The importance of modeling the essence of enterprises on a level that abstracts from operational details is increasingly recognized. Two established 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 such as REA (Resources, Events, Agents), the Business Model Canvas, the e3value tool set, VDML and the Enterprise Engineering framework. VMBO is a workshop series with a loyal community and a noticeable critical mass. It is an event centered on high-level discussions and on strengthening the scientific community around its topics. The goals of the VMBO workshop series 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, including, specifically but not exclusively, innovative business model design, service design, systemic trust for value exchanges, ontologies for modelling economic concepts and institutions, and value-aware systems design.
VMBO 2022 included 12 presentations, focusing on research-in-progress but also including software demonstrations. Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to the Program Committee members and all participants for their efforts in discussing the submitted papers.
May 2022 Hans Weigand Tiago Prince Sales Paul Johannesson ● ● ●
Hans Weigand – Tilburg University, the Netherlands Tiago Prince Sales – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Paul Johannesson – Stockholm University, Sweden Program Committee ● Ben Roelens – Open University, The Netherlands ● Bill McCarthy – Michigan State University, USA ● Christian Huemer – TU Wien, Austria ● Cristine Griffo – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy ● Daniele Porello – Laboratory for Applied Ontology – ISTC-CNR, Italy ● Erik Proper – Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg ● Frederik Gailly – Ghent University, Belgium ● Faiza A. Bukhsh – University of Twente, The Netherlands ● Geert Poels – Ghent University, Belgium ● Giancarlo Guizzardi – University of Twente, The Netherlands ● Graham Gal – University of Massachusetts, USA ● Iván Razo-Zapata – Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mexico ● Jaap Gordijn – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands ● João Paulo A. Almeida – Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil ● Joris Hulstijn – Tilburg University, The Netherlands ● Mike Bennett – Hypercube Limited, UK ● Nicola Guarino – Laboratory for Applied Ontology – ISTC-CNR, Italy ● Patricio de Alencar Silva – Federal Rural University of the Semi-arid Region, Brazil ● Pavel Hruby – DXC Technology, Denmark ● Renata S. S. Guizzardi – University of Twente, The Netherlands ● Walter Schwaiger – TU Wien, Austria ● Wim Laurier – Université Saint-Louis, Belgium ● Yao-Hua Tan – Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands