CFP (VORTE2006 at Hong Kong) - DEADLINE EXTESION - International Workshop on VOCABULARIES, ONTOLOGIES AND RULES FOR THE ENTERPRISE

CALL FOR PAPERS

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2nd International EDOC Workshop on
VOCABULARIES, ONTOLOGIES AND RULES FOR THE ENTERPRISE (VORTE 2006)
http://www.pms.ifi.lmu.de/mitarbeiter/spies/EDOCVORTE2006.html

as part of the
The 10th International IEEE Enterprise
Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC)
16-20 October 2006, Hong Kong
http://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~edoc06/

SUPPORTED BY W3C - World Wide Web Consortium - Hong Kong Office

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

Vocabularies, ontologies and business rules are key components of a
model-driven approach to enterprise computing in a networked economy.
VORTE 2006 is the second workshop on an EDOC conference that intends to
bring together researchers and practitioners in areas such as
philosophical ontology, enterprise modeling, information systems, =20
semantic
web, MDA (Model-Driven Architecture) and business rules to discuss the
role of foundational and domain ontologies in the conceptual development
and implementation of next generation tools for enterprise computing.

The Workshop Encourages Submissions on topics including
(but not limited to) the following:

* Business Vocabularies
* Business Rules and Constraint Modeling
* Enterprise Integration and Interoperability
* Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Metamodeling
* Vocabularies and Foundational Ontologies for Enterprise Information Systems
* Enterprise Modeling and Simulation
* Foundations for the Model-Driven Architecture (MDA)
* Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) approaches to Enterprise Computing Systems
* Enterprise Computing and the Semantic Web
* Enterprise Reference Architectures
* Enterprise Domain Engineering
* Domain specific Business Information and Application Engineering
* Ontologies and organizational Semiotics
* Ontological Approaches to Content and Knowledge Management


KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Colin Atkinson, Chair of Software Technology at Mannheim University:

Models versus Ontologies - What's the Difference and where does it Matter?

As models and ontologies assume an increasingly central role in enterprise
systems engineering the question of how they compare and can be used
together assumes growing importance. On the one hand, the semantic web /
knowledge engineering community is increasingly promoting ontologies as
the key to better software engineering methods, while on the other hand
the software engineering community is enthusiastically pursuing the vision
of Model Driven Development as the core solution. Superficially, however,
ontologies and models are very similar, and in fact are often visualized
using the same language
(e.g. UML). So what's going on? Are models and ontologies basically the
same thing sold from two different viewpoints or is there some fundamental
difference between them beyond the idiosyncrasies of current tools and
languages? If so, what is this different and how should one choose which
technology to use for which purpose?

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All submissions will be formally peer reviewed. Submissions should be 6 to
8 pages long and MUST be submitted in IEEE Computer Society format and
include the author's name, affiliation and contact details. They should be
submitted by e-mail as LaTeX or PDF files before June 16th, 2006, to
m a r c u s . s p i e s {at} lmu°de. Authors will be notified of
acceptance by July 28, 2006. At least one author of accepted papers must
participate in the Workshop.  IEEE has agreed to publish all papers
accepted at the EDOC Workshops at the IEEE Digital Library (i.e., the IEEE
Xplore). The workshop papers will be posted separately with its own ISBN.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Marcus Spies
University of Munich (LMU),
Institute for Informatics,
Programming and Modeling Languages Unit

Giancarlo Guizzardi
Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA)
Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology (ISTC)
Italian National Research Council (CNR), Trento, Italy

Gerd Wagner
Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus (Germany)

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: 23 June 2006 (extended!)
Author notification: 28 July 2006
Camera ready papers: 18 August 2006
Workshop date: 16 October 2006

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Aldo Gangemi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Italy
Christophe Roche,Université de Savoie, France
Colin Atkinson,University of Mannheim, Germany
Csaba Veres, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Norway
Elisa Kendall,Sandpiper Software, USA
François Bry,University of Munich, Germany
Fred Freitas, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg Univ. of Technology at Cottbus, Germany
Giancarlo Guizzardi,Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Italy
Heinrich Herre,University of Leipzig, Germany
Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zealand
Joerg Evermann, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand
Kuldar Taveter, University of Melbourne, Australia
Luís Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Marcus Spies, University of Munich, Germany
Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Michele Missikoff, IASI-CNR, Italy
Mustafa Jarrar, STARLAb, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Nicola Guarino, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Italy
Oscar Pastor, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Pericles Loucopoulos, University of Manchester, UK
Peter Rittgen, University of Boras, Sweden
Ricardo Falbo, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil
Robert Colomb, University of Queensland, Australia
Terry Halpin, Neumont University, USA
Thomas Roth-Berghofer, DFKI, Germany
Uwe Assmann, TU Dresden, Germany
York Sure, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

Received on Thursday, 15 June 2006 01:57:26 UTC