ONTOSE 2012 - Ontology, Models, Conceptualization and Epistemology in Social, Artificial and Natural Systems Workshop (ONTOSE)

The Workshop is centred in 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 on 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.
~ ONTOSE 2012 is accepted as a pre confernce workshop of CAiSE 2012 ~