Conceptual Modeling - ER '96

Impact of objected oriented thinking on ER modeling.- Translation schemes and the fundamental problem of database design.- Schema design and knowledge discovery.- Decomposition of relationships through pivoting.- Understanding the implementation of IS-A relations.- Deductive object oriented schemas.- Verification problems in conceptual workflow specifications.- Process knowledge modeling.- The conceptual database design optimizer CoDO — Concepts, implementation, application.- ConQuer: A conceptual query language.- Using structural recursion as query mechanism for data models with references.- A modular design strategy for a flexible graphical database design environment: An experimental study.- Graph based modeling and implementation with EER/GRAL.- On the applicability of schema integration techniques to database interoperation.- Integration of inheritance trees as part of view generation for database federations.- A formal basis for dynamic schema integration.- Graphical Entity Relationship models: Towards a more user understandable representation of data.- Benefits and quality of data modelling — Results of an empirical analysis.- Normative language approach a framework for understanding.- Improving quality in conceptual modelling by the use of schema transformations.- An approach to maintaining optimized relational representations of entity-relationship schemas.- Transforming conceptual models to object-oriented database designs: Practicalities, properties, and peculiarities.- Representing partial spatial information in databases.- Specification of calendars and time series for temporal databases.- View-centered conceptual modelling.- Reverse engineering of relational database physical schemas.- Extracting n-ary relationships through database reverse engineering.- Inheritance as a conceptual primitive.- IO2 an algorithmic method for building inheritance graphs in object database design.- Workflow evolution.- A model for classification structures with evolution control.- Integrating versions in the OMT models.