Conceptual Modeling: 36th International Conference

Conceptual Modeling: 36th International Conference, ER 2017, Valencia, Spain, November 6–9, 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2017, held in Valencia, Spain, in November 2017.

The 28 full and 10 short papers presented together with 1 full 6 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from 153 submissions.

This events covers a wide range of following topics: Conceptual Modeling Methodology, Conceptual Modeling and Requirements, Foundations, Conceptual Modeling in Specifi c Context, Conceptual Modeling and Business Processes, Model Efficiency, and Ontologies.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The Universal Ontology: A Vision for Conceptual Modeling and the Semantic Web (Invited Paper)
Chapter 2. CE-SIB: A Modelling Method Plug-in for Managing Standards in Enterprise Architectures
Chapter 3. A Catalogue of Reusable Context Model Elements Based on the i* Framework
Chapter 4. Modelling Processes with Time-Dependent Control Structures
Chapter 5. Towards Rearchitecting Meta-Models into Multi-level Models
Chapter 6. Mining Goal Refinement Patterns: Distilling Know-How from Data
Chapter 7. Goal-Oriented Regulatory Intelligence: How Can Watson Analytics Help?
Chapter 8. An Alternative Approach to Metainformation Conceptualisation and Use
Chapter 9. Schema Evolution and Foreign Keys: Birth, Eviction, Change and Absence
Chapter 10. Conceptual Modelling of Autonomous Multi-cloud Interaction with Reflective Semantics
Chapter 11. Querying Graph Databases: What Do Graph Patterns Mean?
Chapter 12. Scaffolding Relational Schemas and APIs from Content in Web Mockups
Chapter 13. SourceVote: Fusing Multi-valued Data via Inter-source Agreements
Chapter 14. Level-Aware Ecosystem Transformations for Industrial Lifecycle Interoperability
Chapter 15. Conceptual Modeling: Enhancement Through Semiotics
Chapter 16. Towards an Ontology for Privacy Requirements via a Systematic Literature Review
Chapter 17. What Happens to Intentional Concepts in Requirements Engineering if Intentional States Cannot Be Known?
Chapter 18. Goal Models for Acceptance Requirements Analysis and Gamification Design
Chapter 19. Modeling Regulatory Ambiguities for Requirements Analysis
Chapter 20. An Experimental Evaluation of the Understanding of Safety Compliance Needs with Models
Chapter 21. Cardinality Constraints with Probabilistic Intervals
Chapter 22. Contextual Keys
Chapter 23. A Comprehensive Formal Theory for Multi-level Conceptual Modeling
Chapter 24. Alignment-Based Trace Clustering
Chapter 25. The Conceptual Modelling of Dynamic Teams for Autonomous Systems
Chapter 26. Conceptual Modeling for Genomics: Building an Integrated Repository of Open Data
Chapter 27. Towards Thinking Manufacturing and Design Together: An Aeronautical Case Study
Chapter 28. OCLUNIV: Expressive UML/OCL Conceptual Schemas for Finite Reasoning
Chapter 29. Goal Orchestrations: Modelling and Mining Flexible Business Processes
Chapter 30. Configurable and Executable Task Structures Supporting Knowledge-Intensive Processes
Chapter 31. Various Notions of Soundness for Decision-Aware Business Processes
Chapter 32. Data, Control, and Process Flow Modeling for IoT Driven Smart Solutions
Chapter 33. Determining the Preferred Representation of Temporal Constraints in Conceptual Models
Chapter 34. User Perception of Numeric Contribution Semantics for Goal Models: An Exploratory Experiment
Chapter 35. On the Impact of the Model-Based Representation of Inconsistencies to Manual Reviews
Chapter 36. On the Semantics of Ongoing and Future Occurrence Identifiers
Chapter 37. Ontological Evolutionary Encoding to Bridge Machine Learning and Conceptual Models: Approach and Industrial Evaluation
Chapter 38. The OntoREA© Accounting and Finance Model: Ontological Conceptualization of the Accounting and Finance Domain
Chapter 39. Teleologies: Objects, Actions and Functions