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

Beijing, China, 11th September, 2012

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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 

 

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  

 

 

Workshop paper submissions: April 1, 2012, Extended to April 22, 2012

Workshops paper acceptance notifications: May 28, 2012

Camera-ready papers due: June 15, 2012

Workshop: September 11, 2012

 

Program 

Workshop Chairs 

− João Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil, jpalmeida@ieee.org

− Amal Zouaq, Royal Military College of Canada, Athabasca University, Queen’s University, Canada, azouaq@rmc.ca

− Roberta Ferrario, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy, roberta.ferrario@cnr.it

 

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

− Uwe Assmann, TU Dresden, Germany

− Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany 

− Ebrahim Bagheri, Athabasca University, Canada

− Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva, BiZZDesign, The Netherlands

− Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 

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

− Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA 

− Robert Colomb, The University of Queensland, Australia 

− Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain 

− Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zealand 

− Sergio España, Polytechnic University of Valencia 

− Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada 

− Ricardo Falbo, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil 

− 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 

− Luís Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands

− 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