FBM 2019: 5th International Workshop on Fact Based Modelling Rhodes, Greece, October 24-25, 2019 |
Conference website | http://www.otmconferences.org/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fbm2019 |
Abstract registration deadline | July 7, 2019 |
Submission deadline | July 15, 2019 |
FBM 2019: 5th International Workshop on Fact Based Modelling
Conceptual modelling and data semantics by combining the powerful principles of logic and natural language
Rhodes, Greece, October 21-25, 2019
Proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series
FBM and its contexts
After four successful Fact Based Modelling (FBM) workshops in Rhodes (October 2015-2017) and Malta (2018), we set out to explore, consolidate and further fact-based Conceptual Modelling and Conceptual Thinking as it relates to a broad range of fields, including business informatics, computer science, data science, and knowledge engineering. FBM has been fruitfully applied in areas like business analysis, database design, business rule modelling, metadata management, knowledge engineering, transaction-based BPM, law modelling, data governance and requirements engineering. Exciting new developments and possible application areas include agile legal and regulations management and deployment, smart contracting/blockchain, and integrating AI with information/data infrastructures (for example, autonomous vehicles and IoT).
About FBM
Fact Based Modelling is an approach to information and data structuring that combines the merits of logic and natural language in a semantics-oriented, stakeholder-centric, technology-independent way. It includes full-blown verbalisation patterns and explicitly integrates conceptual modelling at instance level (facts) and type level (fact type). It is effectively used at the core of practical abstraction. FBM is supported by fully developed, formally backed modelling techniques that have been extensively used and tested in practice. Perhaps more importantly, it represents a way of thinking that helps us understand and deal with the complexities of analysing and describing the intricate and diverse information structures that are at the core of our information economy, our organisations, and of the diverse and ubiquitous IT-supported communication and data processing therein.
Call for Papers
We invite contributions from all areas of application, both from academia and industry, provided they can be explicitly related to some aspect of conceptual modeling or Fact Based Thinking. We hope to initiate exchange and discussion of applied issues and approaches concerning data, language, information, rules, and knowledge, combined with more theoretical perspectives. Possible topics and application areas include (but are not limited to):
Application domains
- Data semantics
- Data governance
- Data quality
- Data/Information management
- Data/information architecture
- Law & regulations modelling
- Smart contracts
- Blockchain specification
- Compliance
- Big Data
- Business Intelligence
- Enterprise Engineering
- Model Based Development
- Requirements engineering
- Advanced database design
- Blockchain, smart contracts and distributed ledger
Purpose specific modelling tools & techniques
- Data/information modelling
- Enterprise Modelling & Engineering (e.g. DEMO, GEA, TOGAF, etc.)
- Business Process Modelling (e.g. S-BPM, BPMN)
- Ontology Modelling
- Domain Modelling
- Meta-modelling
- Business rule modelling
- Business vocabularies
- Tools and environments for model/rule management
Foundations:
- Fact orientation
- Philosophical foundations of modelling
- Logic
- (Controlled) natural language
- Organisational Linguistics
- Linguistics (syntax, semantics, pragmatics; lexicology)
- Verbalisation & visualisation
- Knowledge representation
- Cognition
- Foundational ontologies
FBM tradition
Fact Based Modeling has been used successfully in industry for over 35 years, and is taught in universities around the world. The fact based modeling approach comprises a family of closely related languages and methods, the oldest being NIAM (Natural language Information Analysis), followed by Object-Role Modeling (ORM), Fully Communication Oriented Information Modeling (FCO-IM), Deploying Ontology-Grounded Methods and Applications (DOGMA), Grounding Ontologies in Social Processes by Language (GOSPL) and Cognition enhanced NIAM (cogNIAM). An important addition to the family of fact based approaches was the adoption in 2007 of the well-known Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Rules (SBVR) proposal by the Object Management Group (OMG). FBM is also an integral part of the DEMO approach to transaction-oriented Enterprise Engineering.
Attendees from industry and academia alike have the opportunity to update and deepen their knowledge and expertise of FBM and its many applications, as well as attending any of the other workshops and conferences of OnTheMove 2019. Attendees less familiar with fact based modelling and thinking have an ideal opportunity to learn about FBM and related approaches from world experts in the area, and evaluate its benefits.
Workshop co-chairs:
- Peter Bollen, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
- Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, HAN UAS and Radboud University, the Netherlands
- Robert Meersman, T.U. Graz, Austria
- Maurice Nijssen, PNA Group, The Netherlands
Important Dates:
- Abstract Submission Deadline: July 7th 2019
- Full Paper Submission Deadline: July 15th 2019
- Acceptance Notification: August 20th 2019
- Camera Ready Due: August 30th 2019 (firm deadline)
- Registration Due: August 30th 2019 (firm deadline)
- Workshops: October 21st - 25th
- Second Camera Ready Upload (optional): December 1st 2019
Submission Guidelines:
Submitted papers will be evaluated by at least three program committee members, based on practical relevance, contribution to durable integrated modeling, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. Submissions must be in English. The first page should begin with the paper title followed by author names and affiliations and an abstract of at most 150 words. Papers may discuss practical experience and/or academic research, should be of at most 5,000 words (excluding references), and should not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format. Typically, standard papers are allocated 45 minutes for presentation (including discussion). Accepted papers will be included in the Springer proceedings.
Only electronic submissions in Adobe PDF format are acceptable. Abstracts and papers should be submitted to the following site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fbm2019
The proceedings will be published in Springer’s LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) series. The final paper format is the Springer LNCS style, as described at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Failure to commit to presentation at the workshop automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings.