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OntoBIS
Ontologies for
Business Information Systems
Special Session
in conjunction with
the 6th International Conference
on Business Information Systems BIS 2003
Colorado Springs,
Colorado, USA
June 4-6, 2003
Call for Papers
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BIS is an international conference with
a long history. Although it was devoted to many research topics related to
business information systems, one important aspect has not been discussed
yet – ontologies. According to the commonly accepted definition, ontology is
a formal, explicit specification of a shared conceptualization. A special
session organized within forthcoming BIS 2003 is to fill this gap.
Ontologies are developed to provide a machine-processable semantics of
information that is exchanged between different agents, both humans and
software. They started in the Philosophy, evolved in Artificial Intelligence
but nowadays other research communities adopt them very quickly. Ontologies
face strong expectations, especially in the business area: Knowledge
Management and Electronic Commerce. Ontologies are heavily exploited by
Semantic Web – a vision to link data on the Web in a way that it can be used
by machines not just for display purposes, but for automation, integration
and reuse of data across various applications.
There are a lot of very interesting and promising projects that make use of
ontologies. Many different standards emerge. Many groups develop own tools
to facilitate use of languages. No one is able to track all activities.
Often we are unsure, which proposal will become a standard, which solution
is most widely used. It will be advantageous to compare different solutions,
proposals, tools, services.
The goal of this special session is to
share experiences about aforementioned systems, exchange ideas about
improvements of existing standards and tools and creation of new systems,
principles and applications. Its expected outcome is a common vision about
the future directions.
This special session is dedicated to groups who contribute to the
development of ontologies that can be used in Business Information
Systems. We are especially looking for innovative applications taking
advantage of the ontologies.
Topics of
Interest
OntoBIS 2003 invites submissions related to all aspects
of the ontologies. Papers MUST clearly demonstrate relevance to the
usage of ontologies in Business Information Systems.
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
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Business Specific Ontologies |
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Ontologies for Data Warehousing, Electronic Commerce,
Workflow, ERP, CRM, etc. |
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Ontologies Supporting E-Business |
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Ontologies for Enterprise Integration |
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Metadata and Ontologies |
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Economic Models, Financial Justification of Ontologies |
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Semantic Web for Decision Support |
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Information Access, Searching the Semantic Web |
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Semantic Web-enabled Web Services |
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Agent Communication and Applications in the Semantic
Web |
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Visual modeling of Ontologies for BIS |
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Electronic Trading Systems and Marketplaces |
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Ontology Languages: e.g. Ontolingua, RDF, XOL, OIL,
DAML-S, DAML+OIL |
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Web Services Integration Standards (description,
discovery and interoperation) |
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Data/Information/Knowledge Integration by Use of
Ontologies |
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Use of Foundational Ontologies in BIS
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The successful papers should focus on complex solutions
rather than technological aspects.
Submission
Papers to be considered for regular
conference presentation and proceedings should be submitted via the regular
conference submission process. Detailed instructions, especially formatting,
will be published on conference Web page. Questions on content should be
directed to: Dr. Krzysztof Węcel, K.Wecel@kie.ae.poznan.pl.
A.
Research papers
Papers should not exceed 5000 words.
They should describe original research (practical or theoretical).
Theoretical papers should provide an overview of area of research closely
related to ontologies in BIS. Practical papers can describe an implemented
tool or service that contributes to the ontologies.
B.
Work in progress
Papers should not exceed 2500 words. They may present
some aspects related to ontologies and describe work that it is still in
progress but its results may be interesting for a broader audience.
IMPORTANT DATES
Jan 15, 2003 submission deadline for long
and work-in-progress papers to be published in refereed proceedings
Feb 28, 2003 notification of
acceptance/rejection
Apr 15, 2003 submission of final papers
Jun 4-6, 2003 the conference
SPECIAL SESSION CO-CHAIRS
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Michel Biezunski, Coolheads Consulting, Texas, USA |
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Mark Burstein, BBN Technologies, Cambridge, USA |
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Peter E. Clark, Boeing Maths and Computing Technology, Seattle, USA |
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Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA |
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Steven A. Demurjian, University of Connecticut Connecticut USA |
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Max J. Egenhofer, University of Maine, USA |
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Aldo Gangemi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy |
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Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Technical University Madrid, Spain |
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Nicola Guarino, Italian National Research Council, Padova, Italy |
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Pat Hayes, University of West Florida, USA |
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Jerry Hobbs, USC/ISI, USA |
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Atanas Kiryakov, OntoText, Sofia, Bulgaria |
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Massimo Marchiori, W3C, Cambridge, USA |
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Natasha Fridman Noy, Stanford University, USA |
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Terry R. Payne, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA |
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Dimitris Plexousakis, FORTH and University of Crete, Greece |
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Kilian Stoffel, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland |
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Katia Sycara, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA |
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Mike Uschold, The Boeing Company, Seattle, USA |
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Christopher A. Welty, IBM Watson Research Center, USA |
| Yannis Zorgios, Applied Information Engineering, Croydon, UK |
BIS 2003 CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
ADDRESS
The Poznań University of Economics
Department of Management Information Systems
Al. Niepodległości 10
60-967 Poznań, Poland
phone: +48/61/ 856 93 33
fax: +48/61/ 856 93 34
bis2003@kie.ae.poznan.pl
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