Advances in Conceptual Modeling - Theory and Practice

ER 2006 Tutorials.- Conceptual Modeling for Emerging Web Application Technologies.- State-of-the-Art in Modeling and Deployment of Electronic Contracts.- ER 2006 Workshops.- Preface to BP-UML 2006.- Extending the UML 2 Activity Diagram with Business Process Goals and Performance Measures and the Mapping to BPEL.- UN/CEFACT'S Modeling Methodology (UMM): A UML Profile for B2B e-Commerce.- Capturing Security Requirements in Business Processes Through a UML 2.0 Activity Diagrams Profile.- Finite State History Modeling and Its Precise UML-Based Semantics.- A UML Profile for Modeling Schema Mappings.- Model to Text Transformation in Practice: Generating Code from Rich Associations Specifications.- CoMoGIS 2006 - 3rd International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Geographic Information Systems.- Preface for CoMoGIS 2006.- Keynote.- Large-Scale Earth Science Services: A Case for Databases.- Spatial and Spatio-temporal Data Representation.- Time-Aggregated Graphs for Modeling Spatio-temporal Networks.- An ISO TC 211 Conformant Approach to Model Spatial Integrity Constraints in the Conceptual Design of Geographical Databases.- Access Control in Geographic Databases.- Optimizing Representation and Access to Spatial Data.- VTPR-Tree: An Efficient Indexing Method for Moving Objects with Frequent Updates.- New Query Processing Algorithms for Range and k-NN Search in Spatial Network Databases.- A ONCE-Updating Approach on Moving Objects.- Spatio-temporal Data on the Web.- A Progressive Transmission Scheme for Vector Maps in Low-Bandwidth Environments Based on Device Rendering.- Map2Share - A System Exploiting Metadata to Share Geographical Information.- CoSS 2006 - International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling of Service-Oriented Software Systems.- Preface for CoSS 2006.- Building Semantic Web Services Based on a Model Driven Web Engineering Method.- Choreographies as Federations of Choreographies and Orchestrations.- Designing Web Services for Supporting User Tasks: A Model Driven Approach.- Designing Service-Based Applications: Teaching the Old Dogs New Tricks ...or Is It the Other Way Around?.- ECDM 2006 - 4th International Workshop on Evolution and Change in Data Management.- Preface for ECDM 2006.- Keynote.- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle : Practical Approaches to Schema Integration, Evolution and Versioning.- Accepted Papers.- A DAG Comparison Algorithm and Its Application to Temporal Data Warehousing.- Handling Changes of Database Schemas and Corresponding Ontologies.- Evolving the Implementation of ISA Relationships in EER Schemas.- Schema Change Operations for Versioning Complex Objects Hierarchy in OODBs.- Representing Versions in XML Documents Using Versionstamp.- OIS 2006 - 1st International Workshop on Ontologizing Industrial Standards.- Preface for OIS 2006.- Accepted Papers.- XBRL Taxonomies and OWL Ontologies for Investment Funds.- A Semantic Transformation Approach for ISO 15926.- Modeling Considerations for Product Ontology.- Ontologizing EDI Semantics.- WSDL RDF Mapping: Developing Ontologies from Standardized XML Languages.- QoIS 2006 - 2nd International Workshop on Quality of Information Systems.- Preface for QoIS 2006.- to QoIS06.- Information Quality, System Quality and Information System Effectiveness: Introduction to QoIS'06.- Information System Quality.- Quality-Driven Automatic Transformation of Object-Oriented Navigational Models.- HIQM: A Methodology for Information Quality Monitoring, Measurement, and Improvement.- Evaluating the Productivity and Reproducibility of a Measurement Procedure.- Data Quality.- Quality of Material Master Data and Its Effect on the Usefulness of Distributed ERP Systems.- Towards Automatic Evaluation of Learning Object Metadata Quality.- Expressing and Processing Timeliness Quality Aware Queries: The DQ2L Approach.- SemWAT 2006 - 1st International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications: Theory and Practice.- Preface for SemWAT 2006.- Semantic Web Applications (I).- Combining Declarative and P