<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><div><font size="2">CALL FOR PAPERS </font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL April 28th</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">The 8th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise and Beyond (VORTE 2013) </font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Co-located with the 17th IEEE International EDOC Conference?</font></div><div><font size="2">Vancouver, BC, 9th-13th September, 2013</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION </font></div><div><font
size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">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 size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">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 size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">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 size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">TOPICS </font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Knowledge management: </font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
</span>Ontology and ontological methodologies in knowledge management and integration; </font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ontology engineering, learning and maintenance; </font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ontology integration and alignment;</font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ontology effectiveness and evaluation; </font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Web of Data:</font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ontology-based Semantic annotation</font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Linked data-based semantic annotation</font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Knowledge
extraction including entity extraction and relationship extraction</font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Knowledge retrieval based on Open linked data</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Vocabularies and Ontologies for the enterprise: </font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ontology-driven representation of products, services, functionalities, design, processes;</font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ontologies for the know-how; </font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ontologies for corporate knowledge; </font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Upper-level ontologies in the enterprise;</font></div><div><font size="2">- <span
class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Adaptation of ontologies for companies and organizations; </font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Conceptual and Enterprise Modeling:</font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Meta-modeling </font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ontology Design and maintenance for Conceptual Model Integration; </font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ontology-Based Conceptual Modeling Tools and Environments </font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ontologies and Enterprise Architecture Modeling</font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ontologies
and Business Process Modeling</font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ontologies and Goal-Based Modeling </font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ontologies and Business Rules </font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Enterprise Semantic Interoperability:</font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Web services, Semantic services </font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Composition and Modularity</font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Merging, Mapping and Alignment </font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ontology Language Interoperability</font></div><div><font size="2">- <span
class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Open linked data publishing and exploitation</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Case studies and Evaluation:</font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Practical issues in using ontologies in enterprises </font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Real cases of successful/unsuccessful use of ontology in business </font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>From legacy systems to the new ontology-driven systems </font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Practical issues in knowledge extraction and annotation</font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Semantic annotation
evaluation</font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ontology learning evaluation</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION </font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">We solicit two types of papers: </font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>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 size="2">- <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Full papers (8-10 pages) describing more mature results </font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">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 size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2013 </font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">All papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere. </font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">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 size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Post-conference
Journal Publication </font></div><div><font size="2">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 size="2">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 size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">KEYNOTE </font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">TBA </font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">IMPORTANT DATES </font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Workshop paper submissions:
April 28, 2013</font></div><div><font size="2">Workshops paper acceptance notifications: May 31, 2013</font></div><div><font size="2">Camera-ready papers due: June 21, 2013</font></div><div><font size="2">Workshop: September 9, 10 or 11, 2013?</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">COMMITTEES </font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Workshop Chairs: </font></div><div><font size="2">Amal Zouaq, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada, amal.zouaq@rmc.ca</font></div><div><font size="2">Ebrahim Bagheri, Ryerson University, Canada, bagheri@ryerson.ca</font></div><div><font size="2">Renata Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil, rguizzardi@inf.ufes.br</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Steering Committee: </font></div><div><font size="2">- Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo
(UFES), Vitória, Brazil </font></div><div><font size="2">- Gerd Wagner, Institute of Informatics, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany </font></div><div><font size="2">- Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada </font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Program Committee: </font></div><div><font size="2">- Emanuele Bottazzi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Trento, Italy</font></div><div><font size="2">- Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy </font></div><div><font size="2">- Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA </font></div><div><font size="2">- Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain</font></div><div><font size="2">- Faezeh Ensan, University of New Brunswick, Canada</font></div><div><font size="2">- Sergio Espańa, Polytechnic University of Valencia </font></div><div><font size="2">- Joerg Evermann, Memorial
University of Newfoundland, Canada </font></div><div><font size="2">- Ricardo Falbo, Universidade Federal do Esprito Santo, Brazil</font></div><div><font size="2">- Luís Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands </font></div><div><font size="2">- Michel Gagnon, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada</font></div><div><font size="2">- Chiara Ghidini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy</font></div><div><font size="2">- Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany </font></div><div><font size="2">- Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia </font></div><div><font size="2">- Peter Green, University of Queensland, Australia</font></div><div><font size="2">- Pierre Grenon, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK</font></div><div><font size="2">- Giancarlo Guizzardi, Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO)/Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil</font></div><div><font size="2">-
Brian Henderson Sellers, University of Technology Sydney, Australia</font></div><div><font size="2">- Florian Matthes, University of Munich, Germany</font></div><div><font size="2">- Andreas L Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway </font></div><div><font size="2">- Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada</font></div><div><font size="2">- Florian Probst, SAP Research Darmstadt, Germany</font></div><div><font size="2">- Christophe Roche, University of Savoie, France </font></div><div><font size="2">- Marco Rospocher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy</font></div><div><font size="2">- Csaba Veres, University of Bergen, Norway </font></div><div><font size="2">- Hans Weigand, Faculty of Economics of Tilburg University, Netherlands</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">LINKS </font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">VORTE2013 web site:
http://planet-sl.org/vorte2013/</font></div><div><font size="2">EDOC2013 web site: http://edocconference.org </font></div><div><font size="2">EasyChair submissions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2013 </font></div><div><font size="2">Formatting guidelines: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting</font></div></div> </div></body></html>