Conceptual Modeling: Foundations and Applications Essays in Honor of

This Festschrift volume, published in honor of John Mylopoulos on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Toronto, contains 25 high-quality papers, written by leading scientists in the field of conceptual modeling. The volume has been divide

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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 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 Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Alexander T. Borgida Vinay K. Chaudhri Paolo Giorgini Eric S. Yu (Eds.)

Conceptual Modeling: Foundations and Applications Essays in Honor of John Mylopoulos

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Volume Editors Alexander T. Borgida Rutgers University, Department of Computer Science Piscataway, NJ 08855, USA E-mail: [email protected] Vinay K. Chaudhri SRI International, Artificial Intelligence Center 333 Ravenswood Ave, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA E-mail: [email protected] Paolo Giorgini University of Trento, Dipartimento Ingegneria e Scienza dell’Informazione Via Sommarive, 14, 38100 Trento, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Eric S. Yu University of Toronto, Faculty of Information 140 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G6, Canada E-mail: [email protected] The cover illustration depicts the owl of Athena on a tetradrachm of Athens. Permission to reproduce this image has been obtained from Krause Publications.

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John Mylopoulos

Preface

John Mylopoulos has made ground-breaking contributions to three areas of computer science: artificial intelligence, inf