Conceptual Modeling 31st International Conference ER 2012, Florence, Italy, October 15-18, 2012. Proceedings /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Atzeni, Paolo (Editor), Cheung, David (Editor), Ram, Sudha (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7532
• Subjects: Computer science.; Software engineering.; Computer logic.; Database management.; Data mining.; Information storage and retrieval.; Computer simulation.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering.; Logics and Meanings of Programs.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Database Management.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Simulation and Modeling.
• Physical Description: XX, 592 p. 206 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783642340024
• ISSN: 0302-9743 ;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2012, held in Florence, Italy, in October 2012. The 24 regular papers presented together with 13 short papers, 6 poster papers and 3 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from 141 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on understandability and cognitive approaches; conceptual modeling for datawarehousing and business intelligence; extraction, discovery and clustering; search and documents; data and process modeling; ontology based approaches; variability and evolution; adaptation, preferences and query refinement; queries, matching and topic search; and conceptual modeling in action.