-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CfP: Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE 2011), Helsinki/Finland Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:22:38 +0100 From: Andreas L. Opdahl Andreas.Opdahl@uib.no To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

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