Table Of ContentLecture Notes in Computer Science 6998
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Manfred A. Jeusfeld Lois Delcambre
Tok Wang Ling (Eds.)
Conceptual Modeling –
ER 2011
30th International Conference, ER 2011
Brussels, Belgium, October 31 - November 3, 2011
Proceedings
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PortlandStateUniversity
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TokWangLing
NationalUniversityofSingapore
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Foreword
We are proud to present the proceedings of the International Conference of
Conceptual Modeling (ER 2011) lasted in Belgium. We devoted all our energy
to make it a scientific, social, and artistic success.
Belgiumhas a long tradition, rootedin the early 1970s,in database research
and particularly in database modeling. This 30th ER conference was organized
by the CoDE Research department of the Universit´e libre de Bruxelles and the
PReCISE Research Center of the Universit´e de Namur, both very active in the
database community.
Belgium is also the country of beer, character cheese, French fries, comic
strips, Art Nouveau, and surrealism, but above all of institutional intricacy.
This was thus the ideal venue for an anniversary conference of a series devoted
to reducing and mastering information system complexity.
Nothing would have been possible without the unfailing and experienced
contribution of the ER Steering Committee as well as the Program, Publicity,
Workshop, Tutorial, Panel, Industrial Track (a new one), Demos and Posters,
andDoctoralConsortiumChairsandCommittees.Organizingsuchawide-scope
internationalconference and making it a success require countless competences,
rangingfromfinancialmanagertowebmaster.Theyalldidanexcellentjob.Spe-
cialthanksalsotoalloursponsorsandsisterscientificsocietiesfortheirsupport:
FNRS, Microsoft Research, NSF, Euranova, IBM, FWO, Intergraph, Springer,
la Ville de Bruxelles, OM Partners, CETIC, Oc´e, ReveR, ACM SIGMIS, ACM
SIGMOD, as well as the Universit´e libre de Bruxelles and the Universit´e de
Namur.
Finally, there is no scientific conference without high-quality contributors,
attendees, and readers: thanks to all of you.
On behalf of all the persons and partners that contributed to making this
conference a success, we hope you find the proceedings interesting and valuable
for your research.
July 2011 Esteban Zima´nyi
Jean-Luc Hainaut
Preface
The ER conference is the leading international forum for presenting research
results and discussing future trends in conceptual modeling. ER 2011 was the
30th such meeting and took place in Brussels, the vibrant “capital” of Europe.
While keepingastrongfocusonconceptualmodeling,theERconferencehas
alwaysbeenopentonewtrends,suchasgoalmodelingandprocessmodeling.In
2011,the extensionof conceptualmodeling to requirementsengineering,human
and social factors in modeling, ontologies, model development and evolution,
and data model theory were major trends among the papers accepted for the
main conference.
The Program Committee (PC) received 157 submissions to the main pro-
gram.EachpaperwasreviewedbyatleastthreemembersoftheProgramCom-
mittee. Additionally, six senior reviewers moderated the discussion on disputed
papers and wrote meta-reviews when necessary. The PC ultimately decided to
accept39papersofexcellentacademicqualityforthemainprogram,ofwhich25
regular-lengthpapersand14shortpapers.The overallacceptanceratewasthus
24.8%.Theacceptancerateofregular-lengthpapersis15.9%.Thereasonforthe
distinction between regular-length and short papers was the observation that a
numberofsubmissionshadaverygoodtechnicalquality,butwereperhapsabit
less fully developed. So, the PC wanted these papers in the main program but
to have them in some sense distinguished from the regular-lengthpapers.
The scientific program included three keynote talks by Alon Halevy, Ste-
fano Spaccapietra,andCarsonWoo, spanning a breadth of topics in conceptual
modeling. The proceedings also include a summary of the panel discussion and
of the tutorial program. We graciously thank the authors for submitting their
work, the PC members for writing reviews and participating in lively discus-
sions, and the six senior reviewers for processing all the reviews and providing
recommendations.
July 2011 Manfred Jeusfeld
Lois Delcambre
Tok Wang Ling
Organization
General Conference Chairs
Esteban Zima´nyi Universit´e Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Jean-Luc Hainaut Universit´e de Namur, Belgium
Program Committee Co-chairs
Manfred A. Jeusfeld Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Lois Delcambre Portland State University, USA
Tok Wang Ling National University of Singapore, Singapore
Industrial Co-chairs
Alkis Simitsis HP Labs, USA
Hans Van Mingroot IBM, Belgium
Workshops Co-chairs
Olga De Troyer Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros University of Campinas, Brazil
PhD Colloquium Co-chairs
Christophe Claramunt Naval Academy Research Institute, France
Markus Schneider University of Florida, USA
Poster and Demonstration Chair
Roland Billen Universit´e de Li`ege, Belgium
Tutorials Co-chairs
Alejandro Vaisman University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jef Wijsen Universit´e de Mons, Belgium
Panel Chair
Torben Bach Pedersen Aalborg University, Denmark
X Organization
Publicity Chair
Anthony Cleve Universit´e de Namur and Universit´e Libre
de Bruxelles, Belgium
Travel Award Chair
Min Song New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Financial Chair
Fr´ed´eric Servais Universit´e Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Steering Committee Liaison
Sudha Ram University of Arizona, USA
Local Organization Committee
Stijn Vansummeren (Chair) Universit´e Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Vinciane de Wilde Universit´e Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Serge Boucher Universit´e Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Franc¸ois Picalusa Universit´e Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Webmaster
Boris Verhaegen Universit´e Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Program Committee
Jacky Akoka CNAM, France
Paolo Atzeni Universita` Roma Tre, Italy
Carlo Batini University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Boualem Benatallah University of New South Wales, Australia
Sonia Bergamaschi Universita` di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Arne Berre SINTEF, Norway
Sourav Saha Bhowmick Nanyang TechnologicalUniversity, Singapore
Alexander Borgida Rutgers University, USA
Mokrane Bouzeghoub Universit´e de Versailles, France
Shawn Bowers Gonzaga University, USA
Stephane Bressan National University of Singapore, Singapore
Marco A. Casanova Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil
Organization XI
Silvana Castano Universita` degli Studi di Milano
Dickson Chiu Dickson Computer Systems, China
Isabel Cruz University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Karen Davis University of Cincinnati, USA
Umeshwar Dayal HP Labs, USA
Olga De Troyer Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Gillian Dobbie University of Auckland, New Zealand
Johann Eder University of Klagenfurt, Austria
J´erˆome Euzenat INRIA & LIG, France
Joerg Evermann MemorialUniversityofNewfoundland,Canada
Xavier Franch Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Helena Galhardas Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Jaap Gordijn VrijeUniversiteitAmsterdam,TheNetherlands
Giancarlo Guizzardi Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Brazil
Peter Haase Fluid Operations, Germany
Sven Hartmann Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
Brian Henderson-Sellers University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Howard Ho IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Arantza Illarramendi Basque Country University, Spain
Matthias Jarke RWTH Aachen, Germany
Paul Johannesson Stockholm University, Sweden
Kamalakar Karlapalem IIIT Hyderabad, India
Larry Kerschberg George Mason University, USA
Vijay Khatri Indiana University, USA
Michael Kifer State University of New York at Stony Brook,
USA
Hiroyuki Kitagawa University of Tsukuba, Japan
Alberto Laender Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Wolfgang Lehner Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Julio Cesar Leite Pontif´ıcia Universidade Catolica do Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil
Qing Li City University of Hong Kong, China
Mong Li Lee National University of Singapore, Singapore
Stephen Liddle Brigham Young University, USA
Mengchi Liu Carleton University, Canada
Peri Loucopoulos LoughboroughUniversity, UK
Jiaheng Lu Renmin University of China, China
Kally Lyytinen Case Western Reserve University, USA
Jan Mendling Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Xiaofeng Meng Renmin University of China, China
Michele Missikoff IASI-CNR, Italy
Wilfred Ng Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, China
Antoni Oliv´e Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya, Spain
XII Organization
Jose Palazzo M. de Oliveira Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil
Andreas Opdahl University of Bergen, Norway
Sylvia Osborn University of Western Ontario, Canada
Jeffrey Parsons MemorialUniversityofNewfoundland,Canada
Oscar Pastor Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Barbara Pernici Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Alain Pirotte Universit´e Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Dimitris Plexousakis University of Crete, Greece
Rachel Pottinger University of British Columbia, Canada
Erik Proper Public Research Center Henri Tudor,
Luxemburg
Sandeep Purao Penn State University, USA
Christoph Quix RWTH Aachen, Germany
Jolita Ralyt´e University of Geneva, Switzerland
Colette Rolland University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne,France
Michael Rosemann QueenslandUniversityofTechnology,Australia
Gustavo Rossi Universidad de la Plata, Argentina
Motoshi Saeki Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Klaus-Dieter Schewe Software Competence Center Hagenberg,
Austria
Ma´rio Silva IST, Portugal
Richard Snodgrass University of Arizona, USA
Il-Yeol Song Drexel University, USA
Veda C. Storey Georgia State, USA
Ernest Teniente Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya, Spain
James Terwilliger Microsoft Corporation,USA
Riccardo Torlone Universit`a Roma Tre, Italy
Juan Trujillo University of Alicante, Spain
Susan Urban Texas Tech University, USA
Inge Van De Weerd Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Axel Van Lamsweerde Universit´e Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Panos Vassiliadis University of Ioannina, Greece
Vania Vidal Universidade Federal do Ceara, Brazil
Gerd Wagner Brandenburg University of Technology,
Germany
Masatoshi Yoshikawa Kyoto University, Japan
Eric Yu University of Toronto, Canada
Ge Yu Northeastern University, China
Yanchun Zhang Victoria University, Australia
Xiaofang Zhou University of Queensland, Australia
Shuigeng Zhou Fudan University, China
