Masterclass in Ontology Engineering
On Monday January 13th and Tuesday January 14th, Nicola Guarino and Giancarlo Guizzardi will teach a Masterclass in Ontology Engineering.
Monday January 13th
- What are ontologies and what are they good for: Applied Ontology and ontological analysis
- The ontological level
- OntoUML part 1 (OntoClean, types and taxonomy structures)
- Foundational ontologies: Dolce and UFO
Tuesday January 14th
- OntoUML part 2: relationships and truth-making
- The OntoUML modelling tool (patterns, anti patterns, validation via visual simulation)
- Applications and exercises: services, contracts, economic transactions
- Hands-on session
Learn From The Leaders:
Wednesday January 15th
You can find the program of Learn From The Leaders industry event on https://www.leadingpractice.com/about/learn-from-the-leaders/
VMBO 2020
Thursday January 16th
| Start | Title |
| 8:30 | Registration & Welcome |
| 9:00 | Keynote: Ontology-Driven Data Analytics Guido Geerts |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break |
| Session: Data Ecosystems | |
| 10:30 | Data Ecosystems – Fuelling the Digital Age Erik Proper |
| 10:45 | Privacy Value Modeling: A Gateway to Ethical Big Data Handling Syeda Sohail, Johannes Krabbe, Patrício Silva and Faiza Bukhsh |
| 11:00 | Architecture and Value Analysis of a Blockchain-Based Electronic Health Record Permission Management System Michaël Verdonck and Geert Poels |
| 11:15 | Ontological Architecture for Knowledge Management – Applied to Global Parts Logistics (IBM) Sander Nijbakker Slides presentation: Nijbakker_presentation.pdf |
| 11:30 | Panel Discussion |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break |
| Session: Enterprise Modeling | |
| 13:00 | Digital Enterprise Modelling — Opportunities and Challenges Erik Proper |
| 13:15 | Why a value-oriented process modelling concept is needed Mark von Rosing and Georg Etzel |
| 13:30 | Meta-study of enterprise modelling – why and how Mijalche Santa and Geert Poels |
| 13:45 | e-GPS – The need for an Enterprise Navigation System Hans-Jürgen Scheruhn and Mark von Rosing |
| 14:00 | Panel Discussion |
| 14:30 | Coffee Break |
| Session: Enterprise Architecture | |
| 14:45 | Leading the Practice in Layered Enterprise Architecture Simon Polovina, Mark von Rosing and Georg Etzel |
| 15:00 | The Need and Requirements to a Strategy Ontology Jamie Caine and Mark von Rosing |
| 15:15 | An ontology of IS artefacts – some questions Hans Weigand, Paul Johannesson and Birger Andersson |
| 15:30 | How to go about Enterprise Standardization Thomas Olsen and Mark von Rosing Slides presentation: Olsen & von Rosing_presentation.pdf |
| 15:45 | Panel Discussion |
| 16:15 | Coffee Break |
| Session: Digital Transformation | |
| 16:30 | Introduction to the Digital Transformation Lifecycle Mark von Rosing and Georg Etzel |
| 16:45 | Digital Transformation of Manufacturing Record Books – An Ontology-Based Case Study Bjørn Jæger and Beni Ruef Slides presentation: Jaeger & Ruef_presentation.pdf |
| 17:00 | Extending e3tools to Assess Adoption Chain and Co-Innovation Risks Alejandro Arreola González, Jens Wittenzellner and Helmut Krcmar Slides presentation: Gonzalez et al_presentation |
| 17:15 | Productization of Business Models by Affordance Anders W. Tell |
| 17:30 | Panel Discussion |
| 18:00 | End |
Keynote: Guido Geerts
Title: Ontology-Driven Data Analytics
Abstract: In recent years, “data analytics” has emerged as a key enterprise application. Data analytics projects require an integrated set of steps (and skills) including identifying data; profiling, cleaning, restructuring, and integrating data; enriching data; and dashboard development for generating insights. In this presentation, we use these different steps to explore how data analytics can benefit from ontologies in general, and the REA model specifically. Examples of topics to be discussed include the definition of REA-structured STAR schemas (data organization) and REA-driven analytics.
Biography: Guido L. Geerts is professor of accounting and EY Scholar at the Lerner College of Business, University of Delaware, where he teaches accounting information systems and big data technologies. He received a PhD in accounting information systems from the Free University of Brussels, Belgium in 1993. Guido has published more than twenty articles in accounting and information systems journals and he has received numerous teaching, research, and service awards including the 2015 University of Delaware’s Excellence in Teaching Award and the 2018 American Accounting Association Outstanding Service Award.
conference dinner
19:00 AT:
VICTOR Bozar Café
Ravensteinstraat 23
1000 Brussel
www.victor23.be
Friday January 17th
| Start | Title | |
| 8:30 | Welcome | |
| 9:00 | Keynote: Single Version of the Truth in Systems with Multiple Agents Mamoru Kaneko | |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break | |
| Session: Value Networks | ||
| 10:30 | Governance in peer-to-peer networks is a design problem Fadime Kaya, Jaap Gordijn, Roel Wieringa and Marc Makkes | |
| 10:45 | Defining sharing economy, marketplace and other service platform related concepts: A reference ontology approach Thomas Derave, Geert Poels and Frederik Gailly | |
| 11:00 | The Value Management Platform and ArchiMate – Towards an Integration? An Illustrative Example for Value Stream Mapping Geert Poels, Kathleen Nollet, Ben Roelens, Henk de Man and Theodoor van Donge | |
| 11:15 | Modelling services of cooperatives of autonomous workers to create a space for autonomy and security Samuel Desguin, Wim Laurier | |
| 11:30 | Panel Discussion | |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break | |
| Session: Formal Semantics | ||
| 13:00 | An Ontological Account of the Action Theory of Economic Exchanges Daniele Porello, Giancarlo Guizzardi and Tiago Prince, Glenda Amaral and Nicola Guarino | |
| 13:15 | Towards a Reference Ontology of Money: Monetary Objects, Currencies and Related Concepts Glenda Amaral, Tiago Prince Sales, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Daniele Porello and Nicola Guarino | |
| 13:30 | Formalising Commitments using the Event Calculus Joost de Kruijff and Hans Weigand | |
| 13:45 | State Abstractions for Value Chains in Phenomenological Foundational Ontology Tomas Jonsson and Matts Rimfors Slides presentation: Jonsson & Rimfors_presentation.pdf | |
| 14:00 | Panel Discussion | |
| 14:30 | Coffee Break | |
| Session: Decentralised Accounting | ||
| 15:00 | Market Information Systems based Reporting Ivars Blums and Hans Weigand | |
| 15:15 | Traditional Accounting with Decentralised Ledger Technology Wim Laurier, Walter Schwaiger and Simon Polovina | |
| 15:30 | Expressing Contracts and Equity using REA Semantics Mike Bennett | |
| 15:45 | Augmenting Value Stream Mapping by Possession, Ownership and Availability Pavel Hruby and Christian Scheller Slides presentation: Hruby & Scheller_presentation.pdf | |
| 16:00 | Metaphysics of Internal Controls Graham Gal | |
| 16:15 | Panel Discussion | |
| 16:45 | Closing Session |
Keynote: Mamoru Kaneko
Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Title: Single Version of the Truth in Systems with Multiple Agents
Abstract: The single-version-of-the-truth paradigm (SVTP) has been regarded as basic for a study of business ontologies, though it is quite widespread in academia, taking different forms in different fields. Its essential part is that the truth uniquely exists and is reached by expressing all elements precisely, which implies that a departure from the truth is caused by imprecise descriptions and/or information. In social sciences including multiple agents, it disregards characteristics specific to each agent, since more precise descriptions of elements leave out differences of agents. This may lose essential parts of social phenomena, since different agents have different backgrounds/histories and different values. The study of business ontologies is not free from this problem as far as human agents are involved as final receivers of processed information. In this talk, I start with a Japanese comic story called the “Konnyaku Mondo” and discuss a few variants of SVTP in game theory and logic. Taking these and various kinds of bounded rationalities, I argue that it would be more natural to admit different characteristics in different subjects than to seek for the single truth. We conclude that it would be useful to develop business ontologies taking final human users from different social backgrounds.
Biography: Mamoru Kaneko studied social engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology and obtained the Dr degree of science in 1979. After it, he taught at University of Tsukuba, Hitotsubashi University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and Waseda University. He has been working on game theory, economics, and logic; his primary concerns are how to understand individuals, society, and the world. He was elected as fellows of Econometric Society and the Society of Advancement of Economic Theory. The latest publication is: “Expected utility theory with probability grids and preference formation”, Economic Theory (2019).