CALL FOR PAPERS

The 4th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE 2009) Co-located with the 13th IEEE International EDOC Conference

Auckland, New Zealand, August 31st, 2009

Selected papers will be published in the ISI-indexed JRPIT journal (subject to the final approval)

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

The VORTE series of workshops is devoted to the topics ofvocabularies, ontologies and rules in the context of enterprisesystems. The complexity of enterprise systems; the increasing needsfor advanced collaboration between various systems within oneinstitution or among many collaborating parties; and the velocity oforganizational, policy, structural and market changes strongly callfor immediate mobilization of the research community to develop moreflexible and reliable technologies for the development of enterprisesystems. Trying to respond to this urgent research need, the VORTEseries of workshops has been established in order to bring togetherresearchers and practitioners that are looking into the topics ofontologies and rules in enterprise system development from differentyet complementary perspectives. The major objective is to provide aresearch forum for exchanging ideas and results covering the use ofontologies and rules in various stages of the development lifecycle ofenterprise systems. Examples of topics covered by VORTE fundamentalresearch contributions include the ontological evaluation ofenterprise systems and their interoperability and the investigation ofthe use of ontologies and rules in business process modelling. Appliedresearch contributions include enhancing business rule engines andbusiness process management systems by ontologies and formal semanticsfor rules. From the enterprise system development perspective researchtopics are focused on relations of process modelling and executionlanguages with business ontologies and rules, and how businessontologies and rules used in enterprise models are further propagatedinto technologies (e.g., semantic web) and architectures (e.g.,service-oriented architectures) that enable collaboration betweenheterogeneous enterprise systems. The workshop also welcomesexperience reports and empirical studies that are reporting on the useof ontologies and rules in the enterprise system developmentlifecycle.

SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

We solicit two types of papers:

All submissions MUST conform to the two-column format of IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings (http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html) and include the author's name, affiliation, and contact details. Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2009.

All papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere.

The papers accepted for the EDOC 2009 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 2009) and present their papers at the workshop. The registration needs to be done via the EDOC 2009 website (https://www.se.auckland.ac.nz/conferences/edoc2009/).

Post-conference Journal Publication

KEYNOTE

John Hosking from the University of Auckland has agreed to be the keynote speaker. The title of John's presentation is "Supporting model
driven engineering using the Marama meta toolset".

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: May 31st, 2009

Paper Notification: July 12th, 2009

Camera Ready Copy Due: July 27th, 2009

Workshop: August 31, 2009 (tentative)

COMMITTEES

Workshop Chairs:

   Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zealand

   Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada

Steering Committee:

   Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES),Vitória, Brazil

   Gerd Wagner, Institute of Informatics, Brandenburg University of

Technology at Cottbus, Germany

Program Committee:

• Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA
• Robert Colomb, The University of Queensland, Australia
• Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Sergio España, Polytechnic University of Valencia
• Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
• Ricardo Falbo, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil
• Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany
• Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia
• Sven Hartmann, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
• Heinrich Herre, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Mustafa Jarrar, STARLAB, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
• Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway
• Adrian Paschke, Free University Berlin, Germany
• Luís Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands
• Peter Rittgen, University College of Borås, Sweden
• Christophe Roche, University of Savoie, France
• Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
• Marcus Spies, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany
• Csaba Veres, University of Bergen, Norway
• Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia

LINKS

VORTE2009 web site: http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/VORTE/?q=node/14

VORTE2009 google group: http://groups.google.com/group/vorte2009

VORTE2009 RSS: http://groups.google.com/group/vorte2009/feed/atom_v1_0_msgs.xml

EDOC2009 web site: https://www.se.auckland.ac.nz/conferences/edoc2009/

EasyChair submissions: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2009

Formatting guidelines: http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html