20.450 cfp: "Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling"

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 20, No. 450.
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         Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:25:21 +0000
         From: "Guizzardi, G. (Giancarlo)" <guizzardi_at_loa-cnr.it>
         Subject: CFP: Journal of Applied Ontology - Special Issue on
"Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling"

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Journal of Applied Ontology: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Ontological
Analysis and Conceptual Modeling
http://www.applied-ontology.org/
IOS Press (Editors-in-Chief: Nicola Guarino and Mark A. Musen)

Special Issue on

**** ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS FOR CONCEPTUAL MODELING ****

Expected publication: Winter 2007
Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2007

GUEST EDITORS OF SPECIAL ISSUE
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Computer Science Department, UFES, Brazil &
    Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Trento, Italy
Terry Halpin, Neumont University, South Jordan, Utah, USA

OBJECTIVES OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUE

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the role played by
formal ontology, and more generally, by areas such as philosophy, logics,
cognitive sciences and linguistics in the development of theoretical
foundations for conceptual modeling in computer science. As it has been
shown in a large number of recent publications, so-called foundational
ontologies such as BWW, GFO, DOLCE, UFO, BFO, and Chisholm=92s have been
successfully applied to the evaluation of conceptual modeling languages
and frameworks (e.g., UML, ORM, ER) and to the development of engineering
tools (e.g., methodological guidelines, modeling profiles, design
patterns) that contribute to the theory and practice of conceptual=
  modelling.

The purpose of this special issue is to collect innovative and
high-quality research contributions regarding the role played by the
aforementioned areas to the theoretical foundations of conceptual
modeling.

This issue should be of interest of several academic communities,
including those working on database design, requirements engineering,
knowledge engineering, enterprise modeling, agent and object orientation,
information systems, software engineering (in particular domain
engineering), natural-language processing, business rules and model-driven
architectures.
We thus solicit contributions in several areas related to Ontological
Foundations for Conceptual Modeling. Topics of interest include:

-- Philosophical and Cognitive Foundations for Conceptual Modeling
-- Ontology-Based Conceptual Modeling: Methodologies, Tools, and Case
Studies
-- Psychological Experiments Evaluating the Cognitive Adequacy of
Conceptual Modeling Primitives
-- Ontological Analysis of Existing Conceptual Models (including Reference
Models)
-- Role of Ontology-driven Conceptual Modelling for Semantic
Interoperability
-- Ontological Design Patterns
-- Linguistic theories and Natural-Language Semantics in Conceptual
Modeling
-- Formal Semantics of Conceptual Modeling Languages
-- Comparison between existing Foundational Ontologies for the purpose of
Conceptual Modeling

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submissions, that will undergo a peer-reviewing process, must be sent
electronically through the journal's website (http://www.applied-
ontology.org/) by the deadline listed below. Detailed instructions for
authors are available from the same website.

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Received on Thu Feb 15 2007 - 07:13:38 EST