Conceptual modeling : current issues and future directions

Conceptual Modeling: Current Issues and Future Directions
Author: G. Goos, J. Hartmanis, J. van Leeuwen, Peter P. Chen, Jacky Akoka, Hannu Kangassalu, Bernhard Thalheim
Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg
ISBN: 978-3-540-65926-6
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48854-5

Table of Contents:

• Current Issues of Conceptual Modeling: A Summary of Selective Active Research Topics
• Conceptual Design of Parallel Systems
• Conceptual Modeling Challenges for Model-Based Architecting and Software Engineering (MBASE)
• Deriving Global Conceptual Views from Multiple Information Sources
• From Ancient Egyptian Language to Future Conceptual Modeling
• Breaking the Database out of the Box: Models for Superimposed Information
• Narratives and Temporal Databases: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
• Using Conceptual Modeling and Intelligent Agents to Integrate Semi-structured Documents in Federated Databases
• Supporting the User: Conceptual Modeling & Knowledge Discovery
• Are Global Understanding, Communication, and Information Management in Information Systems Possible?
• Enterprise Knowledge Management and Conceptual Modelling
• Semantic Modeling in Accounting Education, Practice, and Research: Some Progress and Impediments
• Perspectives in Modeling: Simulation, Database, and Workflow
• The Challenges of Modeling Biological Information for Genome Databases
• Trends and Scale-Up for Data Administration
• Conceptual Modeling for Multiagent Systems: Applying Interaction-Oriented Programming?
• Data and What They Refer to
• The Strength of ER Modeling
• Interaction as a Framework for Modeling
• A Summary of the ER’97 Workshop on Behavioral Modeling

"Contains a collection of selected papers presented at the Symposium on Conceptual Modeling which was held in Los Angeles, California, on December 2, 1997"-- Pref
Includes bibliographical references and index