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leading A* journal (<a href="http://www.arc.gov.au/era/era_journal_list.htm" target="_blank">http://www.arc.gov.au/era/era_journal_list.htm</a>)<br>
<br>Special Issue on "Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise"<br><br>Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules are key components of a model-driven approach <br>to enterprise computing in a networked economy. Enterprise vocabularies, ontologies, and <br>
business rules do not exist in isolation but serve to support business processes. <br>While many have recognized the importance of vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules <br>in business process modeling and management, there are many open research challenges to be addressed. <br>
These challenges can be approached from different perspectives. <br>Fundamental research explores ontological foundations and languages and methods for enterprise and <br>business process modeling. It also covers ontological evaluation of enterprise systems and their <br>
interoperability, and ontological analysis of business process modeling. Applied research looks into <br>enhancing business rule engines and business process management systems by ontologies. Business process <br>modeling research aims to define how process modeling and execution languages, such as Business Process <br>
Modeling Notation and Business Process Execution Language, relate to business ontologies and rules. <br>Enterprise integration and collaboration research addresses ontology-based service description <br>technologies for inter-enterprise collaboration. <br>
<br>We encourage the submission of original research papers as well as sound structured review papers <br>and industrial case study experience reports on the following topics:<br><br>* Conceptual modeling<br>* Ontological foundations for enterprise and business process modeling<br>
* Languages and methods for business vocabularies, terminologies, and taxonomies<br>* Modeling of enterprise information integration and interoperability <br>* Languages for conceptual modeling (for example, OWL and UML) <br>
* Agent-oriented conceptual modeling<br>* Business rule and business process modeling<br>* Analysis of and experiences with OMG’s Semantics of Business Vocabularies and Rules (SBVR)<br>* Rule modeling and rule markup<br>
* Rule-based approaches to Web service policies and choreographies<br>* Agent-based business rule and process management<br>* Integrating business rules with business process modeling and execution languages (for example, BPMN and BPML)<br>
* Ontologies for enterprise systems<br>* Ontological approaches to content and knowledge management<br>* Ontologies for e-business registries/repositories <br>* Web service ontologies<br>* Ontological evaluation of enterprise systems<br>
* Ontology-based enterprise architectures<br>* Ontology-based software engineering for enterprise solutions<br>* Model-driven engineering approaches in enterprise systems<br>* Modeling and architecture frameworks<br>
* Domain engineering<br>* Domain-specific business information and system engineering<br>* Model transformations in enterprise and business process modeling<br><br>Important Dates<br>=================<br>
* Submission Deadline: 1-Sept-2011<br>* Reviews Completed: 15-Dec-2011<br>* Major Revisions Due: 1-Feb-2012<br>* Re-reviews Completed: 1-May-2012<br>* Minor Revision Due: 1-June-2012<br>* Final recommendations: 1-July-2012<br>
* Final Manuscripts Due: 1-Aug-2012<br><br>Guest editors (alphabetical order)<br>==================================<br>* Ebrahim Bagheri, Athabasca University and University of British Columbia, Canada<br>* Fred Freitas, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil<br>
* Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, University of Twente, The Netherlands<br><br>Submission Guidelines<br>======================<br>All manuscripts should be compliant with the submission guidelines and <br>policies of the Information Systems journal (<a href="http://www.elsevier.com/locate/infosys" target="_blank">http://www.elsevier.com/locate/infosys</a>). <br>
All manuscripts will be subject to the high standards of peer review. <br>All the papers must be submitted via the online submission system at <a href="http://ees.elsevier.com/is" target="_blank">http://ees.elsevier.com/is</a> <br>
<br>For inquiries, please contact (<a href="mailto:ebagheri@athabascau.ca" target="_blank">ebagheri@athabascau.ca</a>, <a href="mailto:fred@cin.ufpe.br" target="_blank">fred@cin.ufpe.br</a>, <a href="mailto:l.o.bonino@ewi.utwente.nl" target="_blank">l.o.bonino@ewi.utwente.nl</a>).<br>
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