Conceptual Modeling - ER 2007 26th International Conference on Conce
Conceptual modeling is fundamental to the development of complex systems, because it provides the key communication means between systems developers, end-usersandcustomers.Conceptualmodelingprovideslanguages,methods and tools to understandandrepresentthe
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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 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 University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany
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Christine Parent Klaus-Dieter Schewe Veda C. Storey Bernhard Thalheim (Eds.)
Conceptual Modeling – ER 2007 26th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling Auckland, New Zealand, November 5-9, 2007 Proceedings
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Volume Editors Christine Parent University of Lausanne 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland E-mail: [email protected] Klaus-Dieter Schewe Massey University Private Bag 11 222, Palmerston North 5301, New Zealand E-mail: [email protected] Veda C. Storey Georgia State University Box 4015, Atlanta, GA 30302, USA E-mail: [email protected] Bernhard Thalheim Christian Albrechts University Kiel Olshausenstr. 40, 24098 Kiel, Germany E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: Applied for CR Subject Classification (1998): H.2, H.4, F.4.1, I.2.4, H.1, J.1, D.2, C.2 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application, incl. Internet/Web and HCI ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
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Preface
Conceptual modeling is fundamental to the development of complex systems, because it provides the key communication means between systems developers, end-users and customers. Conceptual modeling provides languages, methods and tools to understand and represent the application domain; to elicitate, co
