1st CFP —- ONTOLOGY OF ECONOMICS (2018)

1st CFP —- ONTOLOGY OF ECONOMICS —-


1st International Workshop on ONTOLOGY OF ECONOMICS
September 17-18 2018, Cape Town, South Africa
Part of The Joint Ontology Workshops JOWO 2018 @ FOIS 2018
Workshop Webpage: https://oe.inf.unibz.it/index.htm
JOWO 2018 Webpage: http://www.iaoa.org/jowo2018/



DESCRIPTION: Understanding the ontological nature of economic concepts and
institutions is crucial for providing principled modelling in many
important domains such as enterprise modelling, business processes, and
social ontology.
A significant number of fundamental concepts that are ubiquitous in
economics have only recently been approached from an ontological
perspective.

For instance: value, risk, preference, utility, capability, good, service,
exchange, transaction, competition.

We offer a venue to gather the recent contributions to this important
topic. We welcome submissions from different areas such as (philosophy of)
economics, decision theory, social choice theory, business, finance,
accounting, economic sociology, and enterprise modelling, to promote the
discussion on the ontological foundation of fundamental concepts in
economics.

The workshop encourages the submission of articles on both theoretical and
methodological issues in the use of ontologies for modelling economic
concepts and institutions, as well as articles presenting concrete use of
ontologies in application to economic domains.


We welcome contributions from different areas such as (philosophy of)
economics, business, finance, accounting, economic sociology, and
enterprise modelling, to promote the discussion on the ontological
foundation of fundamental concepts in economics. The workshop encourages
the submission of articles on both theoretical and methodological issues in
the use of ontologies for modelling economic concepts and institutions, as
well as articles presenting concrete use of ontologies in application to
economic domains.


Topics of interest include but are not restricted to:

- Ontology of economic concepts: e.g. preference relations, utility
functions, money, risk, strategy, rationality, market, economic agent,
competition, cooperation.
- Value, value ascription, value production, value (co-)creation.
- Economic contracts and economic exchanges.
- Social norms in economic environments.
- Economic roles and responsibilities of collective entities:
organisations, companies, enterprises, social groups, customers, corporate
agents, institutions.
- Economic aspects of enterprise modelling: capabilities, strategy,
marketing, accounting.
- Decision procedures in economic organisations.
- Finance and Markets.
- Services, service science, product-service systems.
- Business Ontology.
- Business Process Modelling.
- Extensions of foundational ontologies to include social and economic
institutions.
- Knowledge representation: methodological issues in representing social
and economic concepts, formal languages for economics, logics for modelling
economics concepts and institutions.



Important Dates

- Submission deadline: June 25, 2018  (with possible extension to the 30th
of June)
- Notification: July 23, 2018
- Camera-ready: August 15, 2018
- September 17-18, 2018 - Workshop (the exact date will be communicated
later).




Accepted Submissions

We welcome two types of submissions:

- Regular articles (8-12 pages including the bibliography) for presenting
original unpublished work, neither submitted to, nor accepted for, any
other venue.
- Short articles (5 pages including the bibliography) for presenting brief
descriptions of ongoing research and projects, preliminary approaches, or
descriptions of related previously published research.


Submission Guidelines

Papers should be submitted non-anonymously in PDF format following IOS
Press formatting guidelines (downloadable here:
https://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/
).

Papers should be uploaded via Easy Chair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2018

(Select Ontology of Economics track)


Publication: Articles and abstracts will be published by CEUR workshop
proceedings.
(For the previous editions of the JOWO proceedings, see www.iaoa.org/jowo/)



ORGANISERS:

Daniele Porello, Free-University of Bozen-Bolzano
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Nicola Guarino, ISTC-CNR.

CONTACT: daniele.porello@unibz.it




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Free University of Bolzano-Bozen,
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