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Call for Participation
3rd International Workshop on
Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise
(VORTE 2007)
http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/VORTE/
Annapolis, Maryland, USA, October 15, 2007
The goal of the workshop is to discuss the role that foundational and domain
ontologies play in the conceptual development and implementation of next
generation tools for enterprise computing. The VORTE workshop covers research
topics relevant to description formalisms for enterprise application
architectures, services, content, and regulations. Since enterprise
vocabularies and ontologies, as well as business rules do not exist in
isolation but serve to support business processes, this year a special emphasis
is on business process modelling and management. Fundamental research aspect
covered by the workshop includes ontological evaluation of enterprise systems
and their interoperability, and ontological analysis of business process
modelling. Applied research aspect includes enhancing business rule engines and
business process management systems by ontologies. In the area of modelling,
our topics include how process modelling and execution languages, such as
Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) and Business Process Execution
Language (BPEL), relate to business ontologies. The workshop also covers
ontology-based service description technologies for inter-enterprise
collaboration like extensions to UDDI or OWL-S.
This definitely promises a lot of fun, and we are looking forward to meeting
you in Annapolis. Please, do not forget to register at http://edoc.mitre.org/.
Workshop Program
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Session 1: Introduction, Keynote, and Process Modeling
– Introduction
– Keynote: Prof. Marcus Spies - An ontology modelling perspective on business reporting languages
– Michael zur Muehlen, Jan Recker and Marta Indulska, Less is Sometimes More: Are Process Modeling Languages Overly Complex?
Break
Section 2: Ontologies and Rules: Tools and Evaluation
– Jennifer Fang and Joerg Evermann, Evaluating Ontologies: Towards a Cognitive Measure of Quality
– Leo Ferres, Michel Dumontier and Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, An OWL Ontology of Time-Series Data Graphs in the Statistical Domain: Semantic Annotation of N-Variable Line Graphs
– Mark Linehan, Ontologies and Rules in Business Models
– Aqueo Kamada and Manuel Mendes, Business Rules in a Model Driven Service
Environment
– Mini-panel – paper presenters in Sessions 1 and 2 answer to additional
questions
Lunch
Session 3: Applications
- Luis Alvarez Sabucedo and Luis Anido-Rifón, An Ontology Based Architecture for eGovernment Environments
– Nikolaos Loutas, Vassilios Peristeras, Sotirios Goudos and Konstantinos Tarabanis, Facilitating the Semantic Discovery of eGovernment Services: The SemanticGov Portal
– Suzette Stoutenburg and Leo Obrst, Ontologies and Rules for Rapid Enterprise Integration and Event Aggregation
– Frederick Yip, Alfred Ka Yiu Wong, Nandan Parameswaran and Pradeep Ray, Towards Robust and Adaptive Semantic-Based Compliance Auditing
– Mini-panel – paper presenters from Session 3 answer to additional questions
Break
Session 4: Enterprise knowledge modeling languages
– Mounira Harzallah, Giuseppe Berio and Andreas L. Opdahl, Incorporating IDEF3 into the Unified Enterprise Modelling Language (UEML)
– Reyes Grangel, Ricardo Chalmeta and Cristina Campos, Using UML Profiles for Enterprise Knowledge Modelling
– Michael zur Muehlen, Marta Indulska and Gerrit Kamp, Business Process and Business Rule Modeling: A Representational Analysis
– Mini-panel – paper presenters from Session 4 answer to additional questions
– Final discussion and workshop summary
Looking forward to meeting you in Annapolis.
Best reagards,
Kuldar Taveter University of Melbourne, Australia
Dragan Gasevic Athabasca University, Canada
