Call for Papers

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 including research and practice in areas such: 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.

** Conference Venue

The 38th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2019) will occurs in Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia, in the Northeast region of Brazil, in the period of November 4-7, 2019. Salvador was the first capital of Brazil and is the 3rd largest city in the country. It is a very attractive tourist destination, due to its history, culture and gastronomy, all strongly influenced by the first African slaves and the portuguese culture. It has 25 km of urban beaches and several not-to-miss historic venues, like Pelourinho, Farol da Barra, Ilha de Itaparica, historical churches, museums, and Candomblé centers. It is also close to other touristic destinations in Bahia, like Morro de São Paulo, Praia do Forte and Boipeba.

The region time zone is the same as Brazil's capital, Brasília, which is three hours behind GMT. The climate is classified as temperate, with an average annual temperature varying between 23° C (73° F) and 30° C (86° F), with relative humidity ranging around 65-75%. Night temperatures usually drop to around 18° C (65° F).

The location for ER-2019 is the Hotel Mercure Rio Vermelho, a wonderful, paradise-like location, central and close to several social and gastronomic places in the bohemian neighborhood of Rio Vermelho.

** Target audiences and the scope

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 Round Trip 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.

** ER 2019 awards and Special Issue

- Best Student Paper Award: to be given to the best paper whose first author is a student.
- Best Paper Award: to be given to the best paper.

Selected papers will be invited to submit their extended version to the Journal of Data Semantics and to Data & Knowledge Engineering.

** 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 2019 may not be under review for any other conference or journal during the time it is being considered for ER 2019. 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 Instructions

Submission will be electronically managed via EasyChair. Authors are asked to submit an abstract first, and then to upload the full paper. The submission page of ER-2019 is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=er2019

** Important Dates

Submission Deadline: Apr 21, 2019
Notification Due: Jun 16, 2019
Final Version Due: Jul 7, 2019

http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/er2019/important-dates/
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***** Program Committee Chairs *****

Alberto H. F. Laender, UFMG – Federal University of Minas Gerais
Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano
Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University (SMU)


***** Senior PC Members *****

Jacky Akoka, CNAM & TEM, France
Paolo Atzeni, Universita’ Roma Tre, Italy
José Borbinha, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Mokrane Bouzeghoub, UVSQ/CNRS, France
Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Silvana Castano, University of Milan, Italy
Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Roger Chiang, University of Cincinnati, USA
Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, ESSEC Business School, France
Altigran S. da Silva, Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil
Valeria De Antonellis, University of Brescia, Italy
Gill Dobbie, The University of Auckland, New Zeland
Sven Hartmann, Clausthal University of Technology, Denmark
Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Manfred Jeusfeld, University of Skövde, Sweden
Paul Johannesson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Dongwonn Lee, The Pennsylvania State University, Brazil
Julio Cesar Leite, Pontiphical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Stephen Liddle, Brigham Young University, USA
Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Heinrich C. Mayr, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria, Austria
Claudia Medeiros, Institute of Computing, UNICAMP, Brazil
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto, Canada
Antoni Olivé, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Oscar Pastor Lopez, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Zhiyong Peng, State Key Lab. of Software Engineeering, China
Sudha Ram, University of Arizona, USA
Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne, France
Motoshi Saeki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Peretz Shoval, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel
Il-Yeol Song, Drexel UNiversity, USA
Veda Storey, Georgia State University, USA
Bernhard Thalheim, Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Germany
Juan-Carlos Trujillo, Universidad de Alicante, Spain
Carson Woo, The University of British Columbia, Canada
Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada


***** PC Members *****

Joao Paulo Almeida, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil
Yuan An, Drexel University, USA
Joao Araujo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Claudia P. Ayala, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Fatma Basak Aydemir, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Zhifeng Bao, RMIT University, Australia
Ladjel Bellatreche, LIAS/ENSMA, France
Sandro Bimonte, IRSTEA, France
Shawn Bowers, Gonzaga University, USA
Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Robert Andrei Buchmann, Babe?-Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca, Romania
Cristina Cabanillas, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Maria Luiza Campos, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Luca Cernuzzi, Universidad Católica, Paraguay
Reynold Cheng, The University of Hong Kong, China
Meng-Fen Chiang, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Dolors Costal, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, United Kingdom
Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia
Johann Eder, Alpen Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporizhzhia National University, Ukraine
Sergio España, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Ricardo A. Falbo, Federal University of Esprito Santo, Brazil
Bernadette F. Lóscio, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Hans-Georg Fill, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Ulrich Frank, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Frederik Gailly, Ghent University, Belgium
Hong Gao, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Ming Gao, East China Normal University, China
Yunjun Gao, Zhejiang University, China
Faiez Gargouri, Institut Supérieur d’Informatique et de Multimédia de Sfax, Tunisia
Marcela Genero, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Aurona Gerber, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Mohamed Gharzouli, Constantine 2 University, Algeria
Aditya Ghose, University of Wollongong, Australia
Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy
Matteo Golfarelli, Università di Bologna, Italy
Cesar Gonzalez-Perez, INCIPIT-CSIC, Spain
Georg Grossmann, University of South Australia, Australia
Nicola Guarino, ISTC-CNR, Italy
Esther Guerra, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Renata Guizzardi, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Brazil
Claudio Gutierrez, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Martin Henkel, Stockholm University, Sweeden
Jennifer Horkoff, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Hao Huang, Wuhan University, China
Chih-Chieh Hung, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Shareeful Islam, University of East London, United Kingdom
Ivan Jureta, University of Namur, Belgium
Hung-Yu Kao, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Gerti Kappel, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
Agnes Koschmider, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
John Krogstie, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Mong Li Lee, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Sebastian Link, The University of Auckland, New Zeland
Jiaheng Lu, University of Helsinki, Finland
Hui Ma, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zeland
Wolfgang Maass, Saarland University, Germany
Lourdes Moreno, Universidad Carlos III de Madri, Spain
Regina Motz, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom
Wilfred Ng, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Griffith University, Australia
Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne, France
Andreas L Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway
Jinsoo Park, Seoul National University, Korea
Geert Poels, Ghent University, Belgium
Fabio Porto, National Laboratory of Scientific Computation, Brazil
Henderik Proper, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
Christoph Quix, Fraunhofer, Germany
Jolita Ralyté, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Germany
Hajo A. Reijers, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel
Manuel Resinas, University of Seville, Spain
Daniel Riesco, National University of San Luis, Argentina
Marcela Ruiz, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Antonio Ruiz-Cortés, University of Sevilla, Spain
Sourav S. Bhowmick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Melike Sah, Near East University, Cyprus
Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Germany
Jie Shao, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Samira Si-Said Cherfi, CEDRIC – Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France
Stefan Strecker, University of Hagen, Germany
Arnon Sturm, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
David Taniar, Monash University, ustralia
Ernest Teniente, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Panos Vassiliadis, University of Ioannina, Greece
Gottfried Vossen, ERCIS Muenster, Germany
Chaokun Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Hongzhi Wang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Xianzhi Wang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Xiaoli Wang, Xiamen University, China
Mathias Weske, University of Potsdam, Germany
Manuel Wimmer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Robert Wrembel, Poznan Unviersity of Technology, Poland
Sai Wu, Zhejiang, University, China
Shuichiro Yamamoto, Nagoya University, Japan
Apostolos Zarras, University of Ioannina, Greece
Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden
Wenjie Zhang, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Xiangmin Zhou, RMIT University, Australia
Xuan Zhou, Renmin University of China, China