OntoCom

Workshop on Ontologies and Conceptual Modelling

The International Workshop on Ontologies and Conceptual Modelling (Onto.com) is an academic workshop that concerns the practical and formal application of ontologies to conceptual modelling. This year the theme of Onto.Com will continue to be Foundational Ontologies and their Meta-ontological Choices. Leading ontologists and conceptual modellers will be invited to discuss and comparatively analyse different foundational ontologies, their meta-ontological choices and their associated modelling processes. The workshop will be practically oriented and discussions will be centred on models produced for different kinds of case studies. More specifically, we intend to provide several case studies that each focus on a concrete modelling problem. Next, during our workshop, we would discuss and clarify each of these case studies using several different foundational ontologies. The purpose of this discussion is to discover and evaluate how the different ontologies would distinguish themselves in representing each of these case studies and their respective problems. Consequently, this would lead to highly interesting discussions between experts of different kinds of ontologies. As such, this workshop is aimed at providing a platform to stimulate high expert discussions concerning the application of different kinds of foundational ontologies to a set of distinct modelling problems. Furthermore, we intend to bring together academics, researchers and practitioners (with a background in IS engineering and/or ontology development) in order to develop an agenda of future collaborations that combine research and industrial expertise. The structure of the workshop would thus be as followed: we would accept contributions that concern the above-mentioned topics (or even on topics related to the main workshop theme) and demonstrate these contributions during SLAM sessions, or short power point presentations that explain the main idea of the paper.

Topics

  • What is the relation between Ontological Semantics, Formal Semantics, Abstract and Concrete Syntax for Visual Conceptual Modeling Languages?
  • What kind of Logical, Ontological and Epistemological Foundations are needed for Conceptual Modeling?
  • How can fundamental theoretical research on Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Empirical Research fit together?
  • How can Formal Ontological Theories be used for the Analysis and Design of Conceptual Modeling languages (including Enterprise Modelling and Domain-Specific Modelling languages)?
  • How researchers and practitioners in other domains not related to computer science and information systems (such as Bioinformatics) are using Ontologies?
  • Is there a common notion of “Ontology” shared in all these domains, or are we including different notions under the same term (Ontology)?
  • How does ontology inform the process of gathering requirements?
  • How does ontology support architecture development directly from requirements specifications?
  • How does ontology help in software design and its mapping to the architecture specification?
  • How can ontologies be used as run-time artefacts or to inform the design of run-time artefacts.
  • What is the role of ontology reasoning in the software engineering process?
  • What is the role of ontology in model-driven development?
  • How can ontology drive the development of service software?
  • What are the methodological issues for Ontology-Driven CM and ISE?
  • How can problems of semantic mismatch between traditional IS modelling paradigms, approaches, techniques, etc. and ontological modelling be overcome?
  • How can ontology help in the design of development/modelling/programming languages?

Submission Guidelines

Since the proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series, authors must submit manuscripts using the LNCS style. See http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for style files and details. The page limit for submitted papers (as well as for final, camera-ready papers) is 10. Manuscripts not submitted in the LNCS style or exceeding the page limit will not be reviewed and automatically rejected.

Submission is done through EasyChair. Please select the Workshop track when submitting. EasyChair Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=er2019 – please pay attention to select the correct track.

Workshop Organizers

Sergio de Cesare (s.decesare@westminster.ac.uk) is Professor of Digital Business and heads the Centre for Digital Business Research at the University of Westminster. His research investigates foundational ontology as a means to theoretically model the digital enterprise, methods for the engineering and integration of information systems, and ways in which emerging digital technologies can create new business opportunities. He has received research funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in excess of £1 million and has collaborated with organisations from the manufacturing and the service sectors. He is currently an Associate Editor of Organisational Design and Enterprise Engineering, served as Managing Editor of the European Journal of Information Systems (2009-2014), and has been on numerous conference programme committees including the International Conference on Conceptual Modelling and Formal Ontology in Information Systems. He received a PhD in Information Systems from LUISS Guido Carli in Rome and a Laurea cum laude in Business and Economics from the University of Bari (Italy).

Mark Lycett (mark.lycett@rhul.ac.uk) is a Professor of Information Management, his broad research examines the processes involved in organising, managing and understanding all types of data. Professor Lycett has published the outcomes of his work in a number of leading journals and conferences and successfully graduated 20 Doctoral students in these areas. Coming from an industry background, Professor Lycett has worked on and managed projects to the value of over £1 billion. He is also Senior Associate Editor for the European Journal of Information Systems., a longstanding member of the EPSRC College and an expert reviewer for the European Commission in the area of Intelligent Information Management.

Chris Partridge (partridgec@BOROGroup.co.uk) is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Westminster and Chief Ontologist at BORO Solutions (www.BOROSolutions.com). His research and consultancy work is in the business of ontology recovery and semantic interoperability – working primarily in the defence and financial sectors. He has published a number of papers and a book – Business Object: Re-engineering for Re-use (Butterworth Heinemann 1996).

Oscar Pastor: Oscar Pastor is Full Professor and Director of the “Centro de Investigación en Métodosde Producción de Software (PROS)” at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain). He received his Ph.D. in 1992. He was a researcher at HP Labs, Bristol, UK. Supervisor of 20 completed PhD theses and 31 completed Masters theses on topics that relate to Conceptual Modeling, he has published more than three hundred research papers in conference proceedings, journals and books, received numerous research grants from public institutions and private industry, and been keynote speaker at several conferences and workshops.