[AISWorld] CFP: FOIS Workshop on Ontology Driven IS Engineering

[Sergio de Cesare]

*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***

4th International Workshop on Ontology Driven IS Engineering (ODISE)

URL: http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~cssrssc/events/odise2012/

co-located with Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS) 2012 -
http://www.kr-med.org/icbofois2012/fois.htm
Graz, Austria - 24-27 July 2012


*** Theme ***

Ontologies are becoming increasingly popular in the development of
information systems. Their use however is mainly limited to either the
initial or end phases of the lifecycle, namely business modelling and
implementation, and their adoption is normally not characterised by an
integrated and coherent end to end approach which systematically
discovers the real-world semantics of business requirements,
represents such semantics in formal ontologies and subsequently
grounds the software design and implementation ontologically. What is
also lacking is a sound approach to ontological reuse such that
existing ontological patterns be used to drive the discovery of system
requirements with the potential to more easily identifying previously
developed software components which can be semantically mapped to
those ontological patterns.

Ontology-Driven Information Systems Engineering (ODISE, pronounced
odyssey) concerns the practical and formal application of ontologies
to all phases of the software development lifecycle. Contributions in
the form of research, research-in-progress papers and practitioner
reports are welcome. Of particular interest to the workshop are
contributions that emphasise formal ontologies and real world
semantics in improving IS engineering and contributing toward
developing software that is more adaptive and responsive to changing
business requirements.

This workshop is aimed at discussing the above themes and to bring
together academics, researchers and practitioners (with a background
in IS engineering and/or ontology development) in order to develop an
agenda of future collaborations that combine research and industrial
expertise.

Topics for contributions 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.


*** Important Dates and Submission ***

Authors are invited to submit papers via EasyChair. Please check the
workshop Web site for further instructions. Deadlines are as follows:

30 April 2012: Submission deadline for ODISE paper
31 May 2012: Notification of acceptance
21 June 2012: Revisions due
24 July 2012: Workshop


*** Organisers ***

Sergio de Cesare (Brunel University, U.K.)
Frederik Gailly (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Grant Holland (Organic Complex Systems Institute, U.S.A.)
Mark Lycett (Brunel University, U.K.)
Chris Partridge (BORO Solutions and Brunel University, U.K.)


*** Programme Committee (to be completed) ***

Laden Aldin (Oxford Brookes University, U.K.)
Awny Alnusair (Indiana University Kokomo, U.S.A.)
David Bell (Brunel University, U.K.)
Mike Bennett (Hypercube, U.K.)
Bernd Bruegge (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Matt-Mouley Bouamrane (University of Glasgow, U.K.)
Andrea Cali (Birkbeck College, University of London, U.K.)
Steve Counsell (Brunel University, U.K.)
Marija Cubric (University of Hertfordshire, U.K.)
Dragan Gasevic (Athabasca University, Canada)
Guido Geerts (University of Delaware, U.S.A.)
Giancarlo Guizzardi (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil)
Bahareh Rahmanzadeh Heravi (DERI, NUI Galway, Ireland)
Pavel Hruby (Microsoft, Denmark)
Thomas Moser (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Fernando Silva Parreiras (FUMEC University, Brazil)
Karsten Tolle (Frankfurt University, Germany)
Matthew West (Information Junction, U.K.)