VORTE 2010 - Joint 5th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE) - International Workshop on Metamodels, Ontologies and Semantic Technologies (MOST)

in conjunction with the Fourteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2010)

"The Enterprise Computing Conference"

25-29 October 2010, Vitória, ES, Brazil

http://edocconference.org

Supported by:

Preliminary Program (Updated on October 21 2010)

October 25^th

09:15 - Workshop Opening

09:15 - 10:30 - Invited Talk: Business Rules and Business Processes - How good partners are they? (see below)

10:30 - 11:00 - Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 - Formal Aspects in Representing Semantics

1. A Meta-Ontology Approach for Representing Vague-Linguistic Terms and Fuzzy Rules for Classification in Ontologies (Cristiane Yaguinuma, Marilde Santos, Heloisa de Arruda Camargo and Tatiane M. Nogueira)

2. On the Representation of Temporally Changing Information in OWL (Veruska Zamborlini and Giancarlo Guizzardi)

3. A Symbol Grounding Model for Semantic Interpretation of 2-D Line Charts (Sandro Rama Fiorinin, Mara Abel and Claiton M. S. Scherer)

12:30 - 14:00 - Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30 - Ontology Engineering

1. Utility Evaluation of Tools for Collaborative Development and Maintenance of Ontologies (Alex Norta, Roman Yangarber and Lauri Carlson)

2. A Linguistic Approach to Conceptual Modeling with Semantic Types and OntoUML (Lucia Castro, Fernanda Araujo Baião and Giancarlo Guizzardi)

3. Conceptual maps as the first step in an ontology construction method (Rodrigo Rizzi Starr and Jose Maria Parente de Oliveira)

15:30 - 16:00 - Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30 - Ontologies, Enterprise Modeling and Document Management I

1. Towards an Ontology for Automating Collaborative Business Processes (Bahareh Rahmanzadeh Heravi, David Bell, Mark Lycett and Stephen D. Green)

2. Conceptual Models for Cross-cutting Aspects in Enterprise Architecture Modeling (Sabine Buckl, Florian Matthes and Christian Schweda)

3. An Infrastructure for Managing Semantic Documents (Lucas de Oliveira Arantes and Ricardo Falbo)

October 26^th

09:30 - 10:30 - Invited Tutorial: RDF, OWL and Rules (part I) (see below)

10:30 - 11:00 - Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 - Invited Tutorial: RDF, OWL and Rules (part II) (see below)

12:30 - 14:00 - Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30 - Ontologies, Enterprise Modeling and Document Management II

1. An Ontology-Based Semantic Foundation for Organizational Structure Modeling in the ARIS Method (Paulo Sérgio Santos Jr., João Paulo Almeida and Giancarlo Guizzardi)
2. A Platform for Interoperable Domain-Specific Enterprise Modelling (Andreas Opdahl)
3. A Well-founded Software Process Behavior Ontology to Support Business Goals Monitoring in HighMaturity Software Organizations (Monalessa P. Barcellos, Ricardo Falbo and Ana Regina Rocha)

15:30 - 16:00 - Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:30 - Biological Ontologies

1. Development Approach for Modeling Biological Ontologies (Daniele Palazzi, Ely Edison Matos, Fernanda Campos and Regina Braga)

16:30 - 17:00 - Announcement of Paper Awards and Closing Session

Invited Talk:

Business Rules and Business Processes - How good partners are they?

Dragan Gasevic - Athabasca University - Canada

Abstract: Business process modeling is commonly used in development of large scale enterprise systems. The previous research on this topic demonstrated that process-oriented models might be too rigid for dynamic adaptations of the business logic. Rule-based approaches are considered an alternative, which offers more flexibility thanks to the declarative nature of rules and their underlying reasoning algorithms. However, modeling a business process exclusively through rules is a tedious process for developers in terms of the overall business process comprehension. A solution "in-between" is to have a modeling approach that integrates both rule- and process-oriented modeling perspectives. In this talk, we will discuss the experience gained in the development of and work with rBPMN (rule-based BPMN), a language based on the integration of Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) with the REWERSE Rule Markup Language. After a brief description of some key decisions made in the development of rBPMN, we will discuss experience in using rBPMN to model workflow patterns, service-interaction patterns, message-exchange patterns, and a recently identified group of patterns for integration rules into business processes. Finally, the talk will discuss some open research challenges in the area such as capturing business knowledge, usability of business modeling languages, and methods for configuration of business processes.

Bio sketch: Dragan Gasevic is a Canada Research Chair in Semantic Technologies and an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at Athabasca University. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University and an associated research member of the GOOD OLD AI Research Network at the University of Belgrade. He is recipient of Alberta Ingenuity's 2008 New Faculty Award. His research interests include semantic technologies, software language engineering, technology-enhanced learning, and service-oriented architectures. He has (co-)authored more than 200 research papers. He has been serving on editorial boards of three international journals and has edited special issues in journals such as IET Software and IEEE TSE. He has been the organizer, chair, and member of program committees of many international conferences.

Tutorial:

RDF, OWL, and Rules
Pascal Hitzler - Wright State University - USA

Abstract:
The Semantic Web is gaining momentum. Its technologies have been established in the portfolio of information management research, and currently find considerable take-up by industry. At the heard of Semantic Web is the representation of knowledge by so-called ontology languages, and those foremost in use are the W3C-Recommended standards RDF and OWL. In this tutorial, we will present both RDF and OWL in depth, and will also discuss the relationship of the latter formalism with rules.

Bio sketch: Pascal Hitzler is assistant professor at the Kno.e.sis Center for Knowledge-enabled Computing, which is an Ohio Center of Excellence at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A. From 2004 to 2009, he was Akademischer Rat at the Institute for Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, and from 2001 to 2004 he was postdoctoral researcher at the Artificial Intelligence institute at TU Dresden in Germany. In 2001 he obtained a PhD in Mathematics from the National University of Ireland, University College Cork, and in 1998 a Diplom (Master equivalent) in Mathematics from the University of Tübingen in Germany. His research record lists over 140 publications in such diverse areas as semantic web, neural-symbolic integration, knowledge representation and reasoning, denotational semantics, and set-theoretic topology. He is Editor-in-chief of the IOS Press journal "Semantic Web - Interoperability, Usability, Applicability" and the IOS Press book series "Studies on the Semantic Web". He is vice-chair of the steering committee of the conference series on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR), and the RR2010 PC co-chair. He is co-chair of the 2010 International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) "Semantic Web In Use" and "Industry" tracks and co-chair of the 2011 Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) "Reasoning" track. He is co-author of the W3C Recommendation "OWL 2 Primer", of the first German introductory textbook to the Semantic Web published by Springer Verlag, and of the book "Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies" by CRC Press, 2009. For more information, see http://www.pascal-hitzler.de.

Updated information about this tutorial can be found at
http://www.semantic-web-book.org/page/EDOC2010_Tutorial

Call for Papers

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

Ontology is a cross-disciplinary field concerned with the study of concepts and theories that can be used for representing shared conceptualizations of specific domains. Ontological Engineering is a discipline in computer and information science concerned with the development of techniques, methods, languages and tools for the systematic construction of concrete artifacts capturing these representations, i.e., models (e.g., domain ontologies) and metamodels (e.g., upper-level ontologies). In recent years, there has been a growing interest in diverse areas in computer science such as software and data engineering, knowledge representation, natural language processing, information science, among many others.

The objective of VORTE-MOST 2010 is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the relation between ontology and information models, and theoretical topics such as formal ontology, formal logics, conceptual modelling, enterprise computing, computational linguistics, cognitive science, knowledge representation, the Semantic Web, and MDE (Model-Driven Engineering), as well as more practical topics as a result of applications of ontologies in diverse fields, such as knowledge management, informatics for education, ontology-based information and database integration, information processing (retrieval, classification and extraction), to mention just a few.

Derived from VORTE’s tradition, the joint workshop has a specific interest in the application of Ontologies, Vocabularies and Rules in the context of enterprise systems. Furthermore, in this year’s joint edition of the workshops we are giving a special attention to ontological aspects related to notion of services. This includes ontological analyses of the domain of services as well as of service reference models and modeling languages. But also, from a complimentary perspective, this scope includes engineering aspects of Ontology-Based Service-Oriented Modeling and Computing.

TOPICS

Ontology Engineering

methodologies
capture and learning
management

Ontology and Conceptual Modeling

Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Metamodeling
Ontology and Epistemology in Information Systems
Ontology-Based Conceptual Modeling Tools and Environments
Conceptual Modeling for the Semantic Web
Ontology Design and maintenance for Conceptual Model Integration

Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for Enterprise Modeling

Ontologies and Business Process Modeling
Ontologies and Goal-Based Modeling
Ontologies and Business Rules
Enterprise Reference Ontologies, Taxonomies and Vocabularies

Semantic Consistency

Foundational Ontologies
Upper-Level Ontologies
Evaluation Methods, Applications and Problems

Semantic Interoperability

Composition and Modularity
Merging, Mapping and Alignment
Ontology Language Interoperability
Global Ontologies and Local as View (LAV) integration methods, problems and practice

Enhancement of Ontology Applicability

Linguistic ontologies applied to text processing
Patterns of ontologies for specific applications

Ontologies for Information Sharing

Ontology-based information integration
Mediators and brokers
Agents and ontologies
Ontology-based data transformation and data migration tools
Ontology-enabled interoperability in e-science, life sciences, e-business, culture
User friendly semantic system integration tools

Ontology Applications

The Semantic Web
Knowledge management
E-commerce, e-government
E-learning and e-science - agents and multiagents patterns and applications
Information retrieval, extraction and classification
Ontologies and semantic technologies in Education
Ontologies and natural language processing
Ontology visualization

VORTE 2010 is the 5th workshop associated with the EDOC conference series that intends to bring together researchers and practitioners in areas such as philosophical ontology, enterprise modelling, information systems, semantic web, model-driven engineering, business rules, and business process management. The goal of the workshop is to discuss the role that (foundational and domain) ontologies/vocabularies and business rules play in the conceptual design and implementation of next generation enterprise solutions.

MOST was held for the first time during the 28^th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER’2009) and it was created as the unification of two existing workshops: (i) Workshop on Ontologies and Metamodels in Software and Data Engineering (WOMSDE) – organized since 2006 for three consecutive editions; (ii) Workshop on Ontologies and Applications (WONTO) – organized since 2005 also in three editions. MOST 2010 can also be seen as a 5^th edition of these joint scientific fora.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We solicit two types of papers:

Short papers (4 pages) discussing controversial issues in the field or describe interesting or thought-provoking ideas that are not yet fully developed; and
Full papers (8-10 pages) describing more mature results than short papers.

All submissions MUST conform to the two-column format of IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings (http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) and include the author's name, affiliation, and contact details. Papers must be submitted as PDF files using EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vorte2010). All submissions should be in English.

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

The papers accepted for the EDOC 2010 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 2010) and present their papers at the workshop. The registration needs to be done via the EDOC 2010 website (http://edoc2010.inf.ufes.br/).

The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and will be accessible through IEEE Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library. The IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the workshop.

Post-conference Journal Publication

We are planning to invite selected papers for publication in a well-known international journal. (To be confirmed)

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission (extended): May 02 2010
Paper Notification: June 4th, 2010
Camera Ready Copy: June 28th, 2010
Workshop: October 25 or 26, 2010 (to be defined)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Workshop Chairs:

Ebrahim Bagheri, National Research Council of Canada, Canada, Ebrahim.Bagheri(at)nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, University of Twente, The Netherlands, l.o.bonino(at)ewi.utwente.nl
Fred Freitas, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, fred(at)cin.ufpe.br
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil, gguizzardi(at)acm.com

VORTE Steering Committee:

Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Gerd Wagner, Institute of Informatics, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany
Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada