October 16^th, 2006, Florianópolis (Brazil)

Together with the

21^st Brazilian Symposium on Databases/20^th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

Themes and Goals

Software and Data Engineering have matured over the years as disciplines with specific techniques, methods and principles. Formal Ontology is a cross-disciplinary field concerned with the study of concepts and theories that can be used for representing shared conceptualizations of specific domains in reality. Ontological Engineering is a discipline in computer and information science concerned with the development of techniques, methods, languages and tools for the systematic construction of concrete artifacts capturing these representations, i.e., models (e.g., domain ontologies) and metamodels (e.g., upper-level ontologies). In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the application of formal ontology and ontological engineering to the areas of software and data engineering.

WOMSDE is the first of what we hope will be many workshops that bring together researchers and practitioners in areas such as formal ontology, conceptual modeling, software and data engineering, knowledge representation, Semantic Web, and MDA (Model-Driven Architecture) to discuss the role of upper-level and domain ontologies in the development of theoretically sound foundations for software and data engineering methods, models and metamodels, languages, concepts, principles and environments.

The WOMSDE workshop has also the objective of creating in Brazil a forum for discussion in line with the international workshop series MDSW/VORTE (Model-Driven Semantic Web / Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise). Other relevant workshops for this enterprise are the international workshops ONTOSE (Ontology, Conceptualization and Epistemology for Software and Systems Engineering) and SWESE (Semantic-Web Enabled Software Engineering).

Topics of interest

The workshop encourages submissions on the following topics, but not limited to:

· Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Metamodeling

· Foundations for the Model-Driven Architecture (MDA)

· Semantic annotations in software and data engineering

· Ontologies and Domain Engineering

· Semantic Software and Data Engineering Tools and Environments

· Ontology-based Knowledge Management in Software and Data Engineering

· Ontologies for the Software Engineering Domain and Sub-Domains (e.g., Software Quality, Software Process Modeling and Management, Software Maintenance)

· Ontology-Based Reasoning in Software and Data Engineering

· Ontology-Based Reference Models for Software and Data Engineering (e.g., OMG’S Ontology Definition Metamodel)

Workshop Agenda

Session 1: Ontologies, Metamodels and Context-Aware Systems

9:00: Opening

9:00 – 9:30: An ontology based on the CC/PP framework to support content adaptation in context-aware systems

José Viterbo (PUC-RIO), Marco Antonio Casanova (PUC-RIO), Hana K. Rubinsztejn (PUC-RIO), Markus Endler (PUC-RIO)

9:30 – 10:00: Um modelo híbrido baseado em ontologias para aplicações sensíveis ao contexto no middleware MoCA

Ricardo C. A. da Rocha (PUC-RIO), Marco A. Casanova (PUC-RIO), Markus Endler (PUC-RIO)

10:00 – 10:30: Um Metamodelo MOF para o Desenvolvimento de Aplicações Móveis Sensíveis ao Contexto

Marcos Medina Leite (Unisantos), Cléver Ricardo Guareis de Farias (FFCLRP-USP), Rodrigo Mantovaneli Pessoa (UFES), Camilo Zardo Calvi (UFES), José Gonçalves Pereira Filho (UFES)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

Session 2: Ontologies and Software Engineering

11:00 – 11:30: An Ontology for Defining Environments within Multi-Agent Simulations

FábioY. Okuyama (UFRGS), Renata Vieira (UNISINOS), Rafael H. Bordini (University of Durham), Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa (UCPel)

11:30 – 12:00: Uso de Ontologias Para a Verificação da Aderência Entre Processos de Desenvolvimento Baseados no RUP e o Modelo CMMI

Ana Paula Lemke (PUC-RS), Marcelo Blois Ribeiro (PUC-RS)

12:00 – 12:30: Tratamento Semântico de Conhecimento Organizacional em um Ambiente de Desenvolvimento de Software

Fabiano Borges Ruy (UFES), Ricardo de Almeida Falbo (UFES)

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break

Session 3: Ontologies and Documents

14:00 – 14:30: Ontología para Criterios de Clasificación

Mónica Martinez (Universidad de la República – UdelaR), Regina Motz (UdelaR)

14:30 – 15:00: Constructing Domain Ontologies for Indexing Texts and Creating Users' Profiles

Stanley Loh (UCPel, Lutheran University of Brazil), Daniel Lichtnow (UCPel), Thyago Borges (UCPel), Gustavo Piltcher (UCPel), Marcos Freitas Nunes (UCPel)

15:30 – 16:00: Associação Semântica entre Ontologias e Documentos

Edison Morais (UFG), Ana Paula Ambrósio (UFG)

16:00 – 16:30: Coffee Break

Session 4: Domain Ontologies

16:30 – 17:00: Modelo de Avaliação da Qualidade de Conferências Cientificas na

Área da Ciência da Computação: Uma Abordagem Ontológica.

Maria Aparecida M. Souto (UFRGS), Mariusa Warpechowski (UFRGS), José Palazzo M. de Oliveira (UFRGS)

17:00 – 18:00:

Panel: Future Perspectives and Challenges

18:00: Closing

Workshop Chairs

Giancarlo Guizzardi (Contact Person)

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

Computer Science Dept., Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Brazil

Email:

Cléver Ricardo Guareis de Farias

Physics and Mathematics Department, University of Sao Paulo (FFCLRP/USP),

Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

Email:

Program Committee

Anarosa Alves Franco Brandão, PUC-Rio, Brazil

Carlos Lucena, PUC-Rio, Brazil

Claudio Masolo, LOA-ISTC-CNR, Italy

Cléver Ricardo Guareis de Farias, FFCLRP/USP, Brazil

Credine Menezes, UFES, Brazil

Denivaldo Lopes, UFMA, Brazil

Fernanda Lima, Catholic University of Brasilia, Brazil

Fred Freitas, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

Frederico Fonseca, Penn State University, USA

Giancarlo Guizzardi, UFES, Brazil/LOA-ISTC-CNR, Italy

Jaelson Castro, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

João Paulo Andrade Almeida, Telematica Instituut, The Netherlands

José Laurindo Campos dos Santos, INPA, Brazil

José Palazzo M. de Oliveira, UFRGS, Brazil

Karin Breitman, PUC-Rio, Brazil

Kathia Marçal Oliveira, Catholic University of Brasilia, Brazil

Luís Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Mustafa Jarrar, STARLAb, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Olegas Vasilecas, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania

Renata S.S. Guizzardi, SRA-ITC-IRST, Italy

Ricardo Falbo, UFES, Brazil

Virginia Brilhante, UFAM, Brazil

Wolfgang Hesse, University of Marburg, Germany

Important Dates

Paper Submission: 31/07/2006

Notification: 28/08/2006

Camera Ready Version: 04/09/2006

Submission Guidelines and Publication

Submitted papers will be reviewed based on originality, relevance, technical soundness and presentation. The submitted papers will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Technical papers should be submitted according to the guidelines established by the Brazilian Computer Society, available here in pdf, Word doc or LaTex formats. The papers should have at least 6 pages and must not exceed 10 pages including all text, references, appendices, and figures. Submitted papers can be written in Portuguese or English and must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). All papers should be submitted by email to the following address: .