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Call for Papers
19th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
October 9-12, 2000, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Scope of the Conference

The International Conference on Conceptual Modeling provides a forum for presenting and discussing current research and applications in which the major emphasis is on conceptual modeling. This conference was originally devoted to the Entity-Relationship (ER) model, but has expanded to include many types of semantic data modeling, behavior and process modeling, object-oriented systems modeling, and modeling for Web-based applications. The conference embraces all phases of software development including analysis, specification, design, implementation, evolution, and reengineering. It is the aim of this conference to present state-of-the-art research on emerging topics in conceptual modeling, to review important techniques in related areas, and to discuss application papers of interest to information system professionals as well as information technology academics and researchers.

Topics of Interest

The conference focuses on conceptual modeling and advanced information systems design and implementation. We solicit submission of original research, as well as experience and vision papers that address these themes. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, conceptual modeling as applied to:
  • active databases
  • application design using UML
  • business-process modeling
  • CASE tools
  • ER, OO, ORM, and other approaches
  • database design methodologies
  • database integration
  • data warehouse and multidimensional modeling
  • engineering applications
  • geographic information systems
  • heterogeneous and federated databases
  • information-retrieval systems
  • knowledge bases
  • multimedia databases
  • object-oriented data and software engineering
  • ontology development and applications
  • quality in conceptual modeling
  • query languages
  • reverse engineering and reengineering
  • semistructured data
  • spatial and temporal databases
  • user interfaces
  • Web-based information systems
  • workflow management

Submission Guidelines

Authors should submit manuscripts via the ER2000 Web site, in the form of PostScript or PDF files (contact Stephen Liddle, the conference Webmaster, er2000@byu.edu, if you need assistance). Papers may not exceed 5000 words. Additionally we suggest using at least an 11-point font and no more than 20 pages. The ER2000 home page (www.er2000.byu.edu) contains further details on electronic submissions.

The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Springer-Verlag publishes a full-text electronic version of LNCS in parallel with the printed version, thus the electronic source of accepted papers will be required (LaTeX 2e format is strongly preferred). Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for possible publication in the Data & Knowledge Engineering journal.

Tutorial Proposals

We solicit tutorial proposals of interest to ER2000 attendees. Proposals should identify the intended audience and give enough material to provide a sense of what will be covered. The target duration is either 1.5 or 3 hours. Proposals should be submitted in plain text by April 11, 2000 to the tutorials chair, Ling Liu (lingliu@cc.gatech.edu). Presenters of accepted proposals will be expected to provide a copy of their overheads or PowerPoint slides for photocopying in addition to a basic statement advertising their tutorial and a bibliographic statement by the camera-ready due date (July 11, 2000).

Industrial Presentations

We solicit proposals for experience reports and other presentations of interest to the industrial community. Submit one- or two-page abstracts to the industrial chair, Terry Halpin (
TerryHa@microsoft.com) by April 11, 2000.

Panels

We solicit proposals for panel sessions related to the conference topics. We encourage panels that bring together a range of views and backgrounds. Submissions should be e-mailed to the panels chair, John Roddick (
roddick@cs.flinders.edu.au) by April 11, 2000.

Organizers

GENERAL CHAIR
David W. Embley
Department of Computer Science
Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah 84602, USA
Email: embley@cs.byu.edu

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Alberto H. F. Laender
Departamento de Ciencia da Computacao
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
31270-901 Belo Horizonte MG, Brasil
Email: laender@dcc.ufmg.br
Phone: +55-31-499-5868
Fax: +55-31-499-5858

Veda C. Storey
Department of Computer Information Systems
College of Business Administration
Georgia State University
Atlanta, Georgia 30302-4015, USA
Email: vstorey@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-651-3894
Fax: 404-651-3842

WORKSHOPS CHAIR
Bernhard Thalheim
Brandenburg Technical University at Cottbus
Germany

TUTORIALS CHAIR
Ling Liu
Georgia Institute of Technology
USA

INDUSTRIAL CHAIR
Terry Halpin
Microsoft Corporation
USA

PUBLICITY CHAIR
Il-Yeol Song
Drexel University
USA

PANELS CHAIR
John F. Roddick
Flinders University of South Australia
Australia

LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE (Brigham Young University, USA)
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Scott N. Woodfield
REGISTRATION: Yiu-Kai (Dennis) Ng
WEBMASTER: Stephen W. Liddle
SOCIAL: Douglas M. Campbell
TREASURER: Dan Johnson
SPONSORSHIPS AND PROMOTION: Kathleen Burnham

STEERING COMMITTEE REPRESENTATIVES
Bernhard Thalheim, Steering Committee Chair
Tok Wang Ling, ER2000 Liaison and Steering Committee Vice-Chair
Peter P. Chen, Steering Committee (Emeritus)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Jacky Akoka (CNAM, France)
Hiroshi Arisawa (Yokohama National University, Japan)
Paolo Atzeni (University of Rome, Italy)
Terry Barron (University of Toledo, USA)
Dinesh Batra (Florida International University, USA)
Joachim Biskup (University of Dortmund, Germany)
Mokrane Bouzeghoub (University of Versailles, France)
Marco A. Casanova (Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Tiziana Catarci (University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy)
Stefano Ceri (Politechnic of Milan, Italy)
Roger H.L. Chiang (University of Cincinatti, USA)
Wesley Chu (UCLA, USA)
Yves Dennebouy (EPFL, Switzerland)
Deb Dey (University of Washington, USA)
Ramez Elmasri (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
Donal Flynn (UMIST, UK)
Antonio Furtado (Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Paulo Goes (University of Connecticut, USA)
Jean-Luc Hainaut (University of Namur, Belgium)
Igor Hawryszkiewycz (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
Matthias Jarke (RWTH, Germany)
Paul Johannesson (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Yahiko Kambayashi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Hideko S. Kunii (Ricoh Co. Ltd., Japan)
Maurizio Lenzerini (University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy)
Stephen W. Liddle (Brigham Young University, USA)
Ee-Peng Lim (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Tok Wang Ling (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Salvatore T. March (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros (University of Campinas, Brazil)
Elisabeth Metais (University of Versailles, France)
Takao Miura (Hosei University, Japan)
Renate Motschnig-Pitrik (University of Vienna, Austria)
John Mylopoulos (University of Toronto, Canada)
Sham Navathe (Georgia Institute of Tecnnology, USA)
Daniel O'Leary (University of Southern California, USA)
Antoni Olive' (University of Catalunya, Spain)
Maria Orlowska (University of Queensland, Australia)
Jose Palazzo de Oliveira (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Guenther Pernul (University of Essen, Germany)
Javier Pinto (Catholic University of Chile, Chile)
Alain Pirotte (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium)
Niki Pissinou (University of Southwestern Lousiana, USA)
Sandeep Purao (Georgia State University, USA)
Sudha Ram (University of Arizona, USA)
John Roddick (Flinders University of South Australia, Australia)
Sumit Sarkar (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Arne Solvberg (Norwegian Institute of Technology, Norway)
Il-Yeol Song (Drexel University, USA)
Vijayan Sugumaran (Oakland University, USA)
Mohan Tanniru (Oakland University, USA)
Toby Teorey (University of Michigan, USA)
Bernhard Thalheim (Brandenburg Technical University at Cottbus, Germany)
Olga De Troyer (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)
Kyu-Young Whang (KAIST, Korea)
Michael Williams (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)

AREA LIAISONS
Asia: T.W. Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Australia: J. Roddick, Flinders University of South Australia, Australia
South America: Jose Palazzo de Oliveira, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
North America: S. Ram, University of Arizona, USA
Europe: S. Spaccapietra, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland