MKWI 2008

Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik

Semantic Web Technology in Business Information Systems

Within the past five years, the Semantic Web research community has brought to maturity a comprehensive set of foundational technology components, and this both at the conceptual level and in the form of prototypes and software.

This includes, among other assets, ontology engineering methodologies, standardized ontology languages, ontology engineering tools, and other infrastructure like APIs, repositories, and scalable reasoners, plus a plethora of work for making the Deep Web and computational functionality in the form of Web Services accessible at a semantic level.

However, the amount of visible applications and convincing showcases is still limited, in particular in core areas of business information systems, like ERP systems and their maintenance, logistics, etc. At the same time, there exist many pressing challenges in in business information systems that would obviously benefit from the higher level of abstraction and the increase in automation that semantic technologies can offer; but dissemination of the state of the art in SW technology into the respective communities is still to be improved.

Relevant Topics

  • Semantic Business Process Management (SBPM)
  • Financial Risk Management with Ontologies
  • Semantic-Web-based E-Commerce
  • Semantics-supported Business Intelligence on logistical data;
  • Semantic Web based modeling techniques for the areas of advanced
    product and integrated process modeling
  • Business Rules and SBPM
  • Enterprise Application Integration
  • Modeling and Systems Analysis
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Corporate Knowledge Management
  • Legal Applications
  • Human Resources Management.
  • Business benefits, evaluation aspects, and ROI of SBPM approaches
  • SOA and Semantic Web Services
  • Business Applications of Triple Space Computing
  • Ontology Engineering
  • Business Ontologies
  • Folksonomies and Tagging in Business Applications

Submissions and Proceedings

All contributions must be submitted using the conference management
tool for this particular track, which is available at

http://www.easychair.org/MKWI2008SWEBIS/

Papers can be in German or in English and must not exceed 12 pages in
the LNI format. "For a book of abstracts, we also need a 1 - 2 page summary. Details on how to prepare that will be given in the notification e-mails."

Document Template

The document templates and instructions for preparing the camera-ready
version are available at

http://srvmatthes6.in.tum.de/_en_tagungsband.html

Accepted Papers

1. Matthias Henneberger, Bernd Heinrich, Florian Lautenbacher and Bernhard Bauer: Semantic-Based Planning of Process Models

2. Heiner Stuckenschmidt and Martin Kolb: Partial Matchmaking for Complex Product and Service Descriptions

3. Ivan Markovic, Alessandro Costa Pereira and Nenad Stojanovic: A Framework for Querying in Business Process Modeling

4. Olaf Grebner, Ernie Ong and Riss Uwe: KASIMIR – Work process embedded task management leveraging the Semantic Desktop

5. Dimka Karastoyanova, Tammo van Lessen, Frank Leymann, Zhilei Ma, Joerg Nitzsche, Branimir Wetzstein, Sami Bhiri, Manfred Hauswirth and Maciej Zaremba: A Reference Architecture for Semantic Business Process Management Systems

Important Dates

23.09.2007: Submission deadline for abstracts
12.10.2007: Submission deadline for full papers
12.11.2007: Notification of acceptance
03.12.2007: Camera-ready versions of accepted papers due

Track Chairs

Prof. Dr. Martin Hepp, Universität Innsbruck
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Angele, Ontoprise GmbH

Program Committee

Dr. Andreas Abecker, FZI
Prof. Dr. Witold Abramowicz, Poznan University
Dr. Chris Bizer, Freie Universität Berlin
Dr. Chris Bussler, BEA Systems, Inc.
Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel, Universität Innsbruck
Prof. Dr. Ronald Maier, Universität Innsbruck
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Frank, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Prof. Dr. Nicola Henze, Universität Hannover
Prof. Dr. Knut Hinkelmann, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz
Prof. Dr. Thomas Myrach, Universität Bern
Dr. Nenad Stojanovic, FZI
Michael Stollberg, Universität Innsbruck
Dr. York Sure, SAP Research
Prof. Dr. Robert Tolksdorf, Freie Universität Berlin

Contact

Prof. Dr. Martin Hepp
Semantics in Business Information Systems Group
Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI)
University of Innsbruck
Technikerstrasse 21a

A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria

Phone: +43 512 507 6465
eMail: mhepp(at)computer.org (preferred mode of communication)

http://www.heppnetz.de (personal page)
http://sebis.deri.org (my research group)
http://www.deri.at (Digital Enterprise Research Institute Innsbruck)