[PragmaticWeb] CfP: Value Modeling and Business Ontology (VMBO 2015)

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  			9th International Workshop on
  		     Value Modeling and Business Ontology

  		   Tilburg, The Netherlands, Feb 23-24, 2015

Supported by SIKS

Special theme: Business Ontologies in the Big Data Era


The importance of modeling the essence of enterprises on a level that
abstracts from operational details is increasingly recognized. Two
recognized enterprise modeling approaches are value modeling and business
ontology. 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 like
REA (Resources, Events, Agents), the e3-value tool set and the Enterprise
Engineering framework.

The goals of this VMBO workshop are 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. The theme of this year's workshop
is the role of business ontologies in the new era of Big Data, but other
papers are welcome as well.

If you are interested in joining, please submit a short paper (maximum of
four 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. We support the submission of VMBO papers afterwards to a
special issue of a journal, e.g. Journal of Applied Ontology (JAO) or
Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting (JETA), if possible.

Note that submitted papers will be reviewed only marginally. The program
committee will use the papers to put together a final program; the aim is
to accommodate all relevant papers with sufficient quality.

Program Committee
Hans Weigand (chair)	Paul Johannesson (chair)   Birger Anderson
Maria Bergholtz		Adrian Paschke		   Christian Huemer
Pavel Hruby		Bill McCarthy		   Nicola Guarino
Geert Poels		Yao-Hua Tan		   Erik Proper

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
* Service ontology for business
* Service-oriented view of business ontology
* Enterprise Engineering
* Business modeling of service exchanges
* Value modeling fundamentals
* Value modeling applications and experiences
* Business ontology fundamentals
* Business ontology applications and experiences
* Role of value modeling in enterprise architecture
* Ontology-driven enterprise system development
* Ontology-aware enterprise systems
* Pragmatic Web - theory and applications
* Ontological representations of aggregated data
* Business ontology / value models for auditing
* Business ontology / value models for managerial decision making
* Business ontology / value models for strategy exploration
* Business ontology / value models for business process management

Important dates
Jan 3, 2015		Paper submission deadline
Jan 22, 2015		Notification of acceptance
Feb 10, 2015		Registration deadline
Feb 23-24, 2015		VMBO Workshop, Tilburg

How to submit
Submit your short paper preferably in PDF format and following the
(Proceedings) style of Springer LNCS to
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vmbo2015

Workshop chairs - Local organization
Hans Weigand
Alice Kloosterhuis (secretary)  	A.M.Kloosterhuis at uvt.nl

For more information, see
https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/eriss  (events)