2nd CFP - VORTE 2012: The 7th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise

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*SECOND 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 *

TBA

*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, amal.zouaq@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

Emanuele Bottazzi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR,
Trento, Italy

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

Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva, BiZZDesign, The Netherlands

Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zealand

Sergio Espana, 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

Pierre Grenon, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK

Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil

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

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

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
CP 17000, Succursale Forces, Kingston ON CANADA K7K 7B4
amal.zouaq@rmc.ca
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