Title: Conceptual Modeling
Description: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2012, held in Florence, Italy, in October 2012. <br>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.
Subjects: Software engineering, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Database management, Information storage and retrieval systems, Information organization, Simulation and Modeling, Information retrieval, Logic design, Logics and Meanings of Programs, Computer simulation, Data mining, Computer science, Database design, Relational databases, System analysis, Congresses, Web databases