CALL FOR PAPERS 19th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2000) October 9-12, 2000, Salt Lake City, USA www.er2000.byu.edu 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. IMPORTANT DATES (submission deadlines extended one week from original) Workshop proposals: Dec. 3, 1999 Paper abstracts: April 4, 2000 Full papers: April 11, 2000 Notification: June 13, 2000 Camera-ready papers: July 11, 2000 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 4, 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). WORKSHOPS We solicit proposals for workshops related to the conference topics. Proposals should be submitted to the workshops chair, Bernhard Thalheim (thalheim@informatik.tu-cottbus.de) by December 3, 1999. Prior contact with the workshops chair is encouraged. We plan to publish the proceedings in time for distribution at the conference. 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 4, 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 4, 2000. 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) 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 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)