Conceptual Modeling - ER 2006: 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Tucson, AZ, USA, November 6-9, 2006, Proceedings

Conceptual modeling has long been recognized as the primary means to enable so— ware development in information systems and data engineering. Nowadays, conc— tual modeling has become fundamental to any domain in which organizations have to cope with complex, real—world systems. Conceptual modeling fosters communi— tion between information systems developers and end—users, and it has become a key mechanism for understanding and representing computing systems and environments of all kinds, in...