---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Call for Abstracts - Business & Enterprise Ontologies Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:21:24 +0200 From: Michele Missikoff missikoff@IASI.RM.CNR.IT To: ISWORLD@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE

International Workshop on Open Enterprise Solutions: Systems, Experiences, Organizations, http://cersi.luiss.it/oesseo2001 LUISS University, Rome, 14-15 September 2001. (Co-located with VLDB 2001)

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-- Business and Enterprise Ontologies: Systems, Methods, Experiences -- Coordinator: M.Missikoff, Lab. for Enterprise Knowledge and Systems, IASI-CNR

Speed, flexibility, and openness are among the key factors for an enterprise that wants to compete in the Net Economy. Openness implies, among other aspects, the capability to starting cooperations with new partners, rapidly reaching a common understanding of the shared business. To this end, solutions based on computational ontologies appear to emerging as promising ones. An ontology is a shared understanding of a given domain, implemented as a structured repository of inter-related concepts. A Business and Enterprise Ontology (BEO) should contain the relevant concepts, necessary to model an enterprise and the business environment it operates in (e.g., market, logistics, partners and competitors). A BEO is a useful starting point for business process (re)engineering, enterprise (re)organization, product specification. On a more technical ground, a BEO may represent an important staring point for the development of interoperable information systems. For these reasons, we believe that among the Open Enterprise Solutions, in the near future we will count Enterprise and Business Ontologies. In this thematic session we wish to invite the submission of extended abstracts to create a session where ideas, experiences, and even relevant problems will be presented and discussed, in an open setting. The accepted abstracts will be included in the workshop proceedings.

- IMPORTANT DATES - Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: July 8th, 2001 Notification of acceptance: July 17th, 2001 Final version due: July 27th, 2001

Send an extended abstract to: leks@iasi.rm.cnr.it

================================================================== Michele Missikoff - Coordinator: LEKS - Laboratory for Enterprise Knowledge and Systems, at IASI-CNR Viale Manzoni 30, 00185 Rome (Italy) e-mail: missikoff@iasi.rm.cnr.it ph. (+3906) 7716-422, fax. (+3906) 7716-461, cel. (0335) 844-3646

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