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serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">The 8th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise and Beyond (VORTE 2013) </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Co-located with the 17th
IEEE International EDOC Conference?</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Vancouver, BC, 9th-13th September, 2013</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">The VORTE series of workshops is traditionally devoted to the topics of vocabularies, ontologies and rules in the context of enterprise systems. This year, the workshop takes a broader view and does not target only enterprise systems, but also systems managing data on the Web. In fact, there is a need to exploit unstructured data in the enterprise, and on the Web in general, as the majority of Web content and enterprise
content remains unstructured. Thus, the challenge of managing, extracting and structuring data is common to both worlds, and solutions in one community will benefit the other. </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times,
serif">Examples of topics covered by traditional 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 modeling such as business process management and services, the enhancement of rules and services with formal semantics, and the evaluation of such systems and approaches. </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">This year, the workshop is also a forum for the discussion of ontology-based knowledge management issues, interoperability issues and ontology engineering issues. The workshop also welcomes contributions on initiatives related to semantic annotation, open linked data, information extraction, ontology learning and update and ontology-based knowledge management as well as empirical studies on these
areas.</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">TOPICS </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Knowledge management: </font></div><div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;">- Ontology and ontological methodologies in knowledge management and integration; </span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;">- Ontology engineering, learning and maintenance; </span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;">- Ontology integration and alignment;</span><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;">- Ontology effectiveness and evaluation; </span><br></div></div><div><font face="times
new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Web of Data:</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Ontology-based Semantic annotation</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Linked data-based semantic annotation</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Knowledge extraction including entity extraction and relationship extraction</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Knowledge retrieval based on Open linked data</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Vocabularies and Ontologies for the enterprise: </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Ontology-driven representation of products, services, functionalities, design,
processes;</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Ontologies for the know-how; </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Ontologies for corporate knowledge; </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Upper-level ontologies in the enterprise;</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Adaptation of ontologies for companies and organizations; </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Conceptual and Enterprise Modeling:</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Meta-modeling </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Ontology Design and maintenance for Conceptual Model Integration;
</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Ontology-Based Conceptual Modeling Tools and Environments </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Ontologies and Enterprise Architecture Modeling</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Ontologies and Business Process Modeling</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Ontologies and Goal-Based Modeling </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Ontologies and Business Rules </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Enterprise Semantic Interoperability:</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Web services, Semantic services </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times,
serif">- Composition and Modularity</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Merging, Mapping and Alignment </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Ontology Language Interoperability</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Open linked data publishing and exploitation</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Case studies and Evaluation:</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Practical issues in using ontologies in enterprises </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Real cases of successful/unsuccessful use of ontology in business </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- From legacy systems to the new ontology-driven
systems </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Practical issues in knowledge extraction and annotation</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Semantic annotation evaluation</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Ontology learning evaluation</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">We solicit two types of papers: </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Short papers (4 pages) discussing controversial issues in the field or describing interesting or
thought-provoking ideas that are not yet fully developed; and </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Full papers (8-10 pages) describing more mature results </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">All submissions MUST conform to the two-column format of IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings (http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) and include the author's name, affiliation, and contact details. </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2013 </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new
york, times, serif">All papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere. </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">The papers accepted for the EDOC 2013 Workshops will be published along with EDOC proceedings 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 2013) and present their papers at the workshop. </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Post-conference Journal Publication </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">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). </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">This year, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for consideration for a special issue of a reputable journal. The journal is to be determined. </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">KEYNOTE </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">TBA </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font
face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">IMPORTANT DATES </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Workshop paper submissions: April 15, 2013</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Workshops paper acceptance notifications: May 31, 2013</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Camera-ready papers due: June 21, 2013</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Workshop: September 9, 10 or 11, 2013?</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">COMMITTEES </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york,
times, serif">Workshop Chairs: </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Amal Zouaq, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada, amal.zouaq@rmc.ca</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada, bagheri@ryerson.ca</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Renata Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil, rguizzardi@inf.ufes.br</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Steering Committee: </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Brazil </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Gerd Wagner, Institute of Informatics, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus,
Germany </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Program Committee 2012 (Tentative 2013): </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Uwe Assmann, TU Dresden, Germany</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">- Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano,
Italy </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Emanuele Bottazzi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Trento,
Italy</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Robert Colomb, The University of Queensland, Australia </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva, BiZZDesign, The Netherlands</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zealand </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Faezeh Ensan, Athabasca University, Canada</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Sergio Espańa, Polytechnic University of Valencia </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times,
serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Ricardo Falbo, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Luís Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Pierre Grenon, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times,
serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Brian Henderson Sellers, University of Technology Sydney, Australia</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Heinrich Herre, University of Leipzig, Germany </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Florian Matthes, University of Munich, Germany</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Alex Norta, University of Helsinki, Finland</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen,
Norway </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Adrian Paschke, Free University Berlin, Germany</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Florian Probst, SAP Research Darmstadt, Germany</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Christophe Roche, University of Savoie, France </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span
style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Csaba Veres, University of Bergen, Norway </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Ron Weber, Monash University, Australia</font></div><div><font face="times new roman,
new york,
times, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Hans Weigand, Faculty of Economics of Tilburg University, Netherlands</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times,
serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;">-</span><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span>Michel Gagnon, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">LINKS </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">VORTE2013 web site: http://planet-sl.org/vorte2013/</font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">EDOC2013 web site: http://edocconference.org </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">EasyChair submissions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2013 </font></div><div><font face="times new roman, new york, times, serif">Formatting guidelines:
http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting</font></div><div style="font-family:'times new
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