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Thirty Years of ER Conferences: Milestones, Achievements, and Future Directions

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Conceptual Modeling - ER 2009 (ER 2009)

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This paper describes the milestones/achievements in the past 30 years and the future directions for the Entity-Relationship (ER) Conferences or the Conceptual Modeling Conferences. The first ER Conference was held in 1979 in Los Angeles. The major milestones and achievements of the ER Conferences are stated. Several interesting points about the ER Conferences are pointed out including: (1) it is one of the few longest running IT conference series, (2) It is not a conference sponsored directly by a major IT professional societies such as ACM or IEEE, (3) It does not depend on the financial support of a major IT professional society or a commercial company, (4) It maintains very high quality standards for papers and presentations. The reasons for the successes of the ER Conferences are analyzed. Suggestions for its continued successes are presented.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, U.S.A.

    Peter P. Chen

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos 6627, Prédio do ICEx, sala 4010, Pampulha , Belo, 31270-901, Horizonte, MG, Brazil

    Alberto H. F. Laender

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Informazione, DICo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Comelico, 39/41, 20135, Milano, Italy

    Silvana Castano

  3. Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 1501 Page Mill Rd., 94304, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Umeshwar Dayal

  4. Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Via sommarive 14, 38050, Povo (Trento), Italy

    Fabio Casati

  5. Instituto de Informática, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Caixa Postal 15.064, 91.501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

    José Palazzo M. de Oliveira

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Chen, P.P. (2009). Thirty Years of ER Conferences: Milestones, Achievements, and Future Directions. In: Laender, A.H.F., Castano, S., Dayal, U., Casati, F., de Oliveira, J.P.M. (eds) Conceptual Modeling - ER 2009. ER 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5829. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04840-1_1

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