Call for Papers - ONTOSE 2010

We apologize if you receive this message more than once! - - - - ONTOSE 2010 4th International Workshop on Ontology, Conceptualization and Epistemology for Information Systems, Software Engineering and Service Science will be held from June 7 to 8 as a pre conference workshop of CAiSE 2010, Tunisia http://conf.ifit.uni-klu.ac.at/ontose/ Workshop post-proceedings will be published with Springer LNBIP IMPORTANT DATES Short Abstract submission deadline (highly recommendable): February 15, 2010 Full Paper submission deadline: February 28, 2010 Notification of authors: March 31, 2010 Camera ready papers (for Workshop): April 30, 2010 AIMS, SCOPE AND TOPICS In our society which has already turned to a service providing society, the technical aspects as well as the human, social and economic aspects must be considered together. This has already resulted in considerable research on these aspects that are related to disciplines like Information Systems, Software Engineering and Service Science, as for example, how empirical research should be conducted, what are the conditions for "valid" knowledge, and which the scope of theories in these fields are. These are elements that are of interest from perspectives as diverse as philosophy, engineering and technology. For example, the material and temporal entities that are dealt with in the field are a matter of ontology, and the conditions for credibility of statements and research methods are a matter of epistemology. Hence the relationship and influences between software, information systems and service science will be studied from an ontological view point, but with a broad perspective under which researchers with different background can meet and truly multi-disciplinary issues can arise. As in the previous editions the main goal of this event is to allow challenging and promising cross-fertilization over multidisciplinary research areas to be tackled and investigated by all the participants. The design of systems in which parts have complex interactions, more and more the understanding of theoretical, epistemological and conceptual frameworks coming from the human and social sciences. Topics therefore include (but are not limited to) the following: - Ontology and formal ontology representations of Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Service Engineering and Information Systems. - Studies and essays about metrics, indicators and general issues regarding research on Software, Services and Systems Engineering. - Conceptualizations, bodies of knowledge or schemas for software engineering, service engineering and information systems. - Applications that deal with representations of concepts and relations of the disciplines. - Social, psychological and organizational issues about the disciplines. - Epistemological and philosophical aspect of software and service development. - Architectural patterns and ontologies for the design of high-quality services. - UML and other modelling frameworks for services. - Ontologies in requirements engineering, intensional and goal modelling in the context of services - Ontology driven development of service software. - Natural language verbalization of service ontologies. - Social, technical and economic impacts on IS and service sciences. - Ontologies and models for the Quality of service. - Ontologies and models representing customer issues. - Ontologies and process models. - Ontologies and models to improve the service efficiency - Models of Software as a Service (SaaS) - Models and ontologies related to the Internet of Services and Things - Semantic Integrity of static and dynamic aspects PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be published in Workshop post-proceedings with Springer's Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP). For formatting your paper please have a look at the LNBIP instructions for authors: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-487211-0 ORGANISATION CO-CHAIRS: Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of Alcala, (Spain) Christian Kop, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, (Austria) Fabio Sartori, University of Milano-Bicocca, (Italy) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: - Sudhir Agarwal, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), (Germany) - Jose Angel Olivas, University of Castilla-La-Mancha, (Spain) - Stefania Bandini, University of Milano-Bicocca, (Italy) - Djamal Benslimane, LIRIS, Universite Claude Bernard Lyon, (France) - Pierre Bourque, Engineering school of the Universite du Quebec, (Canada) - Pierre-Jean Charrel, University Toulouse 2 Mirail, (France) - Juergen Ebert, University of Koblenz, (Germany) - Werner Esswein, TU Dresden, (Germany) - Johann Eder, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, (Austria) - Sergio Espana Cubillo, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, (Spain) - Raimund Feldmann, Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering, Maryland, (USA) - Alexander Felfernig, Graz University of Technology, (Austria) - Anthony Finkelstein, University College London, (United Kingdom) - Gerhard Friedrich, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, (Austria) - Faiez Gargouri, l'Institut Superieur d'Informatique et du Multimedia de Sfax, (Tunesie) - Olly Gotel, Independent researcher, New York, (USA) - Nicola Guarino, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (LOA), ISTC-CNR (Italy) - Remigijus Gustas, Karlstad University, (Sweden) - Peter Haase, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), (Germany) - Wolfgang Hesse, Philipps-Universitaet Marburg - Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, (Sweden) - Miltiadis Lytras, ELTRUN Research Center, (Greece) - Heinrich C. Mayr, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, (Austria) - John-Jules Charles Meyer, University of Utrecht, (The Netherlands) - Daniela Micucci, University of Milano-Bicocca, (Italy) - Roland Mittermeir, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, (Austria) - Jari Palomaki, Tampere University of Technology/Pori, (Finland) - Fernando Silva Parreiras, University of Koblenz, (Germany) - Daniel Rodriguez, University of Alcala, (Spain) - Francisco Ruiz Gonzalez, Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, (Spain) - Christelle Scharff, Pace University New York, (USA) - Francesco Tisato, University of Milano-Bicocca, (Italy) - Markus Zanker, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, (Austria)