Ebook: Conceptual Modeling for Novel Application Domains: ER 2003 Workshops ECOMO, IWCMQ, AOIS, and XSDM, Chicago, IL, USA, October 13, 2003. Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of four international workshops held in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Modelling, ER 2003, held in Chicago, IL, USA in October 2003.

The 35 revised full papers presented together with introduction to the four workshops were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. In accordance with the respective workshops, the papers are organized in topical sections on conceptual modelling approaches for e-business, conceptual modelling quality, agent-oriented information systems, XML data and schema.

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This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of four international workshops held in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Modelling, ER 2003, held in Chicago, IL, USA in October 2003.

The 35 revised full papers presented together with introduction to the four workshops were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. In accordance with the respective workshops, the papers are organized in topical sections on conceptual modelling approaches for e-business, conceptual modelling quality, agent-oriented information systems, XML data and schema.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Preface to eCOMO 2003....Pages 3-4
Managing Evolving Business Workflows through the Capture of Descriptive Information....Pages 5-16
The Benefits of Rapid Modelling for E-business System Development....Pages 17-28
Prediction of Consumer Preference through Bayesian Classification and Generating Profile....Pages 29-39
Developing Web Applications from Conceptual Models. A Web Services Approach....Pages 40-51
A Framework for Business Rule Driven Web Service Composition....Pages 52-64
Virtual Integration of the Tile Industry (VITI)....Pages 65-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Preface to IWCMQ 2003....Pages 79-79
Multiperspective Evaluation of Reference Models – Towards a Framework....Pages 80-91
On the Acceptability of Conceptual Design Models for Web Applications....Pages 92-104
Consistency by Construction: The Case of MERODE....Pages 105-117
Defining Metrics for UML Statechart Diagrams in a Methodological Way....Pages 118-128
Visual SQL – High-Quality ER-Based Query Treatment....Pages 129-139
Multidimensional Schemas Quality: Assessing and Balancing Analyzability and Simplicity....Pages 140-151
Conceptual Modeling of Accounting Information Systems: A Comparative Study of REA and ER Diagrams....Pages 152-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Preface to AOIS 2003....Pages 167-167
Bringing Multi-agent Systems into Human Organizations: Application to a Multi-agent Information System....Pages 168-179
Reconciling Physical, Communicative, and Social/Institutional Domains in Agent Oriented Information Systems – A Unified Framework....Pages 180-194
An Agent-Based Active Portal Framework....Pages 195-204
Agent-Oriented Modeling and Agent-Based Simulation....Pages 205-216
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
REF: A Practical Agent-Based Requirement Engineering Framework....Pages 217-228
Patterns for Motivating an Agent-Based Approach....Pages 229-240
Using Scenarios for Contextual Design in Agent-Oriented Information Systems....Pages 241-243
Dynamic Matchmaking between Messages and Services in Multi-agent Information Systems....Pages 244-246
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Preface to XSDM 2003....Pages 249-249
A Sufficient and Necessary Condition for the Consistency of XML DTDs....Pages 250-260
Index Selection for Efficient XML Path Expression Processing....Pages 261-272
CX-DIFF: A Change Detection Algorithm for XML Content and Change Presentation Issues for WebVigiL....Pages 273-284
Storing and Querying XML Documents Using a Path Table in Relational Databases....Pages 285-296
Improving Query Performance Using Materialized XML Views: A Learning-Based Approach....Pages 297-310
A Framework for Management of Concurrent XML Markup....Pages 311-322
Object Oriented XML Query by Example....Pages 323-329
Automatic Generation of XML from Relations: The Nested Relation Approach....Pages 330-341
Toward the Automatic Derivation of XML Transformations....Pages 342-354
VACXENE: A User-Friendly Visual Synthetic XML Generator....Pages 355-365
A New Inlining Algorithm for Mapping XML DTDs to Relational Schemas....Pages 366-377
From XML DTDs to Entity-Relationship Schemas....Pages 378-389
Extracting Relations from XML Documents....Pages 390-401
Extending XML Schema with Nonmonotonic Inheritance....Pages 402-407
Back Matter....Pages -

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This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of four international workshops held in conjunction with the 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Modelling, ER 2003, held in Chicago, IL, USA in October 2003.

The 35 revised full papers presented together with introduction to the four workshops were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. In accordance with the respective workshops, the papers are organized in topical sections on conceptual modelling approaches for e-business, conceptual modelling quality, agent-oriented information systems, XML data and schema.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages -
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Preface to eCOMO 2003....Pages 3-4
Managing Evolving Business Workflows through the Capture of Descriptive Information....Pages 5-16
The Benefits of Rapid Modelling for E-business System Development....Pages 17-28
Prediction of Consumer Preference through Bayesian Classification and Generating Profile....Pages 29-39
Developing Web Applications from Conceptual Models. A Web Services Approach....Pages 40-51
A Framework for Business Rule Driven Web Service Composition....Pages 52-64
Virtual Integration of the Tile Industry (VITI)....Pages 65-76
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Preface to IWCMQ 2003....Pages 79-79
Multiperspective Evaluation of Reference Models – Towards a Framework....Pages 80-91
On the Acceptability of Conceptual Design Models for Web Applications....Pages 92-104
Consistency by Construction: The Case of MERODE....Pages 105-117
Defining Metrics for UML Statechart Diagrams in a Methodological Way....Pages 118-128
Visual SQL – High-Quality ER-Based Query Treatment....Pages 129-139
Multidimensional Schemas Quality: Assessing and Balancing Analyzability and Simplicity....Pages 140-151
Conceptual Modeling of Accounting Information Systems: A Comparative Study of REA and ER Diagrams....Pages 152-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Preface to AOIS 2003....Pages 167-167
Bringing Multi-agent Systems into Human Organizations: Application to a Multi-agent Information System....Pages 168-179
Reconciling Physical, Communicative, and Social/Institutional Domains in Agent Oriented Information Systems – A Unified Framework....Pages 180-194
An Agent-Based Active Portal Framework....Pages 195-204
Agent-Oriented Modeling and Agent-Based Simulation....Pages 205-216
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
REF: A Practical Agent-Based Requirement Engineering Framework....Pages 217-228
Patterns for Motivating an Agent-Based Approach....Pages 229-240
Using Scenarios for Contextual Design in Agent-Oriented Information Systems....Pages 241-243
Dynamic Matchmaking between Messages and Services in Multi-agent Information Systems....Pages 244-246
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Preface to XSDM 2003....Pages 249-249
A Sufficient and Necessary Condition for the Consistency of XML DTDs....Pages 250-260
Index Selection for Efficient XML Path Expression Processing....Pages 261-272
CX-DIFF: A Change Detection Algorithm for XML Content and Change Presentation Issues for WebVigiL....Pages 273-284
Storing and Querying XML Documents Using a Path Table in Relational Databases....Pages 285-296
Improving Query Performance Using Materialized XML Views: A Learning-Based Approach....Pages 297-310
A Framework for Management of Concurrent XML Markup....Pages 311-322
Object Oriented XML Query by Example....Pages 323-329
Automatic Generation of XML from Relations: The Nested Relation Approach....Pages 330-341
Toward the Automatic Derivation of XML Transformations....Pages 342-354
VACXENE: A User-Friendly Visual Synthetic XML Generator....Pages 355-365
A New Inlining Algorithm for Mapping XML DTDs to Relational Schemas....Pages 366-377
From XML DTDs to Entity-Relationship Schemas....Pages 378-389
Extracting Relations from XML Documents....Pages 390-401
Extending XML Schema with Nonmonotonic Inheritance....Pages 402-407
Back Matter....Pages -
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