6th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE 2011) | EDOC 2011

6th International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE 2011)

The VORTE workshop is organized in conjunction with the Fifteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2011), "The Enterprise Computing Conference", 29th August - 2nd September 2011 in Helsinki, Finland.
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The VORTE workshops

The VORTE series of workshops is devoted to the topics of vocabularies, ontologies and rules in the context of enterprise systems. The complexity of enterprise systems; the increasing needs for advanced collaboration between various systems within one institution or among many collaborating parties; and the velocity of organizational, policy, structural and market changes strongly call for immediate mobilization of the research community to develop more flexible and reliable technologies for the development of enterprise systems. Trying to respond to this urgent research need, the VORTE series of workshops has been established in order to bring together researchers and practitioners that are looking into the topics of ontologies and rules in enterprise system development from different yet complementary perspectives. The major objective is to provide a research forum for exchanging ideas and results covering the use of ontologies and rules in various stages of the development lifecycle of enterprise systems. Examples of topics covered by VORTE fundamental research contributions include the ontological evaluation of enterprise systems and their interoperability and the investigation of the use of ontologies and rules in business process modelling. Applied research contributions include enhancing business rule engines and business process management systems by ontologies and formal semantics for rules. From the enterprise system development perspective research topics are focused on relations of process modelling and execution languages with business ontologies and rules, and how business ontologies and rules used in enterprise models are further propagated into technologies (e.g., semantic web) and architectures (e.g., service-oriented architectures) that enable collaboration between heterogeneous enterprise systems. The workshop also welcomes experience reports and empirical studies that are reporting on the use of ontologies and rules in the enterprise system development lifecycle.

VORTE 2011 is the 6th 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.

  

Keynote

  • Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, German:
    Ontologies and Rules for Enterprise Modeling and Simulation



    We propose to model an enterprise as an institutional agent with organizational units and human actors as subagents that participate in zero or more business processes involving other subagents of the enterprise and other agents, which are possibly affiliated with other organizations. Our approach, which unifies state structure and behavior modeling, leads to a more holistic model of an enterprise, and its multitude of business processes, compared to traditional BPM approaches, such as Petri Nets and BPMN, which are exclusively focused on single business processes. We discuss the ontological foundations of our approach and show the superiority of our rule-based modeling and simulation language AORSL, which allows the operational modeling of entire business systems and their business processes.



Workshop program

0900-0915 - Opening

0915-1030 - Keynote + discussion

  • Gerd Wagner: Ontologies and Rules for Enterprise Modeling and Simulation

1030-1100 - Coffee break

1100-1300 - 3 papers + discussion

  • Francois Hantry, Mohand-Said Hacid and Romuad Thion: Detection of conflicting Compliance rules
  • Robert Thullner, Szabolcs Rozsnyai, Hannes Obweger, Josef Schiefer and Martin Suntinger: Proactive Business Process Compliance Monitoring with Event-Based Systems
  • Steffen Kunz, Benjamin Fabian, Daniel Marx and Sebastian Müller: Engineering Policies for Secure Inter-Organizational Information Flow

1300-1400 Lunch

1400-1530 - 3 papers + discussion

  • Adam Westerski and Carlos A. Iglesias: Exploiting Structured Linked Data in Enterprise Knowledge Management Systems: An Idea Management Case Study
  • Mariano Belaunde and Slim Ben Hassen: Service Mashups using Natural Language & Context Awareness
  • Vilho Räisänen: Semantic integration platform (Short paper)

1530-1600 Coffee break

1600-1730 - 1 paper + discussion + closing

  • Alexandre Lopes Machado and José Maria Parente De Oliveira: DIGO: An Open Data Architecture for e-Government

 

Workshop organization

 

Workshop chairs

Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada,dgasevic@acm.org
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Brazil,gguizzardi@gmail.com
Andreas L. Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway,Andreas.Opdahl@uib.no

Steering Committee

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

Workshop program committee

Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany

Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Christoph Bussler, Xtime, Inc., USA

Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zealand

Sergio España, Polytechnic University of Valencia

Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany

Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia

Sven Hartmann, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany

Brian Henderson-Sellers, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Heinrich Herre, University of Leipzig, Germany

Florian Matthes, University of Munich, Germany

Alex Norta, University of Helsinki, Finland

Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Christophe Roche, University of Savoie, France

Michael Rosemann, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany

Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia

Ron Weber, Monash University, Australia