Vocabularies, Rules and Ontologies for the Enterprise (VORTE 2006)

Workshop at the 10th IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Distributed Object Computing

Hongkong, October 16th, 2006

For information on the goals and topics of this workshop, on its conveners, and on the history of VORTE and EDOC, please see our call for participation web site.
For the proceedings of VORTE 2006, please consult the IEEE Digital Library .

08:50-09:10	Marcus Spies	Introduction and Overview
09:10-09:55	Christophe Roche	How Words map Concepts
09:55-10:40	Patricia Dockhorn Costa, Giancarlo Guizzardi, João Paulo A. Almeida, Luís Ferreira Pires, Marten van Sinderen	Situations in Conceptual Modeling of Context
	(Coffee)
11:00-11:45	Kuldar Taveter	A Technique and Markup Language for Business Process Automation
11:45-12:30	Fernando Náufel do Amaral, Carlos Bazílio presented by Geiza Maria Hamazaki da Silva	An Ontology-based Approach to the Formalization of Information Security Policies
	(Lunch)
14:00-15:00	Colin Atkinson	Models versus Ontologies - What's the Difference and where does it Matter?
15:00-15:30	All participants	General discussion
	(Coffee)
16:00-16:45	Axel Korthaus, Martin Schader	Using a Topic Grid and Semantic Wikis for Ontology-Based Distributed Knowledge Management in Enterprise Software Development Processes
16:45-17:30	David Aveiro, José Tribolet	An ontology for organizational functions: the recursive self-maintenance mechanism of the enterprise