CFP: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry - Second International Workshop
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> Date: June 29, 2006 7:48:44 PM GMT+02:00
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> Subject: CFP: Formal Ontologies Meet Industry - Second
> International Workshop
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> CALL FOR PAPERS
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> Second International Workshop on
> Formal Ontologies Meet Industry
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> http://www.loa-cnr.it/fomi
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> December 14-15, 2006
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> University of Trento
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> This event is jointly organized by:
> - Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento
> - University of Trento
> - University of Verona
> - Creactive Consulting S.r.l., Affi
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> Following the great success of the previous edition, we are glad to
> invite you to attend the second Formal Ontologies Meet Industry
> Workshop (FOMI 2006).
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> Description
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> FOMI aims to become an international forum where researchers in
> different disciplines and practitioners of various industry sectors
> meet to analyze and discuss issues related to methods, theories,
> tools and applications based on formal ontologies.
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> It is nowadays widely understood that the semantic dimension and
> model driven approaches play an important role not only in research
> fields but also in networked economy. In particular, it has emerged
> that semantic based applications are relevant in distributed systems
> such as networked organizations, organizational networks, and in
> distributed knowledge management. Namely, these knowledge models in
> industry aim at providing a framework for information and knowledge
> sharing, reliable information exchange, meaning negotiation and
> coordination between distinct organizations or among members of the
> same worldwide organization.
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> The business world also considers this issue of strategic relevance
> and keeps paying particular attention to it because many theoretical
> results have already been proved effectiveness in real applications
> like data warehouse construction, information infrastructure
> definition, and all processes and applications of knowledge
> management.
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> With the application of new methodologies and techniques in the
> everyday practice and the accessibility of new theoretical results
> in this area, developing new tools based on more sophisticated
> frameworks has become a common need. This is an important reason for
> the increasing interest in the employment of formal ontologies in
> fields like medicine, engineering, financial and legal systems, and
> other business practices. In all these fields, a new emerging trend
> is to evaluate the interdependencies between theories and methods of
> formal ontology and the activities, processes, and needs of
> enterprise organizations.
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> A typical example of this is the evaluation of the benefits that huge
> organizations can obtain by implementing ontology based systems.
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> Objectives
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> The workshop is a forum to meet and discuss problems, solutions,
> perspectives and research directions for researchers and
> practitioners. We welcome papers or project descriptions that aim at
> applying formal ontologies in industry. In particular,
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> - theoretical studies on formal ontologies committed to provide
> sound bases for industrial applications and to allow formal
> representation of corporate knowledge;
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> - business experiences on case studies that single out concrete
> problems and possible solutions; the experience analysis should
> provide useful insights on social and strategic aspects that might
> be relevant in the creation and deployment of formal ontologies as
> well as useful criteria or methods to evaluate ontologies and their
> effectiveness in applications.
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> Topics of Interest
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> Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
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> - ontology methodologies in business practice;
> - ontologies and corporate knowledge;
> - ontologies adaptation within organizations;
> - formalization of the know-how;
> - representation of artifacts and design;
> - representation of functionalities;
> - representation of knowledge and business processes;
> - linguistic representation in organizational knowledge;
> - linguistic problems in organizational standard code and
> codification processes;
> - enterprize modeling;
> - ontology evaluation;
> - ontology effectiveness;
> - ontology changes and developments within organizations;
> - representation of business services;
> - ontologies and electronic catalogs;
> - ontologies and e-commerce;
> - ontologies and marketing;
> - ontologies in the practice of engineering;
> - ontologies in the practice of medical sciences;
> - ontologies in finance;
> - ontologies and e-government.
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> We also encourage submissions which relate research results from
> close areas connected to the workshop topics.
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> Important dates
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> Workshop: December 14-15, 2006
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> Deadline for paper submissions: July 15, 2006
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> Notification of acceptance: October 8, 2005
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> Camera ready submission: November 9, 2006
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> Submission and Proceedings
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> We invite submissions of papers in any of the topics of interest to
> the workshop.
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> Manuscripts should be submitted electronically as PDF files via e-
> mail to the following address:
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> fomi@loa-cnr.it
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> Paper maximal length is 10 pages, excluding title page and
> bibliography. Instructions about format can be found at
> http://www.loa-cnr.it/fomi
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> Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and selected on the basis of
> technical quality, relevance of the described experiences (depending
> on the type of submission), and clarity of the presentation for the
> workshop. In particular, we insist that papers should be written for
> a wide audience. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop,
> and published as proceedings.
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> Accepted papers will be electronically published on CD and
> distributed to participants. Following FOMI 2005, a selection of the
> best papers accepted at the workshop will be considered for
> publication in the international journal ''Applied Ontology''.
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> Program Committee
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> Matteo Cristani (Co-chair), University of Verona, Italy
> Nicola Guarino (Co-chair), Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR,
> Trento, Italy
> Bill Andersen, Ontology Works, USA
> Francesco Bellomi, University of Verona, Italy
> Stefano Borgo, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy
> Emanuele Bottazzi, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy
> Peter Clark, Knowledge Systems, Boeing Maths and Computing
> Technology, USA
> Roberta Cuel, University of Trento, Italy
> Roberta Ferrario, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, CNR, Trento, Italy
> Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto, Canada
> Gilles Kassel, Universite de Picardie Jules Verne, France
> Paulo Leitao, Escola Superior de Tecnologia e de Gestao,
> Polytechnic Institute
> of Braganca, Portugal
> Miltiadis Lytras, Athens Univesity of Economics and Business, Greece
> Wolfgang Maass, University St. Gallen, Switzerland
> Chris Partridge, 42 Objects Limited, BORO Centre Limited, Brunel
> University, UK
> Elena Paslaru Bontas, Freie Universitat, Germany
> Cecilia Rossignoli, University of Verona, Italy
> Tim Smithers, VICOMTech, Donostia / San Sebastian, Spain
> York Sure, Institut AIFB, Universitat Karlsruhe, Germany
> Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK
> Matthew West, Shell International Petroleum Company Limited, UK
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> Please do not hesitate to contact <fomi@loa-cnr.it> for further
> details.
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