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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, [email protected] Roberta Ferrario, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy, [email protected] Amal Zouaq, Royal Military College of Canada, Athabasca University, Queen’s University, Canada, [email protected] 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 Harold Boley, University of New Brunswick, NRC, Canada 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 Luís Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia Peter Green, Queensland University, Australia Pierre Grenon, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil Terry Halpin, Northface University, USA 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 Peter Rittgen, University College of Borås, Sweden 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 Yair Wand, University of British Columbia, Canada 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 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 CP 17000, Succursale Forces, Kingston ON CANADA K7K 7B4 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Office | Bureau Girouard 320 Telephone | Téléphone 613-541-6000 # 6478<tel:613-541-6000%20%23%206478> Fax | Télécopieur 613-541-6584<tel:613-541-6584> http://azouaq.athabascau.ca/ _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. 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