- From: Jie Bao <baojie@cs.rpi.edu>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 23:05:49 -0400
- To: Stijn Heymans <heymans@kr.tuwien.ac.at>
- Cc: semantic-web@w3.org
- Message-ID: <AANLkTilNCKuE5JF_oyHSx6SJtkrlHdf0tfoJneV6N71a@mail.gmail.com>
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stijn Heymans <heymans@kr.tuwien.ac.at> Date: Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 6:27 AM Subject: CFP BuRO 2010: Workshop on Business Models, Business Rules and Ontologies, co-located with RR 2010 To: semantic-web@w3.org ***************************** Call for Papers ******************************* BuRO 2010 1st International Workshop on Business Models, Business Rules and Ontologies http://ontorule-project.eu/dissemination/events/buro2010 Bressanone/Brixen, Italy co-located with the 4th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2010) September 22-24 2010 http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2010/ ***************************************************************************** It is a challenge in a business to enable the right people to interact in their own way with the right part of their business application. We distinguish between three views on the business organization: (1) the view of the business analyst using a formal and validated business model; (2) the view of the knowledge engineer via ontologies and rules, and (3) the view of the IT department via an operationalization in applications. We can glue these views together via an end-to-end point solution: (1) conceptualization and where possible acquisition of business models and their transformation into ontologies and rules; (2) their management and maintenance, and (3) the transparent operationalization in IT applications. The vision at the heart of the Semantic Web is of high relevance in a business setting as well. The proposed workshop addresses the different issues that arise in a business that wishes to have a transparent and where possible and useful a semi-automatic transfer of knowledge present in business documents expressing, e.g., policies, to an IT operationalization. Moreover, the workshop tackles these issues from an holistic perspective, raising awareness for the overall picture, instead of focusing on stand-alone issues. E.g., although OWL is well-investigated it is unclear how business knowledge expressed in SBVR can be mapped to it. Another example is the W3C's RIF effort: although based on well-investigated rule paradigms, it is less well-connected to upper business layers: how to go from a formal business model to RIF rules and how to interact with derived ontologies? During the ONTORULE project which shares a similar vision on a business, it has been recognized that this holistic view goes beyond the results attainable within the project and that much more discussion and exchange is needed. As such the workshop wants to create awareness with researchers in stand-alone fields like ontology acquisition, business modeling, integration of ontologies and rules, implementations of rule/ontology engines, that there is a bigger picture that can and should be used to extract requirements on the one hand and to provide output that is fine-tuned for other fields on the other hand. TOPICS OF INTEREST Suggested topics include the following (but are not limited to): * the acquisition of ontologies and rules from unstructured text via Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques * the development of a complete, formal and validated business model, taking all possible inputs into account (people and documents, structured and unstructured, some of which as output from an NLP phase), using the Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR) * transformation from structured business representations, from SBVR, to RDF/OWL and/or rules * the management and maintenance of business models, ontologies and rules, e.g., consistency maintenance and the integration of rules and ontologies (semantics, algorithms) * implementations of such management systems * use cases and field reports SUBMISSIONS We invite full papers up to 14 pages length. The workshop content will be made available in separate workshop proceedings. Please use the Springer LNCS format for the papers. Submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format. For paper submission we use the EasyChair conference management system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=buro2010 IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline: Aug 6, 2010 * Notification of acceptance: August 20, 2010 * Camera-ready paper submission: September 3, 2010 * Workshop: September 21, 2010 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Thomas Eiter, TU Vienna, Austria * Adil El Ghali, IBM, France * Sergio Fernández, Fundación CTIC, Spain * Stijn Heymans, TU Vienna, Austria * François Lévy, Université Paris 13, France
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