- Understanding the Notion of Value in the Service Economy, March 14-15, 2016, Trento, Italy - VMBO 2016, March 10-11, 2016, Trento, Italy
Best regards, Pavel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Dear all, due to several requests, the submission deadline for the VMBO 2016 workshop is extended to January 24th, 2016. Please find the updated CFP below (and help to circulate it). Notice that the acceptance notification date remains February 2nd. The workshop Web site will be updated soon. We would like to take this opportunity to announce another initiative co-located with VMBO 2016, to be held on March 14-15 in Trento, in the same place: "Understanding the notion of value in the service economy". This is an interdisciplinary workshop with no CFP, just invited presentations and open discussions. See the preliminary announcement below. Participation will be free, but the space is limited so early registration will be required. For the time being, please express your intention to attend by sending an email to [email protected]. All the best, Nicola Guarino, Paul Johannesson, Hans Weigand, Barbara Livieri *** Preliminary announcement *** Understanding the Notion of Value in the Service Economy March 14-15 2016, Trento, Via S. Croce 77 Workshop description: The service economy is undoubtly posing new challenges to our understanding of the basics of social interaction, including the very notion of economic value. Indeed, despite the notion of value has always raised the interest of economists, and many definitions have been proposed, it has always remained rather elusive and difficult to capture. This picture has been complicated by the rise of service economy, which has shifted the focus from the company's perspective to the customer's perspective, where value is co-created in the interaction between the provider and the customer. Value co-creation is also at the core of the sharing economy, which poses further challenges to the theory of economic exchange. But what does it mean to create – or co-create – value? How, when, where is value created? And what is economic value, after all? What are the mechanisms of value ascription? Are there differences between ascribing value to a good or to a service? What about the value of ownership in the sharing economy? And in general, what does it mean to ascribe value an object, an action, a commitment, a relationship? How does value ascription depend on contextual aspects, such as possession or scarcity of resources? How may multiple value ascriptions related to different contexts interact, originating a notion of cumulative value? These appear to be genuine ontological questions, centered around the nature of economic value. Adressing these questions is important not only from the theoretical point of view, but also to build better computer-based models of complex socio-technical systems, where value modeling plays a crucial role. Only understanding value mechanisms we can aim at integrating in a transparent way the business perspective with the organizational perspective and the process perspective, with the ultimate goal of enabling a better governance of our society. So this workshop is primarily addressed to those who are interested in the ontology of social reality for modeling purposes, but more in general to anybody who is interested in the foundations of economic value. The workshop will consist of invited presentations given by worldwide experts from very different disciplines, including philosophy, economics, accounting, business management, and information systems. Participation is open to anybody, but the space is limited so early registration will be required. For the time being, please express your intention to attend by sending an email to [email protected]. Invited speakers confirmed so far: Paul Johannesson, Dept of Computer and System Sciences, Stockholm Paul Maglio, University of California at Merced and IBM Research Center, Almaden William E. McCarthy, Dept. of Accounting and Information Systems, Michigan State University Olivier Massin, Philosophy Dept, University of Geneva Kevin Mulligan, Philosophy Dept, University of Geneva Stephen Pratten, School of Management and Business, King's College, London Hans Weigand, Tilburg School of Economics and Management Gloria Zuñiga y Postigo, Philosophy Dept, Ashford University, USA Organization: ISTC-CNR Laboratory for Applied Ontology and Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento info: [email protected] *** Updated Call for Papers *** VMBO2016 (10th International Workshop on Value Modeling and Business Ontologies) http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/vmbo2016/ Call for papers (please, circulate) Note: Dates changed with respect to the preliminary call for papers The importance of modeling the essence of enterprises on a level that abstracts from operational details is increasingly recognized. Two recognized enterprise modeling approaches are value modeling and business ontology. Business ontology provides abstract descriptions of enterprises in their business context, focusing on what is needed to create and transfer value. Value modeling is a business modeling approach that focuses on the value objects exchanged in business networks. Business ontology and value modeling research is conducted using instruments like REA (Resources, Events, Agents), the e3-value tool set, VDML and the Enterprise Engineering framework. The goals of this VMBO workshop are to bring together researchers with an interest in value modeling and business ontology in order to present and discuss the current state of enterprise or business modeling and to identify key areas for further research. The theme of this year’s workshop is the ontological foundations of value and service modeling, but other papers are welcome as well. If you are interested in joining, please submit a paper in the following categories: a) full paper (maximum of eight pages) – describe original research contributions, present problems or challenges encountered in practice or report industrial cases and practices; b) short discussion paper (maximum of four pages) – describe your main ideas. We encourage you to focus on ideas in progress for which you would like to get feedback from other workshop participants. Full papers will be published with CEUR proceedings. We support the submission of VMBO papers (both short and full) afterwards to a special issue of a journal, e.g. Journal of Applied Ontology (JAO) or Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting (JETA), if possible. Note that papers submitted as short papers will be reviewed only marginally. The program committee will use the papers to put together a final program; the aim is to accommodate all relevant papers with sufficient quality. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to Service ontology for business Service-oriented view of business ontology Enterprise Engineering Business modeling of service exchanges Value modeling fundamentals Value modeling applications and experiences Business ontology fundamentals Business ontology applications and experiences Role of value modeling in enterprise architecture Ontology-driven enterprise system development Ontology-aware enterprise systems Pragmatic Web – theory and applications Ontological representations of aggregated data Business ontology / value models for auditing Business ontology / value models for managerial decision making Business ontology / value models for strategy exploration Business ontology / value models for business process management Important dates Jan 24, 2016 Paper submission deadline (EXTENDED) Feb 2, 2016 Notification of acceptance Feb 20, 2016 Camera ready for full papers Feb 20, 2015 Registration deadline March 10-11, 2015 VMBO Workshop, Trento How to submit Submit your short paper preferably in PDF format and following the (Proceedings) style of Springer LNCS on Easychair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vmbo2016 -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/
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