VORTE for Information Systems Journal 2011 - Special Issue on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise

Information Systems is calling for papers for a Special Issue on "Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise".

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.

We encourage the submission of original research papers as well as sound structured review papers and industrial case study experience reports on the following topics:

Conceptual modeling

Ontological foundations for enterprise and business process modeling

Languages and methods for business vocabularies, terminologies, and taxonomies

Modeling of enterprise information integration and interoperability

Languages for conceptual modeling (for example, OWL and UML)

Agent-oriented conceptual modeling

Business rule and business process modeling

Analysis of and experiences with OMG's Semantics of Business Vocabularies and Rules (SBVR)

Rule modeling and rule markup

Rule-based approaches to Web service policies and choreographies

Agent-based business rule and process management

Integrating business rules with business process modeling and execution languages (for example, BPMN and BPML)

Ontologies for enterprise systems

Ontological approaches to content and knowledge management

Ontologies for e-business registries/repositories

Web service ontologies

Ontological evaluation of enterprise systems

Ontology-based enterprise architectures

Ontology-based software engineering for enterprise solutions

Model-driven engineering approaches in enterprise systems

Modeling and architecture frameworks

Domain engineering

Domain-specific business information and system engineering

Model transformations in enterprise and business process modeling

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: 1-Sept-2011

Reviews Completed: 15-Dec-2011

Major Revisions Due: 1-Feb-2012

Re-reviews Completed: 1-May-2012

Minor Revision Due: 1-June-2012

Final recommendations: 1-July-2012

Final Manuscripts Due: 1-Aug-2012

Guest editors

Ebrahim Bagheri, Athabasca University and University of British Columbia, Canada

Fred Freitas, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil

Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, University of Twente, The Netherlands

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