Measuring Ontologies for Value Enhancement 2026 (MOVE2026): From a Successful Workshop to the Post-Workshop Phase

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Published: 26 September 2026

Measuring Ontologies for Value Enhancement 2026 (MOVE2026) concluded on 18 September 2026 after three days of presentations, spirited discussions, challenging questions, and bold ideas. The workshop brought together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines and created the kind of open exchange that MOVE was established to encourage.

We are grateful to everyone who presented their work, chaired sessions, contributed to discussions, and helped make MOVE2026 a success.

We are also particularly grateful to our colleagues at Henley Business School, University of Reading, and the Informatics Research Centre (IRC) for their support and participation. As MOVE2026 now enters its post-workshop phase, during which revised papers will undergo further peer review and preparation for the proceedings, we are pleased to strengthen this collaboration further.

Professor Kecheng Liu, Professor of Applied Informatics at Henley Business School and founder and Honorary Director of the Informatics Research Centre, and Dr Qi (Lecky) Li, Lecturer in Business Informatics at Henley Business School, are joining the Program Committee leadership for this phase.

Professor Liu’s work spans business informatics, information systems, digital strategy and leadership, and organisational semiotics. Dr Li’s research includes digital leadership, organisational transformation, digital competences, business informatics, intelligent data analytics, and organisational semiotics.

We are delighted that Professor Liu and Dr Li will join us in this next phase of MOVE2026, and we look forward to further collaboration between the MOVE community and the Informatics Research Centre.

General Workshop Chairs

Simon Polovina
Sheffield Hallam University and Simile Logics Limited, United Kingdom

Rubina Polovina
Systems Affairs, Toronto, Canada

Program Committee Chairs

Simon Polovina
Sheffield Hallam University and Simile Logics Limited, United Kingdom

Rubina Polovina
Systems Affairs, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

David Jakobsen
Aalborg University, Denmark

Kecheng Liu
Henley Business School, University of Reading, United Kingdom
Founder and Honorary Director, Informatics Research Centre (IRC)

Qi (Lecky) Li
Henley Business School, University of Reading, United Kingdom

Program Committee

Aldo de Moor — CommunitySense, Netherlands
Anders W. Tell — Department of Computer and System Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden
Dominic Blood — Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, United Kingdom
Iain Stalker — Greater Manchester Business School, University of Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Jamie Caine — Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
Julian Bruce — Euclid University, Washington, DC, USA
Mahpara Saleem — Mahaz Tech Enterprise Limited, Manchester, United Kingdom
Martin Wheatman — University of Reading, United Kingdom, and enguage.org
Matt Baxter — TGW Logistics, Austria
Nicolas Figay — LIRIS / Airbus Defence & Space, France
Oluwaseun Iyiola — Lapace Services UK Ltd, United Kingdom
Parisa Ghodous — LIRIS / Airbus Defence & Space, France
Stewart Simpson — ClearTelligence, United Kingdom
Timothy French — Cyber & Info Sec Horizon, United Kingdom
Suzana Stojakovic-Celustka — Infoset, Zagreb, Croatia

Peer-Review Process

MOVE2026 uses a single-blind peer-review process conducted in two distinct phases.

Pre-workshop peer review. Before MOVE2026 workshop, submitted papers, presentations, or extended abstracts were reviewed by at least three reviewers. The reviews were then considered by the Program Committee Chairs as part of the decision on acceptance for presentation at the workshop.

Following the workshop, authors are invited to revise and extend their papers in response to the original reviews and to the questions, comments, and discussions that took place during MOVE2026.

Post-workshop peer review. Selected and revised papers will undergo a separate second round of peer review for the proceedings. Each revised paper will be considered by at least three reviewers and at least two Program Committee Chairs. Depending on the subject matter and the expertise required, additional qualified reviewers may also be invited to participate.

The Program Committee Chairs will consider the reviews and determine whether additional revisions are required before papers are prepared for inclusion in the proceedings.

Across the post-workshop review stage, each revised paper will therefore normally receive input from at least five or six reviewers and Program Committee Chairs.

All papers intended for publication will also undergo an originality check using iThenticate, in accordance with the MOVE2026 review plan.

Important Dates

10 January 2027
Deadline for submission of revised papers

28 February 2027
Completion of the post-workshop peer-review process

4 April 2027
Deadline for authors to complete final revisions

Following completion of the final revisions, the proceedings materials will be prepared for submission to Springer in April 2027.