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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">CALL FOR PAPERS <br>
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The 7th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise (VORTE 2012)
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Co-located with the 16th IEEE International EDOC Conference</span><span style="font-family:"MS Mincho"" lang="EN-US">
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Beijing, China, 10th-11th September, 2012<br>
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION <br>
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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. <br>
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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.
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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.<br>
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TOPICS <br>
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Vocabularies and Ontologies for the enterprise: <br>
- Ontology-driven representation of products, services, functionalities, design, processes;<br>
- Ontologies for the know-how; <br>
- Ontologies for corporate knowledge; <br>
- Upper-level ontologies in the enterprise;<br>
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Knowledge management: <br>
- Ontology and ontological methodologies in knowledge management and integration;
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- Adaptation of ontologies for companies and organizations; <br>
- Ontology engineering, learning and maintenance within organizations; <br>
- Ontology integration and alignment within organizations;<br>
- Ontology effectiveness and evaluation in organizations; <br>
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Conceptual and Enterprise Modeling:<br>
- Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Meta-modeling <br>
- Ontology Design and maintenance for Conceptual Model Integration; <br>
- Ontology-Based Conceptual Modeling Tools and Environments <br>
- Ontologies and Enterprise Architecture Modeling<br>
- Ontologies and Business Process Modeling<br>
- Ontologies and Goal-Based Modeling <br>
- Ontologies and Business Rules <br>
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Enterprise Semantic Interoperability:<br>
- Web services, Semantic services<span style> </span><br>
- Composition and Modularity<br>
- Merging, Mapping and Alignment <br>
- Ontology Language Interoperability<br>
- Open linked data publishing and exploitation<br>
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Problems and case studies in ontology application:<br>
- Practical issues in using ontologies in enterprises <br>
- Real cases of successful/unsuccessful use of ontology in business <br>
- From legacy systems to the new ontology-driven systems <br>
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SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION <br>
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We solicit two types of papers: <br>
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- Short papers (4 pages) discussing controversial issues in the field or
describing interesting or thought-provoking ideas that are not yet
fully developed; and
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- Full papers (8-10 pages) describing more mature results <br>
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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">http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting</a>) and include the
author's name, affiliation, and contact details.
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Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair at <a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2012">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2012</a><span style>
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All papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere. <br>
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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 style> </span>
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Post-conference Journal Publication <br>
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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).
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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/">http://www.iospress.nl/journal/applied-ontology/</a>.<br>
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KEYNOTE <br>
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TBA <br>
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IMPORTANT DATES <br>
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Workshop paper submissions: April 1, 2012<br>
Workshops paper acceptance notifications: May 28, 2012<br>
Camera-ready papers due: June 15, 2012<br>
Workshop: September 10 or 11, 2012</span><span style="font-family:"MS Mincho"" lang="EN-US">
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COMMITTEES <br>
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Workshop Chairs:<br>
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João Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil, <a href="mailto:jpalmeida@ieee.org">jpalmeida@ieee.org</a><br>
Roberta Ferrario, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technology,
Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy,
<a href="mailto:roberta.ferrario@cnr.it">roberta.ferrario@cnr.it</a>
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Amal Zouaq, Royal Military College of Canada, Athabasca University, Queen’s University, Canada, <a href="mailto:azouaq@rmc.ca">azouaq@rmc.ca</a><br>
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Steering Committee:<br>
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Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada <br>
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Brazil
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Gerd Wagner, Institute of Informatics, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany
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Program Committee:<br>
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Uwe Assmann, TU Dresden, Germany<br>
Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany <br>
Ebrahim Bagheri, Athabasca University, Canada<br>
Harold Boley, University of New Brunswick, NRC, Canada<br>
Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy <br>
Emanuele Bottazzi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Trento, Italy<br>
Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA <br>
Robert Colomb, The University of Queensland, Australia <br>
Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain <br>
Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zealand <br>
Sergio España, Polytechnic University of Valencia <br>
Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada <br>
Ricardo Falbo, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil <br>
Luís Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands <br>
Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany <br>
Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia <br>
Peter Green, Queensland University, Australia<br>
Pierre Grenon, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK<br>
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil<br>
Terry Halpin, Northface University, USA<br>
Brian Henderson Sellers, University of Technology Sydney, Australia<br>
Heinrich Herre, University of Leipzig, Germany <br>
Florian Matthes, University of Munich, Germany<br>
Alex Norta, University of Helsinki, Finland<br>
Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway <br>
Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada<br>
Adrian Paschke, Free University Berlin, Germany<br>
Florian Probst, SAP Research Darmstadt, Germany<br>
Peter Rittgen, University College of Borås, Sweden <br>
Christophe Roche, University of Savoie, France <br>
Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia <br>
Csaba Veres, University of Bergen, Norway <br>
Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany<br>
Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia <br>
Yair Wand, University of British Columbia, Canada<br>
Ron Weber, Monash University, Australia<br>
Hans Weigand, Faculty of Economics of Tilburg University, Netherlands<br>
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LINKS <br>
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VORTE2012 web site: <a href="http://nemo.inf.ufes.br/vorte2012">http://nemo.inf.ufes.br/vorte2012</a><br>
EDOC2012 web site: <a href="http://edocconference.org">http://edocconference.org</a><span style> </span><br>
EasyChair submissions: <a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2012">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2012</a><span style>
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Formatting guidelines: <a href="http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting">http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting</a><br>
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<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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