VORTE 2008

The Fourth International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise (VORTE 2008)

15--19th September 2008

In conjunction with EDOC 2008, 15--19th September, 2008, Munich, Germany

http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/VORTE/

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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: 13 June, 2008 Author notifications: 18 July, 2008 Camera-ready versions: 28 July, 2008

To contact the organizing committee, please send an e-mail to vorte08@easychair.org

OVERVIEW

Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules are key components of a model- driven approach to enterprise computing in a networked economy. VORTE 2008 is the fourth workshop associated with an EDOC conference that intends to bring together researchers and practitioners in areas such as philosophical ontology, enterprise modelling, information systems, Semantic Web, Model- Driven Architecture (MDA), business rules, and business processes. The goal of the workshop is to discuss the role that foundational and domain ontologies play in the conceptual development and implementation of next generation tools for enterprise computing.

SCOPE

The VORTE workshop covers all research topics relevant to description formalisms for enterprise application architectures, services, content, and regulations. Enterprise systems are very complex pieces of software, and their development requires an advanced software engineering process. Model- driven development (e.g., as represented in OMG?s model-driven architecture) is believed to play an important role in this context. Therefore, this year we would like to put special emphasis on the use of vocabularies, ontologies and rules for the development of business processes. This implies, among others, the following research questions: When and for what purpose can semantic technologies be useful for software development? In what situations is it useful to subscribe to the open-world assumption? Is it possible to use ontologies for generating application code and in which situations can this be useful?

Of course, we are also interested in other uses of vocabularies, ontologies or rules in the context of enterprise systems. Fundamental research to be covered by the workshop includes ontological evaluation of enterprise systems and their interoperability, and ontological analysis of business process modelling. Applied research includes enhancing business rule engines and business process management systems by ontologies. In the area of modelling, our topics include how process modelling and execution languages, such as the Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) and the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), relate to business ontologies and rules. The workshop will also cover ontology-based service description technologies for inter- enterprise collaboration like extensions to UDDI or OWL-S.

THEMES and TOPICS

We are interested in the following topics. Papers with a topic outside this list, but fitting to the purpose of the workshop, will also be considered.

- Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) approaches to Enterprise Computing - Modelling and Architecture Frameworks - Domain Engineering - Domain-specific Business Information and System Engineering - Transformation between MDA layers - Conceptual Modelling - Business Vocabularies, Terminologies, and Taxonomies - Ontological Approaches to Content and Knowledge Management - Enterprise Information Integration and Interoperability - Service Taxonomies and Service Registries - Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modelling - Languages for Conceptual Modelling (for example, OWL and UML) - Agent-Oriented Conceptual Modelling - Business Rules and Business Process Semantics - Business Rule Languages and Tools (e.g. SBVR-related work) - Rule-based Approaches to Web Service Policies and Choreographies - Ontologies for Business Process Management - Service-based Business Process Modelling and Execution - Semantic Web Services - Agent-based Business Process Modelling and Execution - Business Process Modelling and Execution Languages (for example, BPMN and   BPEL) - Ontologies for Enterprise Computing - Foundational Ontologies and Enterprise Computing - Ontological Evaluation of Enterprise Systems - Ontologies for Interoperability of Enterprise Systems - Ontology-based Enterprise Architectures - Ontology-based Software Engineering for Enterprises - Enterprise Components? Modelling

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES and PROCEEDINGS

All submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Submissions should be 6 to 8 pages long and MUST conform to the IEEE Computer Society format 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=vorte08

At least one author of each accepted paper must participate in the workshop. The papers accepted for the EDOC 2008 Workshops will be published after the workshop with its own ISBN in the IEEE Digital Library (pending approval by IEEE), which is accessible by IEEE Xplore.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Uwe A?mann Technical University Dresden, Germany http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/content/index.php?node=team Gerd Wagner Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/IT/ Steffen Zschaler Technical University Dresden, Germany http://www.steffen-zschaler.de/

STEERING COMMITTEE

Giancarlo Guizzardi Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy

Gerd Wagner Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP