CFP: International EDOC Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE'05)

CALL FOR PAPERS
 
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First EDOC International Workshop on 
VOCABULARIES, ONTOLOGIES AND RULES FOR THE ENTERPRISE (VORTE 2005)
http://arch.cs.utwente.nl/~guizzard/VORTE05/
 
as part of the
The 9th International IEEE Enterprise
Distributed Object Computing Conference
19-23 September 2005, Enschede, The netherlands
http://www.edocconference.org

THEMES AND GOALS
 
Vocabularies, ontologies and rules are key components of a model-driven approach to enterprise computing in a networked economy. VORTE is the first of what 
we hope will be many workshops that bring together researchers and practitioners in areas such as philosophical ontology, enterprise modeling, information 
systems, semantic web, MDA (Model-Driven Architecture) and business rules to discuss the role of foundational and lightweight ontologies in the development 
of conceptual tools for enterprise computing. 
 
The Workshop Encourages Submissions on topics including 
(but not limited to) the following: 

* Business Vocabularies
* Business Rules
* 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)
* Enterprise Computing and the Semantic Web
* Enterprise Reference Architectures 
* Enterprise Domain Engineering

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
 
All submissions will be formally peer reviewed. Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages long in IEEE Computer Society format and include the author's name, 
affiliation and contact details. 
They should be submitted by e-mail as postscript or PDF files before June 30, 2005, to  
 
Authors will be notified of acceptance by July 29, 2005. At least one author of accepted papers should participate in the Workshop. Workshop proceedings will 
be published on the conference CD-ROM, and all accepted papers will appear in the IEEE Digital Library. 

IMPORTANT DATES     
 
Workshop papers due: 30 June 2005    
Author notification: 29 July 2005       
Final papers due: 15 August 2005
Workshop date: 20 September 2005   

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
 
Gerd Wagner 
Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus (Germany)
 
Giancarlo Guizzardi  
University of Twente (The Netherlands) &
Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC-CNR (Italy)

WORKSHOP PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR (Italy)
Andre Valente, Knowledge Systems Ventures (USA)
Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen (Norway)
Andrey Naumenko, Triune Continuum Enterprise (Switzerland) 
Brian Henderson Sellers, University of Technology Sydney (Australia)
Chris Welty, IBM Watson Research Center (USA)
Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim (Germany)
Elisa Kendall, Sandpiper Software (USA)
Gerd Wagner, Brandeburg University of Technology at Cottbus (Germany)
Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Twente (The Netherlands) & ISTC-CNR (Italy)
Joerg Evermann, Victoria University Wellington (New Zealand)
Mustafa Jarrar, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
Nicola Guarino, ISTC-CNR (Italy)
Pericles Loucopoulos, University of Manchester (UK)
Ricardo Falbo, Federal University of Espirito Santo (Brazil)
Roel Wieringa, University of Twente (The Netherlands)
Terry Halpin, Northface University (USA)
Uwe Assmann, TU Dresden (Germany)
Robert Colomb, University of Queensland (Australia)
York Sure, University of Karlsruhe (Germany)