Table of Contents:
  • Conceptual design of parallel systems / Jacky Akoka
  • Conceptual modeling challenges for model-based architecting and software engineering (MBASE) / Barry Boehm and Dan Port
  • Deriving global conceptual views from multiple information sources / Silvana Castano and Valeria De Antonellis
  • From ancient Egyptian language to future conceptual modeling / Peter P. Chen
  • Breaking the database out of the box / Lois M.L. Delcambre
  • Narratives and temporal databases / Antonio L. Furtado
  • Using conceptual modeling and intelligent agents to integrate semi-structured documents in federated databases / Georges Gardarin and Fei Sha
  • Supporting the user / Terrance Goan
  • Are global understanding, communication, and information management in information systems possible? / Hannu Kangassalo
  • Enterprise knowledge management and conceptual modelling / Pericles Loucopoulos and Vagelio Kavakli
  • Semantic modeling in accounting education, practice, and research / William E. McCarthy
  • Perspectives in modeling / John A. Miller, Amit P. Sheth, and Krys J. Kochut
  • The challenges of modeling biological information for genome databases / Shamkant B. Navathe and Andreas M. Kogelnik
  • Trends and scale-up for data administration / Arnon Rosenthal and Len Seligman
  • Conceptual modeling for multiagent systems / Munindar P. Singh
  • Data and what they refer to / Arne Sølvberg
  • The strength of ER modeling / Bernhard Thalheim
  • Interaction as a Framework for Modeling / Peter Wegner and Dina Goldin
  • A summary of the ER'97 Workshop on Behavioral Modeling / Stephen W. Liddle, Stephen W. Clyde, and Scott N. Woodfield
  • What is the role of cognition in conceptual modeling? A report on the first Workshop on Cognition and Conceptual Modeling / Venkataraman Ramesh, Jeffrey Parsons, and Glenn J. Browne
  • Conceptual modeling in multimedia information seeking / Carlo Meghini and Fabrizio Sebastiani
  • Future directions of conceptual modeling / Peter P. Chen, Bernhard Thalheim, and Leah Y. Wong.