Proceedings of the International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE 2005)

These proceedings contain the accepted papers of the International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE), held in September 20th, 2005 in Enschede, The Netherlands. This workshop, organized in the context of the 9th IEEE Enterprise Distributed Object Computing (EDOC) - The Enterprise Computing Conference, can be considered as a second edition of the MDSW (Model-Driven Semantic Web) Workshop held at the EDOC 2004 in California, USA. However, besides the specific topics of Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) and the Semantic Web, the objectives of VORTE are: (i) to promote the discussion of the role of ontological research for enterprise engineering; (ii) bring together researchers from areas such as philosophical ontology, business process modelling, information modelling, software and domain engineering, and rule-based systems to support the interdisciplinary debate that this topic requires.