18th International Workshop on Value Modelling and Business Ontologies
University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, 3-4 March 2025
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:
- 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
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:
- 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 202515 Jan 2025 - Notification of acceptance:
03 Feb 202510 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.