2nd CFP - VORTE 2012: The 7th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise

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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 

The 7th
International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise
(VORTE 2012) 

Co-located with
the 16th IEEE International EDOC Conference, Beijing, China, 10th-11th
September, 2012

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 advancement 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 lifecycle of enterprise
systems. 

Examples of
topics covered by VORTE research contributions include the development and
adaptation of foundational, business and domain ontologies for the enterprise,
the use of ontologies and rules in all aspects of enterprise modelling such as
business process management and services, the enhancement of rules and services
with formal semantics, and the evaluation of such systems and approaches. The
workshop is also a forum for the discussion of ontology-based knowledge
management issues, interoperability issues and ontology engineering issues, and
covers various application domains relevant for organizations (such as
e-government and e-commerce). The workshop also welcomes contributions on open
linked data initiatives for the enterprise and empirical studies on the use of
ontologies and rules in the enterprise system development lifecycle.

TOPICS 

Vocabularies and
Ontologies for the enterprise: 

- Ontology-driven
representation of products, services, functionalities, design, processes;

- Ontologies for
the know-how; 

- Ontologies for
corporate knowledge; 

- Upper-level
ontologies in the enterprise; 

Knowledge
management: 

- Ontology and
ontological methodologies in knowledge management and integration; 

- Adaptation of
ontologies for companies and organizations; 

- Ontology
engineering, learning and maintenance within organizations; 

- Ontology
integration and alignment within organizations;

- Ontology
effectiveness and evaluation in organizations; 

Conceptual and
Enterprise Modeling:

- Ontological
Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Meta-modeling 

- Ontology Design
and maintenance for Conceptual Model Integration;  

- Ontology-Based
Conceptual Modeling Tools and Environments 

- Ontologies and
Enterprise Architecture Modeling

- Ontologies and
Business Process Modeling

- Ontologies and
Goal-Based Modeling 

- Ontologies and
Business Rules  

Enterprise
Semantic Interoperability:

- Web services,
Semantic services  

- Composition and
Modularity

- Merging, Mapping
and Alignment 

- Ontology
Language Interoperability

- Open linked
data publishing and exploitation

Problems and case
studies in ontology application:

- Practical
issues in using ontologies in enterprises 

- Real cases of
successful/unsuccessful use of ontology in business 

- From legacy
systems to the new ontology-driven systems 

SUBMISSION AND
PUBLICATION 

We solicit two
types of papers: 

- Short papers (4
pages) discussing controversial issues in the field or describing interesting or
thought-provoking ideas that are not yet fully developed; and 

- Full papers
(8-10 pages) describing more mature results 

All submissions
MUST conform to the two-column format of IEEE Computer Society conference
proceedings (http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) 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=vorte2012  

All papers must
not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere. 

The papers
accepted for the EDOC 2012 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 2012) and present their papers at the
workshop.   

Post-conference
Journal Publication 

For previous
editions of the workshop, special issues have been published in journals such
as Applied Ontology (2007), IJBPIM (2007), Elsevier's Information Systems
(2008, 2010), and Journal of Research Practice in Information Technology
(2009). 

This year,
authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for
consideration for a special issue of the Applied Ontology Journal
http://www.iospress.nl/journal/applied-ontology/.

KEYNOTE 

TBA 

IMPORTANT DATES 

Workshop paper
submissions: April 1, 2012

Workshops paper
acceptance notifications: May 28, 2012

Camera-ready
papers due: June 15, 2012

Workshop:
September 10 or 11, 2012

COMMITTEES 

Workshop Chairs: 

João Paulo A.
Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil, 

Roberta Ferrario,
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, Laboratory for Applied
Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy,  

Amal Zouaq, Royal
Military College of Canada, Athabasca University, Queen’s University, Canada,


 

Steering
Committee:

Dragan Gasevic,
Athabasca University, Canada 

Giancarlo
Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Brazil 

Gerd Wagner,
Institute of Informatics, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus,
Germany

Program
Committee: 

Uwe Assmann, TU
Dresden, Germany

Colin Atkinson,
University of Mannheim, Germany 

Ebrahim Bagheri,
Athabasca University, Canada

Emanuele
Bottazzi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Trento, Italy

Marco Brambilla,
Politecnico di Milano, Italy 

Christoph
Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA 

Robert Colomb,
The University of Queensland, Australia 

Oscar Corcho,
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain 

Luiz Olavo Bonino
da Silva, BiZZDesign, The Netherlands

Jens Dietrich,
Massey University, New Zealand 

Sergio Espana,
Polytechnic University of Valencia 

Joerg Evermann,
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada 

Ricardo Falbo,
Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil 

Luís Ferreira
Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands 

Adrian Giurca,
Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany 

Guido
Governatori, NICTA, Australia 

Pierre Grenon,
European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK

Giancarlo
Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil

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

Andreas Opdahl,
University of Bergen, Norway 

Jeffrey Parsons,
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Adrian Paschke,
Free University Berlin, Germany

Florian Probst,
SAP Research Darmstadt, Germany

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

Hans Weigand,
Faculty of Economics of Tilburg University, Netherlands 

LINKS 

VORTE2012 web site:
http://nemo.inf.ufes.br/vorte2012

EDOC2012 web
site: http://edocconference.org  

EasyChair
submissions: 

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2012  

Formatting
guidelines: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting

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Amal Zouaq 
Professeure adjointe | Assistant Professor
Département de mathématiques et d'informatique|
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Collège militaire royal du Canada | Royal Military College of Canada

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