Call For Participation: 3rd International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise (VORTE 2007 at EDOC)

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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 dom=
ain ontologies play in the conceptual development and implementation of n=
ext generation tools for enterprise computing. The VORTE workshop covers =
research topics relevant to description formalisms for enterprise applica=
tion architectures, services, content, and regulations. Since enterprise =
vocabularies and ontologies, as well as business rules do not exist in is=
olation but serve to support business processes, this year a special emph=
asis is on business process modelling and management. Fundamental researc=
h aspect covered by the workshop includes ontological evaluation of enter=
prise systems and their interoperability, and ontological analysis of bus=
iness process modelling. Applied research aspect includes enhancing busin=
ess rule engines and business process management systems by ontologies. I=
n the area of modelling, our topics include how process modelling and exe=
cution languages, such as Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) and =
Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), relate to business ontologies=
=2E The workshop also covers ontology-based service description technolog=
ies for inter-enterprise collaboration like extensions to UDDI or OWL-S.

This definitely promises a lot of fun, and we are looking forward to meet=
ing you in Annapolis. Please, do not forget to register at http://edoc.mi=
tre.org/.


Workshop Program
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Session 1: Introduction, Keynote, and Process Modeling

=96 Introduction =20
=96 Keynote: Prof. Marcus Spies - An ontology modelling perspective on bu=
siness reporting languages
=96 Michael zur Muehlen, Jan Recker and Marta Indulska, Less is Sometimes=
 More: Are Process Modeling Languages Overly Complex?=20


Break


Section 2: Ontologies and Rules: Tools and Evaluation

=96 Jennifer Fang and Joerg Evermann, Evaluating Ontologies: Towards a Co=
gnitive Measure of Quality=20
=96 Leo Ferres, Michel Dumontier and Natalia Villanueva-Rosales, An OWL O=
ntology of Time-Series Data Graphs in the Statistical Domain: Semantic An=
notation of N-Variable Line Graphs=20
=96 Mark Linehan, Ontologies and Rules in Business Models
=96 Aqueo Kamada and Manuel Mendes, Business Rules in a Model Driven Serv=
ice Environment

=96 Mini-panel =96 paper presenters in Sessions 1 and 2 answer to additio=
nal questions


Lunch=20


Session 3: Applications

- Luis Alvarez Sabucedo and Luis Anido-Rif=F3n, An Ontology Based Archite=
cture for eGovernment Environments=20
=96 Nikolaos Loutas, Vassilios Peristeras, Sotirios Goudos and Konstantin=
os Tarabanis, Facilitating the Semantic Discovery of eGovernment Services=
: The SemanticGov Portal=20
=96 Suzette Stoutenburg and Leo Obrst, Ontologies and Rules for Rapid Ent=
erprise Integration and Event Aggregation=20
=96 Frederick Yip, Alfred Ka Yiu Wong, Nandan Parameswaran and Pradeep Ra=
y, Towards Robust and Adaptive Semantic-Based Compliance Auditing
=96 Mini-panel =96 paper presenters from Session 3 answer to additional q=
uestions


Break


Session 4: Enterprise knowledge modeling languages=20

=96 Mounira Harzallah, Giuseppe Berio and Andreas L. Opdahl, Incorporatin=
g IDEF3 into the Unified Enterprise Modelling Language (UEML)=20
=96 Reyes Grangel, Ricardo Chalmeta and Cristina Campos, Using UML Profil=
es for Enterprise Knowledge Modelling=20
=96 Michael zur Muehlen, Marta Indulska and Gerrit Kamp, Business Process=
 and Business Rule Modeling: A Representational Analysis
=96 Mini-panel =96 paper presenters from Session 4 answer to additional q=
uestions
=96 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