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Preface
Atmanyconferences,workshopsplayanimportantrole.Ontheonehand,theysupport
developingnew,promisingtopics.Ontheotherhand,theyserveasaninspiringforum
for meeting researchers that work in the same field, and, hence, contribute to creating
scientific communities. For long, workshops have been an important part of the ER
conferenceseries.Weareverygladthatthisyear’sworkshopsimpressivelycarriedon
that strong tradition. The workshops’ topics covered two main categories.
New application areas enabled by advanced information technologies demand for
dedicated modeling approaches that account for the peculiarities of new domains by
providing specific concepts and methods. Corresponding approaches to conceptual
modeling do not only facilitate the appropriate design and use of systems that play a
keyroleinthedigitaltransformation,butalsocontributetotechnologyacceptanceand
userempowerment.Thesecondcategorycomprisesfoundationalaspectsofresearchon
conceptual modeling. These include the semantics of language concepts, assumptions
we use to justify modeling decisions, domain-specific theories, and criteria we use to
assess the quality of models.
Three workshops address the first category. The Third International Workshop on
Modeling for AmbientAssistance and Healthy Ageing (AHA), organized by Heinrich
Mayr, Ulrich Frank, and J. Palazzo M. de Oliveira was motivated by the ever-
increasingdemandforsupportingtheelderlyinmanagingtheirlives.Relatedresearch
and development is driven into various directions among which the fields of “active
and assisted living (AAL)” and “healthy ageing (HA)” are rather prominent. For
innovationtowork,thestakeholdersoffutureassistancesystemshavetobeinvolvedin
order to offer them comprehensible representations of possible solutions that enable
them to express their concerns and demands. Therefore, the realization of advanced
systemstosupportAALandHArecommendsthedesignanduseofpowerfulmodels.
The Sixth International Workshop on Modeling and Management of Big Data
(MoBiD) resulted from three workshop proposals that were all focused on modeling
approaches to analyze and manage big data, which is one more indicator of the rele-
vanceofthisfield.TheworkshopwasorganizedbyThomasBäck,DavidGil,Nicholas
Multari, Jesús Peral, Heike Trautmann, Juan Trujillo, Il-Yeol Song, and Gottfried
Vossen. The MoBiD workshop was dedicated to presenting and discussing new
approachestoconceptualizinglargeamountsofdatainordertopromotemanagingand
exploiting them. The Fourth International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling in
Requirements and Business Analysis (MREBA) was organized by Renata Guizzardi,
Eric-OlufSvee,andJelenaZdravkovic.Requirementsengineeringhasusedconceptual
models for long. However, often, corresponding methods are generic. In order to
supporttheanalysisanddesignofbusinessinformationsystems,itseemspromisingto
enrich generic methods with concepts and methods for business analysis. That would
include accounting for competitiveness, for costs benefit ratios and further, more
specificbusinessperformanceindicators.TheMREBAworkshopprovidesaforumfor
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researcherswhoworkonspecificmethodsforbusinessanalysisandontheintegration
of those methods with approaches to requirements engineering.
The second category comprises two workshops. The Fifth International Workshop
on Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling, organized by Frederik Gailly, Giancarlo
Guizzardi, Mark Lycett, Chris Partridge, and Michael Verdonck, was aimed at
investigating the application of foundational ontologies to the field of conceptual
modeling.Ontologiesnotonlypromisetoprovideaconsistentfoundationformodeling
languages,theyalsoproposeprinciplesthatguidetheconceptualizationofdomainsof
interest. The workshop is also supposed to provide a forum for the discussion of case
studies that demonstrate the application of ontologies. Finally, the 4th Workshop on
Quality of Models and Models of Quality (QMMQ), organized by Samira Si-Said,
Ignacio Panach, and Pnina Soffer was dedicated to a topic that has been at the core of
research on conceptual modeling for long. While it is widely accepted that conceptual
modelsaresuitedtopromotingthequalityofsoftwaresystems,itisevidentatthesame
timethatthiseffectisnotindependentofthequalityofmodelsthemselves.Onlyifwe
have an elaborate idea of how to assess the quality of models, it is possible to con-
vincinglycomparemodelsandmodelingapproaches.TheQMMQworkshopaimedat
fosteringdiscussionsnotonlyonthequalityofconceptualmodels,butalsoonmethods
and tools to promote model quality.
We would like to thank the workshop organizers who prepared and organized
inspiring events that clearly contributed to making ER 2017 a special event. We are
alsoindebtedtothenumerousreviewerswhodevotedtheirtimeandexpertisetoensure
the quality of the workshops. Finally, we express our gratitude to the general chairs
of the conference. It has been a pleasure to work with them.
October 2017 Sergio de Cesare
Ulrich Frank
ER 2017 Conference Organization
General Conference Chair
Oscar Pastor Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Organizing Co-chairs
Ignacio Panach Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Victoria Torres Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Industry Chairs
Elena Kornyshova Centre d’études et de recherché en informatique
et communications, France
Vicente Pelechano Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Tanja Vos Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Workshop Co-chairs
Sergio de Cesare University of Westminster, UK
Ulrich Frank University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Panel Co-chairs
Flavia Santoro UNIRIO, Brazil
Juan Carlos Trujillo University of Alicante, Spain
Gerti Kappel Tu Wien, Austria
PhD Symposium Co-chairs
Dimitris Karagiannis University of Vienna, Austria
Stephen Liddle Brigham Young University, USA
Sourav S. Bhowmick NTU Singapore
Program Committee Co-chairs
Heinrich C. Mayr AAU, Austria
Hui Ma VUW, New Zealand
Giancarlo Guizzardi UFES, Brazil
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Tutorial Co-chairs
Iris Reinhartz-Berger University of Haifa, Israel
Karen Davis University of Cincinnati, USA
Poster/Tool Demonstration Co-chairs
Sergio España Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
Cristina Cabanillas ViennaUniversityofEconomicsandBusiness,Austria
SCME Co-chairs
Xavier Franch UPC, Spain
Monique Snoeck KU Leuven, Belgium
Publicity Co-chairs
Selmin Nurcan Sorbone, France
Renata Guizzardi UFES, Brazil
Moon Kun Lee Chonbuk National University, Korea
Liaison to Steering Committee
Antoni Olivé Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
ER 2017 Workshops Organization
AHA 2017 Co-chairs
Ulrich Frank University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Heinrich C. Mayr AAU, Austria
J. Palazzo M. de Oliveira UFRGS Porto Alegre, Brazil
MoBiD 2017 Co-chairs
David Gil University of Alicante, Spain
Juan Trujillo University of Alicante, Spain
Gottfried Vossen ERCIS, University of Münster, Germany
Thomas Bäck Leiden University and Divis Intelligent Solutions
GmbH, The Netherlands
Heike Trautmann ERCIS, University of Münster, Germany
Nicholas Multari Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Jesús Peral University of Alicante, Spain
Il-Yeol Song Drexel University, USA
MREBA 2017 Co-chairs
Renata Guizzardi UniversidadeFederaldoEspíritoSanto(UFES),Brazil
Eric-Oluf Svee Stockholm University, Sweden
Jelena Zdravkovic Stockholm University, Sweden
OntoCom 2017 Co-chairs
Frederik Gailly Ghent University, Belgium
Chris Partridge BORO Solutions Ltd., UK
Giancarlo Guizzardi Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil
Mark Lycett Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Michael Verdonck Ghent University, Belgium
QMMQ 2017 Co-chairs
Samira Si-said Cherfi Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France
Ignacio Panach Universitat de València, Spain
Pnina Soffer University of Haifa, Israel
