2-3 Mar 2014
Berlin, Germany
8th International Workshop on Value Modeling and Business Ontology with a special track on the Pragmatic Web Berlin, Germany, March 2-3, 2014 http://www.csw.inf.fu-berlin.de/vmbo2014/ ??he importance of modeling the essence of enterprises on a level that abstracts from operational details is increasingly recognized. Business ontology provides abstract descriptions of enterprises in their business context, focusing on what is needed to create and transfer value. Value modeling is a business modeling approach that focuses on the value objects exchanged in business networks. Business ontology and value modeling research is conducted using instruments such as Business Model Generation, the REA (Resources, Events, Agents) ontology, Enterprise Ontology and the e3-value tool set. ??he goal of VMBO is to bring together researchers with an interest in value modeling and business ontology in order to present and discuss the current state of enterprise or business modeling and to identify key areas for further research. This year, VMBO will include a Pragmatic Web track. Under the Pragmatic Web (http://www.pragmaticweb.info[http://www.pragmaticweb.info]) label we subsume both the pragmatics of ontologies (e.g. ontology development in communities) and the ontology of pragmatics (e.g. semantics of communicative action and context). Pragmatic web technologies include e.g., rule-based systems and tools for knowledge management and for social web analysis. ??f you are interested in joining, please submit a short paper (maximum of five pages) describing your main ideas. We encourage you to focus on ideas in progress for which you would like to get feedback from other workshop participants. ??ote that submitted papers will be only evaluated for their potential to enable substantive research discussions. The program committee will use the papers to put together a final program; the aim is to accommodate all relevant papers. If necessary, a selection will be made in such a way that an overall good balance is achieved. ??rogram Committee Hans Weigand (chair) ??aul Johannesson (chair) Adrian Paschke (chair) ??an Dietz Pavel Hruby ??icola Guarino Yao-Hua Tan ??aria Bergholtz Christian Huemer ??ill McCarthy Geert Poels ??rik Proper Aldo de Moor ??ieter de Leenheer Topics of interest include, but are not limited to ?? Value modeling/Business ontology fundamentals - Value modeling/Business ontology applications and experiences - Enterprise Ontology ? theory and practice - Semantic Service Modeling and the Service-Oriented Semantic Enterprise - Role of business ontology in enterprise architecture - Ontology-driven enterprise system development - Business ontology / value models for planning, auditing and control - Business ontology / value models for strategy exploration ??or the Pragmatic Web track: - Corporate Semantic Web - Rules, Agents and Norms - Distributed Rule-Based Systems, Business Rule languages and standards - Ontology-based and rule-based interoperability - Community-based ontology and rule development - Communication and collaboration patterns - Organizational Semiotics Important dates Jan 7, 2014 Paper submission deadline Jan 31, 2014 Notification of acceptance Feb 14, 2014 Registration deadline March 2-3, 2014 VMBO Workshop, Berlin, Germany How to submit Please submit your short paper preferably in PDF format and following the (Proceedings) style of Springer LNCS using easychair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vmbo2014[https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vmbo2014] Workshop co-chairs ? Local organization Adrian Paschke (FU Berlin) Zhili Zhao (FU Berlin) More information Hans Weigand, H.Weigand@uvt.nl[mailto:H.Weigand@uvt.nl]