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Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS: Workshop on Regulatory Ontologies.. Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 14:58:33 +0200 From: "Mustafa Jarrar" mjarrar@vub.ac.be To: mjarrar@vub.ac.be
*apologies for cross posting* ******** CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: July 25, 2003 *************
WORKSHOP ON Regulatory Ontologies and the Modeling of Complaint Regulations
Webpage: http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa/WORM_CoRE_2003.htm http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa/WORM_CoRE_2003.htm
Co-occurring with the International Federated Conferences (OTM '03) http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/ http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/ November 3-7, 2003 Catania, Sicily, Italy
The benefits of e-commerce cannot be exploited fully by consumers because of the lack of trust and confidence in online cross-border purchases. To achieve fair trading and transparency in commercial communications and transactions, effective complaint mechanisms need to be established and involved in e-business activities. This workshop aims at bringing together academics, researchers, professionals and industrial practitioners to discuss issues involved in
modeling ontology of cross-border business regulations, among other things focusing on complaint regulations.
We seek original contributions on the following issues of interest, but not limited to:
- Engineering of regulatory ontologies: Representation, Context, modularization, layering, reusability, maintainability, extensibility, etc;
- Regulatory metadata standards (legal/leg-XML, ADR/ODR-XML,...);
- Policies and complaint regulations in Policy RuleML;
- Ontologies of: complaints, complaint resolutions, complainants, evidences, legal cases etc;
- Sensitivity on and harmonization of cross-border business regulations in general;
- Multilingual and terminology aspects of regulatory ontologies.
- Experiences with projects and applications of regulatory ontologies;
Submissions =========================== We invite papers of no more than 20 pages length (6000 words or less, Springer style format) describing original completed work, work in progress, interesting problems or use cases, or trends in this research area. Submitted papers will be fully refereed based on the originality and significance of the ideas
presented as well as on technical aspects. Accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag as a part of Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Ontologies, Databases and Applications of SEmantics (ODBASE).
Please email your submission by 25-July-2003 in PDF or Postscript format
to Mustafa Jarrar ( mailto:mjarrar@vub.ac.be mjarrar@vub.ac.be) AND Anne Salaun ( mailto:anne.salaun@e-consult.be anne.salaun@e-consult.be).
Important dates =========================== - July 25, 2003 : Deadline for submission of papers - August 15, 2003 : Notification to paper authors - August 30, 2003 : Final version of accepted papers - Nov 4, 2003 : Workshop (tentative)
Organizers ====================== Mustafa Jarrar (Contact), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (Contact) http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa
Anne Salaun, e-consult, Belgium, http://www.e-consult.be/anne.htm http://www.e-consult.be/anne.htm
Program Committee ====================== * Aldo Gangemi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Italy * Brian Hutchinson , University College Dublin, Ireland * Bruce Spencer, NRC Institute for Information Technology, Canada * Christophe Benavent, University of Pau, France * Gerd Wagner, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands * Joost Breuker, LRI-UVA, Amsterdam, Netherlands * Mariano Fernandez Lopez , Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain * Michael Sintek, DFKI GmbH Kaiserslautern, Germany * Murk Muller, LeXML Project * Peter Scoggins, FEDMA, Belgium (Tentative) * Robert Meersman, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium * Rita Temmerman, Erasmushogeschool Brussels, Belgium * Said Tabet, The RuleML Initiative, Boston, USA * Sophie Louveaux, e-consult, Belgium * York Sure, Karlsruhe University, Germany * Yves Poullet , University of Namur, Belgium
Publicity Chairs ====================== * Luk Vervenne, VUB Ontology Competence Center, Belgium * Alastair Tempest, FEDMA, Belgium
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