CFP - The Joint VORTE-MOST 2010 Workshop at the IEEE EDOC Conference, Vitoria, Brazil

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Joint
- 5th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for 
The Enterprise
- International Workshop on Metamodels, Ontologies and Semantic 
Technologies (VORTE-MOST 2010)
http://edoc2010.inf.ufes.br/vorte2010

Co-located event at the Fourteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference 
(EDOC 2010)
http://edoc2010.inf.ufes.br

25-29 October 2010, Vitória, ES, Brazil

Ontology is a cross-disciplinary field concerned with the study of 
concepts and theories that can be used for representing shared 
conceptualizations of specific domains. Ontological Engineering is a 
discipline in computer and information science concerned with the 
development of techniques, methods, languages and tools for the 
systematic construction of concrete artifacts capturing these 
representations, i.e., models (e.g., domain ontologies) and metamodels 
(e.g., upper-level ontologies). In recent years, there has been a 
growing interest in diverse areas in computer science such as software 
and data engineering, knowledge representation, natural language 
processing, information science, among many others.
The objective of VORTE-MOST 2010 is to bring together researchers and 
practitioners interested in the relation between ontology and 
information models, and theoretical topics such as formal ontology, 
formal logics, conceptual modelling, enterprise computing, computational 
linguistics, cognitive science, knowledge representation, the Semantic 
Web, and MDE (Model-Driven Engineering), as well as more practical 
topics as a result of applications of ontologies in diverse fields, such 
as knowledge management, informatics for education, ontology-based 
information and database integration, information processing (retrieval, 
classification and extraction), to mention just a few.

TOPICS

• Ontology Engineering
•
o methodologies
o capture and learning
o management
• Ontology and Conceptual Modeling
•
o Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Metamodeling
o Ontology and Epistemology in Information Systems
o Ontology-Based Conceptual Modeling Tools and Environments
o Conceptual Modeling for the Semantic Web
o Ontology Design and maintenance for Conceptual Model Integration
• Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for Enterprise Modeling
•
o Ontologies and Business Process Modeling
o Ontologies and Goal-Based Modeling
o Ontologies and Business Rules
o Enterprise Reference Ontologies, Taxonomies and Vocabularies
• Semantic Consistency
•
o Foundational Ontologies
o Upper-Level Ontologies
o Evaluation Methods, Applications and Problems
• Semantic Interoperability
•
o Composition and Modularity
o Merging, Mapping and Alignment
o Ontology Language Interoperability
o Global Ontologies and Local as View (LAV) integration methods, 
problems and practice
• Enhancement of Ontology Applicability
•
o Linguistic ontologies applied to text processing
o Patterns of ontologies for specific applications
• Ontologies for Information Sharing
•
o Ontology-based information integration
o Mediators and brokers
o Agents and ontologies
o Ontology-based data transformation and data migration tools
o Ontology-enabled interoperability in e-science, life sciences, 
e-business, culture
o User friendly semantic system integration tools
• Ontology Applications
•
o The Semantic Web
o Knowledge management
o E-commerce, e-government
o E-learning and e-science - agents and multiagents patterns and 
applications
o Information retrieval, extraction and classification
o Ontologies and semantic technologies in Education
o Ontologies and natural language processing
o Ontology visualization

VORTE 2010 is the 5th workshop associated with the EDOC conference 
series that intends to bring together researchers and practitioners in 
areas such as philosophical ontology, enterprise modelling, information 
systems, semantic web, model-driven engineering, business rules, and 
business process management. The goal of the workshop is to discuss the 
role that (foundational and domain) ontologies/vocabularies and business 
rules play in the conceptual design and implementation of next 
generation enterprise solutions.
MOST was held for the first time during the 28th International 
Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER’2009) and it was created as the 
unification of two existing workshops: (i) Workshop on Ontologies and 
Applications (WONTO) – organized since 2005 also in three editions, and 
(ii) Workshop on Ontologies and Metamodels in Software and Data 
Engineering (WOMSDE) – organized since 2006 for three consecutive 
editions. VORTE-MOST 2010 can also be seen as a 5th edition of these 
joint scientific fora.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We solicit two types of papers:

• Short papers (4 pages) discussing controversial issues in the field or 
describe interesting or thought-provoking ideas that are not yet fully 
developed; and
• Full papers (8-10 pages) describing more mature results than short papers.

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 
athttp://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2010. All submissions 
should be in English.
All papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere.
The papers accepted for the EDOC 2010 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 2010) 
and present their papers at the workshop. The registration needs to be 
done via the EDOC 2010 website (http://edoc2010.inf.ufes.br/).
The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer 
Society Press and will be accessible through IEEE Xplore and the IEEE 
Computer Society Digital Library. The IEEE reserves the right to exclude 
a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE 
Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the workshop.
Post-conference Journal Publication
We are planning to invite selected papers for publication in a 
well-known international journal. (To be confirmed)

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: April 17th, 2010
Paper Notification: June 4th, 2010
Camera Ready Copy: June 16th, 2010
Workshop: October xx, 2010

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

• Ebrahim Bagheri, National Research Council of Canada, Canada, 
Ebrahim.Bagheri(at)nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
• Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, University of Twente, The 
Netherlands, l.o.bonino(at)ewi.utwente.nl
• Fred Freitas, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, 
fred(at)cin.ufpe.br
• Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil, 
gguizzardi(at)acm.com

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TO BE CONFIRMED)

 > · Adrian Paschke, Free University Berlin, Germany
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 > · Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR Rome, Italy
 >
 > . Andréia Malucelli, PUC-Paraná, Brazil
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 > · Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway
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 > · Bernardo Cuenca-Grau, Oxford University, UK
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 > · Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA
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 > · Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany
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 > · Daniel Schwabe, PUC-RJ, Brazil
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 > · Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada
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 > · Evandro Costa, UFAL, Brazil
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 > · Fabio Porto, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
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 > . Fred Fonseca, Pennsylvania State University, USA
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 > · Heinrich Herre, University of Leipzig, Germany
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 > · Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
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 > · Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zealand
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 > · Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
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 > · Krzysztof Janowicz, Pennsylvania State University, USA
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 > · Luís Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands
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 > · Mara Abel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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 > . Marco Antonio Casanova, PUC-Rio, Brazil
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 > · Maria Luiza Machado Campos, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
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 > · Martin Doerr, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece
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 > · Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
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 > · Mustafa Jarrar, STARLAB, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
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 > · Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
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 > · Oscar Pastor, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
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 > · Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, USA
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 > · Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA
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 > · Peter Rittgen, University College of Borås, Sweden
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 > · Renata Vieira, PUC-RS, Brazil
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 > · Renata Wassermann, University of São Paulo, Brazil
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 > · Riichiro Mizoguchi, Osaka University, Japan
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 > · Rinke Hoekstra, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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 > · Robert Colomb, The University of Queensland, Australia
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 > · Roberta Ferrario, LOA-CNR, Italy
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 > · Siegfried Handschuh, National University of Ireland / DERI, Ireland
 >
 > . Sofia Pinto, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
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 > · Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine
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 > · Wolfgang Hesse, University of Marburg, Germany
 >
 > · Yair Wand, University of British Columbia, Canada


LINKS
EDOC2010 web site: http://edoc2010.inf.ufes.br/
easy chair submissions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2010
formatting guidelines: 
http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html

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Fred Freitas
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Centro de Informática - CIn
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE - Brazil

Currently at the Knowledge Representation Knowledge Management research 
group at the University of Mannheim, Germany
http://ki.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/people/fred_freitas.html

Research interests: Ontologies, semantic web, ontology-based text processing


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Fred Freitas
************
Centro de Informática - CIn
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco - UFPE - Brazil

Currently at the Knowledge Representation Knowledge Management research group at the University of Mannheim, Germany
http://ki.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/people/fred_freitas.html

Research interests: Ontologies, semantic web, ontology-based text processing

Received on Monday, 29 March 2010 15:20:12 UTC