Call for Papers 

About

Indicators are identified because of experience or because of literature, The importance of modeling the essence of enterprises on a level that abstracts from operational details is increasingly recognized. Abstraction is needed for achieving interoperability and data integration, for instance. Ontological inquiry has received renewed interest with the advent of complex information systems, which rely on robust and coherent, formal representations of their subject matter. Data analysis is enhancing the depth and scale of enterprise modeling by enabling advanced data interpretation, pattern discovery, and the contextual understanding necessary for effective decision-making.  Whereas AI-based predictive models are currently quite powerful, an ontological model can still be useful, or even necessary, for instance, to make black-box models explainable. Two established enterprise modeling approaches are value modeling and business ontology. Value modeling is a business modeling approach that focuses on the value objects exchanged in business networks. Business ontology provides abstract descriptions of enterprises in their business context, focusing on what is needed to create and transfer value. Research in these fields is conducted using instruments like the REA Ontology (Resources, Events, Agents), the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO), the e3value toolset, and the Enterprise Engineering framework, all of which benefit from data analysis to generate insights from complex enterprise data. Business ontologies need not be restricted to economic exchanges, but can concern other organizational phenomena as well, such as risk, policy and decision.

The goal of the VMBO workshop series is two-fold:

• to bring together researchers with an interest in value modeling and business ontology to present and discuss the current state of the art
• to identify key areas for further research

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Business ontology fundamentals
• Business ontology applications and experiences
• Ontology-driven enterprise system development
• Ontology-aware enterprise systems
• Ontological representations of aggregated data
• Data integration and data interoperability fundamentals
• Enterprise ontology
• Role of ontologies in enterprise architecture
• Ontologies and knowledge graphs
• Value modeling fundamentals and applications

Important Dates

• Paper submission: 10 Jan 2025
• Notification of acceptance: 03 Feb 2025
• Workshop: 3-4 Mar 2025

Submission Guidelines

We solicit two types of submissions:

• Full papers: Submissions that describe original research ideas or contributions, present problems or challenges encountered in practice, or report on industrial cases and practices. We encourage authors to submit papers for which they would like feedback from other participants of the workshop. 
• Abstracts: Submissions that summarize results that have already been published elsewhere (e.g. a journal or a conference). 

Submissions should:

• Respect the limit of 10 pages for full papers (excluding references) and 1 page for abstracts (no references).
• Be submitted in PDF
• Comply with the 1-column CEUR-ART Style

Publication

Accepted papers will be published with CEUR-WS.org online proceedings, if desired by the authors, under the series of the International Association by Ontology and its Applications (IAOA).

Note that papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed only marginally. The program committee will use the papers to put together a final program; the aim is to accommodate all relevant papers with sufficient quality.