- From: Jens Dietrich <j.b.dietrich@massey.ac.nz>
- Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:51:51 +1200
- To: public-ws-chor@w3.org
[Apologies for cross-postings] In response to numerous requests for the extension of the submission deadline, we have decided to extend the deadline to the ***14 June 2009***. The 4th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE 2009) Co-located with the 13th IEEE International EDOC Conference Auckland, New Zealand, August 31st, 2009 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The VORTE series of workshops is devoted to the topics of vocabularies, ontologies and rules in the context of enterprise systems. The complexity of enterprise systems; the increasing needs for advanced collaboration between various systems within one institution or among many collaborating parties; and the velocity of organizational, policy, structural and market changes strongly call for immediate mobilization of the research community to develop more flexible and reliable technologies for the development of enterprise systems. Trying to respond to this urgent research need, the VORTE series of workshops has been established in order to bring together researchers and practitioners that are looking into the topics of ontologies and rules in enterprise system development from different yet complementary perspectives. The major objective is to provide a research forum for exchanging ideas and results covering the use of ontologies and rules in various stages of the development lifecycle of enterprise systems. Examples of topics covered by VORTE fundamental research contributions include the ontological evaluation of enterprise systems and their interoperability and the investigation of the use of ontologies and rules in business process modelling. Applied research contributions include enhancing business rule engines and business process management systems by ontologies and formal semantics for rules. From the enterprise system development perspective research topics are focused on relations of process modelling and execution languages with business ontologies and rules, and how business ontologies and rules used in enterprise models are further propagated into technologies (e.g., semantic web) and architectures (e.g., service-oriented architectures) that enable collaboration between heterogeneous enterprise systems. The workshop also welcomes experience reports and empirical studies that are reporting on the use of ontologies and rules in the enterprise system development lifecycle. VORTE 2009 is the 4th workshop associated with the EDOC conference series that intends to bring together researchers and practitioners in areas such as philosophical ontology, enterprise modelling, information systems, semantic web, model-driven engineering, business rules, and business process management. The goal of the workshop is to discuss the role that (foundational and domain) ontologies/vocabularies and business rules play in the conceptual design and implementation of next generation enterprise solutions. SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION We solicit two types of papers: - short papers (4 pages) discussing controversial issues in the field or describe interesting or thought-provoking ideas that are not yet fully developed; and - full papers (8-10 pages) describing more mature results than short papers. All submissions MUST conform to the two-column format of IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings (http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html) and include the author's name, affiliation, and contact details. Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2009. All papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere. The papers accepted for the EDOC 2009 Workshops will be published after the workshop with an ISBN in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. At least one of the authors for each accepted paper must register for the main conference (there will be no workshop-only registration at EDOC 2009) and present their papers at the workshop. The registration needs to be done via the EDOC 2009 website (https://www.se.auckland.ac.nz/conferences/edoc2009/). Post-conference Journal Publication We are planning to invite selected papers for publication in the ISI-indexed JRPIT journal (http://www.acs.org.au/jrpit/, subject to the final approval). Status updates will be announced on the web site and in the VORTE2009 Google group (http://groups.google.com/group/vorte2009) (RSS: http://groups.google.com/group/vorte2009/feed/atom_v1_0_msgs.xml). KEYNOTE John Hosking from the University of Auckland has agreed to be the keynote speaker. The title of John's presentation is "Supporting model driven engineering using the Marama meta toolset". IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: June 14th, 2009 Paper Notification: July 12th, 2009 Camera Ready Copy Due: July 27th, 2009 Workshop: August 31, 2009 (tentative) COMMITTEES Workshop Chairs: Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zealand Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada Steering Committee: Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Brazil Gerd Wagner, Institute of Informatics, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany Program Committee: Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA Robert Colomb, The University of Queensland, Australia Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Sergio España, Polytechnic University of Valencia Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Ricardo Falbo, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia Sven Hartmann, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany Heinrich Herre, University of Leipzig, Germany Mustafa Jarrar, STARLAB, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway Adrian Paschke, Free University Berlin, Germany Luís Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands Peter Rittgen, University College of Borås, Sweden Christophe Roche, University of Savoie, France Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Marcus Spies, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany Csaba Veres, University of Bergen, Norway Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia LINKS VORTE2009 web site: http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/VORTE/?q=node/14 VORTE2009 google group: http://groups.google.com/group/vorte2009 VORTE2009 RSS: http://groups.google.com/group/vorte2009/feed/atom_v1_0_msgs.xml EDOC2009 web site: https://www.se.auckland.ac.nz/conferences/edoc2009/ easy chair submissions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2009 formatting guidelines: http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html -- ******************************************* Dr Jens Dietrich Senior Lecturer Computer Science School of Engineering and Advanced Technology Massey University Palmerston North, New Zealand Phone: +64 6 350 5799 ext 2212 Email: J.B.Dietrich@massey.ac.nz Web: http://www-ist.massey.ac.nz/JBDietrich/ *******************************************
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