Paul Johannesson · Mong Li Lee Stephen W. Liddle · Andreas L. Opdahl Óscar Pastor López (Eds.) 1 8 3 9 S C Conceptual Modeling N L 34th International Conference, ER 2015 Stockholm, Sweden, October 19–22, 2015 Proceedings 123 Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9381 Commenced Publication in 1973 Founding and Former Series Editors: Gerhard Goos, Juris Hartmanis, and Jan van Leeuwen Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen TU Dortmund University, Dortmund, Germany Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/7409 Paul Johannesson Mong Li Lee (cid:129) Stephen W. Liddle Andreas L. Opdahl (cid:129) Ó ó scar Pastor L pez (Eds.) Conceptual Modeling 34th International Conference, ER 2015 – Stockholm, Sweden, October 19 22, 2015 Proceedings 123 Editors PaulJohannesson Andreas L. Opdahl Stockholm University University of Bergen Kista Bergen Sweden Norway MongLiLee Óscar Pastor López National University ofSingapore Universidad PolitécnicadeValencia Singapore Valencia Singapore Spain StephenW. Liddle Brigham Young University Provo, UT USA ISSN 0302-9743 ISSN 1611-3349 (electronic) Lecture Notesin Computer Science ISBN 978-3-319-25263-6 ISBN978-3-319-25264-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-25264-3 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2015950889 LNCSSublibrary:SL3–InformationSystemsandApplications,incl.Internet/Web,andHCI SpringerChamHeidelbergNewYorkDordrechtLondon ©SpringerInternationalPublishingSwitzerland2015 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpartofthe material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilarmethodologynow knownorhereafterdeveloped. Theuseofgeneraldescriptivenames,registerednames,trademarks,servicemarks,etc.inthispublication doesnotimply,evenintheabsenceofaspecificstatement,thatsuchnamesareexemptfromtherelevant protectivelawsandregulationsandthereforefreeforgeneraluse. Thepublisher,theauthorsandtheeditorsaresafetoassumethattheadviceandinformationinthisbookare believedtobetrueandaccurateatthedateofpublication.Neitherthepublishernortheauthorsortheeditors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissionsthatmayhavebeenmade. Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerInternationalPublishingAGSwitzerlandispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia (www.springer.com) Preface This volume contains a collection of research papers that comprise the technical programofthe34thInternationalConferenceonConceptualModeling(ER2015),held in Stockholm, Sweden, during October 19–22, 2015. Also known as the “Entity Relationship”or“ER”conference,thisconferenceseriesbeganin1979asaforumfor researchersfromaroundtheworldtogatheranddiscussthenascentfieldofconceptual modeling.Duringthepastfourdecades,theconferencehasbeenheldataninteresting variety of locations, rotating in successive years between Europe, Asia, and the Americas, attracting a diverse international community of scholars. Chen’s seminal work on the entity relationship (ER) model coincided with the emergence of conceptual modeling as a distinct field. Conceptual modeling is an activity that involves capturing aspects of the real world and representing them in the form of a model that can be used for communication; conceptual models typically are used in the development of computer-based information systems. The technical pro- gramforER2015includedpapersaddressinganumberofcurrentandemergingtopics in conceptual modeling. Inresponsetothecallforpapers,wereceived144abstractsand131fullpapers.The Program Committee provided at least three reviews for each paper, and on the basis ofthesereviewsweselected26fullpapers(anacceptancerateof19.85%)and19short papers(acombinedacceptancerateof34.35%).Thesepapersgroupintoseveraltopical areas,includingbusinessprocessandgoalmodels,ontology-basedmodelsandontology patterns, constraints, normalization, interoperability and integration, collaborative modeling, variability and uncertainty modeling, modeling and visualization of user- generated content, schema discovery and evolution, process and text mining, domain- based modeling,data modelsandsemantics,andapplications ofconceptualmodeling. We express gratitude to all who helped make ER 2015 a success. It required the significant efforts of many people to make this conference possible. We thank the 91 ProgramCommitteemembersalongwiththenumerousexternalrefereeswhoreviewed and discussed the submitted manuscripts. In addition, 18 members of the Program Committee served on the senior review board to help oversee the review process. We especiallythanktheauthorswhotookthetimetocarefullywriteuptheresultsoftheir researchandsubmitpapersforconsideration.Itisabundantlyclearthatagreatdealof high-quality and interesting work continues to be done by researchers from many corners of the globe. August 2015 Paul Johannesson Mong Li Lee Stephen W. Liddle Andreas L. Opdahl Óscar Pastor López Conference Organization General Co-chairs Paul Johannesson Stockholm University, Sweden Andreas L. Opdahl University of Bergen, Norway Technical Program Co-chairs Mong Li Lee National University of Singapore, Singapore Stephen W. Liddle Brigham Young University, USA Oscar Pastor Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Organization Co-chairs Maria Bergholtz Stockholm University, Sweden Jelena Zdravkovic Stockholm University, Sweden Eric-Oluf Svee Stockholm University, Sweden Workshop Co-chairs Manfred Jeusfeld Tilburg University, The Netherlands Kamlakar Karlapalem CDE, IIIT Hyderabad, India Tutorial Co-chairs Eva Söderström University of Skövde, Sweden Sandeep Purao Bentley University, USA Panel Co-chairs Bernhard Thalheim University of Kiel, Germany Andreas L. Opdahl University of Bergen, Norway Demonstration Chair Giancarlo Guizzardi Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil PhD Colloquium Chairs Michael Rosemann Queensland University of Technology, Australia Lois Delcambre Portland State University, USA VIII Conference Organization Industry and Student Chairs Vandana Kabilan Accenture, Sweden Parisa Aasi Stockholm University, Sweden Treasurer and Registration Chair Martin Henkel Stockholm University, Sweden Publicity Co-chairs Ilia Bider Stockholm University, Sweden Erik Perjons Stockholm University, Sweden Sponsorships and Exhibits Chair Gustaf Juell-Skielse Stockholm University, Sweden Technical Chair Iyad Zikra Stockholm University, Sweden Steering Committee Liaison Heinrich C. Mayr Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Program Committee Jacky Akoka CNAM and TEM, France Gove Allen Brigham Young University, USA Yuan An Drexel University, USA Joao Araujo Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Zhifeng Bao University of Singapore, Singapore Sourav S. Bhowmick Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Sandro Bimonte IRSTEA, France Shawn Bowers Gonzaga University, USA Stephane Bressan National University of Singapore, Singapore Stefano Ceri Politecnico di Milano, Italy Roger Chiang University of Cincinnati, USA Dickson Chiu University of Hong Kong, SAR China Byron Choi Hong Kong Baptist University, SAR China Fabiano Dalpiaz Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands Karen Davis University of Cincinnati, USA Valeria De Antonellis University of Brescia, Italy Sergio De Cesaro Brunel University, USA Conference Organization IX Lois Delcambre Portland State University, USA Oscar Diaz University of the Basque Country, Spain Gill Dobbie University of Auckland, New Zealand Johann Eder Alpen Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Sergio España PROS Research Centre, Spain Xavier Franch Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Avigdor Gal Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Sepideh Ghanavati Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Aditya Ghose University of Wollongong, Australia Paolo Giorgini University of Trento, Italy Georg Grossmann University of South Australia, Australia Giancarlo Guizzardi Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil Renata Guizzardi Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil Arantza Illarramendi Basque Country University, Spain Matthias Jarke RWTH Aachen University, Germany Manfred Jeusfeld Tilburg University, The Netherlands Ivan Jureta University of Namur, Belgium Dimitris Karagiannis University of Vienna, Austria Kamlakar Karlapalem CDE, IIIT Hyderabad, India David Kensche RWTH Aachen University, Germany Alberto Laender Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Dik Lun Lee Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Julio Cesar Leite PUC-Rio, Brazil Guoliang Li Tsinghua University, China Tok Wang Ling National University of Singapore, Singapore Sebastian Link The University of Auckland, New Zealand Fred Lochovsky The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China Pericles Loucopoulos Harokopio University of Athens, Greece Hui Ma Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Wolfgang Maaß Saarland University, Germany Heinrich C. Mayr Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Jan Mendling Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria Haralambos Mouratidis University of Brighton, UK John Mylopoulos University of Toronto, Canada Wilfred Ng HKUST, SAR China Antoni Olivé Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain JoséPalazzoM.DeOliveira Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Jeffrey Parsons Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Chris Partridge Brunel University, BORO Solutions, USA Zhiyong Peng Wuhan University, China Barbara Pernici Politecnico di Milano, Italy Geert Poels Ghent University, Belgium Henderik Proper Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg X Conference Organization Christoph Quix RWTH Aachen University, Germany Jolita Ralyté University of Geneva, Switzerland Sudha Ram University of Arizona, USA Iris Reinhartz-Berger University of Haifa, Israel Stefano Rizzi University of Bologna, Italy Colette Rolland Université Paris 1 Panthéon—Sorbonne, France Antonio Ruiz-Cortés University of Seville, Spain Bernhard Rumpe RWTH Aachen University, Germany Mehrdad Sabetzadeh University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Motoshi Saeki Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Camille Salinesi Université Paris 1 Panthéon—Sorbonne, France Peretz Shoval Ben-Gurion University, Israel Fernando Silva Parreiras FUMEC University, Brazil Pnina Soffer University of Haifa, Israel Il-Yeol Song Drexel University, USA Veda Storey Georgia State University, USA Arnon Sturm Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel David Taniar Monash University, Australia Ernest Teniente Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain James Terwilliger Microsoft Corporation, USA Bernhard Thalheim University of Kiel, Germany Aibo Tian The University of Texas at Austin, USA Juan Trujillo University of Alicante, Spain Panos Vassiliadis University of Ioannina, Greece Gerd Wagner Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany Barbara Weber University of Innsbruck, Austria Roel Wieringa University of Twente, The Netherlands Carson Woo University of British Columbia, Canada Huayu Wu Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore Eric Yu University of Toronto, Canada Esteban Zimányi Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Additional Reviewers Adhinugraha, Kiki Cabanillas, Cristina Fernandez, Pablo Anthonysamy, Pauline Cappiello, Cinzia Gallinucci, Enrico Argyropoulos, Nikos Costal, Dolors García, José María Baldacci, Lorenzo de La Vara, Jose Luis Golan, Sapir Berges, Idoia Dhiman, Ruchi Graziani, Simone Bhamborae, Mayur Di Ciccio, Claudio Greifenberg, Timo Bianchini, Devis Fan, Zhe Hartmann, Sven Bork, Dominik Fang, Qiong Heim, Robert Burattin, Andrea Feltus, Christophe Jenkins, Jeffrey