ER 2024 Program (tentative)
All times are subject to change.
Monday, October 28
Workshops
- 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
The First International Workshop on AI Services and Applications (AISA’2024) + The First International Workshop on AI-Driven Modeling and Management of Data (AIMM 2024) (AIMM 2024 is integrated in AISA’2024)- Big Data and Artificial Intelligence: innovation-oriented research to improve decision making
Distinguished Speaker: Juan Trujillo - Empirical case study of AI Service and Application for people with disabilities
Jaehwan Lee and Jintaek Jung - A Methodological Framework for Designing Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Services
Thang Le Dinh, Tran Duc Le and Jolita Ralyté - Beyond One-Fits-All: A Case Study Approach to AI System Design Methods
Sabine Janzen and Hannah Stein - GRASPER: Leveraging Knowledge Graphs for Predictive Supply Chain Analytics
Sabine Janzen, Hannah Stein and Sebastian Baer - An MLOps Framework to Data-Driven Modelling of Digital Twins with an Application to Virtual Test Rigs
Denis Kruschinski, Dylan Tchawou Ngassam, Umut Durak and Sven Hartmann - Empirical Study on the Use of Artificial General Intelligence Healthcare in the Elderly
Seungho Seo and Jintaek Jung - Effects of Perceived Ease of Use and Perceived Usefulness of Technology Acceptance Model on Intention to Continue Using Generative AI: Focusing on the Mediating Effect of Satisfaction and Moderating Effect of Innovation Resistance
Sa-Rang Jeong, Si-Hoo Kim and Seung-Hee Lee - Conceptual Modeling for Public AI Systems
Seonghwan Ju, Seoltae Ko and Andrew Lim - Self-Explanatory Retrieval-Augmented Generation for SDG Evidence Identification
Dario Garigliotti
- Big Data and Artificial Intelligence: innovation-oriented research to improve decision making
- 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
The 5th International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for Life Sciences (CMLS)- On the Expressiveness of Petri Nets for Modeling Biological Processes the Case for mRNA Translation and Protein Synthesis
Luis Henrique Costa Neto, Sérgio Lifschitz, Fernanda Baiao, Marcos Catanho, Antonio Basílio de Miranda and Edward Hermann Haeusler - Enhancing Vaxign-DL for Vaccine Candidate Prediction with added ESM-Generated Features
Yichao Chen, Yongqun He and Yuhan Zhang - Conceptual Modeling for Polygenic Risk Score Research: Improving Domain Understanding and Clinical Utility
Diana Martínez-Minguet and Óscar Pastor - Integrative Ontology of Bipolar Disorder (OBD): Advancing Bipolar Disorder Research through an Interoperable Ontological Framework
Yujia Tian, Yongqun He, Rachel Richesson and Melvin Mclnnis
- An LLM Assistant for Characterizing Conceptual Modeling Research Contributions
Steve Liddle, Heinrich C. Mayr, Oscar Pastor, Veda Storey and Bernhard Thalheim - AI-Assisted Analytics – An Automated Approach to Data Visualization
Alberto Alves, João Moura Pires, Maribel Yasmina Santos, Ana Léon and Andreia Almeida - Combining Natural Language Generation and Graph Algorithms to Explain Causal Maps through Meaningful Paragraphs
Tyler Gandee and Philippe Giabbanelli
- RESIGNIFING COMPLIANCE. BETWEEN ONTOLOGIES AND EPISTEMOLOGIES OF LAW
Matteo Buffa - Modelling Legal Enforcement with UFO-L: a Case from Swedish Healthcare
Jöran Lindeberg, Paul Johannesson, Martin Henkel, Erik Perjons and Katarina Fast Lappalainen - The eu-FAIRnews: A Preliminary Exploration of Bridging Disinformation and Digital Justice through FAIR Data Practices in Online News Sources
Antonella Calo, Marco Zappatore, Antonella Longo, Davide Damiano Colella, Marco Longo and Priamo Tarantino - Safety Assurances in Autonomous Vessels
Sreekant Sreedharan, Muthu Ramachandran, Erik Røsæg and Børge Rokseth
- On the Expressiveness of Petri Nets for Modeling Biological Processes the Case for mRNA Translation and Protein Synthesis
- 2:00 – 5:30 p.m.
7th International Workshop on Empirical Methods in Conceptual Modeling (EmpER’24) + 5th International Workshop on Quality and Measurement of Model-Driven Software Development (QUAMES 2024) (EmpER'24 and QUAMES 2024 are merged to EmpER'24 + QUAMES 2024)- How Does UML Look and Sound? Using Multimodal AI to Interpret UML Diagrams through Empirical Evidence
Aleksandar Gavric, Dominik Bork and Henderik A. Proper - Can Large Language Models Learn Conceptual Modeling by Looking at Slide Decks and Pass Graduate Examinations? An Empirical Study
Philippe Giabbanelli and Noé Flandre - Evaluating a Framework of Conceptual Modelling Research
Jose Ignacio Panach Navarrete, Oscar Pastor, Stephen W. Liddle, Veda C. Storey, Heinrich C. Mayr and Bernhard Thalheim - Extending Goal Models with Execution Orders: An Investigation of the Impact on Comprehensibility
Jeshwitha Jesus Raja, Akhila Vissom Raju, Jennifer Brings and Marian Daun - Towards leveraging gamified code-testing for effective model validation
Felix Cammaerts and Monique Snoeck
- How Does UML Look and Sound? Using Multimodal AI to Interpret UML Diagrams through Empirical Evidence
Tuesday, October 29
9:00 a.m. Opening
9:30 a.m. Keynote: Towards explanatory conceptual models: a systematic approach based on ontological analysis
Nicola Guarino, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council (ISTC-CNR)
11:00 a.m. Mid-morning break
11:30 a.m. Advanced Modeling Languages
- Multi-Faceted Evaluation of Modeling Languages for Augmented Reality Applications - The Case of ARWFML
Fabian Muff and Hans-Georg Fill - Application of the Tree-of-Thoughts Framework to LLM-Based Domain Modeling
Jonathan Silva, Qin Ma, Jordi Cabot, Pierre Kelsen and Henderik Proper - ECQL: Towards Succinct and Extensible Modeling of Multi-model Query Results
Gengyuan Shi, Chaokun Wang and Yabin Liu
1:00 p.m. Lunch
2:30 p.m. Ontological Modeling
- An Analysis of the Semantic Foundation of KerML and SysML
João Paulo Almeida, Luis Ferreira Pires, Giancarlo Guizzardi and Gerd Wagner - Portions of Matter and their Existential Events: An ontology-based conceptual model
Lucas Vieira, Fabricio H. Rodrigues and Mara Abel - Model-Driven Design and Generation of Training Simulators for Reinforcement Learning
Sotirios Liaskos, Shakil Khan, John Mylopoulos and Reza Golipour
2:30 p.m. Industrial Panel Session
4:00 p.m. Posters Pitch
4:30 p.m. Afternoon Break
5:00 p.m. Domain and Goal Modeling
- Generating Secure Workflow Designs from Requirements Goal Models Using Patterns
Sotirios Liaskos, Ibrahim Jaouhar, Syed Muhammad Danish and Shakil Khan - Modeling and Reasoning about Explanation Requirements using Goal Models
Sotirios Liaskos, John Mylopoulos, Alex Borgida and Shakil Khan - Enhancing Domain Modeling with Pre-trained Large Language Models: An Automated Assistant for Domain Modelers
Dominik Prokop, Stepan Stenchlak, Petr Skoda, Jakub Klimek and Martin Necasky
6:30 p.m. ER 2024 Welcome Reception, SEI Building
Wednesday, October 30
9:00 a.m. Keynote: Wood Wide Models
Pradeep Ravikumar, Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
10:30 a.m. Mid-morning break
11:00 a.m. Language Models and Conceptual Modeling
- How Are LLMs Used for Conceptual Modeling? An Exploratory Study on Interaction Behavior and User Perception
Syed Juned Ali, Iris Reinhartz-Berger and Dominik Bork - Small, Medium, and Large Language Models for Text-to-SQL
Aiko Oliveira, Eduardo Nascimento, Gustavo Coelho, Caio Viktor Avila, Lucas Feijó, Yenier Izquierdo, Grettel Garcia, João Pinheiro, Luiz Andre P. Paes Leme, Melissa Lemos and Marco A. Casanova - Establishing Traceability between Natural Language Requirements and Software Artifacts by Combining RAG and LLMs
Syed Juned Ali, Varun Naganathan and Dominik Bork
11:00 a.m. ER Forum Papers (to be determined)
12:30 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. Keynote Panel and ER Forum
3:30 p.m. Afternoon Break
4:00 p.m. Applications of Conceptual Modeling – 1 and Posters & Demo
- GenACT: An Ontology based Temporal Web Data Generator
Gunjan Singh, Udit Arora, Shashikant Kumar, Riccardo Tommasini, Pieter Bonte, Sumit Bhatia and Raghava Mutharaju - SAQI: An Ontology based Knowledge Graph Platform for Social Air Quality Index
Saad Ahmad, Sudhir Attri, Ruchi Dwivedi, Muzamil Yaqoob, Aasim Khan, Praveen Priyadarshi and Raghava Mutharaju - Conceptual Framework for Designing Hippocratic APIs
Sarmad Rezayat, Gerrit Burmester, Hui Ma and Sven Hartmann
5:30 p.m. Start Boarding Buses to travel to the Cruise Dock; leaving the SEI at approximately 5:45 p.m.
6:15 p.m. Conference Dinner on Gateway Clipper River Cruise (arrival back at the SEI will be approximately 9:45 p.m.)
Thursday, October 31
9:00 a.m. Keynote: New Technology, Same Basics
Paul Nielsen, Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (CMU SEI)
10:30 a.m. Mid-morning break
11:00 a.m. Process Modeling and ER Forum Papers
- Enhancing BERT Performance: Multi-Teacher Adversarial Distillation with Clean and Robust Guidance
Xunjin Wu, Jingfei Chang, Wen Cheng, Yunxiang Wu, Yong Li and Lingfang Zeng - On the Task-specific Effects of Fragmentation in Modular Process Models
Amine Abbad Andaloussi, Clemens Schreiber and Barbara Weber - A Universal Prompting Strategy for Extracting Process Model Information from Natural Language Text using Large Language Models
Julian Neuberger, Lars Ackermann, Han van der Aa and Stefan Jablonski - Agent System Event Data: Concepts, Dimensions, Applications
Qingtan Shen, Artem Polyvyanyy, Nir Lipovetzky and Timotheus Kampik
1:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. Applications of Conceptual Modeling – 2
- The Role-Artifact-Function Framework for Understanding Digital Identity Models
Frederico Schardong and Ricardo Custodio - Ontological Foundations of Resilience
Pedro Paulo Favato Barcelos, Rodrigo F. Calhau, Italo Oliveira, Tiago Prince Sales, Frederik Gailly, Geert Poels and Giancarlo Guizzardi - Conceptual modelling method for digital twins
Emilio Carrion, Oscar Pastor and Pedro Valderas
3:30 p.m. Afternoon Break
4:00 p.m. Closing
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