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1. Enriched conceptualization of subtyping / Terry Halpin -- 2. Essential, mandatory, and shared parts in conceptual data models / Alessandro Artale, C. Maria Keet -- 3. Extending the ORM conceptual schema language and design procedure with modeling constructs for capturing the domain ontology /...