Silvana Castano & Laks Lakshmanan 
Advances in Conceptual Modeling [PDF ebook] 
ER 2012 Workshops CMS, ECDM-NoCoDA, MODIC, MORE-BI, RIGIM, SeCoGIS, WISM, Florence, Italy, October 15-18, 2012, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of workshops, held at the 31st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2012, in Florence, Italy in October 2012. The 32 revised papers presented together with 6 demonstrations were carefully reviewed and selected from 84 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on the workshops CMS 2012, EDCM-No Co Da, MODIC, MORE-BI, RIGIM, Se Co GIS and WISM. The workshops cover different conceptual modeling topics, from requirements, goal and service modeling, to evolution and change management, to non-conventionaldata access, and they span a wide range of domains including Web information systems, geographical information systems, business intelligence, data-intensive computing.