VORTE

In conjuction with 11th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2007)

15 October 2007, Annapolis, Maryland, USA

Selected papers accepted to the workshop to be invited for a special issue in Elsevier’s ISI-indexed Information Systems journal.

Paper presentations

Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules are key components of a model-driven approach to enterprise computing in a networked economy. VORTE 2007 is the third workshop associated with an EDOC conference that intends to bring together researchers and practitioners in areas such as philosophical ontology, enterprise modelling, information systems, Semantic Web, Model-Driven Architecture (MDA), business rules, and business processes. 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.

Scope

The VORTE workshop will cover 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 we are planning to put special emphasis on business process modelling and management. Fundamental research to be covered by the workshop includes ontological evaluation of enterprise systems and their interoperability, and ontological analysis of business process modelling. Applied research 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 will also cover ontology-based service description technologies for inter-enterprise collaboration like extensions to UDDI or OWL-S.

In addition, the workshop will address how semantic description formalisms can be integrated with the Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) approach to development and deployment of business information systems. This appears particularly interesting with respect to automated implementations of business rules and executable business processes.