FoBuR 2010 - 1st Workshop on Aided Formalization of Business Rules and Policies FoBuR'2010

1st Workshop on
Aided Formalization of Business Rules and Policies
FoBuR'2010
http://www.ontorule-project.eu/dissemination/event...
co-located with EKAW 2010
11th - 15th October, Lisbon, Portugal
In the Business Rules community and for the management of policies, many tools and
methodologies are developed in order to assist the business users (e.g. Domain Experts, Business
Analysts) in rules and policies formalization. The goal of this workshop is to draw the attention of
the EKAW scientific community to this emerging research problem of which the business world is
already aware. We will focus on two kinds of tools and methodologies aim at helping users in the
formalization task:
1. Tools and methodologies for the acquisition of rules and models: some of these tools focus
on (semi-)automatically identifying/extracting rules and models from textual policy
documents but other sources of information can be exploited. In any case, it is of crucial
importance to explicit the way acquisition is performed and to relate that methodology to the
type of source that is exploited. It is also important to evaluate the proposed methodology.
2. Easy to use rules editors, that allow business users to edit and possibly update executable
rules. Some of these tools rely on (controlled) natural language, which is an interesting
option to consider.
This workshop aim to bring together researchers from the Knowledge Engineering and Acquisition
community and experts of Business Rules and Policies.
This workshop is supported by the ONTORULE project.
Important dates
? 11 July 2010 - Submission deadline
? 8 August 2010 - Notification to authors
? 27 August 2010 - Camera ready version
Topics of interest
The topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:
? Bridging the gap between Business Users and Formalization methodologies
? Detection and extraction of Business Rules
? Natural Language Processing for Business Models acquisition
? Natural Language Tools for Rules and Ontologies authoring and formalization
? Use of rules standards by Business Users
? Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules
? Rule Interchange Format
Submissions
We welcome three types of papers:
? full papers - up to 10 pages.
? short papers - up to 5 pages.
? demo description - up to 2 pages.
Formatting should follow the LNCS guidelines. Papers should be submitted via EasyChair
Further information
Further information is available on the workshop website at http://www.ontoruleproject.
eu/dissemination/events/fobur2010 or by emailing the workshop organizers.
Workshop organizers
? Adil El Ghali , IBM - ILOG Research Projects, Paris, France
? Patrick Albert , IBM - ILOG Research Projects, Paris, France
? Adeline Nazarenko , LIPN - University Paris 13, France
? Diego Berrueta , CTIC Foundation, Gijon, Spain
? Luis Polo Paredes , CTIC Foundation, Gijon, Spain