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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
The 6th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules
for The Enterprise (VORTE 2011)
Co-located with the 15th IEEE International EDOC Conference
Helsinki, Finland, August 29-September 2, 2011
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: March 15th, 2011
Paper Notification: May 7th, 2011
Camera-Ready Copy Due: June 1st, 2011
Workshop: August
29th-September 2nd, 2011
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 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.
SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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 (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 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 (http://edoc2011.cs.helsinki.fi/edoc2011/).
Post-conference Journal Publication: We are planning to invite
selected papers for publication in a well-known international
journal.
KEYNOTE
To be announced.
COMMITTEES
Workshop Chairs:
Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada, dgasevic@acm.org
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES),
Vitória, Brazil, gguizzardi@gmail.com
Andreas L. Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway, Andreas.Opdahl@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
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
Luís Ferreira Pires,University of Twente, The Netherlands
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
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
LINKS
EDOC 2011 web site: http://edoc2011.cs.helsinki.fi/edoc2011/
VORTE 2011 web site: will become available as part of the EDOC2011
web site.
EasyChair submissions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2011
Formatting guidelines: http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html