[P2P-F] value in a service economy

[Michel Bauwens]

- Understanding the Notion of Value in the Service Economy, March
14-15, 2016, Trento, Italy
- VMBO 2016, March 10-11, 2016, Trento, Italy

Best regards,
Pavel

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Dear all,

due to several requests, the submission deadline for the VMBO 2016
workshop is extended to January 24th, 2016. Please find the updated
CFP below (and help to circulate it). Notice that the acceptance
notification date remains February 2nd. The workshop Web site will be
updated soon.

We would like to take this opportunity to announce another
initiative co-located with VMBO 2016, to be held on March 14-15 in
Trento, in the same place: "Understanding the notion of value in the
service economy". This is an interdisciplinary workshop with no CFP,
just invited presentations and open discussions. See the preliminary
announcement below. Participation will be free, but the space is
limited so early registration will be required. For the time being,
please express your intention to attend by sending an email to
barbara.livieri at unisalento.it.

All the best,

Nicola Guarino, Paul Johannesson, Hans Weigand, Barbara Livieri

*** Preliminary announcement ***

Understanding the Notion of Value in the Service Economy
March 14-15 2016, Trento, Via S. Croce 77

Workshop description:

The service economy is undoubtly posing new challenges to our
understanding of the basics of social interaction, including the very
notion of economic value. Indeed, despite the notion of value has
always raised the interest of economists, and many definitions have
been proposed, it has always remained rather elusive and difficult to
capture. This picture has been complicated by the rise of service
economy, which has shifted the focus from the company's perspective to
the customer's perspective, where value is co-created in the
interaction between the provider and the customer. Value co-creation
is also at the core of the sharing economy, which poses further
challenges to the theory of economic exchange.

But what does it mean to create – or co-create – value? How, when,
where is value created? And what is economic value, after all? What
are the mechanisms of value ascription? Are there differences between
ascribing value to a good or to a service? What about the value of
ownership in the sharing economy? And in general, what does it mean to
ascribe value an object, an action, a commitment, a relationship? How
does value ascription depend on contextual aspects, such as possession
or scarcity of resources? How may multiple value ascriptions related
to different contexts interact, originating a notion of cumulative
value?

These appear to be genuine ontological questions, centered around the
nature of economic value. Adressing these questions is important not
only from the theoretical point of view, but also to build better
computer-based models of complex socio-technical systems, where value
modeling plays a crucial role. Only understanding value mechanisms we
can aim at integrating in a transparent way the business perspective
with the organizational perspective and the process perspective, with
the ultimate goal of enabling a better governance of our society.

So this workshop is primarily addressed to those who are interested in
the ontology of social reality for modeling purposes, but more in
general to anybody who is interested in the foundations of economic
value. The workshop will consist of invited presentations given by
worldwide experts from very different disciplines, including
philosophy, economics, accounting, business management, and
information systems. Participation is open to anybody, but the space
is limited so early registration will be required. For the time being,
please express your intention to attend by sending an email to
barbara.livieri at unisalento.it.

Invited speakers confirmed so far:

Paul Johannesson, Dept of Computer and System Sciences, Stockholm
Paul Maglio, University of California at Merced and IBM Research Center,
Almaden
William E. McCarthy, Dept. of Accounting and Information Systems,
Michigan State University
Olivier Massin, Philosophy Dept, University of Geneva
Kevin Mulligan, Philosophy Dept, University of Geneva
Stephen Pratten, School of Management and Business, King's College, London
Hans Weigand, Tilburg School of Economics and Management
Gloria Zuñiga y Postigo, Philosophy Dept, Ashford University, USA

Organization: ISTC-CNR Laboratory for Applied Ontology and Fondazione
Bruno Kessler, Trento
info: nicola.guarino at cnr.it

*** Updated Call for Papers ***

VMBO2016 (10th International Workshop on Value Modeling and Business
Ontologies)
http://www.loa.istc.cnr.it/vmbo2016/

Call for papers (please, circulate)

Note: Dates changed with respect to the preliminary call for papers

The importance of modeling the essence of enterprises on a level that
abstracts from operational details is increasingly recognized. Two
recognized enterprise modeling approaches are value modeling and
business ontology. Business ontology provides abstract descriptions of
enterprises in their business context, focusing on what is needed to
create and transfer value. Value modeling is a business modeling
approach that focuses on the value objects exchanged in business
networks. Business ontology and value modeling research is conducted
using instruments like REA (Resources, Events, Agents), the e3-value
tool set, VDML and the Enterprise Engineering framework.

The goals of this VMBO workshop are to bring together researchers with
an interest in value modeling and business ontology in order to
present and discuss the current state of enterprise or business
modeling and to identify key areas for further research. The theme of
this year’s workshop is the ontological foundations of value and
service modeling, but other papers are welcome as well.

If you are interested in joining, please submit a paper in the
following categories:

a) full paper (maximum of eight pages) – describe original research
contributions, present problems or challenges encountered in practice
or report industrial cases and practices;
b) short discussion paper (maximum of four pages) – describe your main
ideas. We encourage you to focus on ideas in progress for which you
would like to get feedback from other workshop participants.

Full papers will be published with CEUR proceedings.

We support the submission of VMBO papers (both short and full)
afterwards to a special issue of a journal, e.g. Journal of Applied
Ontology (JAO) or Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting
(JETA), if possible.

Note that papers submitted as short papers 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.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
Service ontology for business
Service-oriented view of business ontology
Enterprise Engineering
Business modeling of service exchanges
Value modeling fundamentals
Value modeling applications and experiences
Business ontology fundamentals
Business ontology applications and experiences
Role of value modeling in enterprise architecture
Ontology-driven enterprise system development
Ontology-aware enterprise systems
Pragmatic Web – theory and applications
Ontological representations of aggregated data
Business ontology / value models for auditing
Business ontology / value models for managerial decision making
Business ontology / value models for strategy exploration
Business ontology / value models for business process management

Important dates
Jan 24, 2016 Paper submission deadline (EXTENDED)
Feb 2, 2016 Notification of acceptance
Feb 20, 2016 Camera ready for full papers
Feb 20, 2015 Registration deadline
March 10-11, 2015 VMBO Workshop, Trento

How to submit
Submit your short paper preferably in PDF format and following the
(Proceedings) style of Springer LNCS on Easychair
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vmbo2016

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