ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Vocabularies,
ontologies and business rules are key components of a model-driven
approach to
enterprise computing in a networked economy. VORTE 2006 is the second
workshop
on an
EDOC conference that
intends to 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 domain ontologies in the
conceptual development and implementation of next generation tools for
enterprise computing.
SCOPE
The VORTE workshop will cover research topics relevant to description
formalisms for enterprise application architectures, services, content
and regulations.
Regarding applied research, this also includes service description
technologies for inter-enterprise collaboration like extensions to
UDDI or
OWL-S. Regarding
fundamental research, this includes foundations
and applications of semantic methods for enterprise object, rule and
process modeling like those proposed in semantic web research.
Moreover, recent research shows that semantic description formalisms
can be integrated with a model driven architecture approach to business
application development and deployment. This appears particulary
interesting w.r.t. automated implementations of business rules and
executable business processes.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Colin Atkinson,
Chair of Software Technology at Mannheim University:
Models versus
Ontologies - What's the Difference and where does it Matter?
As models and ontologies assume an increasingly central role in
enterprise systems engineering the question of how they compare and can
be used together assumes growing importance. On the one hand, the
semantic web / knowledge engineering community is increasingly
promoting ontologies as the key to better software engineering methods,
while on the other hand the software engineering community is
enthusiastically pursuing the vision of Model Driven Development as the
core solution. Superficially, however, ontologies and models are very
similar, and in fact are often visualized using the same language
(e.g. UML). So what's going on? Are models and ontologies basically the
same thing sold from two different viewpoints or is there some
fundamental difference between them beyond the idiosyncrasies of
current tools and languages? If so, what is this different and how
should one choose which technology to use for which purpose?
PRESENTATIONS and PROCEEDINGS
To view an introduction, the presentations of accepted papers and the keynote address at VORTE 2006, go
here .
THEMES and TOPICS
The workshop contributions will be organized along three major thematic
areas, under which these and topics of interest will be included ...
- Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) approaches to
Enterprise Computing
- Modeling and Architecture Frameworks
- Domain specific Business Information and
Application Engineering
- Modeling Enterprise Components
- Conceptual Modeling
- Business Vocabularies and Terminologies
- Ontological Approaches to Content and
Knowledge Management
- Enterprise Information Integration and
Interoperability
- Taxonomies of Services and Service
Registries (eg, UDDI related research)
- Business Rules and Business Process Semantics
- Semantic Web Services
- Service Ontologies (eg, OWL-S related
research)
- Architectures for Business Rule Components
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
All
submissions will be formally peer
reviewed. Submissions should be 6 to 8 pages long and MUST be submitted
in
IEEE
Computer
Society
format and include the author's name, affiliation and contact
details.
They
should be submitted by e-mail as LaTeX or PDF files before June 16th,
2006,
to
m a r c u s . s p i e s {at} lmu°de. Authors will be notified of
acceptance by July
28, 2006. At least one author of accepted papers must participate in
the Workshop.
IEEE has agreed to publish all papers accepted at the EDOC Workshops at
the IEEE Digital Library (i.e., the IEEE Xplore). The workshop papers
will be posted separately with its own ISBN.
WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Marcus Spies
University of Munich (LMU),
Institute for Informatics,
Programming and Modeling Languages Unit
Giancarlo Guizzardi
Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA)
Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology (ISTC)
Italian National Research Council (CNR), Trento, Italy
Gerd Wagner
Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus (Germany)
IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper submission deadline:
- 23 June 2006 (extended!)
- Author notification:
- 28 July 2006
- Camera ready papers:
- 18 August 2006
- Workshop date:
- 16 October 2006
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
