VORTE 2012 - The 7th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise

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 CALL FOR PAPERS

The 7th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for
the Enterprise (VORTE 2012)

Co-located with the 16th IEEE International EDOC Conference
Beijing, China, 10th-11th September, 2012


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 advancement 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 lifecycle of enterprise systems.

Examples of topics covered by VORTE research contributions include the
development and adaptation of foundational, business and domain ontologies
for the enterprise, the use of ontologies and rules in all aspects of
enterprise modelling such as business process management and services, the
enhancement of rules and services with formal semantics, and the evaluation
of such systems and approaches. The workshop is also a forum for the
discussion of ontology-based knowledge management issues, interoperability
issues and ontology engineering issues, and covers various application
domains relevant for organizations (such as e-government and e-commerce).
The workshop also welcomes contributions on open linked data initiatives
for the enterprise and empirical studies on the use of ontologies and rules
in the enterprise system development lifecycle.

TOPICS

Vocabularies and Ontologies for the enterprise:
- Ontology-driven representation of products, services, functionalities,
design, processes;
- Ontologies for the know-how;
- Ontologies for corporate knowledge;
- Upper-level ontologies in the enterprise;

Knowledge management:
- Ontology and ontological methodologies in knowledge management and
integration;
- Adaptation of ontologies for companies and organizations;
- Ontology engineering, learning and maintenance within organizations;
- Ontology integration and alignment within organizations;
- Ontology effectiveness and evaluation in organizations;

Conceptual and Enterprise Modeling:
- Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Meta-modeling
- Ontology Design and maintenance for Conceptual Model Integration;
- Ontology-Based Conceptual Modeling Tools and Environments
- Ontologies and Enterprise Architecture Modeling
- Ontologies and Business Process Modeling
- Ontologies and Goal-Based Modeling
- Ontologies and Business Rules

Enterprise Semantic Interoperability:
- Web services, Semantic services
- Composition and Modularity
- Merging, Mapping and Alignment
- Ontology Language Interoperability
- Open linked data publishing and exploitation

Problems and case studies in ontology application:
- Practical issues in using ontologies in enterprises
- Real cases of successful/unsuccessful use of ontology in business
- From legacy systems to the new ontology-driven systems

SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

We solicit two types of papers:

- Short papers (4 pages) discussing controversial issues in the field or
describing interesting or thought-provoking ideas that are not yet fully
developed; and
- Full papers (8-10 pages) describing more mature results

All submissions MUST conform to the two-column format of IEEE Computer
Society conference proceedings (
http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) 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=vorte2012

All papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere.

The papers accepted for the EDOC 2012 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 2012) and present
their papers at the workshop.

Post-conference Journal Publication

For previous editions of the workshop, special issues have been published
in journals such as Applied Ontology (2007), IJBPIM (2007), Elsevier's
Information Systems (2008, 2010), and Journal of Research Practice in
Information Technology (2009).

This year, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended
versions for consideration for a special issue of the Applied Ontology
Journal http://www.iospress.nl/journal/applied-ontology/.


KEYNOTE

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IMPORTANT DATES

Workshop paper submissions: April 1, 2012
Workshops paper acceptance notifications: May 28, 2012
Camera-ready papers due: June 15, 2012
Workshop: September 10 or 11, 2012


COMMITTEES

Workshop Chairs:

João Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil,
jpalmeida@ieee.org
Roberta Ferrario, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology,
Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy, roberta.ferrario@cnr.it
Amal Zouaq, Royal Military College of Canada, Athabasca University, Queen’s
University, Canada, azouaq@rmc.ca

Steering Committee:

Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória,
Brazil
Gerd Wagner, Institute of Informatics, Brandenburg University of Technology
at Cottbus, Germany

Program Committee:

Uwe Assmann, TU Dresden, Germany
Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany
Ebrahim Bagheri, Athabasca University, Canada
Harold Boley, University of New Brunswick, NRC, Canada
Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Emanuele Bottazzi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR,
Trento, Italy
Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA
Robert Colomb, The University of Queensland, Australia
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zealand
Sergio España, Polytechnic University of Valencia
Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Ricardo Falbo, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil
Luís Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany
Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia
Peter Green, Queensland University, Australia
Pierre Grenon, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil
Terry Halpin, Northface University, USA
Brian Henderson Sellers, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Heinrich Herre, University of Leipzig, Germany
Florian Matthes, University of Munich, Germany
Alex Norta, University of Helsinki, Finland
Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway
Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
Adrian Paschke, Free University Berlin, Germany
Florian Probst, SAP Research Darmstadt, Germany
Peter Rittgen, University College of Borås, Sweden
Christophe Roche, University of Savoie, France
Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Csaba Veres, University of Bergen, Norway
Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany
Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia
Yair Wand, University of British Columbia, Canada
Ron Weber, Monash University, Australia
Hans Weigand, Faculty of Economics of Tilburg University, Netherlands

LINKS

VORTE2012 web site: http://nemo.inf.ufes.br/vorte2012
EDOC2012 web site: http://edocconference.org
EasyChair submissions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2012

Formatting guidelines: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting

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Professeure adjointe | Assistant Professor
Département de mathématiques et d'informatique|
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Collège militaire royal du Canada | Royal Military College of Canada
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