models. 3-6
Pre-Conference Tutorials
Ilia Bider, Paul Johannesson: Modeling Dynamics of Business Processes: Key for Building Next Generation of Business Information Systems. 7-9
Conference Tutorials
Brian Henderson-Sellers: Advanced OO Modelling: Metamodels and Notations for the New Millennium. 11
Paul W. P. J. Grefen: Workflow Management in Electronic Commerce. 13-14
Panel
Heinrich C. Mayr: Do We Need an Ontology of Ontologies? 15
Demonstrations and Posters
Nico Van de Weghe: Development of a Conceptual Data Model for Digital Spatio-Temporal Geographical Information, with Application to Several Themes and GIS. 16
Ozifrankly Silva, Tatiana A. Tavares, Márcia Lucena, Guido Lemos de Souza Filho: Using Semantic Rules Database to Dynamically Set up the ICSpace Virtual Building. 17
Pieter Bekaert, Bert Van Nuffelen: On the Transformation of Object Oriented Conceptual Models to Logical Theories: From EROOS to ID-Logic. 18-19
Session 1: Semantics and Meta-models
Bernhard Thalheim: Component Construction of Database Schemes. 20-34
Sebastiano Vigna: Multirelational Semantics for ExtendedEntity-Relationship Schemata with Applications. 35-49
Shing-Chi Cheung, Patrick C. K. Hung, Dickson K. W. Chiu: A Meta-model for e-Contract Template Variable Dependencies Facilitating e-Negotiation. 50-64
Session 2: Principles of Ontology
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Heinrich Herre, Gerd Wagner: On the General Ontological Foundations of Conceptual Modeling. 65-78
Michel C. A. Klein, Atanas Kiryakov, Damyan Ognyanov, Dieter Fensel: Finding and Characterizing Changes in Ontologies. 79-89
Shawn Bowers, Lois M. L. Delcambre, David Maier: Superimposed Schematics: Introducing E-R Structure for In-Situ Information Selections. 90-104
Session 3: Web Environments

Zehua Liu, Feifei Li, Wee Keong Ng: Wiccap Data Model: Mapping Physical Websites to Logical Views. 120-134
Altigran Soares da Silva, Irna M. R. Evangelista Filha, Alberto H. F. Laender, David W. Embley: Representing and Querying Semistructured Web Data Using Nested Tables with Structural Variants. 135-151
Session 4: Theory and Methods
Pieter Bekaert, Bert Van Nuffelen, Maurice Bruynooghe, David Gilis, Marc Denecker: On the Transformation of Object-Oriented Conceptual Models to Logical Theories. 152-166
Paolo Giorgini, John Mylopoulos, Eleonora Nicchiarelli, Roberto Sebastiani: Reasoning with Goal Models. 167-181
Amarnath Gupta, Bertram Ludäscher, Maryann E. Martone: Registering Scientific Information Sources for Semantic Mediation. 182-198
Session 5: Methods and Tools
Sergio Luján-Mora, Juan Trujillo, Il-Yeol Song: Multidimensional Modeling with UML Package Diagrams. 199-213
Daniel L. Moody: Comparative Evaluation of Large Data Model Representation Methods: The Analyst's Perspective. 214-231
Session 6: Applications for Practice
Jun Chen, Songting Chen, Elke A. Rundensteiner: A Transactional Model for Data Warehouse Maintenance. 247-262

Session 7: Applying Ontology in Conceptual Modeling
Angelo E. M. Ciarlini, Antonio L. Furtado: Understanding and Simulating Narratives in the Context of Information Systems. 291-306
David W. Embley, Cui Tao, Stephen W. Liddle: Automatically Extracting Ontologically Specified Data from HTML Tables of Unknown Structure. 322-337
Session 8: System and Data Integration
Andrea Calì, Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Maurizio Lenzerini: On the Expressive Power of Data Integration Systems. 338-350
Jeffrey Parsons, Yair Wand: Property-Based Semantic Reconciliation of Heterogeneous Information Sources. 351-364
Simone Santini, Amarnath Gupta: Conceptual Integration of Multiple Partial Geometric Models. 365-379
Session 9: Quality Assessment
Daniel L. Moody, Guttorm Sindre, Terje Brasethvik, Arne Sølvberg: Evaluating the Quality of Process Models: Empirical Testing of a Quality Framework. 380-396
Session 10: XML & Object Systems
Samira Si-Said Cherfi, Jacky Akoka, Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau: Conceptual Modeling Quality - From EER to UML Schemas Evaluation. 414-428
Ramez Elmasri, Yu-Chi Wu, Babak Hojabri, Charley Li, Jack Fu: Conceptual Modeling for Customized XML Schemas. 429-443
Joachim Biskup, Ralf Menzel: A Flexible Cost Model for Abstract Object-Oriented Database Schemas. 444-462



