Conceptual Modeling: Current Issues and Future Directions (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1565)

✍ Scribed by Peter P. Chen (editor), Jacky Akoka (editor), Hannu Kangassalu (editor), Bernhard Thalheim (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 326
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume contains a collection of selected papers presented at the Symposium on Conceptual Modeling, which was held in Los Angeles, California, on December 2, th 1997, immediately before the 16 International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER’97), which was held at UCLA. A total of eighteen papers were selected for inclusion in this volume. These papers are written by experts in the conceptual modeling area and represent the most current thinking of these experts. This volume also contains the summaries of three workshops that were held on 6 7 December 1997, immediately after the ER’97 conference at UCLA. The topics of these three workshops are: • Behavioral Modeling • Conceptual Modeling in Multimedia Information Seeking • What Is the Role of Cognition in Conceptual Modeling? Since these topics are not only very important but also very timely, we think it is appropriate to include the summary of these three workshops in this volume. Those readers interested in further investigating topics related to the three workshops can either look up the individual paper published on the Web or contact the authors directly. The summary paper by Chen at the beginning of this volume also includes the summary of several interesting speeches at the Symposium.

✦ Table of Contents

Conceptual Modeling
Preface
Table of Contents
Conceptual Design of Parallel Systems
1. Introduction
2. Parallel Systems: A State of the Art
3. POOM: The Object-Oriented Underlying Model
4. POOD: The Multi-stage Parallel Design Method and Its Application
5. Conclusion and Further Research
References
Conceptual Modeling Challenges for Model-Based Architecting and Software Engineering (MBASE)
1. Summary
2. Model Clashes and the Need to Avoid Them
3. MBASE Overview
4. Example MBASE Application
5. Conceptual Modeling Challenges
6. Conclusions
References
Deriving Global Conceptual Views from Multiple Information Sources
1. Introduction
2. Conceptual Schema Analysis
3. Deriving Global Conceptual Views
4. Exploiting Global Conceptual Views
5. Concluding Remarks
References
From Ancient Egyptian Language to Future Conceptual Modeling
Introduction
Review of the Correspondence between English Sentence Structures and ERD Constructs
The Construction Principles of Chinese Characters
History of Ancient Egyptian Written Language
Principles on Constructing an Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Conclusions and Future Research Directions
References
Breaking the Database out of the Box: Models for Superimposed Information (Position Paper)
1. Introduction
2. Models for Superimposed Information
3 Discussion
Narratives and Temporal Databases: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
1. Introduction
2. From Facts to Actions
3. A Key Concept: Plots of Narratives
4. The Pragmatic View of Narratives
5. Towards an Interdisciplinary Perspective
6. Concluding Remarks
References
Using Conceptual Modeling and Intelligent Agents to Integrate Semi-structured Documents in Federated Databases
1. Introduction
2. Overview of IRO-DB
3. Integration of Semi-structured Documents
4. Overview of the Mapping Rule Language
5. Related Work
6. Conclusion
References
Current Issues of Conceptual Modeling: A Summary of Selective Active Research Topics
Introduction
I. Summary of Papers
II. Summary of Three Workshops
III. Summary of Talks
IV. The Future
Supporting the User: Conceptual Modeling & Knowledge Discovery
1. Introduction
2. Knowledge Discovery
3. The Intelligent Knowledge Discovery Assistant
4. Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgments
References
Are Global Understanding, Communication, and Information Management in Information Systems Possible?
1. Introduction
2. Communication, Understanding, and Information Management
3. Concept Structures and Information Requirements Specification
4. Conceptual Systems for Satistying Information Requirements
5. Conclusions
References
Enterprise Knowledge Management and Conceptual Modelling
Introduction
Conceptual Modelling for Enterprise and Domain Patterns Descriptions
The Enterprise Knowledge Metamodel
Enterprise Knowledge Organisation and Support Environment
Methodological Aspects of Enterprise Knowledge Modelling
Conclusions
References
Semantic Modeling in Accounting Education, Practice, and Research: Some Progress and Impediments
Introduction
Semantic Modeling in Accounting
Summary
References
Perspectives in Modeling: Simulation, Database, and Workflow
Introduction
Types of Models
Simulation Modeling
Event-Scheduling
Activity-Scanning
Process-Interaction
Data Modeling
Workflow Modeling
Interactions between Models
METEOR Designer
JSIM Modeling Toolkit
Synergy between METEOR and JSIM
Summary
The Challenges of Modeling Biological Information for Genome Databases
The Human Genome Project
Genome Data Modeling
Currently Existing Biomedical Databases
Mitochondrial Genome as a Model System
MITOMAP: A Human Mitochondrial Genome Database
Bibliography
Trends and Scale-Up for Data Administration
Introduction
Effects of Grand Unifications in Object Technology
Administration of Multi-tier Schemas
Bringing Legacy or Foreign Data into an OO Application Model
Conclusions
References
Conceptual Modeling for Multiagent Systems: Applying Interaction-Oriented Programming?
Introduction
Conceptual Modeling in MAS
Interaction-Oriented Programming
Organization
Coordination
Coordination Model
Coordination Relationships
Designing Coordination
Analyzing Conversations
Inducing Coordination
Commitments
Commitments Formalized
Operations on Commitments
Policies
Applying Commitments
Designing Commitments
Electronic Commerce
Virtual Enterprises
Conclusions and Future Work
Data and What They Refer to
Introduction
Conventional Data Modeling Needs Enrichment
Conceptual Modeling of Data: The Context
The Referent Model of Data: The Framework
Conceptual Modeling: The Basic Modeling Constructs
The Modeling Language: Basic Constructs for Referent Modeling at the Extensional Level
The Semantics of Attributes
The Referent Model of Data and the ER-Model
An Example of Conversion from RML to ER
Summing Up
References
The Strength of ER Modeling
Introduction
Safe Structural Extensions of the ER Model
Structural and Semantical Extensions of the ER Model
Identification in ER Schemata
Behavioral Extensions
Modeling Strategies
OO Modeling in Deep Waters
Identification
Genericity
Consistency and Semantics
Translations
Interaction as a Framework for Modeling
Concepts of Modeling
Models of Interactive Computing
Mathematics of Interactive Modeling
Behaviorist Conceptual Modeling
A Summary of the ER'97 Workshop on Behavioral Modeling
Introduction
A Framework for Assessing Database Quality
Behavioral Model Quality and Transformation
Dynamic Dialog Management
On the Quality of Conceptual Models
Behavioral Design Issues in a Distributed Environment
Integration of Behavior Models
A Comparison of Workflow Metamodels
An Infological Perspective on Expressiveness
Modeling Temporal Behavior Conceptually
Events as Information Objects and Change Agents
Mismatches between Models and Implementation Environments
Behavioral Design through Seamless Modeling
Research Directions
Acknowledgements
References
What Is the Role of Cognition in Conceptual Modeling? A Report on the First Workshop on Cognition and Conceptual Modeling
Introduction
Enhancing the Expressiveness of Conceptual Models
Enhancing Diagrammatic Representations of Conceptual Models
Improving Understanding of Analyst/Designer Behavior
Conclusions
References
Conceptual Modeling in Multimedia Information Seeking
Motivation
Topics Addressed at the Workshop
Modeling Web Documents
Modeling Multimedia Data
Browsing
Future Directions of Conceptual Modeling
Introduction
Review of Strength and Pragmatics of Conceptual Modeling
Future Directions
Relationships between the Real World and the Software World
Global Communication
Human Knowledge Integration
Concluding Remarks
References
Author Index