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------- ONTOSE 2011 -------

5th International Workshop on
Ontology, Models, Conceptualization and Epistemology in Social, Artificial and Natural Systems

will be held on June 20th as a pre conference workshop of CAiSE 2011, London, United Kingdom

http://conf.ifit.uni-klu.ac.at/ontose/

Accepted papers will be published under the Springer LNBIP series CAISE Workshop Proceedings

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Short Abstract submission deadline (about 150 Words - Ascii): February 14, 2011
Full Paper submission deadline: February 21, 2011
Notification of authors: March 14, 2011
Camera ready papers (for Workshop): March 27, 2011

Abstract and paper submission will be through the Easychair System at the following link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ontose2011

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FOCUS
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The Workshop is centred on the role of abstraction in man-made systems (as complex Information Systems), social systems
(as organizations, social networks or service systems) or natural systems (as environmental or ecological systems) and
how these abstractions are useful for practical purposes in advanced Information Systems. Abstraction is represented
in models of various kinds, be them graphical or using formal languages as in the case of ontologies. However, abstraction
should tackle with the notion of what entities exist in reality and to what extent we can know about them, which makes
epistemological issues relevant. Papers sought in ONTOSE range thus from papers describing relevant ontologies or models
or their application to problems of various kinds to papers dealing with empirical studies related to modelling and abstraction,
or touching philosophical issues regarding proper representations of reality.

The Workshop focuses on the intersection of disciplines and in the aspects related to ontologies, models and epistemological issues.
It complements the conference orientation by emphasizing multi-disciplinary and philosophical issues, and focusing on Information Systems.
It complements the main conference by emphasizing modelling and ontological issues which are appearing in advanced Information Systems
that require complex and interoperable models for their functioning.

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AIMS, SCOPE AND TOPICS
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In our society which has already turned to a service providing society, the technical aspects as well as the human, natural, social and
economic aspects must be considered together. This has already resulted in considerable research on these aspects that are related to
disciplines like Information Systems, Software Engineering and Service Science, as for example, how empirical research should be conducted,
what are the conditions for "valid" knowledge, and which the scope of theories in these fields are. These are elements that are of interest
from perspectives as diverse as philosophy, engineering and technology. For example, the material and temporal entities that are dealt with
in a given field are a matter of ontology, and the conditions for credibility of statements and research methods are a matter of epistemology.
Hence the relationship and influences between software and computational models, information systems and service science will be studied from
an ontological view point, but with a broad perspective under which researchers with different background can meet and truly multi-disciplinary
issues can arise.

As in the previous editions, the main goal of this event is to allow challenging and promising cross-fertilization over multidisciplinary research
areas to be tackled and investigated by all the participants. The design of systems in which parts have complex interactions, more and more the
understanding of theoretical, epistemological and conceptual frameworks coming from the human and social sciences.

Topics therefore include (but are not limited to) the following:

- Ontology and other representations of Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Service Engineering and Information Systems.
- Ontologies of natural or social systems in general, with an emphasis on the modelling process and issues.
- Studies and essays about metrics, indicators and general issues regarding research on Software, Services and Systems Engineering models.
- Conceptualizations, bodies of knowledge or schemas for software engineering, service engineering and information systems.
- Applications that deal with representations of concepts and relations of the disciplines.
- Social, psychological and organizational issues about modelling in the disciplines.
- Epistemological and philosophical aspect of system modelling and development.
- Empirical studies regarding ontologies and models in the disciplines addressed.
- Architectural patterns and ontologies for the design of high-quality services and systems.
- UML and other system modelling frameworks.
- Ontologies in requirements engineering, intensional and goal modelling in the context of services
- Ontology driven development and management of services and software.
- Natural language, models and ontologies.
- Social, technical and economic impacts of models.
- Ontologies and models representing customer issues.
- Ontologies and process models.
- Ontologies and models to improve the efficiency in services and systems
- Models of Software as a Service (SaaS) and other IT infrastructure
- Models and ontologies related to the Internet of Services and Things
- Models of reasoning and emergent behaviour in artificial, social and natural systems.
- Integration of static and dynamic aspects of ontologies and conceptual models
- Visualization of ontologies and models

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PUBLICATION
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Accepted papers will be published in the CAiSE 2011 workshop proceedings under the Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series.
Guidelines for formatting your paper can be found at the following link:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-2-791344-0

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ORGANISATION
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SCIENTIFIC CO-CHAIRS:

- Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcalá, (Spain)
- Christian Kop, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, (Austria)
- Fabio Sartori, University of Milano-Bicocca, (Italy)

ORGANIZATION CHAIR:

- María-Cruz Valiente, University of Alcalá, (Spain)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

- Sudhir Agarwal, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), (Germany)
- Stefania Bandini, University of Milano-Bicocca, (Italy)
- Djamal Benslimane, LIRIS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, (France)
- Pierre Bourque, Engineering school of the Universit du Québec, (Canada)
- Pierre-Jean Charrel, University Toulouse 2 Mirail, (France)
- Jürgen Ebert, University of Koblenz, (Germany)
- Werner Esswein, TU Dresden, (Germany)
- Johann Eder, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, (Austria)
- Sergio España Cubillo, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, (Spain)
- Raimund Feldmann, Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering, Maryland, (USA)
- Alexander Felfernig, Graz University of Technology, (Austria)
- Anthony Finkelstein, University College London, (United Kingdom)
- Gerhard Friedrich, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, (Austria)
- Faiez Gargouri, l'Institute Supérieur d'Informatique et du Multimédia de Sfax, (Tunesie)
- Athula Ginige, University of Western Sydney, (Australia)
- Olly Gotel, Independent Researcher, New York City, (USA)
- Peter Haase, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), (Germany)
- Wolfgang Hesse, Philipps-Universität Marburg
- Dietmar Jannach, TU Dortmund, (Germany)
- Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, (Sweden)
- Roland Kaschek, Independent Researcher, Duesseldorf, (Germany)
- Miltiadis Lytras, ELTRUN Research Center, (Greece)
- Heinrich C. Mayr, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, (Austria)
- John-Jules Charles Meyer, University of Utrecht, (The Netherlands)
- Daniela Micucci, University of Milano-Bicocca, (Italy)
- Roland Mittermeir, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, (Austria)
- Jose Angel Olivas, University of Castilla-La-Mancha, (Spain)
- Jari Palomaki, Tampere University of Technology/Pori, (Finland)
- Fernando Silva Parreiras, University of Koblenz, (Germany)
- Daniel Rodríguez, University of Alcalá, (Spain)
- Francisco Ruiz Gonzalez, Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, (Spain)
- Christelle Scharff, Pace University New York, (USA)
- Christian Stracke, University of Duisburg-Essen, (Germany)
- Markus Stumptner, University of South Australia, (Australia)
- Francesco Tisato, University of Milano-Bicocca, (Italy)
- Markus Zanker, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, (Austria)