VORTE2006

event series:=VORTE2006 is the title:=2nd International EDOC Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for the Enterprise. It is held on start date:=October 16 2006 in has location city::Hong Kong, has location country::People's Republic of China. For more information, see web site:=http://www.pms.ifi.lmu.de/mitarbeiter/spies/EDOCVORTE2006.html.

It is a subevent of the 10th International IEEE Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference(subevent of::EDOC2006) 16-20 October 2006, Hong Kong http://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~edoc06/.

About the Workshop
Vocabularies, ontologies and business rules are key components of a model-driven approach to enterprise computing in a networked economy. VORTE 2006 is the second workshop on an EDOC conference that intends to bring together researchers and practitioners in areas such as philosophical ontology, enterprise modeling, information systems, semantic web, MDA (Model-Driven Architecture) and business rules to discuss the role of foundational and domain ontologies in the conceptual development and implementation of next generation tools for enterprise computing.

The Workshop Encourages Submissions on topics including (but not limited to) the following:


 * Business Vocabularies
 * Business Rules and Constraint Modeling
 * Enterprise Integration and Interoperability
 * Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Metamodeling
 * Vocabularies and Foundational Ontologies for Enterprise Information Systems
 * Enterprise Modeling and Simulation
 * Foundations for the Model-Driven Architecture (MDA)
 * Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) approaches to Enterprise Computing Systems
 * Enterprise Computing and the Semantic Web
 * Enterprise Reference Architectures
 * Enterprise Domain Engineering
 * Domain specific Business Information and Application Engineering
 * Ontologies and organizational Semiotics
 * Ontological Approaches to Content and Knowledge Management

Submission Guidelines
All submissions will be formally peer reviewed. Submissions should be 6 to 8 pages long and MUST be submitted in IEEE Computer Society format and include the author's name, affiliation and contact details. They should be submitted by e-mail as LaTeX or PDF files before June 16th, 2006, to marcus.spies@lmu.de.

Authors will be notified of acceptance by July 28, 2006. At least one author of accepted papers must participate in the Workshop. IEEE has agreed to publish all papers accepted at the EDOC Workshops at the IEEE Digital Library (i.e., the IEEE Xplore). The workshop papers will be posted separately with its own ISBN.

Workshop chairs
Marcus Spies University of Munich (LMU), Institute for Informatics, Programming and Modeling Languages Unit (Germany)

Giancarlo Guizzardi Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC-CNR (Italy)

Gerd Wagner Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus (Germany)

Important Dates

 * Paper submission deadline: paper deadline:=16 June 2006
 * Author notification: 28 July 2006
 * Camera ready papers: camera ready due:=18 August 2006
 * Workshop date: 16 October 2006

Program Committee

 * has PC member::Aldo Gangemi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Italy
 * has PC member::Brian Henderson Sellers, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
 * has PC member::Christophe Roche, Université de Savoie, France
 * has PC member::Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany
 * has PC member::Csaba Veres, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Norway
 * has PC member::Elisa Kendall, Sandpiper Software, USA
 * has PC member::François Bry, University of Munich, Germany
 * has PC member::Fred Freitas, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
 * has PC member::Gerd Wagner, Brandeburg Univ. of Technology at Cottbus, Germany
 * has PC member::Giancarlo Guizzardi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Italy
 * has PC member::Heinrich Herre, University of Leipzig, Germany
 * has PC member::Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zealand
 * has PC member::Joerg Evermann, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand
 * has PC member::Kuldar Taveter, University of Melbourne, Australia
 * has PC member::Luís Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, The Netherlands
 * has PC member::Marcus Spies, University of Munich, Germany
 * has PC member::Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
 * has PC member::Michele Missikoff, IASI-CNR, Italy
 * has PC member::Mustafa Jarrar, STARLAb, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
 * has PC member::Nicola Guarino, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Italy
 * has PC member::Oscar Pastor, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
 * has PC member::Pericles Loucopoulos, University of Manchester, UK
 * has PC member::Peter Rittgen, University of Boras, Sweden
 * has PC member::Ricardo Falbo, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil
 * has PC member::Robert Colomb, University of Queensland, Australia
 * has PC member::Terry Halpin, Neumont University, USA
 * has PC member::Thomas Roth-Berghofer, DFKI, Germany
 * has PC member::Uwe Assmann, TU Dresden, Germany
 * has PC member::York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
 * has PC member::Wolfgang Hesse, University of Marburg, Germany