The submission deadline to the DOBA, International workshop on
Decision-oriented
Business Applications: Experiences and Challenges, originally dated
June, 24th 2011
in Luxembourg has been extended to June, 30th 2011.
Here, once again, the call for proposals:
Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward to interested colleagues
and mailing lists.
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International workshop on Decision-oriented Business
Applications: Experiences and Challenges (DOBA)
September 5, 2011
co-located with the IEEE CEC'11
Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO: Jul 4, 2011
http://ontorule-project.eu/dissemination/events/doba
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DOBA intends to gather together the community of business users in
charge
of decision-support business applications. The workshop will be a
means for
practitioners to share and exchange experiences, best practices,
critical
visions, success stories, and to define a possible roadmap to the
future.
Important dates
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* EXTENDED Submission deadline: Jul 4, 2011
* Notification of acceptance: Jul 11, 2011
* Camera-ready paper submission: Jul 25, 2011
* Workshop: Sept 5, 2011
Description
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Decision-oriented applications are complex due to the underlying
business
policies and require the participation of many stakeholders, from
business
experts over analysts to IT developers. In current practice, business
users
do not own their applications, as their construction and maintenance
inevitably
require having other agents involved. In the recent years, progress
has been
made in standardization of modeling and knowledge representation
languages,
as well as advances in methodologies and theoretical foundations for
policy
acquisition and execution. It is becoming increasingly feasible to
reduce the
coupling between policies and their implementations, and to empower
users to
independently interact with the part of a business application that is
relevant
to them, including the decision modeling process. One approach towards
achieving
this objective is to separate understandably the representation of the
knowledge
at the business, operational and execution levels, on the one hand;
and the
business vocabulary from the business rules, on the other. At the same
time,
it must be possible to merge them at any moment in order to provide
integrated
ownership, combined execution and consistency checking.
Topics of interest
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The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Lessons learnt in business modeling using business languages
* From models to solutions: transforming business specifications into
rule-based software
* Acquisition of business policies from text: NLP in action
* Integrated management and maintenance of business models, ontologies
and rules
* Decision-modeling to bridge the gap between business requirements
and implementations
* Experiences in efficiency and scalability of BRMS and reasoners
* Best practices for consistency maintenance of ontologies and rules
over time
* End-to-end coherence: traceability and change propagation
* BRMS tools interoperability: standards and open challenges
* Giving ownership of business applications back to business users
* Appropriate languages for business knowledge reuse and adaptability
* Usability in decision-support business applications
* Model documentation: understanding business policies
* Experiences in cost reduction and improved time to market using
ontologies and rules combinations
* Use cases for state-of-the-art decision-support systems: actual
requirements and expected benefits
Submissions
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The following types of contributions are welcomed:
* Full papers, up to 8 pages.
* Position papers, up to 5 pages.
* Posters (both 2-page extended abstracts or final posters).
Workshop Chairs
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* Patrick Albert, IBM, France
* Roman Korf, ontoprise, Germany
* Emilio Rubiera, Fundación CTIC, Spain
Program Committee
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* Diego Berrueta, Fundación CTIC, Spain
* Christian De Sainte Marie, IBM, France
* Adil El Ghali, IBM, France
* Miguel Iglesias, ArcelorMittal, Spain
* Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers, PNA, Netherlands
* Eva Maria Kiss, ontoprise, Germany
* Luis Polo, Fundación CTIC, Spain
* Peter Rosina, Audi, Germany
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