EDOC International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE 2005) 20 September 2005, Enschede, The Netherlands

The 9th International IEEE Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference 19-23 September 2005 Enschede, The netherlands http://www.edocconference.org

Themes and Goals

Vocabularies, ontologies and rules are key components of a model-driven approach to enterprise computing in a networked economy. VORTE is the first of what we hope will be many workshops that bring together researchers and practitioners in areas such as philosophical ontology, enterprise modeling, information systems, semantic web, MDA (Model-Driven Architecture) and business rules to discuss the role of foundational and lightweight ontologies in the development of conceptual tools for enterprise computing.

The Workshop Encourages Submissions on topics including

(but not limited to) the following:

Business Vocabularies

Business Rules

Enterprise Integration and Interoperability

Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Metamodeling

Vocabularies and Foundational Ontologies for Enterprise Information Systems

Enterprise Modeling and Simulation

Foundations for the Model-Driven Architecture (MDA)

Enterprise Computing and the Semantic Web

Enterprise Reference Architectures

Enterprise Domain Engineering

Program

Keynote Talk: The Role of Ontologies in Enterprise Modeling,

Colin Atkinson (University of Mannheim, Germany) – Together with the presentation of the article Integrating Enterprise Information Representation Languages by K. Kiko and C. Atkinson.

Invited Presentation: Ontologies as Intra-Organizational Coordination Tools,

Roberta Cuel (University of Trento, Italy).

Accepted Papers

Part I - Foundational Ontology

· A Context-Based Enterprise Ontology, M. Leppänen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

· A Causal Relation Based on Regularity and Manipulability, H.Michalek (University of Leipzig, Germany)

· A Path to an Ontology of Organizations, E. Bottazzi and R. Ferrario (Laboratorio for Applied Ontology - ISTC/CNR, Italy)

Part II - Enterprise Modeling and MDA

· Establishing a Common Vocabulary for Helping Software Organizations to Understand Software Processes, R. Falbo and G. Bertollo (Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil)

· Enterprise Architecture Framework based on MDA to Support Virtual Enterprise Modeling, T.Y. Kim, J.S. Lee, K. Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea),C.H. Kim (Daejeon University, Republic of Korea)

· Mapping Versus Transformation in MDA: Generating Transformation Definition from Mapping Specification, S. Hammoudi, J. Janvier, and D. Lopes (Ecole Supérieure d’Electronique de l’Ouest - ESEO, France)

Part III - Business Rules

· From high level business rules to an implementation on an event-based platform to integrate applications, R.Casallas, C. Acero and N. López (University of Los Andes, Colombia)

· Rule-based business process modeling and execution, S. Goedertier and J. Vanthienen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

Submission Guidelines

All submissions will be formally peer reviewed. Submissions should be 4 to 8 pages long in IEEE Computer Society format and include the author's name, affiliation and contact details. They should be submitted by e-mail as postscript or PDF files before July 11th, 2005, to

Authors will be notified of acceptance by August 13th, 2005. At least one author of accepted papers should participate in the Workshop. Workshop proceedings will be published on two different media: First, the proceedings of the VORTE’05 workshop will be published as part of the CTIT Workshop Proceeding Series (ISSN 0929-0672). Moreover, all accepted papers for the Workshop will appear in the IEEE Digital Library.

Important Dates

Paper submission due: 11 July 2005

Notification of Acceptance: 13 August 2005

Camera ready copies due: 27 August 2005

Workshop Date: 20 September 2005

Workshop Chairs

Giancarlo Guizzardi

University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy

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Gerd Wagner

Institute of Informatics

Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus

Cottbus, Germany

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Program Committee

Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR, Italy

Andre Valente, Knowledge Systems Ventures, USA

Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway

Andrey Naumenko, Triune Continuum Enterprise, Switzerland

Brian Henderson Sellers, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Chris Welty, IBM Watson Research Center, USA

Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany

Elisa Kendall, Sandpiper Software, USA

Gerd Wagner, Brandeburg University at Cottbus, Germany

Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Twente, The Netherlands & ISTC-CNR, Italy

Joerg Evermann, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand

Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Michele Missikoff, IASI-CNR, Italy

Mustafa Jarrar, STARLAb, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Nicola Guarino, ISTC-CNR, Italy

Oscar Pastor, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

Pericles Loucopoulos, University of Manchester, UK

Ricardo Falbo, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil

Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Terry Halpin, Northface University, USA

Uwe Assmann, TU Dresden, Germany
Robert Colomb, University of Queensland, Australia

York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

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