Conceptual Modeling 31st International Conference ER 2012, Florence,
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2012, held in Florence, Italy, in October 2012. The 24 regular papers presented together with 13 short papers, 6 poster papers and 3 keynotes we
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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen TU Dortmund University, Germany Madhu Sudan Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken, Germany
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Paolo Atzeni David Cheung Sudha Ram (Eds.)
Conceptual Modeling 31st International Conference, ER 2012 Florence, Italy, October 15-18, 2012 Proceedings
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Volume Editors Paolo Atzeni Università Roma Tre Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione Via Vasca Navale, 79 00146 Roma, Italy E-mail: [email protected] David Cheung The University of Hong Kong Department of Computer Science Pok Fu Lam Road, Hong Kong, China E-mail: [email protected] Sudha Ram The University of Arizona Eller College of Management McClelland Hall, Room 108, P.O. Box 210108 Tucson, AZ 85721-0108, USA E-mail: [email protected]
ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-34001-7 e-ISBN 978-3-642-34002-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-34002-4 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2012948193 CR Subject Classification (1998): D.2.1-4, I.6.5, F.3.2, H.2.4, H.2.7-8, H.3.3-4, I.2.4, H.4, J.1, K.6 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application, incl. Internet/Web and HCI
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Foreword
This volume collects the papers selected for presentation at the 31st International Conference on Conceptual Model