International Workshop on Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling

Onto.Com 2011

together with the

30th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2011) organized by the SIG on Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling of the International Association for Ontologies and Applications

PURPOSE AND SCOPE

There has been a growing interest in the role played by formal ontology, as well as areas such as philosophical logics, cognitive sciences and linguistics, in the development of theoretical foundations for conceptual modeling. In particular, a number of ontological theories such as BWW, DOLCE, GFO and UFO have been successfully applied to the evaluation of conceptual modeling languages and frameworks (e.g., UML, ORM, ER, REA, TROPOS, ARIS, BPMN, RM-ODP, Archimate and OWL), and to the development of engineering tools (e.g., methodological guidelines, modeling profiles, design patterns) that contribute to the theory and practice of this discipline.

Additionally, there has been an increasing interest in the use of empirical studies to assess the impact of the application of these theoretical foundations to the design of conceptual modeling grammars and tools. The objective of this workshop is to collect innovative and high-quality research contributions regarding the role played by the aforementioned disciplines to the foundations of conceptual modeling.

With this workshop we would like to create a true forum for discussion and, in that spirit, we would like to solicit papers that address specific questions of relevance to body of knowledge of the emerging discipline of Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling.

WE PARTICULARLY WELCOME PAPERS THAT RAISE CHALLENGING QUESTIONS, INNOVATIVE IDEAS AND “OUT-OF-THE-BOX” THINKING

AND WHICH, AS A CONSEQUENCE, CAN HELP TO PROMOTE INTERESTING DISCUSSIONS AT THE WORKSHOP.

Examples for topics that can be of interest address questions such as:

• What is the relation between Ontology as an Artifact, Ontology as a Philosophical Discipline, Conceptual Modeling and Metamodeling?
• What is the relation between Ontology Levels of Instantiation and Metamodeling Levels of Instantiation?
• What is the relation between Ontological Semantics, Formal Semantics, Abstract and Concrete Syntax for Visual Conceptual Modeling Languages?
• What kind of Logical, Ontological and Epistemological Foundations are needed for Conceptual Modeling?
• How can fundamental theoretical research on Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Empirical Research fit together?
• How can Formal Ontological Theories be used for the Analysis and Design of Conceptual Modeling languages (including Enterprise Modeling and Domain-Specific Modeling languages)?
• How researchers and practitioners in other domains not related to computer science and information systems (such as the Bioinformatics) are using Ontologies?
• Is there a common notion of "Ontology" shared in all these domains, or are we including different notions under the same term (Ontology)?

Workshop Chairs:

• Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil
• Oscar Pastor, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
• Yair Wand, University of British Columbia, Canada

Deadlines:

• Abstract submission: May 27, 2011
• Paper submission: June 03, 2011 (Extended Deadline)
• Notification: June 27, 2011
• Camera-ready paper submission: July, 4 2011
• Author registration: July 20, 2011
• Workshop: October 31 - November 3, 2011

SUBMITTING A PAPER: Papers should be submitted via the following link https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ontocom2011

Program Committee:

• Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
• Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA
• Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway
• Bert Bredeweg, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Brian Henderson-Sellers, University Technology Sydney, Australia
• Carson Woo, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Chris Partridge, BORO Solutions, UK
• Claudio Masolo, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Italy
• Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany
• David Embley, Brigham Young University, USA
• Dragan Gašević, Athabasca University, Canada
• Fred Fonseca, Penn State University, USA
• Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany
• Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil
• Heinrich Herre, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Heinrich Mayr, University of Klagenfuhrt, Austria
• Jean-Marie Favre, University of Grenoble, France
• Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
• Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
• John Mylopoulos, University of Trento, Italy
• Jose Palazzo M. de Oliveira. Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
• Leo Orbst, MITRE Corporation, USA
• Matthew West, Information Junction, UK
• Michael Rosemann, University of Queensland, Australia
• Nicola Guarino, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Italy
• Oscar Pastor, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
• Palash Bera, Texas A&M International University, USA
• Peter Green, University of Queensland, Australia
• Peter Rittgen, University College Boras, Sweden
• Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel
• Richard Dapoigny, University of Savoie, France
• Simon Milton, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Stephen Liddle, Brigham Young University, USA
• Vadim Ermolayev, Zaporozhye National University, Ukraine
• Veda Storey, Georgia State University, USA
• Vijay Khatri, Indiana University, USA
• Yair Wand, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Wolfgang Hesse, University of Marburg, Germany

Submission and types of papers

Workshop proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Authors must submit manuscripts using the Springer-Verlag LNCS style for Lecture Notes in Computer Science. See http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for style files and details.

We welcome technical research papers as well as speculative/visionary papers addressing the topics of the workshop. As well, we are interested in presentations of how ontologies and conceptual modeling are taught at universities.

Submissions should be in LNCS and pdf format. The maximum length is 10 pages. Accepted papers will be published in the LNCS workshop proceedings. After the discussions at the workshop, we are planning to organize a special issue at a high-quality journal on the field with invited extended versions of the papers.

SUBMITTING A PAPER: Papers should be submitted via the following link https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ontocom2011

Contact

For all inquiries regarding this workshop one can contact Giancarlo Guizzardi (gguizzardi-at-acm.org).