Conceptual Modeling 31st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Florence, Italy, October 15-18, 2012, Proceeding

Keynotes.- Mega-modeling for Big Data Analytics.- Roberto Trasarti.- Spatial Keyword Querying.- Of Cubes, DAGs and Hierarchical Correlations:A Novel Conceptual Model for Analyzing Social Media Data.- Understandability and Cognitive Approaches.- Understanding Constraint Expressions in Large Conceptual Schemas by Automatic Filtering.- Understanding Understandability of Conceptual Models–What Are We Actually Talking about?.- Rules from Cognition for Conceptual Modelling.- Conceptual Modeling for Datawarehousing and Business Intelligence.- Using Domain Ontologies as Semantic Dimensions in Data Warehouses.- Sliced Column-Store(SCS):Ontological Foundations and Practical Implications.- Schema Decryption for Large Extract-Transform-Load Systems.- Extraction, Discovery and Clustering.- Fast Group Recommendations by Applying User Clustering.- Understanding Tables on the Web.- Bridging the Gaps towards Advanced Data Discovery over Semi-structured Data.- Towards Discovering Conceptual Models behind Web Sites.- Search and Documents.- A Distance-Based Spelling Suggestion Method for XML Keyword Search.- Cross-Language Hybrid Keyword and Semantic Search.- Mapping Semantic Widgets to Web-Based, Domain-Specific Collections.- Process Modeling I.-Evaluation Measures for Similarity Search Results in Process Model Repositories.- The MOSKitt4ME Approach:Providing Process Support in a Method Engineering Context.- Extending Conceptual Data Model for Dynamic Environment.- Process Modeling II.-Contracts+Goals=Roles?.- Specialization in i*Strategic Rationale Diagrams.- Conceptualizing and Specifying Key Performance Indicators in BusinessStrategy Models.- Data and Process Modeling Data Support in Process Model Abstraction.- Synthesizing Object Life Cycles from Business Process Models.- Conceptual Modeling for Systems Integration.- Ontology Based Approaches Ontology Evolution:Assisting Query Migration.- Ontology of Dynamic Entities.- A Supervised Method for Lexical Annotation of Schema Labels Based on Wikipedia.- Variability and Evolution Optimising Schema Evolution Operation Sequences in Object Databases for Data Evolution.- Capturing Variability of Law with N`omos 2.- Deriving Variability Patterns in Software Product Lines by Ontological Considerations.- Adaptation, Preferences and Query Refinment A Preference-Aware Query Model for Data Web Services.- User Feedback Based Query Refinement by Exploiting Skyline Operator.- A NFR-Based Framework for User-Centered Adaptation.- Queries, Matching and Topic Search Concept-Based Web Search.- A Linear Algebra Technique for (de)Centralized Processing of SPARQL Queries.- Non-binary Evaluation for Schema Matching.- Conceptual Modeling in Action.- An Integrated Conceptual Model to Incorporate Information Tasks in Workflow Models.- A Method for the Definition and Treatment of Conceptual Schema Quality Issues.- EERMM:A Metamodel for the Enhanced Entity-Relationship Model.- Posters.- Introducing Usability in a Conceptual Modeling-Based Software Development Process.- Conceptualizing Data in Multinational Enterprises: Model Design and Application.- A Metadata-based Approach to Leveraging the Information Supply of Business Intelligence Systems.- PhD Symposium Full Papers.- SPIDER-Graph:A Model for Heterogeneous Graphs Extracted from a Relational Database.- Exploiting Data Dependencies with Null Values for Ontology Extraction.- Partial Multi-dimensional Schema Merging in Heterogeneous Data Warehouses.- PhD Symposium Poster Papers.- Knowlog: A Declarative Language for Reasoning about Knowledge in Distributed Systems.- A Framework for Populating Ontological Models from Semi-structured Web Documents.- Data Management in a Modern ITS:Problems and Solutions.