-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WI] CFP: 6th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE 2011) Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 09:58:37 -0800 From: Dragan Gasevic dgasevic@acm.org
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CALL FOR PAPERS
6th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE 2011) The VORTE workshop is organized in conjunction with the Fifteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2011), "The Enterprise Computing Conference", 29th August - 2nd September 2011 in Helsinki, Finland. http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/edoc2011/vorte
Deadline for workshop paper submissions: 15 March 2011.
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 development 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 development lifecycle of enterprise systems. Examples of topics covered by VORTE fundamental research contributions include the ontological evaluation of enterprise systems and their interoperability and the investigation of the use of ontologies and rules in business process modelling. Applied research contributions include enhancing business rule engines and business process management systems by ontologies and formal semantics for rules. From the enterprise system development perspective research topics are focused on relations of process modelling and execution languages with business ontologies and rules, and how business ontologies and rules used in enterprise models are further propagated into technologies (e.g., semantic web) and architectures (e.g., service-oriented architectures) that enable collaboration between heterogeneous enterprise systems. The workshop also welcomes experience reports and empirical studies that are reporting on the use of ontologies and rules in the enterprise system development lifecycle.
VORTE 2011 is the 6th 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.
Important dates and submission guidelines
All workshops follow the same schedule and submission guidelines. Please refer to the workshop summary page.
We invite 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 (www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html) and include the author's name, affiliation, and contact details. Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair at www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2011 http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2011.
Papers cannot have been previously submitted or published elsewhere.
The papers accepted for the EDOC 2011 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 2011) and present their papers at the workshop. The registration needs to be done via the EDOC 2011 website.
Post-conference Journal Publication: We are planning to invite selected papers for publication in a well-known international journal.
Keynote
To be announced.
Workshop organization
Workshop chairs
Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada,dgasevic [AT] acm.org http://acm.org/ Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Brazil, gguizzardi [AT] inf.ufes.br http://inf.ufes.br/ Andreas L. Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway,Andreas.Opdahl [AT] uib.no http://uib.no/
Steering Committee
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Brazil Gerd Wagner, Institute of Informatics, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada
Workshop program committee (to be completed)
Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Christoph Bussler, Xtime, Inc., USA Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zealand Sergio España, Polytechnic University of Valencia Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia Sven Hartmann, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany 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 Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Christophe Roche, University of Savoie, France Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia Ron Weber, Monash University, Australia