Advances in Conceptual Modeling - Theory and Practice [electronic resource] : ER 2006 Workshops BP-UML, CoMoGIS, COSS, ECDM, OIS, QoIS, SemWAT, Tucson, AZ, USA, November 6-9, 2006. Proceedings / edited by John F. Roddick, V. Richard Benjamins, Samira Si-said Cherfi, Roger Chiang, Christophe Claramunt, Ramez A. Elmasri, Fabio Grandi, Hyoil Han, Martin Hepp, Miltiadis D. Lytras, Vojislav B. Mišić, Geert Poels, Il-Yeol Song, Juan Trujillo, Christelle Vangenot.

ER 2006 Tutorials -- Conceptual Modeling for Emerging Web Application Technologies -- State-of-the-Art in Modeling and Deployment of Electronic Contracts -- ER 2006 Workshops -- Preface to BP-UML 2006 -- Extending the UML 2 Activity Diagram with Business Process Goals and Performance Measures and the Mapping to BPEL -- UN/CEFACT’S Modeling Methodology (UMM): A UML Profile for B2B e-Commerce -- Capturing Security Requirements in Business Processes Through a UML 2.0 Activity Diagrams Profile -- Finite State History Modeling and Its Precise UML-Based Semantics -- A UML Profile for Modeling Schema Mappings -- Model to Text Transformation in Practice: Generating Code from Rich Associations Specifications -- CoMoGIS 2006 - 3rd International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Geographic Information Systems -- Preface for CoMoGIS 2006 -- Keynote -- Large-Scale Earth Science Services: A Case for Databases -- Spatial and Spatio-temporal Data Representation -- Time-Aggregated Graphs for Modeling Spatio-temporal Networks -- An ISO TC 211 Conformant Approach to Model Spatial Integrity Constraints in the Conceptual Design of Geographical Databases -- Access Control in Geographic Databases -- Optimizing Representation and Access to Spatial Data -- VTPR-Tree: An Efficient Indexing Method for Moving Objects with Frequent Updates -- New Query Processing Algorithms for Range and k-NN Search in Spatial Network Databases -- A ONCE-Updating Approach on Moving Objects -- Spatio-temporal Data on the Web -- A Progressive Transmission Scheme for Vector Maps in Low-Bandwidth Environments Based on Device Rendering -- Map2Share – A System Exploiting Metadata to Share Geographical Information -- CoSS 2006 - International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling of Service-Oriented Software Systems -- Preface for CoSS 2006 -- Building Semantic Web Services Based on a Model Driven Web Engineering Method -- Choreographies as Federations of Choreographies and Orchestrations -- Designing Web Services for Supporting User Tasks: A Model Driven Approach -- Designing Service-Based Applications: Teaching the Old Dogs New Tricks ...or Is It the Other Way Around? -- ECDM 2006 - 4th International Workshop on Evolution and Change in Data Management -- Preface for ECDM 2006 -- Keynote -- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle : Practical Approaches to Schema Integration, Evolution and Versioning -- Accepted Papers -- A DAG Comparison Algorithm and Its Application to Temporal Data Warehousing -- Handling Changes of Database Schemas and Corresponding Ontologies -- Evolving the Implementation of ISA Relationships in EER Schemas -- Schema Change Operations for Versioning Complex Objects Hierarchy in OODBs -- Representing Versions in XML Documents Using Versionstamp -- OIS 2006 - 1st International Workshop on Ontologizing Industrial Standards -- Preface for OIS 2006 -- Accepted Papers -- XBRL Taxonomies and OWL Ontologies for Investment Funds -- A Semantic Transformation Approach for ISO 15926 -- Modeling Considerations for Product Ontology -- Ontologizing EDI Semantics -- WSDL RDF Mapping: Developing Ontologies from Standardized XML Languages -- QoIS 2006 - 2nd International Workshop on Quality of Information Systems -- Preface for QoIS 2006 -- to QoIS06 -- Information Quality, System Quality and Information System Effectiveness: Introduction to QoIS’06 -- Information System Quality -- Quality-Driven Automatic Transformation of Object-Oriented Navigational Models -- HIQM: A Methodology for Information Quality Monitoring, Measurement, and Improvement -- Evaluating the Productivity and Reproducibility of a Measurement Procedure -- Data Quality -- Quality of Material Master Data and Its Effect on the Usefulness of Distributed ERP Systems -- Towards Automatic Evaluation of Learning Object Metadata Quality -- Expressing and Processing Timeliness Quality Aware Queries: The DQ2L Approach -- SemWAT 2006 - 1st International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications: Theory and Practice -- Preface for SemWAT 2006 -- Semantic Web Applications (I) -- Combining Declarative and Procedural Knowledge to Automate and Represent Ontology Mapping -- Visual Ontology Alignment for Semantic Web Applications -- Automatic Creation of Web Services from Extraction Ontologies -- Semantic Web Applications (II) -- An Architecture for Emergent Semantics -- Semantic Web Techniques for Personalization of eGovernment Services -- Query Graph Model for SPARQL.

papers in this volume. I would also like to thank the main ER 2006 conference committees, particularly the conference Co-chairs Sudha Ram and Mohan T- niru and the conference Publicity Chair and Webmaster, Huimin Zhao, for their support in putting this programme together. John F. Roddick Flinders University PO Box 2100, Adelaide South Australia roddick@infoeng. flinders. edu. au ER2006ConferenceOrganization Honorary Conference Chair Peter P. Chen (Louisiana University, USA) Conference Co-chairs Sudha Ram (University of Arizona0, USA, ram@eller. arizona. edu) Mohan R. Tanniru (University of Arizona, USA, mtanniru@eller. arizona. edu) Program Committee Co-chairs Dave Embley (Brigham Young University, USA, embley@cs. byu. edu) Antoni Olive (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain, olive@lsi. upc. es) Workshop and Tutorial Chair JohnF. Roddick(FlindersUniversity,Australia,roddick@infoeng. ?inders. edu. au) Panel Co-chairs Uday Kulkarni (Arizona State University, USA, uday. kulkarni@asu. edu) Keng Siau (University of Nebraska,Lincoln, USA, ksiau@unlnotes. unl. edu) Industrial Program Co-chairs Arnie Rosenthal (Mitre Corporation, arnie@mitre. org) Len Seligman (Mitre Corporation, seligman@mitre. org) Demos and Posters Co-chairs Akhilesh Bajaj (University of Tulsa, USA, akhilesh-bajaj@utulsa. edu) Ramesh Venkataraman (Indiana University, USA, venkat@indiana. edu) Publicity Chair and Webmaster Huimin Zhao (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA, hzhao@uwm. edu) Local Arrangements and Registration Anji Siegel (University of Arizona, USA, asiegel@arizona. edu) Steering Committee Liaison Bernhard Thalheim (Christian-Albrechts-Universi¨ at zu Kiel, Germany, thalheim@is. informatik. uni-kiel. de) ER2006WorkshopOrganization ER2006WorkshopandTutorialChair JohnF. Roddick(FlindersUniversity,Australia,roddick@infoeng. ?inders. edu.