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- Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 16:24:07 -0300
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**** Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement **** CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling Onto.Com 2011, Brussels, Belgium, October 31st to November, 3rd http://www.inf.ufes.br/~gguizzardi/ontocom-2011/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- together with the 30th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2011) organized by the SIG on Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling of the International Association for Ontologies and Applications PURPOSE AND SCOPE There has been a growing interest in the role played by formal ontology, as well as areas such as philosophical logics, cognitive sciences and linguistics, in the development of theoretical foundations for conceptual modeling. In particular, a number of ontological theories such as BWW, DOLCE, GFO and UFO have been successfully applied to the evaluation of conceptual modeling languages and frameworks (e.g., UML, ORM, ER, REA, TROPOS, ARIS, BPMN, RM-ODP, Archimate and OWL), and to the development of engineering tools (e.g., methodological guidelines, modeling profiles, design patterns) that contribute to the theory and practice of this discipline. Additionally, there has been an increasing interest in the use of empirical studies to assess the impact of the application of these theoretical foundations to the design of conceptual modeling grammars and tools. The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for presenting and discussing innovative research contributions which relate ontologies and modeling. WE PARTICULARLY WELCOME PAPERS THAT RAISE CHALLENGING QUESTIONS, INNOVATIVE IDEAS AND “OUT-OF-THE-BOX” THINKING AND WHICH, AS A CONSEQUENCE, CAN HELP TO PROMOTE INTERESTING DISCUSSIONS AT THE WORKSHOP. Examples for topics that can be of interest address questions such as: - What are the relationships between Ontology as an Artifact, Ontology as a Philosophical Discipline, Conceptual Modeling and Metamodeling? - What is the relation between Ontology Levels of Instantiation and Metamodeling Levels of Instantiation? - What is the relation between Ontological Semantics, Formal Semantics, Abstract and Concrete Syntax for Visual Conceptual Modeling Languages? - What kind of Logical, Ontological and Epistemological Foundations are needed for Conceptual Modeling? - How can fundamental theoretical research on Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Empirical Research fit together? - How can Formal Ontological Theories be used for the Analysis and Design of Conceptual Modeling languages (including Enterprise Modeling and Domain-Specific Modeling languages)? - How researchers and practitioners in other domains not related to computer science and information systems (such as the Bioinformatics) are using Ontologies? - Is there a common notion of "Ontology" shared in all these domains, or are we including different notions under the same term (Ontology)? Workshop Chairs: Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil Oscar Pastor, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Yair Wand, University of British Columbia, Canada Deadlines: Abstract submission: May 27, 2011 Paper submission: June 03, 2011 (Extended Deadline) Notification: June 27, 2011 Camera-ready paper submission: July, 4 2011 Author registration: July 20, 2011 Workshop: October 31 - November 3, 2011 ***** SUBMITTING A PAPER: Papers should be submitted via the following link https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ontocom2011 Program Committee: Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bolzano, Italy Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway Bert Bredeweg, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Brian Henderson-Sellers, University Technology Sydney, Australia Carson Woo, University of British Columbia, Canada Chris Partridge, BORO Solutions, UK Claudio Masolo, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Italy Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany David Embley, Brigham Young University, USA Dragan Gaševic, Athabasca University, Canada Fred Fonseca, Penn State University, USA Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil Heinrich Herre, University of Leipzig, Germany Heinrich Mayr, University of Klagenfuhrt, Austria Jean-Marie Favre, University of Grenoble, France Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada John Mylopoulos, University of Trento, Italy Jose Palazzo M. de Oliveira. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Leo Orbst, MITRE Corporation, USA Matthew West, Information Junction, UK Michael Rosemann, University of Queensland, Australia Nicola Guarino, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Italy Oscar Pastor, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Palash Bera, Texas A&M International University, USA Peter Green, University of Queensland, Australia Peter Rittgen, University College Boras, Sweden Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel Richard Dapoigny, University of Savoie, France Simon Milton, University of Melbourne, Australia Stephen Liddle, Brigham Young University, USA Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine Veda Storey, Georgia State University, USA Vijay Khatri, Indiana University, USA Yair Wand, University of British Columbia, Canada Wolfgang Hesse, University of Marburg, Germany Submission and types of papers Workshop proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Authors must submit manuscripts using the Springer-Verlag LNCS style for Lecture Notes in Computer Science. See http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for style files and details. We welcome technical research papers as well as speculative/visionary papers addressing the topics of the workshop. As well, we are interested in presentations of how ontologies and conceptual modeling are taught at universities. Submissions should be in LNCS and pdf format. The maximum length is 10 pages. Accepted papers will be published in the LNCS workshop proceedings. After the discussions at the workshop, we are planning to organize a special issue at a high-quality journal on the field with invited extended versions of the papers. ***** SUBMITTING A PAPER: Papers should be submitted via the following link https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ontocom2011
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