[AISWorld] ER 2018 CfP (deadline extended to April 24th) / 8 other reasons to submit, and more will be disclosed later...

Sat Apr 14 15:53:19 EDT 2018

Dear Colleagues,

The 37th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2018), will 
be held in Xi'an, one of the historical capitals of China, from the 22d 
to the 25th of October, 2018.

The whole ER 2018 team is extending a warm invitation to you to 
participate in and to contribute to ER 2018.

The submission of ER papers will be open until April 24th. The abstract 
submission is recommended for April 17th.

You have plenty of reasons to submit a paper and to participate to ER 2018:

- Five ER 2018 Workshops

     - International Workshop on Empirical Methods in Conceptual 
Modelingrkshop on  (EmP-ER 2018)
     - 7th International Workshop on Modeling and Management of Big Data 
(MoBiD 2018)
     - 5th International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling in Requirements 
Engineering and Business Analysis (MREBA 2018)
     - 5th International Workshop on Quality of Modeling and Modeling of 
Quality (QMMQ 2018)
     - International Workshop on Characterizing the Field of Conceptual 
Modelling (CFCM 2018)

- Call for tutorials is now OPEN; you can actively participate to ER 
2018 also by submitting a Tutorial proposal (deadline May 18th)
- Call for demos is now OPEN; you can actively participate to ER 2018 
also by submitting a Demo paper (deadline May 18th)
- Call for PhD papers is now OPEN; the PhD students have the opportunity 
to present and discuss their research and to interact with other 
researchers, experts in the field of conceptual modeling, who can 
provide feedback on their research (deadline June 1st)

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Call for papers

37th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2018)
October 22-25, 2018

http://www.nwpu-bioinformatics.com/ER2018/
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The International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER) is the leading 
international forum for presenting and discussing current research on 
conceptual modeling. The topics of interest span the entire spectrum of 
conceptual modeling: theories of concepts underlying conceptual 
modeling, methods and tools for developing and communicating conceptual 
models, techniques for transforming conceptual models into effective 
implementations, and the impact of conceptual modeling techniques on 
databases, business strategies and information systems development.

We solicit submission of original research, as well as experience and 
vision papers, from both researchers and practitioners, welcoming any 
topic where conceptual modeling is a major theme. We specifically 
encourage submissions on the application and role of conceptual modeling 
techniques in new and emerging areas such as large data repositories for 
business intelligence, cloud computing and NoSQL databases.

Specific examples of topics of interest include, but are not limited to, 
conceptual modeling as applied to:

- Foundations and Concept Formalization
- Domain Specific Conceptual Modeling Languages, Methods and Frameworks
- Methodologies and Tools for Conceptual Design
- Data Warehousing, Data Mining, Business Intelligence and Analytics
- NoSQL and NewSQL Databases
- Big Data
- Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, and Web Information Systems
- Ontological and Cognitive Foundations for Conceptual Modeling
- Quality and Metrics of Conceptual Models
- Patterns and Reuse
- Data Semantics and Integrity Constraints
- Interleaving Modeling and Development
- Integration of Conceptual Models and Database Schemas
- Schema Evolution and Management of Database Constraints
- Metadata and Applications
- Spatial, Temporal, and Multimedia Aspects in Conceptual Models
- Semi-structured Data and XML
- Empirical Studies of Conceptual Modeling
- Requirements Engineering
- Reverse Engineering and Roundtrip Engineering
- Information Retrieval, Filtering, Classification, Summarization, and 
Visualization
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Advanced and Cross-Disciplinary Applications of Conceptual Models
- Enterprise Business Models, Enterprise Architectures and 
Service-Oriented Architectures
- Business Process Modeling
- Industry 4.0, Factory of the Future and Internet of Things
- Applications to Bioinformatics, Ambient Assistance, Cyber Security, 
and Privacy
- Role of Conceptual Modeling in Social Networks, Mobile Computing, Deep 
Learning, Internet of Objects, Serious Games and Pedagogical Models, etc.

******  IMPORTANT DATES  ******

Paper Abstract submission: April 17, 2018
Full paper submission: April 24, 2018
Author Notification: June 5, 2018
Camera-ready paper submission: June 25, 2018

Conference: October 22-25, 2018

******  SUBMISSION GUIDELINES  ******

Since the proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series, 
authors must submit manuscripts using the LNCS style. See 
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for style files and 
details. The page limit for submitted papers (as well as for final, 
camera-ready papers) is 14. Manuscripts not submitted in the LNCS style 
or exceeding the page limit will not be reviewed and automatically rejected.

A paper submitted to ER 2018 may not be under review for any other 
conference or journal during the time it is being considered for ER 
2018. Submitted papers must demonstrate to be aware of the state-of-the 
art literature in conceptual modeling by properly citing relevant papers 
in the field.

Submission to ER 2018 will be electronically managed via EasyChair. 
Authors are asked to submit an abstract first, and then to upload the 
full paper. Submitted papers must demonstrate awareness of the 
state-of-the-art of the literature in conceptual modeling by properly 
citing relevant papers in the field.

Submission is via EasyChair: 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=er2018

******  CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION   ******

General Co-Chairs:
Zhanhuai Li, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Program Committee Co-chairs:
Juan-Carlos Trujillo Mondéjar, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Karen Davis, Miami University, USA
Xiaoyong Du, Renmin University of China, China

Workshop Co-chairs:
Carson Woo, University of British Columbia, Canada
Jiaheng Lu, University of Helsinki, Finland

Tutorial Co-chairs:
Gillian Dobbie, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Matteo Golfarelli, University of Bologna , Italy

Panel Co-chairs:
Carlo Batini, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Ernest Teniente, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain

Poster/Tool Demonstration Co-chairs:
Qun Chen, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Zhifeng Bao, RMIT, Australia,

Ph.D. Symposium Co-chairs:
Xavier Franch, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
Chaokun Wang, Tsinghua University, China

SCME ( Symposium on Conceptual Modeling Education) Co-chairs:
Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, ESSEC Business School, France
Hui Ma, Victoria University of Wellington

Local Organizing Chair:
Xuequn Shang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Publicity Co-chairs:
Bin Cui, School of EECS, Peking University, China
Moon Kun Lee, Chonbuk National University, Korea
Mengchi Liu, Carleton University, Canada,
Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

Web Master:
Jialu Hu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

******  FOR MORE INFORMATION   ******

http://www.nwpu-bioinformatics.com/ER2018/

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