Important Dates
Paper abstract submission:
March 15
Full paper submission:
March 29
PhD Workshop paper submission:
May 4
Author notification:
May 24
Camera-ready paper submission:
June 21
Tutorial proposals:
June 30
Demonstration proposals:
April 11
Panel proposals:
April 29
Early Registration
September 4
Negotiated accommodation rates
September 4
Conference Dates:
October 20-23

CALL FOR PAPERS
27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2008)

October 20-23, 2008, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Conference Web Site: http://www.upc.edu/ER2008

SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE

The International Conference on Conceptual Modeling is a leading international forum for presenting and discussing current research and applications in which the major emphasis is on conceptual modeling. Topics of interest span the entire spectrum of conceptual modeling including research and practice in areas such as theories of concepts and ontologies underlying conceptual modeling, methods and tools for developing and communicating conceptual models, and techniques for transforming conceptual models into effective implementations. We encourage submissions relating to all aspects of conceptual modeling defined broadly, and particularly encourage work on topics of emerging interest in the research and development communities.

IMPORTANT DATES

 

Paper abstracts:        
Full papers:        
Notification:        
Camera-ready papers:        
 March 15, 2008
March 29, 2008
May 24, 2008
June 21, 2008

 

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We solicit submission of original research, as well as experience and vision papers from both researchers and practitioners. We welcome any topic where conceptual modeling is a major theme. Specific examples of topics of interest include, but are not limited to, conceptual modeling as applied to:

  • Information Modeling Concepts, including Ontologies;
  • Ontological and Conceptual Correctness in Modeling;
  • Logical Foundations of Conceptual Modeling;
  • Web Information Systems;
  • Mobile information systems and pervasive computing;
  • Service-Oriented Computing and Enterprise Architecture;
  • The Semantic Web;
  • Semistructured Data and XML;
  • Information and Database Integration;
  • Information Retrieval, Organization, Summarization, and Visualization;
  • Design Methodologies and their Evaluation;
  • Software Engineering and Tools;
  • Requirements Engineering;
  • Reuse, Patterns, and Object-Oriented Design;
  • Reverse Engineering and Reengineering;
  • Quality and Metrics;
  • Empirical Studies of Conceptual Modeling;
  • Conceptual Change and Schema Evolution;
  • Maintenance of Information Systems;
  • Management of Integrity Constraints;
  • Active Concepts in Conceptual Modeling;
  • Spatial, Temporal, Multimedia, and Multi-chanel Aspects;
  • Metadata, its Interpretation and Usage;
  • User Interface Modeling;
  • Knowledge Management Systems;
  • Groupware and Workflow Management;
  • Data warehousing, data mining, and business intelligence;
  • E-Learning, E-Business and E-Government; and
  • Other Advanced and Cross-Disciplinary Applications.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Since the proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series, authors must submit manuscripts using the LNCS style. See www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for style files and details. The suggested number of pages is 14, and the maximum number of pages is 16. Manuscripts not submitted in the LNCS style or having more than 16 pages will not be reviewed and thus automatically rejected. The final, camera-ready version must not exceed 14 pages to avoid page charges. A paper submitted to ER 2008 cannot be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for ER 2008. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for possible publication in the Elsevier's Data & Knowledge Engineering journal.

The best paper presented at the ER2008 Conference, selected by the PC co-chairs, will receive the DKE 25Year Award, given by the Elsevier Company, the Publisher of the Data & Knowledge Enginering Journal to celebrate the 25 years of the journal. The Award will consist of 500€, provided by Elsevier

Submission to ER 2008 will be electronically only. Authors are asked to submit an abstract first, and then to upload the full paper.

The online submission system will be available soon.

PROGRAM CHAIRS


Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China)
Stefano Spaccapietra, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne (Switzerland)
Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Toronto (Canada)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE


Carlo Batini (Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Sonia Bergamaschi (Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy )
Philip Bernstein (Microsoft Research, USA)
Alex Borgida ( Rutgers University , USA )
Boualem Benatallah ( University of New South Wales , Australia )
Mokrane Bouzeghoub (Université de Versailles, France)
Shawn Bowers (UC Davis Genome Center , USA )
Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau (CNAM & ESSEC, France)
Philippe Cudre-Mauroux (EPFL, Switzerland)
Bernardo Cuenca Grau ( University of Manchester , UK )
Ernesto Damiani ( University of Milan , Italy )
Mathieu d'Aquin (The Open University, UK )
Valeria De Antonellis ( University of Brescia , Italy )
Olga De Troyer (Vrije Universiteit Brussel , Belgium )
Lois Delcambre ( Portland State University , USA )
Jan Dietz ( Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands )
Klaus Dittrich (Universität Zürich, Switzerland) *
Hans-Dieter Ehrich (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
David W. Embley ( Brigham Young University , USA )
Vadim Ermolayev ( Zaporozhye National University , Ukraine )
Thibault Estier ( Université de Lausanne, Switzerland )
Jérôme Euzenat (INRIA & LIG, France)
Avigdor Gal (Israel Institute of Technology , Israel )
Paolo Giorgini ( University of Trento , Italy )
Angela Goh (Nanyang Technological University , Singapore )
Mohand-Said Hacid (University Lyon 1, France)
Jean-Luc Hainaut ( University of Namur , Belgium )
Sven Hartmann ( Massey University , New Zealand )
Brian Henderson-Sellers ( University of Technology , Australia )
Carlos Heuser (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul , Brazil )
Patrick Heymans ( University of Namur & PReCISE, Belgium )
Carlos Hurtado
Arantza Illarramendi ( Basque Country University , Spain )
Manfred Jeusfeld (Tilburg University) Netherlands
Paul Johannesson ( Stockholm University & the Royal Institute of Technology , Sweden )
Gerti Kappel (Vienna University of Technology) Austria
Kamalakar Karlapalem ( IIIT-Hyderbad , India )
Markus Kirchberg (Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore)
Yasushi Kiyoki (Keio University, Japan)
Manolis Koubarakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece )
Alberto Laender (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Chiang Lee ( National Cheng-Kung University , Taiwan (R.O.C.))
Julio Cesar Leite (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro , Brazil )
Stephen Liddle (Brigham Young University, USA )
Michele Missikoff (IASI-CNR) Italy
Mukesh Mohania (IBM India Research Lab , India )
Renate Motschnig ( University of Vienna , Austria )
Moira Norrie (ETH Zurich , Switzerland )
Jyrki Nummenmaa ( University of Tampere , Findland)
Andreas Oberweis ( Universitaet Karlsruhe , Germany )
Maria E Orlowska (Polish-Japanese Institute of IT, Poland )
José Palazzo M. de Oliveira (Federal University of RS - UFRGS, Brazil )
Christine Parent (Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Jeffrey Parsons (Memorial University of Newfoundland , Canada )
Óscar Pastor (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)
Mor Peleg (University of Haifa, Israel)
Zhiyong Peng (Wuhan University, China)
Barbara Pernici ( Politecnico di Milano , Italy )
Dimitris Plexousakis ( University of Crete , Greece )
Jaroslav Pokorny ( Charles University , Czech Republic )
Alex Poulovassilis ( University of London , UK )
Sudha Ram ( University of Arizona , USA )
Tore Risch
Colette Rolland (Universite Paris 1, France)
Matti Rossi ( Helsinki School of Economics, Findland)
Motoshi Saeki (Tokyo Institute of Technology , Japan )
Monica Scannapieco (Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
Klaus-Dieter Schewe ( Massey University , New Zealand )
Marc H. Scholl ( University of Konstanz , Germany )
Keng Siau ( University of Nebraska-Lincoln , USA )
Il-Yeol Song ( Drexel University , USA )
Veda Storey ( Georgia State University , USA )
Heiner Stuckenschmidt ( Universität Mannheim , Germany )
Rudi Studer (Institut AIFB - Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany)
Andrei Tamilin (Bruno Kessler Foundation - IRST, Italy )
Dimitri Theodoratos (New Jersey Institute of Technology , USA )
Juan Trujillo ( University of Alicante , Spain )
Holger Wache (University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW), Switzerland )
Gerd Wagner ( Brandenburg University of Technology , Germany )
X.Sean Wang ( University of Vermont , USA )
Kyu-Young Whang ( Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology , Korea )
Roel Wieringa ( University of Twente , The Netherlands )
Carson Woo ( University of British Columbia , Canada )
Jian Yang ( Macquarie University , Australia )
Dongqing Yang ( Peking University , China )
Jeffrey Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong , China )
Yanchun Zhang ( Victoria University , Australia )
Shuigeng Zhou ( Fudan University , China )
Esteban Zimányi (Université Libre de Bruxelles , Belgium )



 
It is with great sorrow that we have to inform you that Prof. Dr. Klaus R. Dittrich passed away on 20 Nov 2007.
Condolence book for Prof. Dr. Klaus Dittrich
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