CALL FOR PAPERS: Workshop on Regulatory Ontologies..

*apologies for cross posting*
******** CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: July 25, 2003
************* 
 
                                  WORKSHOP ON 
  Regulatory Ontologies and the Modeling of Complaint Regulations 
                    
 Webpage:
<http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa/WORM_CoRE_2003.htm>
http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa/WORM_CoRE_2003.htm
 
  Co-occurring with the  International Federated Conferences (OTM '03) 
                     <http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/>
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/
                             November  3-7, 2003 
                            Catania, Sicily, Italy
 

The benefits of e-commerce cannot be exploited fully by consumers
because of 
the lack of trust and confidence in online cross-border purchases. To
achieve 
fair trading and transparency in commercial communications and
transactions, 
effective complaint mechanisms need to be established and involved in
e-business 
activities. This workshop aims at bringing together academics,
researchers, 
professionals and industrial practitioners to discuss issues involved in

modeling ontology of cross-border business regulations, among other
things 
focusing on complaint regulations. 
 
We seek original contributions on the following issues of interest, 
but not limited to: 
 
 - Engineering of regulatory ontologies: Representation, Context,
modularization, 
   layering, reusability, maintainability, extensibility, etc;
 
 - Regulatory metadata standards (legal/leg-XML, ADR/ODR-XML,...); 
 
 - Policies and complaint regulations in Policy RuleML; 
 
 - Ontologies of: complaints, complaint resolutions, complainants,
evidences, legal cases etc; 
 
 - Sensitivity on and harmonization of cross-border business regulations
   in general; 
 
 - Multilingual and terminology aspects of regulatory ontologies.
 
 - Experiences with projects and applications of regulatory ontologies; 
 

Submissions
===========================
We invite papers of no more than 20 pages length (6000 words or less,
Springer 
style format) describing original completed work, work in progress,
interesting 
problems or use cases, or trends in this research area. Submitted papers
will 
be fully refereed based on the originality and significance of the ideas

presented as well as on technical aspects. Accepted papers will be
published 
by Springer-Verlag as a part of Proceedings of the 2003 International 
Conference on Ontologies, Databases and Applications of SEmantics
(ODBASE). 
 
Please email your submission by 25-July-2003 in PDF or Postscript format

to Mustafa Jarrar ( <mailto:mjarrar@vub.ac.be> mjarrar@vub.ac.be) AND
Anne Salaun ( <mailto:anne.salaun@e-consult.be>
anne.salaun@e-consult.be). 
 

Important dates
===========================
  - July 25, 2003 : Deadline for submission of papers 
  - August 15, 2003 : Notification to paper authors 
  - August 30, 2003 : Final version of accepted papers 
  - Nov 4, 2003 : Workshop (tentative) 


Organizers
======================
Mustafa Jarrar (Contact), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (Contact)
     <http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa>
http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa
 
Anne Salaun, e-consult, Belgium, 
     <http://www.e-consult.be/anne.htm> http://www.e-consult.be/anne.htm
 
Program Committee
======================
 * Aldo Gangemi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR,
Italy 
 * Brian Hutchinson , University College Dublin, Ireland 
 * Bruce Spencer, NRC Institute for Information Technology, Canada 
 * Christophe Benavent, University of Pau, France 
 * Gerd Wagner, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands 
 * Joost Breuker, LRI-UVA, Amsterdam, Netherlands 
 * Mariano Fernandez Lopez , Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain 
 * Michael Sintek, DFKI GmbH Kaiserslautern, Germany 
 * Murk Muller, LeXML Project 
 * Peter Scoggins, FEDMA, Belgium (Tentative) 
 * Robert Meersman, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium 
 * Rita Temmerman, Erasmushogeschool Brussels, Belgium 
 * Said Tabet, The RuleML Initiative, Boston, USA 
 * Sophie Louveaux, e-consult, Belgium 
 * York Sure, Karlsruhe University, Germany 
 * Yves Poullet , University of Namur, Belgium 
 

Publicity Chairs
======================
 * Luk Vervenne, VUB Ontology Competence Center, Belgium 
 * Alastair Tempest, FEDMA, Belgium