Conceptual Modelling and Its Theoretical Foundations Essays Dedicate

This Festschrift, published in honor of Bernhard Thalheim on the occasion of his 60th birthday presents 20 articles by colleagues from all over the world with whom Bernhard Thalheim had cooperation in various respects; also included is a scientific biogra

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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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Antje Düsterhöft Meike Klettke Klaus-Dieter Schewe (Eds.)

Conceptual Modelling and Its Theoretical Foundations Essays Dedicated to Bernhard Thalheim on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday

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Volume Editors Antje Düsterhöft University of Applied Sciences Wismar Philipp Müller Straße, 23952 Wismar, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Meike Klettke University of Rostock Albert-Einstein-Strasse 21, 18051 Rostock, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Klaus-Dieter Schewe Software Competence Center Hagenberg and Johannes-Kepler-University Linz Softwarepark 21, 4232 Hagenberg, Austria E-mail: [email protected]

ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-28278-2 e-ISBN 978-3-642-28279-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-28279-9 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2012930755 CR Subject Classification (1998): F.3, D.2, F.4.1, I.2, D.3, H.1 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application, incl. Internet/Web and HCI

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Preface

Over the last decades Bernhard Thalheim has played a major role in the database and conceptual modelling communities. His research i