*apologies for cross posting*
******** CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for
submissions: July 25, 2003 *************
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
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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).
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)
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
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* Luk Vervenne, VUB Ontology
Competence Center, Belgium
* Alastair Tempest, FEDMA,
Belgium