Dear Ontorulers and others interested,

We have completed the milestone M6 finishing the next deliverables:

• D4.1 State-of-the-art and requirements analysis document for Audi R&D. (Lead by Audi). This deliverable is confidential to the consortium. That is why it is not publicly availaible.

• D5.1. State-of-the-art and requirements analysis. The state-of-the-art of the use of knowledge-based systems in the steel industry, and an analysis of the requirements on different scenarios. (Lead by ArcelorMittal). This deliverable is confidential to the consortium. That is why it is not publicly availaible.

• D6.3.1 Standardization monitor. Describes relevant standardization efforts, and identify standardization opportunities for ONTORULE technology. (Lead by FUB)
• D7.2 Dissemination strategy V1. A description of the ONTORULE dissemination strategy. (Lead by CTIC)
• D8.1 Exploitation plan. The initial report. (Lead by Ontoprise)

Congratulations!

Second Workshop on Transforming and Weaving OWL Ontologies in MDE/MDA-TWOMDE2009

General Information

• At the ACM/IEEE 12th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MoDELS 2009)  http://www.uni-koblenz.de/confsec/twomde2009/ 
• July   25, 2009:  Papers submission
• August 30, 2009:  Author notification
• September 15, 2009:  Submission of camera-ready papers

Aims and Scope

Nevertheless, as MDE spreads, disciplines like model transformation, domain specific languages (DSLs) and traceability become essential in order to support different kinds of models in an model driven environment. Understanding the role of ontology technologies like knowledge representation, automated reasoning, dynamic classification and consistence checking in these fields is crucial to leverage the development of such disciplines. Thus, we highlight the following open questions: How can the scientific and technical results around ontologies, ontology languages and their corresponding reasoning technologies be used fruitfully in MDE? What is the role of ontologies in supporting model transformation or traceability? How can ontologies improve designing DSLs? Are current query languages able to query both kinds of models?

Discussions about these and related questions will be supported by this workshop. TWOMDE2009 aims at providing a forum for discussing the application of different aspects of ontologies to enhance Model Driven Engineering.

The intended audience embraces members of the modeling community with experience or interest in Model Driven Engineering and in Knowledge Representation. Specifically, but not only, the participation of experts in technologies related with UML, MOF, ATL, QVT, RDF or OWL is highly welcome.