*apologies for cross posting*
-CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions: July 25, 2003-

WORKSHOP ON
Regulatory Ontologies and the Modeling of Complaint Regulations

Webpage:
http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa/WORM_CoRE_2003.htm

International Federated Conferences (OTM '03)
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/
November 3-7, 2003
Catania, Sicily, Italy

The benefits of e-commerce cannot be exploited fully by consumers
because of the lack of
trust and confidence in online cross-border purchases.
To achieve fair trading and transparency in commercial
communications and transactions, effective complaint mechanisms
need to be established and involved in e-business activities. This
workshop aims at bringing together academics, researchers,
professionals and industrial practitioners to discuss issues
involved in modeling ontology of cross-border business regulations,
among other things focusing on complaint regulations.

We seek original contributions on the following issues of interest,
but not limited to:

- Representation and organization of regulatory ontologies:
modularization, layering, reusability, maintainability and
extensibility, etc;

- Regulatory metadata standards (legal/leg-XML, ADR/ODR-XML,…);

- Ontologies of: complaints, complaint resolutions, complainants,
evidences, etc;

- Sensitivity on and harmonization of cross-border business
regulations;

- Experiences with projects and applications of regulatory
ontologies;

- Multilingual representation of regulatory ontologies;


Submissions
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We invite papers of no more than 20 pages length (6000 words or
less, Springer style format)describing original completed work, work
in progress, interesting problems or use cases, or trends in this
research area. Submitted papers will be fully refereed based on the
originality and significance of the ideas presented as well as on
technical aspects. Accepted papers will be published by Springer-
Verlag as a part of Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference
on Ontologies, Databases and Applications of SEmantics (ODBASE).

Please email your submission by 12-July-2003 in PDF or Postscript
format to Mustafa Jarrar (mjarrar@...) AND Anne Salaun
(anne.salaun@...).


Important dates
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July 25, 2003 : Deadline for submission of papers
August 15, 2003 : Notification to paper authors
August 30, 2003 : Final version of accepted papers
Nov 4, 2003 : Workshop

Organizers
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- Mustafa Jarrar, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (Contact)
http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/staff/mustafa

-Anne Salaun, e-consult, Belgium,
http://www.e-consult.be/anne.htm

Program Committee
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* Aldo Gangemi, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies,
CNR, Italy.
* Brian Hutchinson , University College Dublin, Ireland
* Christophe Benavent, University of Pau, France
* Gerd Wagner, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
* Harold Boley, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany
* Joost Breuker, LRI-UVA, Amsterdam, Netherlands
* Mariano Fernandez Lopez , Universidad Politecnica de Madrid,
Spain
* Michael Sintek, DFKI, Germany
* Murk Muller, LeXML Project
* Peter Scoggins, FEDMA, Belgium (Tentative)
* Robert Meersman, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
* Rita Temmerman, Erasmushogeschool Brussels, Belgium
* Sophie Louveaux, e-consult, Belgium
* York Sure, Karlsruhe University, Germany
* Yves Poullet , University of Namur, Belgium

Publicity Chairs
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* Luk Vervenne, VUB Ontology Competence Center, Belgium
* Alastair Tempest, FEDMA, Belgium