[AISWorld] CFP: CAiSE Workshop on Ontology-Driven IS Engineering

[Sergio de Cesare]

*** Call for Papers ***

3rd International Workshop on
Ontology-Driven Information Systems Engineering

co-located with CAiSE 2011 (London, 20-24 June 2011)
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~cssrssc/events/odise2011


THEME

Information systems (IS) Engineering has progressed considerably over
the decades. Numerous advances, such as improved development
methodologies, languages that enforce recognised software engineering
principles and sophisticated CASE tools, have helped to increase the
quality of IS. Regardless of such progress many IS Engineering
projects remain unsuccessful (e.g., fail to meet stakeholder
requirements, run excessively over budget and far beyond the deadlines
initially scheduled). As the literature points out, most of these
problems are due to (1) the difficulties of capturing and knowing the
business requirements of a living organisational system, (2) realising
such requirements in software designs and implementations and (3)
maintaining an effective level of synchronicity between the needs of
the living system and its information system. The causes underlying
such problems are diverse and difficult to identify. Nonetheless it is
plausible to assume that at the heart of such IS Engineering problems
is the difficulty to conceptualise an organisational system and its
real-world problem domains.

Ontologies are rapidly becoming mainstream within IS engineering as a
means to create conceptual models of the real world that are both
formalised and semantically accurate. Whilst ontologies have been in
recent times widely researched by the Semantic Web and Artificial
Intelligence communities, limited research has been conducted on how
ontologies can help to shape and improve IS Engineering in terms of
both the development process and the conceptual/physical artefacts
produced. Ontologies have the potential to positively drive all phases
of the IS lifecycle, from business modelling to implementation, and
contribute to shape Information Systems Engineering so as to more
effectively evolve software solutions that align with organisational
requirements and address the issues emerging from large complex
families of IT systems.

This workshop is aimed at promoting, investigating and discussing
Ontology-Driven Information Systems Engineering (ODISE, pronounced
odyssey) by bringing together researchers and industrial practitioners
interested is ways in which ontologies can impact IS Engineering. The
scope of ODISE includes broad areas such as: (1) Foundational
ontological principles and paradigms that can influence novel or
existing modelling/programming languages; (2) Improved traceability
between phases and modelled artefacts via ontologies; and (3) Ways in
which ontologies drive or refine typical development phases and the
lifecycle as a whole. More specifically topics include, but are not
limited to:

- Ontology as a means to inform the process of gathering requirements.
- Ontology as a means to inform architecture development directly from
requirements specifications.
- Ontology as a means to inform the software design directly from the
architecture specification.
- Ontology as a means to model the software development process and
the software product itself.
- Ontologies as run-time artefacts or to inform the design of run-time
artefacts.
- The role of ontology reasoning in the software engineering process.
- The role of ontologies in model-driven development.
- Philosophical ontologies (3D vs. 4D) and their role in IS development
- Comparison of different ODISE mechanisms (e.g. domain-specific
modelling, profiling, etc.).
- Comparison of the role of foundational ontologies vs. domain
ontologies in ODISE.
- Ontology driven development of service software.
- Methodological issues for ODISE.
- Problems of semantic mismatch between traditional IS modelling
paradigms, approaches, techniques, etc. and ontological modelling.
- Ontology-based development/modelling/programming languages.

The ODISE workshop is aimed at promoting discussion among the workshop
participants, identifying key research areas of Ontology-Driven
Information Systems Engineering and fostering future research
collaborations in the form of joint research projects and/or papers.


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper abstracts: 14 February 2011
Paper submissions: 21 February 2011
Notification of acceptance: 7 March 2011
Camera-ready copies: 28 March 2011
Workshop: 20 June 2011

SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit papers via EasyChair at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=odise2011

For any questions regarding submission please contact either Sergio de
Cesare (sergio.decesare at brunel.ac.uk) or Frederik Gailly
(frederik.gailly at vub.ac.be). Submissions can be in the form of full
research papers or experience reports (up to 10 pages) or short
position papers (up to 6 pages).

Accepted research papers will be published in the CAiSE 2011 workshop
proceedings with Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information
Processing (LNBIP). Please note that experience reports and position
papers will only be published on the workshop Web site only.


ORGANISERS

Sergio de Cesare (Brunel University, U.K.)
Frederik Gailly (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Grant Holland (NuTech Solutions, USA)
Mark Lycett (Brunel University, U.K.)
Chris Partridge (BORO Solutions, U.K.)