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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER) is the leading international forum for presenting and discussing research and applications of conceptual modeling. Topics of interest include foundations of conceptual models, theories of concepts, ontology-driven conceptual modeling and analysis, methods and tools for developing, communicating, consolidating, and evolving conceptual models, and techniques for transforming conceptual models into effective implementations.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Continuing a long tradition, ER 2017 will host a number of workshops to be held in conjunction with the main ER 2017 conference. The workshops will serve as an intensive collaborative forum for exchanging innovative ideas about conceptual modeling, and for discovering new frontiers for its use. We specifically invite proposals for interactive workshops on new, emerging, or established topics in conceptual modeling, or its application in specific domains. We encourage workshop organizers to include activities that provide their participants with a true workshop experience.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Submission Guidelines</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Workshop proposals should be about 3-5 pages long, submitted as a single pdf file by email to both ER workshop co-chairs and contain the following information:</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">• Title</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">• Topics of interest</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">• Format and duration</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">• Type (academic and/or industrial)</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">• Significance to conceptual modeling</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">• Organizers (short CVs, limit of two pages each, experience in organizing events)</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">• Proposed program committee</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">• Expected numbers of submissions and participants</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">• Expected number of accepted papers</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">• Activities that facilitate discussion among participants</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">• Activities that convey state-of-the-art to participants</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">• Activities that convey open challenges to participants</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">• Information about previous workshop editions, including submission and registration numbers</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Workshop proposal submission: Friday, January 20, 2017</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Notification of acceptance: Friday, February 10, 2017</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Submission of workshop papers: Friday, June 30, 2017</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camera-ready versions of accepted papers: Friday, August 4, 2017</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">All workshops will take place on Monday, November 6, 2017</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Proposal Evaluation Criteria</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The number of acceptable workshop proposals is limited by the time available and the facilities of the conference venue. Workshop proposals will be evaluated according to the:</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">• Scientific quality of the proposal</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">• Significance to conceptual modeling</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">• Likely numbers of high-quality submissions</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">• Quality of workshop experience for participants</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">• Overlap with other workshops</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">ER Workshop Co-Chairs</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">• Sergio de Cesare, Brunel University London, United Kingdom,</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica;color:rgb(0,105,217)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">e-mail: <a href="mailto:sergio.decesare@brunel.ac.uk"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">sergio.decesare@brunel.ac.uk</span></a></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">• Ulrich Frank, University of Duisburg- Essen, Germany,</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:helvetica;color:rgb(0,105,217)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">e-mail: <a href="mailto:ulrich.frank@uni-due.de"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">ulrich.frank@uni-due.de</span></a></span></p></div>