15. ER 1996: Cottbus, Germany

• Title, Preface, Organization, Committees, Referees, Table of Contents.
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Keynotes

• Charles W. Bachman:
  Impact of Object Oriented Thinking on ER Modeling. 1-4
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• Johann A. Makowsky, Elena V. Ravve:
  Translation Schemes and the Fundamental Problem of Database Design. 5-26
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• Heikki Mannila:
  Schema Design and Knowledge Discovery (Abstract). 27
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Advanced Schema Design

• Joachim Biskup, Ralf Menzel, Torsten Polle, Yehoshua Sagiv:
  Decomposition of Relationships through Pivoting. 28-41
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• Jean-Luc Hainaut, Jean-Marc Hick, Vincent Englebert, Jean Henrard, Didier Roland:
  Understanding Implementations of IS-A Relations. 42-57
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• Dimitri Theodoratos:
  Deductive Object Oriented Schemas. 58-72
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Processes

• Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede, Maria E. Orlowska, Jayantha Rajapakse:
  Verification Problems in Conceptual Workflow Specifications. 73-88
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• Pierre Maret, Jean-Marie Pinon:
  Process Knowledge Modeling. 89-104
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• Martin Steeg:
  The Conceptual Database Design Optimizer CoDO - Concepts, Implementation, Application. 105-120
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Query Languages

• Anthony C. Bloesch, Terry A. Halpin:
  ConQuer: A Conceptual Query Language. 121-133
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• Wolfram Clauß:
  Using Structural Recursion as Query Mechanism for Data Models with References. 134-145
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Representation

• Margita Altus:
  A Modular Design Strategy for a Flexible Graphical Database Design Environment: An Experimental Study. 146-162
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• Jürgen Ebert, Andreas Winter, Peter Dahm, Angelika Franzke, Roger Süttenbach:
  Graph Based Modeling and Implementation with EER / GRAL. 163-178
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Integration

• Mark W. W. Vermeer, Peter M. G. Apers:
  On the Applicability of Schema Integration Techniques to Database Interoperation. 179-194
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• Ingo Schmitt, Gunter Saake:
  Integration of Inheritance Trees as Part of View Generation For Database Federations. 195-210
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• Love Ekenberg, Paul Johannesson:
  A Formal Basis for Dynamic Schema Integration. 211-226
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Principles of Database Design

• Daniel L. Moody:
  Graphical Entity Relationship Models: Towards a More User Understandable Representation of Data. 227-244
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• Ronald Maier:
  Benefits and Quality of Data Modelling - Results of an Empirical Analysis. 245-260
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• Erich Ortner, Bruno Schienmann:
  Normative Language Approach - A Framework for Understanding. 261-276
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Transformation

• Petia Assenova, Paul Johannesson:
  Improving Quality in Conceptual Modelling by the Use of Schema Transformations. 277-291
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• Altigran Soares da Silva, Alberto H. F. Laender, Marco A. Casanova:
  An Approach to Maintaining Optimized Relational Representations of Entity-Relationship Schemas. 292-308
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• Wai Yin Mok, David W. Embley:
  Transforming Conceptual Models to Object-Oriented Database Designs: Practicalities, Properties, and Peculiarities. 309-324
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Enhanced Modeling

• Thodoros Topaloglou, John Mylopoulos:
  Representing Partial Spatial Information in Databases. 325-340
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• Jae Young Lee, Ramez Elmasri, Jongho Won:
  Specification of Calendars and Time Series for Temporal Databases. 341-356
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• Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Bettina Schewe:
  View-Centered Conceptual Modelling - An Object-Oriented Approach. 357-371
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Capturing Design Information

• Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, Jacky Akoka:
  Reverse Engineering of Relational Database Physical Schema. 372-391
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• Christian Soutou:
  Extracting N-ary Relationships Through Database Reverse Engineering. 392-405
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• Roland Kaschek:
  Inheritance as a Conceptual Primitive. 406-421
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• A. Yahia, Lotfi Lakhal, Rosine Cicchetti, Jean-Pierre Bordat:
  iO2 - An Algorithmic Method for Building Inheritance Graphs in Object Database Design. 422-437
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Evolution

• Fabio Casati, Stefano Ceri, Barbara Pernici, Giuseppe Pozzi:
  Workflow Evolution. 438-455
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• Moira C. Norrie, Andreas Steiner, Alain Würgler, Martin Wunderli:
  A Model for Classification Structures with Evolution Control. 456-471
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• Eric Andonoff, Gilles Hubert, Annig Le Parc, Gilles Zurfluh:
  Integrating Versions in the OMT Models. 472-487
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• Author Index.
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