[rules-users] VORTE 2007 Follow-up: Journal special issue

[nicolae oana]

Call for Papers 
Journal: Information Systems 
Special Issue on "Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for Enterprise and  Business Process Modeling and Management" 
 
Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules are key components of a  model-driven approach to enterprise computing in a networked economy.  Enterprise vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules do not exist in  isolation but serve to support business processes. While many have  recognized the importance of vocabularies, ontologies, and business  rules in business process modeling and management, there are many open  research challenges to be addressed. These challenges can be approached  from different perspectives. Fundamental research explores ontological  foundations and languages and methods for enterprise and business  process modeling. It also covers ontological evaluation of enterprise  systems and their interoperability, and ontological analysis of business  process modeling. Applied research looks into enhancing business rule  engines and business process management systems by ontologies. Business  process modeling research aims to define how process modeling
 and  execution languages, such as Business Process Modeling Notation and  Business Process Execution Language, relate to business ontologies and  rules. Enterprise integration and collaboration research addresses  ontology-based service description technologies for inter-enterprise  collaboration. This special issue solicits papers focussed on the  described research areas. The topics to be covered by submissions  include but are not limited to the following: 
 
o Conceptual modeling 
o Ontological foundations for enterprise and business process modeling 
o Languages and methods for business vocabularies, terminologies, and  taxonomies 
o Modeling of enterprise information integration and interoperability     o Languages for conceptual modeling (for example, OWL and UML)   o Agent-oriented conceptual modeling 
o Business rule and business process modeling 
o Analysis of and experiences with OMG's Semantics of Business  Vocabularies and Rules (SBVR) 
o Rule modeling and rule markup 
o Rule-based approaches to Web service policies and choreographies 
o Agent-based business rule and process management 
o Integrating business rules with business process modeling and  execution languages (for example, BPMN and BPML) 
o Ontologies for enterprise systems 
o Ontological approaches to content and knowledge management 
o Ontologies for e-business registries/repositories 
o Web service ontologies 
o Ontological evaluation of enterprise systems 
o Ontology-based enterprise architectures 
o Ontology-based software engineering for enterprise solutions 
o Model-driven engineering approaches in enterprise systems 
o Modeling and architecture frameworks 
o Domain engineering 
o Domain-specific business information and system engineering 
o Model transformations in enterprise and business process modeling 
 
 
Important Dates 
 
Submission Deadline    May 1st, 2008 
Reviews Completed:    September 1st, 2008 
Major Revisions Due:   October 15th, 2008 
Re-reviews Completed:   December 1st, 2008 
Final recommendations:   January 1st, 2009 
Final Manuscripts Due:    February 1st, 2009 
Publication Date:   TBD (2009) 
 
 
Guest editors 
Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada 
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil 
Kuldar Taveter, University of Melbourne, Australia 
Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany 
 
Submission Guidelines 
 
All manuscripts should be compliant with the submission guidelines and  policies of the Information Systems journal  (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/infosys). All manuscripts will be  subject to the high standards of peer review. All the papers must be  submitted via the online submission system at http://ees.elsevier.com/is  (by selecting "SI Business Proc. Modelling" during the submission process). 
       
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