Call for Papers
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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. Submissions that relate to change in general, and the digital transformation in particular, are especially welcome.


Important Dates
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Paper abstracts: May 25, 2020
Full papers: June 01, 2020
Author Notification: July 15, 2020

Workshop proposals: July 27, 2020
Tutorial/panel proposals: July 27, 2020
Forum/Demo/Poster papers: July 27, 2020

Topics of interest span the entire spectrum of conceptual modeling including research and practice in areas such as theories of concepts and ontologies underlying conceptual modeling, modeling languages, methods and tools for developing and communicating conceptual models, and techniques for transforming conceptual models into effective implementations.


Submission Guidelines
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Since the proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series, authors must submit manuscripts using the LNCS style. The page limit for submitted papers (as well as for final, camera-ready papers) is 14.


Program Chairs
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- Gillian Dobbie, University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Ulrich Frank, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
- Stephen W. Liddle, Brigham Young University, USA


ER 2020 Awards
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- 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.