This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2013, held in Hong Kong, China, in November 2013. The 23 full and 17 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 148 abstracts and 126 full papers submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections onmodeling and reasoning, fundamentals of conceptual modeling, business process modeling, network modeling, data semantics, security and optimization, ontology-based modeling, searching and mining, conceptual modeling and applications, demonstration papers."

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2007, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in November 2007.

The 37 revised full papers presented together with 3 keynote lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on data warehousing and data mining, design methodologies and tools, information and database integration, information modelling concepts and ontologies, integrity constraints, logical foundations of conceptual modelling, patterns and conceptual meta-modelling, requirements elicitation, reuse and reengineering, semi-structured data and XML, as well as Web information systems and XML.

The constant evolution of new technologies has led to an interest in how information technology impacts entrepreneurship, for both the development of new technology and support for funding mechanisms, such as new platforms for investment. Rapid innovation and the overlap of information technology and entrepreneurship have been the subject of much research, including how they impact each other. Information Technology and Entrepreneurship reviews research on investment funding to extract and classify the factors that have traditionally impacted investment decisions, and to identify emerging investment issues. The result is a set of six factors, each of which has multiple dimensions and characteristics that are described. Suggestions are provided for future work to investigate funding opportunities for supporting entrepreneurs who wish to advance their innovative information technology products. After an introduction, Section 2 examines the role that information technology plays in entrepreneurship and provides an overview of the method used to perform the literature search and extract the main factors. Section 3 describes each factor and its general characteristics to progress our understanding of the factors themselves and their impact on investment decisions and technological innovations. Section 4 proposes areas of future research. Section 5 summarizes and concludes the paper.