<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Apologies for
cross-posting and multiple posts.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">FINAL CALL FOR
PAPERS ( Deadline April 15th 2012)<br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">The 7th
International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise
(VORTE 2012) </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Co-located with
the 16th IEEE International EDOC Conference, Beijing, China, 10th-11th September,
2012 <br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">WORKSHOP
DESCRIPTION </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">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. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">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. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">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.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">TOPICS <br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Vocabularies and
Ontologies for the enterprise: </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Ontology-driven
representation of products, services, functionalities, design, processes;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Ontologies for
the know-how; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Ontologies for
corporate knowledge; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Upper-level
ontologies in the enterprise; <br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Knowledge
management: </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Ontology and
ontological methodologies in knowledge management and integration; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Adaptation of
ontologies for companies and organizations; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Ontology
engineering, learning and maintenance within organizations; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Ontology
integration and alignment within organizations;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Ontology
effectiveness and evaluation in organizations; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Conceptual and
Enterprise Modeling:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Ontological
Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Meta-modeling </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Ontology Design
and maintenance for Conceptual Model Integration; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Ontology-Based
Conceptual Modeling Tools and Environments </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Ontologies and
Enterprise Architecture Modeling</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Ontologies and
Business Process Modeling</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Ontologies and
Goal-Based Modeling </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Ontologies and
Business Rules <br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Enterprise
Semantic Interoperability:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Web services,
Semantic services<span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Composition and
Modularity</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Merging,
Mapping and Alignment </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Ontology
Language Interoperability</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Open linked
data publishing and exploitation</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Problems and case
studies in ontology application:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Practical
issues in using ontologies in enterprises </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Real cases of
successful/unsuccessful use of ontology in business </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- From legacy
systems to the new ontology-driven systems <br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">SUBMISSION AND
PUBLICATION <br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">We solicit two
types of papers: </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Short papers (4
pages) discussing controversial issues in the field or describing interesting
or thought-provoking ideas that are not yet fully developed; and </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">- Full papers
(8-10 pages) describing more mature results </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">All submissions
MUST conform to the two-column format of IEEE Computer Society conference
proceedings (<a href="http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting" target="_blank">http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting</a>) and include
the author's name, affiliation, and contact details. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Papers must be
submitted as PDF files using EasyChair at
<a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2012" target="_blank">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2012</a><span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">All papers must
not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">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.<span> </span> <br></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Post-conference
Journal Publication </span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">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). </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">This year,
authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for
consideration for a special issue of the Applied Ontology Journal
<a href="http://www.iospress.nl/journal/applied-ontology/" target="_blank">http://www.iospress.nl/journal/applied-ontology/</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">KEYNOTE </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">TBA </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">IMPORTANT DATES </span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Workshop paper
submissions: April 15, 2012</span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Workshops paper
acceptance notifications: May 28, 2012</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Camera-ready
papers due: June 15, 2012</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Workshop:
September 10 or 11, 2012</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">COMMITTEES </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Workshop Chairs: </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">João Paulo A.
Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil, <a href="mailto:jpalmeida@ieee.org" target="_blank">jpalmeida@ieee.org</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Roberta Ferrario,
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology, Laboratory for Applied
Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy, <a href="mailto:roberta.ferrario@cnr.it" target="_blank">roberta.ferrario@cnr.it</a> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Amal Zouaq, Royal
Military College of Canada, Athabasca University, Queen’s University, Canada,
<a href="mailto:amal.zouaq@rmc.ca" target="_blank">amal.zouaq@rmc.ca</a> <br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Steering
Committee: <br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Dragan Gasevic,
Athabasca University, Canada </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Giancarlo
Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Brazil </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Gerd Wagner,
Institute of Informatics, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus,
Germany</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New""> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Program
Committee: </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Uwe Assmann, TU
Dresden, Germany</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Colin Atkinson,
University of Mannheim, Germany </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Ebrahim Bagheri,
Athabasca University, Canada</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Emanuele
Bottazzi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Trento, Italy</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Marco Brambilla,
Politecnico di Milano, Italy </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Christoph
Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Robert Colomb,
The University of Queensland, Australia </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Oscar Corcho,
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Luiz Olavo Bonino
da Silva, BiZZDesign, The Netherlands</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Jens Dietrich,
Massey University, New Zealand </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Sergio Espana,
Polytechnic University of Valencia </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Joerg Evermann,
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Ricardo Falbo,
Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Luís Ferreira
Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Adrian Giurca,
Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Guido
Governatori, NICTA, Australia </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Pierre Grenon,
European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Giancarlo
Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Brian Henderson
Sellers, University of Technology Sydney, Australia</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Heinrich Herre,
University of Leipzig, Germany </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Florian Matthes,
University of Munich, Germany</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Alex Norta,
University of Helsinki, Finland</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Andreas Opdahl,
University of Bergen, Norway </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Jeffrey Parsons,
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Adrian Paschke,
Free University Berlin, Germany</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Florian Probst,
SAP Research Darmstadt, Germany</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Christophe Roche,
University of Savoie, France </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Michael Rosemann,
Queensland University of Technology, Australia </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Csaba Veres,
University of Bergen, Norway </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Gerd Wagner,
Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Kewen Wang,
Griffith University, Australia </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Ron Weber, Monash
University, Australia</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Hans Weigand,
Faculty of Economics of Tilburg University, Netherlands <br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">LINKS </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">VORTE2012 web
site: <a href="http://nemo.inf.ufes.br/vorte2012" target="_blank">http://nemo.inf.ufes.br/vorte2012</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">EDOC2012 web
site: <a href="http://edocconference.org" target="_blank">http://edocconference.org</a><span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">EasyChair
submissions: </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2012" target="_blank">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2012</a><span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">Formatting
guidelines: <a href="http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting" target="_blank">http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting</a></span></p>
<br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Amal Zouaq <br>Professeure adjointe | Assistant Professor<br>Département de mathématiques et d'informatique|<br>Department of Mathematics and Computer Science<br>Collège militaire royal du Canada | Royal Military College of Canada<br>
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