Conference Program

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Technical Sessions


Session ERT01: Conceptual Modeling
Day: November 10, Tuesday - Room: Rubi - Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Chair: Jeffrey Parsons (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
  • A Generic Set Theory-based Pattern Matching Approach for the Analysis of Conceptual Models
    By: Jörg Becker, Patrick Delfmann, Sebastian Herwig and Lukasz Lis (University of Münster, Germany)
  • An Empirical Study of Enterprise Conceptual Modeling
    By: Ateret Anaby Tavor, David Amid, Amit Fisher, Harold Ossher, Rachel Bellamy, Matthew Callery, Michael Desmond, Sophia Krasikov, Tova Roth, Ian Simmonds and Jacqueline de Vries (IBM Haifa Research Center, Israel and IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
  • Formalizing Linguistic Conventions for Conceptual Models
    By: Jörg Becker, Patrick Delfmann, Sebastian Herwig, Lukasz Lis and Armin Stein (University of Münster, Germany)

Session ERT02: Requirements Engineering
Day: November 10, Tuesday - Room: Safira - Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Chair: Sudha Ram (University of Arizona, USA)
  • Monitoring and Diagnosing Malicious Attacks with Autonomic Software
    By: Vítor Estêvão Silva Souza and John Mylopoulos (University of Trento, Italy)
  • A Modeling Ontology for Integrating Vulnerabilities into Security Requirements Conceptual Foundations
    By: Golnaz Elahi, Eric Yu and Nicola Zannone (University of Toronto, Canada and Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
  • Modeling Domain Variability in Requirements Engineering with Contexts
    By: Alexei Lapouchnian and John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto, Canada)

Session ERT03: Foundational Aspects
Day: November 10, Tuesday - Room: Rubi - Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Chair: Sven Hartman (Clausthal University of Technology, Germany)
  • Information Networking Model
    By: Mengchi Liu and Jie Hu (Carleton University, Canada)
  • Towards an Ontological Modeling with Dependent Types: Application to part-whole Relations
    By: Richard Dapoigny and Patrick Barlatier (Université de Savoie, France)
  • Inducing Metaassociations and Induced Relationships
    By: Xavier Burgués, Xavier Franch and Josep Maria Ribó (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Universitat de Lleida, Spain)

Session ERT04: Query Approaches
Day: November 10, Tuesday - Room: Safira - Time: 15:30 - 17:00
Chair: Carlos A. Heuser (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
  • Tractable Query Answering over Conceptual Schemata
    By: Andrea Cali, Georg Gottlob and Andreas Pieris (University of Oxford, UK)
  • Query-By-Keywords (QBK): Query Formulation Using Semantics and Feedback
    By: Aditya Telang, Sharma Chakravarthy and Chengkai Li (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
  • Cluster-based exploration for Effective Keyword Search over Semantic Datasets
    By: Roberto De Virgilio, Paolo Cappellari and Michele Miscione (Università Roma Tre, Italy and University of Alberta, Canada)

Session ERT05: Space and Time Modeling
Day: November 11, Wednesday - Room: Rubi - Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Chair: Carson Woo (University of British Columbia, Canada)
  • Geometrically Enhanced Conceptual Modelling
    By: Hui Ma, Klaus-Dieter Schewe and Bernhard Thalheim (Victoria University of Wellington and Information Science Research Centre, New Zealand and Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Germany)
  • Anchor Modeling - An Agile Modeling Technique using the Sixth Normal Form for Structurally and Temporally Evolving Data
    By: Olle Regardt, Lars Rönnbäck, Maria Bergholtz, Paul Johannesson, Petia Wohed (Affecto and DSV, SU/KTH, Sweden)
  • Evaluating Exceptions on Time Slices
    By: Romans Kasperovics, Michael H. Boehlen and Johann Gamper (Free University of Bolzano, Italy)

Session ERT06: Schema Matching and Integration
Day: November 11, Wednesday - Room: Safira - Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Chair: Il-Yeol Song (Drexel University, USA)
  • A Strategy to Revise the Constraints of the Mediated Schema
    By: Marco A. Casanova, Tanara Lauschner, Luiz A. P. Paes Leme, Karin K. Breitman, Antonio L. Furtado, and Vânia M.P. Vidal (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and Federal University of Ceará, Brazil)
  • Schema Normalization for Improving Schema Matching
    By: Serena Sorrentino, Sonia Bergamaschi, Maciej Gawinecki and Laura Po (University of Modena and Reggio-Emilia, Italy)
  • Extensible User-based XML Grammar Matching
    By: Joe Tekli, Richard Chbeir and Kokou Yetongnon (University of Bourgogne, France)

Session ERT07: Ontology-based Approaches
Day: November 11, Wednesday - Room: Rubi - Time: 15:30 - 17:30
Chair: Heinrich C. Mayr (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
  • Modeling Associations through Intensional Attributes
    By: Andrea Presa, Yannis Velegrakis, Flavio Rizzolo and Siarhei Bykau (University of Trento, Italy)
  • Modeling Concept Evolution: A Historical Perspective
    By: Flavio Rizzolo, Yannis Velegrakis, John Mylopoulos and Siarhei Bykau (University of Trento, Italy)
  • FOCIH: Form-based Ontology Creation and Information Harvesting
    By: Cui Tao, David W. Embley and Stephen W. Liddle (Brigham Young University, USA)
  • Specifying Valid Compound Terms in Interrelated Faceted Taxonomies
    By: Anastasia Analyti, Yannis Tzitzikas and Nicolas Spyratos (Foundation for Research and Technology and University of Crete, Greece and Université de Paris Sud, France)

Session ERT08: Application Contexts
Day: November 11, Wednesday - Room: Safira - Time: 15:30 - 17:30
Chair: Marco A. Casanova (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
  • Conceptual Modeling in Disaster Planning Using Agent Constructs
    By: Kafui Monu and Carson Woo (University of British Columbia, Canada)
  • Modelling Safe Interface Interactions in Web Applications
    By: Marco Brambilla, Jordi Cabot and Michael Grossniklaus (Politecnico di Milano,Italy and University of Toronto, Canada)
  • A Conceptual Modeling Approach for OLAP Personalization
    By: Irene Garrigós, Jesús Pardillo, Jose-Norberto Mazón and Juan Trujillo (University of Alicante, Spain)
  • Creating User Profiles Using Wikipedia
    By: Krishnan Ramanathan and Komal Kapoor (HP Labs, India)

Session ERT09: Process and Service Modeling
Day: November 12, Thursday - Room: Rubi - Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Chair: Guiancarlo Guizzardi (Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil)
  • Hosted Universal Composition: Models, Languages and Infrastructure in mashArt
    By: Florian Daniel, Fabio Casati, Boualem Benatallah and Ming-Chien Shan (University of Trento, Italy, University of New South Wales, Australia, and SAP Labs, USA)
  • From Static Methods to Role-Driven Service Invocation - A Metamodel for Active Content in Object Databases
    By: Stefania Leone, Moira C. Norrie, Beat Signer and Alexandre de Spindler (ETH Zurich, Switzerland and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
  • Business Process Modeling: Perceived Benefits
    By: Marta Indulska, Peter Green, Jan Recker and Michael Rosemann (The University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology, Australia)

Session ERI01: Industrial Session
Day: November 12, Thursday - Room: Safira - Time: 10:30 - 12:00
Chair: Colette Rolland (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
  • Designing Law-Compliant Software Requirements
    By: Alberto Siena, John Mylopoulos, Anna Perini and Angelo Susi (FBK-Irst and University of Trento, Italy)
  • A Knowledge-Based and Model-Driven Requirements Engineering Approach to Conceptual Satellite Design
    By: Walter A. Dos Santos, Bruno B. F. Leonor and Stephan Stephany (National Space Research Institute, Brazil)
  • Virtual Business Operating Environment in the Cloud: Conceptual Architecture and Challenges
    By: Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad, Bryan Stephenson, Sharad Singhal and Malu Castellanos (HP Labs, USA)

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