DOBA 2011 - International workshop on Decision-oriented Business Applications: Experiences and Challenges - DOBA

Decision-oriented applications are complex due to the underlying business policies and require the participation of many stakeholders, from business experts over analysts to IT developers. In current practice, business users do not own their applications, as their construction and maintenance inevitably require having other agents involved. In the recent years, progress has been made in standardization of modeling and knowledge representation languages, as well as advances in methodologies and theoretical foundations for policy acquisition and execution. It is becoming increasingly feasible to reduce the coupling between policies and their implementations, and to empower users to independently interact with the part of a business application that is relevant to them, including the decision modeling process. One approach towards achieving this objective is to separate understandably the representation of the knowledge at the business, operational and execution levels, on the one hand; and the business vocabulary from the business rules, on the other. At the same time, it must be possible to merge them at any moment in order to provide integrated ownership, combined execution and consistency checking.
The goal of this workshop is to gather together the community of business users in charge of decision-support business applications. The workshop will be a means for practitioners to share and exchange experiences, best practices, critical visions, success stories, and to de?ne a possible roadmap to the future.

Topics of interest

Lessons learnt in business modeling using business languagesFrom models to solutions: transforming business speci?cations into rule-based softwareAcquisition of business policies from text: NLP in actionIntegrated management and maintenance of business models, ontologies and rulesDecision-modeling to bridge the gap between business requirements and implementationsExperiences in ef?ciency and scalability of BRMS and reasonersBest practices for consistency maintenance of ontologies and rules over timeEnd-to-end coherence: traceability and change propagationBRMS tools interoperability: standards and open challengesGiving ownership of business applications back to business usersAppropriate languages for business knowledge reuse and adaptabilityUsability in decision-support business applicationsModel documentation: understanding business policiesExperiences in cost reduction and improved time to market using ontologies and rules combinationsUse cases for state-of-the-art decision-support systems: actual requirements and expected bene?ts
Lessons learnt in business modeling using business languages
From models to solutions: transforming business speci?cations into rule-based software
Acquisition of business policies from text: NLP in action
Integrated management and maintenance of business models, ontologies and rules
Decision-modeling to bridge the gap between business requirements and implementations
Experiences in ef?ciency and scalability of BRMS and reasoners
Best practices for consistency maintenance of ontologies and rules over time
End-to-end coherence: traceability and change propagation
BRMS tools interoperability: standards and open challenges
Giving ownership of business applications back to business users
Appropriate languages for business knowledge reuse and adaptability
Usability in decision-support business applications
Model documentation: understanding business policies
Experiences in cost reduction and improved time to market using ontologies and rules combinations
Use cases for state-of-the-art decision-support systems: actual requirements and expected bene?ts

Submissions

We are inviting the submission of full papers (up to 8 pages), position papers (up to 5) and posters (both 2-page extended abstracts or ?nal posters) focusing on the aforementioned or related topics and representing original research. Please follow the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to prepare your papers with 8.5'' x 11'', two-column format. All submissions will be critically reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. For paper submission we use the EasyChair conference management system.
Important Dates

Submission deadline: Jun 24, 2011
Notification of acceptance: Jul 8, 2011
Camera-ready paper submission: Jul 22, 2011
Workshop: September 5, 2011
Organizing Committee

Patrick Albert, IBM, France
Roman Korf, ontoprise, Germany
Emilio Rubiera, Fundación CTIC, Spain
Program Committee

Diego Berrueta, Fundación CTIC, Spain
Christian De Sainte Marie, IBM, France/li>
Adil El Ghali, IBM, France
Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers, PNA, The Netherlands
Miguel Iglesias, ArcelorMittal, Spain
Eva Maria Kiss, ontoprise, Germany
Luis Polo, Fundación CTIC, Spain
Peter Rosina, Audi, Germany
Venue
http://ontorule-project.eu/dissemination/events/do...
The workshop is colocated with the 13th The IEEE Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC'11), and will take place at Luxembourg on September 5-7, 2011.

Registration

Participants of the workshop may register to the main conference without any additional fee for attending the workshop track.