VMBO 2025

18th International Workshop on Value Modelling and Business Ontologies

University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, 3-4 March 2025

Registrations to VMBO 2025 are now open!
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Registration for VMBO costs € 175 and includes the two masterclasses and the social dinner on Monday, 3 March 2025.

You can pay via iDEAL, debit card, credit card, and PayPal.

SIKS PhD students who only want to attend the masterclasses can register by emailing Renée at office@siks.nl

The number of spaces is limited and will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.

Call for Papers

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 because of the advent of complex information systems which rely on robust and coherent, formal representations of their subject matter. 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 Business Model Canvas, the e3value toolset, the Value Delivery Modeling Language (VDML), and the Enterprise Engineering framework.

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

Masterclass

In collaboration with the research school SIKS , the first day of the workshop (3 March 2025) will take the form of a masterclass on Digital Business Ecosystems and on Data Semantics, Explanation and Interoperability. Presentations will be delivered by Roel Wieringa (Value Engineers) and Giancarlo Guizzardi (University of Twente), respectively.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Important Dates

Submission Guidelines

We solicit two types of submissions:

Submissions should:

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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.