RuleML 2009
3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability
November 5-7 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
http://2009.ruleml.org/
co-located with the 12th Business Rules Forum
----------------------------
**********************************************************************
***** Latest News ******
** Submission Deadline - June 28th **
** ------------------ **
* Deadline, June 28th for full, short and Challenge demo papers **
* Keynotes and special talks by **
* Sandro Hawke about W3C RIF, **
* Donald Chapin about OMG SBVR **
* Paul Vincent about CEP **
* Jans Aßmann (FranzInc. CEO) **
* RuleML in the top 100 venues for impact factor in CiteSeerX **
* Forthcoming RuleML special journal issue **
* Proceedings published in Springer LNCS **
* Tutorials about W3C RIF, Drools, Business Process Compliance **
* New categories in the Challenge with prestigious prizes **
* Rules standards session, W3C RIF workshop, lunch panel on Web Rules*
* Student grants of the value of up to $1000 plus free registration **
* 20% RuleML-2009 Partner discounts - see registration page **
**********************************************************************
This year, the 3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and
Interoperability (RuleML-2009) takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA,
collocated with the 12th Business Rules Forum, the world's largest Business
Rules event.
The International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability has
evolved from an annual series of international workshops since 2002,
international conferences in 2005 and 2006, and international symposia since
2007, and is now in the top 100 venues for impact factor (71):
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/stats/venues.
Supported by
===================================================================
W3C, OMG, ACM, AAAI, ECCAI, IAAIL, ACM, Belgian Business Rules Forum
MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, EPTS, BPM Forum Belgium
Sponsored by
===================================================================
Franz Inc
NICTA (National ICT Australia) Ltd
Corporate Semantic Web
Logic Programming Associated Ltd
ruleCore
JBoss
Modelsystems Ltd
(sponsoring opportunities: http://www.defeasible.org/ruleml2009/sponsors)
===================================================================
[Apologies for multiple postings]
Call for Papers
RuleML 2009
3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability
November 5-7 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
http://2009.ruleml.org/
co-located with the 12th Business Rules Forum
----------------------------
**********************************************************************
***** Latest News ******
** Submission Deadline (extended) June 28th **
* **
* Keynote by Sandro Hawke, W3C RIF - The Future of Rule Interchange**
* New categories in the Challenge with prestigious prizes **
* Rules standards session, W3C RIF workshop, lunch panel on Web Rules*
* Student grants of the value of up to $1000 plus free registration **
**********************************************************************
Supported by
===================================================================
W3C, OMG, ACM, AAAI, ECCAI, IAAIL, ACM, Belgian Business Rules Forum
MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, EPTS, BPM Forum Belgium
Sponsored by
===================================================================
Franz Inc
NICTA (National ICT Australia) Ltd
Corporate Semantic Web
Logic Programming Associated Ltd
ruleCore
JBoss
Modelsystems Ltd
===================================================================
Overview and Aim
===================================================================
The International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability has
evolved from an annual series of international workshops since 2002,
international conferences in 2005 and 2006, and international symposia since
2007. This year, the 3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and
Interoperability (RuleML-2009) takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA,
collocated with the 12th Business Rules Forum, the world's largest Business
Rules event. RuleML-2009 is devoted to practical distributed rule
technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for
rules (inter)operating in, e.g., the Semantic Web, Multi-Agent Systems,
Event-Driven Architectures, and Service-Oriented Applications.
The main goal of RuleML-2009 is to stimulate the cooperation and
interoperability between business and research, by bringing together rule
system providers, participants in rule standardization efforts, open source
communities, practitioners, and researchers. The concept of the symposium
has also advanced continuously in the face of extremely rapid progress in
practical rule and event processing technologies. As a result, RuleML-2009
will feature hands-on demonstrations and challenges alongside a wide range
of thematic tracks, and thus will be an exciting venue to exchange new ideas
and experiences on all issues related to the engineering, management,
integration, interoperation and interchange of rules in open distributed
environments such as the Web.
Conference Theme
===================================================================
This year, we particularly welcome submissions that address applications of
Web rule technologies for business and information systems. We invite you to
share your ideas, results, and experiences: as an industry practitioner,
rule system provider, technical expert and developer, rule user or
researcher, exploring foundations, developing systems and applications, or
using rule-based systems. We invite high-quality submissions related to (but
not limited to) one or more of the following topics:
Track Topics
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rule Transformation and Extraction
- Transformation and extraction with rule standards, such as SBVR, RIF and
OCL
- Extraction of rules from code
- Transformation and extraction in the context of frameworks such as KDM
(Knowledge Discovery meta-model)
- Extraction of rules from natural language
- Transformation or rules from one dialect into another
Rules and Uncertainty
- Languages for the formalization of uncertainty rules
- Probabilistic, fuzzy and other rule frameworks for reasoning with
uncertain or incomplete information
- Handling inconsistent or disparate rules using uncertainty
- Uncertainty extensions of event processing rules, business rules,
reactive rules, causal rules, derivation rules, association rules, or
transformation rules
Rules and Norms
- Methodologies for modeling regulations using both ontologies and rules
- Defeasibility: modeling rule exceptions and priority relations among
rule
- The relationship between rules and legal argumentation schemes
- Rule language requirements for the "isomorphic" modeling of legislation
- Rule based inference mechanism for legal reasoning
- E-contracting and automated negotiations with rule-based declarative
strategies
Rule-based Game AI
- Rule-based movement, decision making, strategies, behavior design
- Rule-based environmental programming, virtual reality
- Rules for multi-agent/character games
- Rules for serious games
- Rule-based agent design
Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules
- Reaction rule languages and engines (production rules, ECA rules, logic
event action formalisms, vocabularies/ontologies)
- State management approaches and frameworks
- Concurrency control and scalability
- Event and action definition, detection, consumption, termination,
lifecycle management
- Dynamic rule-based workflows and intelligent event processing (rule-
based CEP)
- Non-functional requirements, use of annotations, metadata to capture
those
- Design time and execution time aspects of rule-based (Semantic) Business
Processes Modeling and Management
- Practical and business aspects of rule-based (Semantic) Business Process
Management (business scenarios, case studies, use cases etc.)
Rules and Cross Industry Standards
- Rules in Current Industry Standards, including:
- XBRL: Extensible Business Reporting Language
- MISMO: Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Org
- FIXatdl: FIX Algorithmic Trading Definition Language
- FpML: Financial products Markup Language
- HL7: Health Level 7
- Acord: Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development
(Insurance Industry)
- Rules for Governance, Risk, & Compliance (GRC), e.g., rules for internal
audit, SOX compliance, enterprise risk management (ERM), operational
risk, etc
- Rules and Corporate Actions
General Rule Topics
- Rules and ontologies
- Execution models, rule engines, and environments
- From rules to FOL to modal logics
- Rule-based reasoning with non-monotonic negation, modalities, deontic,
temporal, priority, scoped or other rule qualification
- Rule-based default reasoning with default logic, defeasible logic, and
answer set programming
- Graphical processing, modelling and rendering of rules
- Rules in Semantic Web Technologies
- Miscellaneous rule topics
Case studies, experience reports, and industrial problem statements are
particularly encouraged.
RuleML-2009 Challenge
===================================================================
The RuleML-2009 Demo Challenge is one of the highlights of RuleML-2009. We
invite submissions of demo papers and demos where rules are used in
interesting and practically relevant ways to, e.g., derive useful
information, transform knowledge, provide decision support and provide
automated rule-based monitoring, enforcement, validation or management of
the behavioural logic of the application. The Challenge offers participants
the chance to demonstrate their commercial and open source tools, use cases,
and applications. Submissions are solicited in these categories:
- Benchmarks (test cases, suites) with evaluations of (their own, other)
rule engines and/or rule translators, possibly drawing on our growing
pool at http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw
- Case studies (use cases) implemented via engines/translators employing
rule standards such as RIF, RuleML, CLIPS, Common Logic, SBVR, and ISO
Prolog.
We welcome all demos about tools and applications using rules such as:
- Derivation rules, including query and integrity rules
- ECA rules, including production rules, reaction rules, and rule-based
CEP languages
Authors of demo are also invited to submit a Challenge demo paper for
publications in the conference proceedings, see the submission section below
for submission details.
Prizes will be awarded to the two best applications from each category. All
accepted demos will be presented in a special Challenge Session. A
submission to the RuleML Challenge has to meet the requirement that
declarative rules explicitly play a central role in the application.
Basically this means that:
Rules are explicitly represented in a declarative format and they are
decoupled from the application (rather than being compiled or hard-coded
into the application logic). The demo should preferably (but not
necessarily) be embedded into a web-based or distributed environment so that
there will be a need for features related to the RuleML conference topics,
as listed in the call for papers. For more details and the demo site web
link please consult the RuleML-2009 Challenge website:
http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw
Student Grant Awards
===================================================================
Two travel grants are available to students who are authors or co-authors of
papers or demos accepted for presentation at the symposium. The grants
include free registration and cover travel expenses up to 1000 dollars.
Conference Language
===================================================================
The official language of the conference will be English.
Submission
===================================================================
Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance
and technical rigor in the field, experience reports and show case/use case
demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies
or applications in distributed environments. Papers must be in English and
may be submitted at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2009
as:
Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings)
Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings)
RuleML-2009 Challenge Demo Paper + Show Cases (3-5 pages in the proceedings)
Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). To ensure high quality,
submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on
originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.
Authors are requested to upload the abstracts of their papers before June 9,
2009 and to upload their complete papers by June 16, 2009. The selected
papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series along with a CD with demo software and
documents. The best paper from all submissions will be determined by the PC
and a Best Paper Award will be handed over at the Symposium by a Sponsor.
All submissions must be done electronically. A selection of revised papers
will be resubmitted to a special issue of a journal.
Submissions to the RuleML Challenge 2009 consist of a demo paper of 3-5
pages, describing the demo show case, and a link to more information about
the demo/show case, e.g. a project site, an online demonstration, a
presentation about the demonstration, or a download site for the
demonstration. In case of product demos, the link can be password-protected:
please submit a password for anonymous login from any Web browser, giving us
the permission to pass the password on to 3 PC members. The submissions
should satisfy the minimal requirements defined in the topics of interest
and preferably exhibit some of the additional desiderata. The more
desiderata are met by an application, the higher the score will be. The
demos will be evaluated by the RuleML-2009 Program Committee and prizes will
be awarded to the two best applications, sponsored by the RuleML Inc.
non-profit organization.
Review Process
===================================================================
The submitted papers will pass the blind review process. At least three
members of the Program Committee will review each submission.
Important Dates:
===================================================================
Paper Submission deadline (extended): June 28, 2009
Notification of acceptance: July 18, 2009
Camera ready due: August 9, 2009
Symposium dates: November 5-7, 2009
RuleML Challenge: November 5, 2009
Conference Venue
===================================================================
RuleML-2009 will take place at the Bellagio in Las Vegas collocated with the
Business Rules Forum.
Keynote Speakers
===================================================================
- Sandro Hawke, W3C RIF Team Contact
The Future of Rule Interchange
- TBA
Programme Committee
===================================================================
General Chair
--------------------
Adrian Paschke, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Program Chairs
--------------------
Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia
John Hall, Model Systems, UK
Liaison Chair
--------------------
Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Publicity Chair
--------------------
William Langley, NRC-IRAP, Canada
Track Chairs
Rule Transformation and Extraction
--------------------
Erik Putrycz, Canada
Mark Linehan, IBM, USA
Rules and Uncertainty
--------------------
Matthias Nickles, University of Bath, UK
Davide Sottara, University Bologna, Italy
Rules and Norms
--------------------
Thomas Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
Antonino Rotolo, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy
Rule-based Game AI
--------------------
Benjamin Craig, National Research Council, Canada
Weichang Du, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules
--------------------
Alex Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd., UK
Adrian Paschke, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Rules and Cross Industry Standards
--------------------
Tracy Bost, Valocity, USA
Robert Golan, DBMind, USA
RuleML Challenge
--------------------
Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Ching-Long Yeh, Tatung University, Taiwan
Wolfgang Laun, Thales Rail Signalling Solutions GesmbH, Austria
Program Committee Members
--------------------
http://2009.ruleml.org/pc
RuleML 2009 Sponsors
===================================================================
Silver Sponsors
--------------------
NICTA (National ICT Australia) Ltd
Corporate Semantic Web
Franz Inc
Bronze Sponsors
--------------------
Logic Programming Associated Ltd
ruleCore
jBoss
Modelsystems Ltd.
RuleML 2009 Partners
===================================================================
W3C, World Wide Web Consortium
OMG, Object Management Group
ACM, Association for Computer Machinery
AAAI
ECCAI
International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law
ACM SigMis
ACM SigArt
Belgian Business Rules Forum
MIT Sloan CIO Symposium
EPTS, Event Processing Technical Society
BPM Forum Belgium
October Rules Fest
SKG2009 5th International Conference on Semantic, Knowledge and Grid
RR-2009 3rd International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems
[Apologies for multiple postings]
Call for Papers
RuleML 2009
3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability
November 5-7 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
http://2009.ruleml.org/
co-located with the 12th Business Rules Forum
----------------------------
Latest news
* Student grants of the value of up to $1000 plus free registration
* Keynote by Sandro Hawke, W3C RIF Contact - The Future of Rule Interchange
* New categories in the Challenge with prestigious prizes
* Rules standards session, W3C RIF workshop, and joint BRF/RuleML lunch
panel on Web Rules
Sponsored by
===================================================================
Franz Inc
NICTA (National ICT Australia) Ltd
Corporate Semantic Web
Logic Programming Associated Ltd
ruleCore
JBoss
Modelsystems Ltd
===================================================================
Overview and Aim
===================================================================
The International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability has
evolved from an annual series of international workshops since 2002,
international conferences in 2005 and 2006, and international symposia since
2007. This year, the 3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and
Interoperability (RuleML-2009) takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA,
collocated with the 12th Business Rules Forum, the world's largest Business
Rules event. RuleML-2009 is devoted to practical distributed rule
technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for
rules (inter)operating in, e.g., the Semantic Web, Multi-Agent Systems,
Event-Driven Architectures, and Service-Oriented Applications.
The main goal of RuleML-2009 is to stimulate the cooperation and
interoperability between business and research, by bringing together rule
system providers, participants in rule standardization efforts, open source
communities, practitioners, and researchers. The concept of the symposium
has also advanced continuously in the face of extremely rapid progress in
practical rule and event processing technologies. As a result, RuleML-2009
will feature hands-on demonstrations and challenges alongside a wide range
of thematic tracks, and thus will be an exciting venue to exchange new ideas
and experiences on all issues related to the engineering, management,
integration, interoperation and interchange of rules in open distributed
environments such as the Web.
Conference Theme
===================================================================
This year, we particularly welcome submissions that address applications of
Web rule technologies for business and information systems. We invite you to
share your ideas, results, and experiences: as an industry practitioner,
rule system provider, technical expert and developer, rule user or researcher,
exploring foundations, developing systems and applications, or using rule-based
systems. We invite high-quality submissions related to (but not limited to) one
or more of the following topics:
Track Topics
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rule Transformation and Extraction
- Transformation and extraction with rule standards, such as SBVR, RIF and
OCL
- Extraction of rules from code
- Transformation and extraction in the context of frameworks such as KDM
(Knowledge Discovery meta-model)
- Extraction of rules from natural language
- Transformation or rules from one dialect into another
Rules and Uncertainty
- Languages for the formalization of uncertainty rules
- Probabilistic, fuzzy and other rule frameworks for reasoning with
uncertain or incomplete information
- Handling inconsistent or disparate rules using uncertainty
- Uncertainty extensions of event processing rules, business rules,
reactive rules, causal rules, derivation rules, association rules, or
transformation rules
Rules and Norms
- Methodologies for modeling regulations using both ontologies and rules
- Defeasibility: modeling rule exceptions and priority relations among
rule
- The relationship between rules and legal argumentation schemes
- Rule language requirements for the "isomorphic" modeling of legislation
- Rule based inference mechanism for legal reasoning
- E-contracting and automated negotiations with rule-based declarative
strategies
Rule-based Game AI
- Rule-based movement, decision making, strategies, behavior design
- Rule-based environmental programming, virtual reality
- Rules for multi-agent/character games
- Rules for serious games
- Rule-based agent design
Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules
- Reaction rule languages and engines (production rules, ECA rules, logic
event action formalisms, vocabularies/ontologies)
- State management approaches and frameworks
- Concurrency control and scalability
- Event and action definition, detection, consumption, termination,
lifecycle management
- Dynamic rule-based workflows and intelligent event processing (rule-
based CEP)
- Non-functional requirements, use of annotations, metadata to capture
those
- Design time and execution time aspects of rule-based (Semantic) Business
Processes Modeling and Management
- Practical and business aspects of rule-based (Semantic) Business Process
Management (business scenarios, case studies, use cases etc.)
Rules and Cross Industry Standards
- Rules in Current Industry Standards, including:
- XBRL: Extensible Business Reporting Language
- MISMO: Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Org
- FIXatdl: FIX Algorithmic Trading Definition Language
- FpML: Financial products Markup Language
- HL7: Health Level 7
- Acord: Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development
(Insurance Industry)
- Rules for Governance, Risk, & Compliance (GRC), e.g., rules for internal
audit, SOX compliance, enterprise risk management (ERM), operational
risk, etc
- Rules and Corporate Actions
General Rule Topics
- Rules and ontologies
- Execution models, rule engines, and environments
- From rules to FOL to modal logics
- Rule-based reasoning with non-monotonic negation, modalities, deontic,
temporal, priority, scoped or other rule qualification
- Rule-based default reasoning with default logic, defeasible logic, and
answer set programming
- Graphical processing, modelling and rendering of rules
- Rules in Semantic Web Technologies
- Miscellaneous rule topics
Case studies, experience reports, and industrial problem statements are
particularly encouraged.
RuleML-2009 Challenge
===================================================================
The RuleML-2009 Demo Challenge is one of the highlights of RuleML-2009. We
invite submissions of demo papers and demos where rules are used in
interesting and practically relevant ways to, e.g., derive useful
information, transform knowledge, provide decision support and provide
automated rule-based monitoring, enforcement, validation or management of
the behavioural logic of the application. The Challenge offers participants
the chance to demonstrate their commercial and open source tools, use cases,
and applications. Submissions are solicited in these categories:
- Benchmarks (test cases, suites) with evaluations of (their own, other)
rule engines and/or rule translators, possibly drawing on our growing
pool at http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw
- Case studies (use cases) implemented via engines/translators employing
rule standards such as RIF, RuleML, CLIPS, Common Logic, SBVR, and ISO
Prolog.
We welcome all demos about tools and applications using rules such as:
- Derivation rules, including query and integrity rules
- ECA rules, including production rules, reaction rules, and rule-based
CEP languages
Authors of demo are also invited to submit a Challenge demo paper for
publications in the conference proceedings, see the submission section below
for submission details.
Prizes will be awarded to the two best applications from each category. All
accepted demos will be presented in a special Challenge Session. A
submission to the RuleML Challenge has to meet the requirement that
declarative rules explicitly play a central role in the application.
Basically this means that:
Rules are explicitly represented in a declarative format and they are
decoupled from the application (rather than being compiled or hard-coded
into the application logic). The demo should preferably (but not
necessarily) be embedded into a web-based or distributed environment so that
there will be a need for features related to the RuleML conference topics,
as listed in the call for papers. For more details and the demo site web
link please consult the RuleML-2009 Challenge website:
http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw
Student Grant Awards
===================================================================
Two travel grants are available to students who are authors or co-authors of
papers or demos accepted for presentation at the symposium. The grants
include free registration and cover travel expenses up to 1000 dollars.
Conference Language
===================================================================
The official language of the conference will be English.
Submission
===================================================================
Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance
and technical rigor in the field, experience reports and show case/use case
demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies
or applications in distributed environments. Papers must be in English and
may be submitted at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2009
as:
Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings)
Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings)
RuleML-2009 Challenge Demo Paper + Show Cases (3-5 pages in the proceedings)
Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). To ensure high quality,
submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on
originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.
Authors are requested to upload the abstracts of their papers before June 9,
2009 and to upload their complete papers by June 16, 2009. The selected
papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series along with a CD with demo software and
documents. The best paper from all submissions will be determined by the PC
and a Best Paper Award will be handed over at the Symposium by a Sponsor.
All submissions must be done electronically. A selection of revised papers
will be resubmitted to a special issue of a journal.
Submissions to the RuleML Challenge 2009 consist of a demo paper of 3-5
pages, describing the demo show case, and a link to more information about
the demo/show case, e.g. a project site, an online demonstration, a
presentation about the demonstration, or a download site for the
demonstration. In case of product demos, the link can be password-protected:
please submit a password for anonymous login from any Web browser, giving us
the permission to pass the password on to 3 PC members. The submissions
should satisfy the minimal requirements defined in the topics of interest
and preferably exhibit some of the additional desiderata. The more
desiderata are met by an application, the higher the score will be. The
demos will be evaluated by the RuleML-2009 Program Committee and prizes will
be awarded to the two best applications, sponsored by the RuleML Inc.
non-profit organization.
Review Process
===================================================================
The submitted papers will pass the blind review process. At least three
members of the Program Committee will review each submission.
Important Dates:
===================================================================
Abstract submission deadline: June 9, 2009
Paper Submission deadline: June 16, 2009
Notification of acceptance: July 18, 2009
Camera ready due: August 9, 2009
Symposium dates: November 5-7, 2009
RuleML Challenge: November 5, 2009
Conference Venue
===================================================================
RuleML-2009 will take place at the Bellagio in Las Vegas collocated with the
Business Rules Forum.
Keynote Speakers
===================================================================
- Sandro Hawke, W3C RIF Team Contact
The Future of Rule Interchange
- TBA
Programme Committee
===================================================================
General Chair
--------------------
Adrian Paschke, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Program Chairs
--------------------
Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia
John Hall, Model Systems, UK
Liaison Chair
--------------------
Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Publicity Chair
--------------------
William Langley, NRC-IRAP, Canada
Track Chairs
Rule Transformation and Extraction
--------------------
Erik Putrycz, Canada
Mark Linehan, IBM, USA
Rules and Uncertainty
--------------------
Matthias Nickles, University of Bath, UK
Davide Sottara, University Bologna, Italy
Rules and Norms
--------------------
Thomas Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
Antonino Rotolo, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy
Rule-based Game AI
--------------------
Benjamin Craig, National Research Council, Canada
Weichang Du, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules
--------------------
Alex Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd., UK
Adrian Paschke, Free Univ. Berlin, Germany
Rules and Cross Industry Standards
--------------------
Tracy Bost, Valocity, USA
Robert Golan, DBMind, USA
RuleML Challenge
--------------------
Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Ching-Long Yeh, Tatung University, Taiwan
Wolfgang Laun, Thales Rail Signalling Solutions GesmbH, Austria
Program Committee Members
--------------------
http://2009.ruleml.org/pc
RuleML 2009 Sponsors
===================================================================
Silver Sponsors
--------------------
NICTA (National ICT Australia) Ltd
Corporate Semantic Web
Franz Inc
Bronze Sponsors
--------------------
Logic Programming Associated Ltd
ruleCore
jBoss
Modelsystems Ltd
RuleML 2009 Partners
===================================================================
W3C, World Wide Web Consortium
OMG, Object Management Group
ACM, Association for Computer Machinery
AAAI
ECCAI
International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law
ACM SigMis
ACM SigArt
Belgian Business Rules Forum
MIT Sloan CIO Symposium
EPTS, Event Processing Technical Society
BPM Forum Belgium
October Rules Fest
SKG2009 5th International Conference on Semantic, Knowledge and Grid
RR-2009 3rd International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems
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Call for Papers
RuleML 2009
3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability
November 5-7 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
http://2009.ruleml.org/
****************************************************************************
*Latest news *
*Student grants of the value of up to $1000 plus free registration *
*Keynote by Sandro Hawke, W3C RIF Contact - The Future of Rule Interchange*
*New categories in the RuleML Challenge with prestigious prizes *
****************************************************************************
Sponsored by
============================================================================
Franz Inc
NICTA (National ICT Australia) Ltd
Corporate Semantic Web
Logic Programming Associated Ltd
Modelsystems Ltd
ruleCore
============================================================================
Overview and Aim
============================================================================
The International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability has
evolved from an annual series of international workshops since 2002,
international conferences in 2005 and 2006, and international symposia since
2007. This year, the 3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and
Interoperability (RuleML-2009) takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA,
collocated with the 12th Business Rules Forum, the world's largest Business
Rules event. RuleML-2009 is devoted to practical distributed rule
Technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for
Rules (inter)operating in, e.g., the Semantic Web, Multi-Agent Systems,
Event-Driven Architectures, and Service-Oriented Applications.
The main goal of RuleML-2009 is to stimulate the cooperation and
interoperability between business and research, by bringing together rule
system providers, participants in rule standardization efforts, open source
communities, practitioners, and researchers. The concept of the symposium
has also advanced continuously in the face of extremely rapid progress in
practical rule and event processing technologies. As a result, RuleML-2009
will feature hands-on demonstrations and challenges alongside a wide range
of thematic tracks, and thus will be an exciting venue to exchange new
ideas and experiences on all issues related to the engineering, management,
integration, interoperation and interchange of rules in open distributed
environments such as the Web.
Conference Theme
============================================================================
This year, we particularly welcome submissions that address applications of
Web rule technologies for business and information systems. We invite you to
share your ideas, results, and experiences: as an industry practitioner,
rule system provider, technical expert and developer, rule user or
researcher, exploring foundations, developing systems and applications,
or using rule-based systems. We invite high-quality submissions related to
(but not limited to) one or more of the following topics:
Track Topics
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rule Transformation and Extraction
- Transformation and extraction with rule standards, such as SBVR, RIF and
OCL
- Extraction of rules from code
- Transformation and extraction in the context of frameworks such as KDM
(Knowledge Discovery meta-model)
- Extraction of rules from natural language
- Transformation or rules from one dialect into another
Rules and Uncertainty
- Languages for the formalization of uncertainty rules
- Probabilistic, fuzzy and other rule frameworks for reasoning with
uncertain or incomplete information
- Handling inconsistent or disparate rules using uncertainty
- Uncertainty extensions of event processing rules, business rules,
reactive rules, causal rules, derivation rules, association rules,
or transformation rules
Rules and Norms
- Methodologies for modeling regulations using both ontologies and rules
- Defeasibility: modeling rule exceptions and priority relations among
rules
- The relationship between rules and legal argumentation schemes
- Rule language requirements for the "isomorphic" modeling of legislation
- Rule based inference mechanism for legal reasoning
- E-contracting and automated negotiations with rule-based declarative
strategies
Rule-based Game AI
- Rule-based movement, decision making, strategies, behavior design
- Rule-based environmental programming, virtual reality
- Rules for multi-agent/character games
- Rules for serious games
- Rule-based agent design
Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules
- Reaction rule languages and engines (production rules, ECA rules, logic
event action formalisms, vocabularies/ontologies)
- State management approaches and frameworks
- Concurrency control and scalability
- Event and action definition, detection, consumption, termination,
lifecycle management
- Dynamic rule-based workflows and intelligent event processing
(rule-based CEP)
- Non-functional requirements, use of annotations, metadata to capture
those
- Design time and execution time aspects of rule-based (Semantic) Business
Processes Modeling and Management
- Practical and business aspects of rule-based (Semantic) Business Process
Management (business scenarios, case studies, use cases etc.)
Rules and Cross Industry Standards
- Rules in Current Industry Standards, including:
- XBRL: Extensible Business Reporting Language
- MISMO: Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Org
- FIXatdl: FIX Algorithmic Trading Definition Language
- FpML: Financial products Markup Language
- HL7: Health Level 7
- Acord: Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development
(Insurance Industry)
- Rules for Governance, Risk, & Compliance (GRC), e.g., rules for internal
audit, SOX compliance, enterprise risk management (ERM), operational
risk, etc
- Rules and Corporate Actions
General Rule Topics
- Rules and ontologies
- Execution models, rule engines, and environments
- From rules to FOL to modal logics
- Rule-based reasoning with non-monotonic negation, modalities, deontic,
temporal, priority, scoped or other rule qualification
- Rule-based default reasoning with default logic, defeasible logic, and
answer set programming
- Graphical processing, modelling and rendering of rules
- Rules in Semantic Web Technologies(SW), Artificial Intelligence (AI),
Business Process Modeling (BPM), Cloud Computing (CC),
Intelligent Agents, Model-Driven Architecture (MDA),
Software Engineering (SE), Unified Modeling Language (UML),
e-Learning, e-Commerce, ...
- Miscellaneous rule topics
Case studies, experience reports, and industrial problem statements are
particularly encouraged.
RuleML-2009 Challenge
============================================================================
The RuleML-2009 Demo Challenge is one of the highlights of RuleML-2009. We
invite submissions of demos where rules are used in interesting and
practically relevant ways to, e.g., derive useful information, transform
knowledge, provide decision support and provide automated rule-based
monitoring, enforcement, validation or management of the behavioural logic
of the application. The Challenge offers participants the chance to
demonstrate their commercial and open source tools, use cases, and
applications. Submissions are solicited in these categories:
- Benchmarks (test cases, suites) with evaluations of (their own, other)
rule engines and/or rule translators, possibly drawing on our growing
pool at http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw
- Case studies (use cases) implemented via engines/translators employing
rule standards such as RIF, RuleML, CLIPS, Common Logic, SBVR, and ISO
Prolog.
We welcome all demos about tools and applications using rules such as:
- Derivation rules, including query and integrity rules
- ECA rules, including production rules, reaction rules, and rule-based
CEP languages
Authors of demo are also invited to submit a Challenge demo paper for
publications in the conference proceedings, see the submission section below
for submission details.
Prizes will be awarded to the two best applications from each category. All
accepted demos will be presented in a special Challenge Session. A
submission to the RuleML Challenge has to meet the requirement that
declarative rules explicitly play a central role in the application.
Basically this means that:
Rules are explicitly represented in a declarative format and they are
decoupled from the application (rather than being compiled or hard-coded
into the application logic). The demo should preferably (but not necessarily)
be embedded into a web-based or distributed environment so that there will
be a need for features related to the RuleML conference topics, as listed
in the call for papers. For more details and the demo site web link please
consult the RuleML-2009 Challenge website:
http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw
Student Grant Awards
============================================================================
Two travel grants are available to students who are authors or co-authors of
papers or demos accepted for presentation at the symposium. The grants
include free registration and cover travel expenses up to 1000 dollars.
Conference Language
============================================================================
The official language of the conference will be English.
Submission
============================================================================
Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance
and technical rigor in the field, experience reports and show case/use case
demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies
or applications in distributed environments. Papers must be in English and
may be submitted at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2009
as:
Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings)
Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings)
RuleML-2009 Challenge Demo Paper + Show Cases (3-5 pages in the proceedings)
Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). To ensure high quality,
submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on
originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.
Authors are requested to upload the abstracts of their papers before June 9,
2009 and to upload their complete papers by June 16, 2009. The selected
Papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series along with a CD with demo software and
documents. The best paper from all submissions will be determined by the PC and
a Best Paper Award will be handed over at the Symposium by a Sponsor. All
submissions must be done electronically. A selection of revised papers will be
resubmitted to a special issue of a journal.
Submissions to the RuleML Challenge 2009 consist of a demo paper of 3-5
pages, describing the demo show case, and a link to more information about the
demo/show case, e.g. a project site, an online demonstration, a presentation
about the demonstration, or a download site for the demonstration. In case
of product demos, the link can be password-protected: please submit a
password for anonymous login from any Web browser, giving us the permission
to pass the password on to 3 PC members. The submissions should satisfy the
minimal requirements defined in the topics of interest and preferably exhibit
some of the additional desiderata. The more desiderata are met by an
application, the higher the score will be. The demos will be evaluated by the
RuleML-2009 Program Committee and prizes will be awarded to the two best
applications, sponsored by the RuleML Inc. non-profit organization.
Review Process
============================================================================
The submitted papers will pass the blind review process. At least three
members of the Program Committee will review each submission.
Important Dates:
============================================================================
Abstract submission deadline: June 9, 2009
Paper Submission deadline: June 16, 2009
Notification of acceptance: July 18, 2009
Camera ready due: August 9, 2009
Symposium dates: November 5-7, 2009
RuleML Challenge: November 5, 2009
Conference Venue
============================================================================
RuleML-2009 will take place at the Bellagio in Las Vegas collocated with the
Business Rules Forum.
Keynote Speakers
============================================================================
- Sandro Hawke, W3C RIF Team Contact
The Future of Rule Interchange
- TBA
Programme Committee
============================================================================
General Chair
--------------------
Adrian Paschke, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Program Chairs
--------------------
Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia
John Hall, Model System, UK
Liaison Chair
--------------------
Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Publicity Chair
--------------------
William Langley, NRC-IRAP, Canada
Track Chairs
Rule Transformation and Extraction
--------------------
Erik Putrycz, Canada
Mark Linehan, IBM, USA
Rules and Uncertainty
--------------------
Matthias Nickles, University of Bath, UK
Davide Sottara, University Bologna, Italy
Rules and Norms
--------------------
Thomas Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
Antonino Rotolo, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy
Rule-based Game AI
--------------------
Benjamin Craig, National Research Council, Canada
Weichang Du, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules
--------------------
Alex Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd., UK
Adrian Paschke, Free Univ. Berlin, Germany
Rules and Cross Industry Standards
--------------------
Tracy Bost, Valocity, USA
Robert Golan, DBMind, USA
RuleML Challenge
--------------------
Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Ching-Long Yeh, Tatung University, Taiwan
Wolfgang Laun, Thales Rail Signalling Solutions GesmbH, Austria
RuleML 2009 Sponsors
============================================================================
Silver Sponsors
--------------------
Franz Inc
NICTA (National ICT Australia) Ltd
Corporate Semantic Web
Bronze Sponsors
--------------------
Logic Programming Associated Ltd
Modelsystems Ltd
ruleCore
RuleML 2009 Partners
============================================================================
W3C, World Wide Web Consortium
Belgian Business Rules Forum
MIT Sloan CIO Symposium
International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law
Event Processing Technical Society
BPM Forum Belgium
October Rules Fest
SKG2009 5th International Conference on Semantic, Knowledge and Grid
RR-2009 3rd International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems
______________________________________________
Call for Papers
edBPM 09
2nd International Workshop on Event-Driven Business Process Management
7 September 2009, Ulm, Germany
http://icep-edbpm09.fzi.de
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ Special issue in Journal of Software Process
+ Improvement and Practice for selected BPM 2009
+ workshop papers
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
-------------------------------
Information about the workshop
-------------------------------
The recently coined term Event-Driven Business Process Management (EDBPM) is
nowadays an enhancement of Business Process Management (BPM) by new concepts of
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Event Driven Architecture (EDA), Software
as a Service (SaaS), Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) and Complex Event
Processing (CEP). In this context BPM means a software platform which provides
companies the ability to model, manage, and optimize these processes for
significant gain. As an independent system, CEP is a parallel running platform
that analyses and processes events. The BPM- and the CEP-platform correspond via
events which are produced by the BPM-workflow engine and by the if distributed
- IT services which are associated with the business process steps. Also events
coming from different event sources in different forms can trigger a business
process or influence the execution of the process or a service, which can result
in another event. Even more, the correlation of these events in a particular
context can be treated as a complex, business level event, relevant for the
execution of other business processes or services. A business process
arbitrarily fine or coarse grained can be seen as a service again and can be
"choreographed" with other business processes or services, even between
different enterprises and organisations.
Loosely coupled event-driven architecture for BPM provides important benefits:
- Responsiveness. Events can occur at any time from any source and Processes
respond to them immediately, whenever they happen and wherever they happen.
- Agility. New processes can be modeled, implemented, deployed, and optimized
more quickly in response to changing business requirements.
- Flexibility. Processes can span heterogeneous platforms and programming
languages. Participating applications can be upgraded or changed without
breaking the process model.
Authors are invited to submit novel contributions in the above mentioned problem
domain. Specifically, the relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
- Event-driven BPM: Concepts e.g. Role of event processing in BPM, Business
Events: types and representation, Event stream processing in business processes,
Data- and event-driven business processes
- Design-time CEP and BPM e.g. Modelling events in human-oriented tasks,
Semantics/Ontologies for event-driven BPM, BPMN and event processing.
- Run-time CEP and BPM e.g. Event pattern detection, BPEL and event processing,
Reasoning about unknown/similar events
- Applications/Use cases for event-driven BPM e.g. Event-driven monitoring/BAM ,
Event-driven SLA monitoring
-------------------------------
Submission
-------------------------------
The following types of submission are solicited:
- Long paper submissions, describing substantial contributions of novel ongoing
work. Long papers should be at most 12 pages long.
- Short paper submissions, describing work in progress. These papers should be
at most 6 pages long.
Papers should be submitted in the new LNBIP format
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-487211-0). Papers have to
present original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere.
The title page must contain a short abstract, a classification of the topics
covered, preferably using the list of topics above, and an indication of the
submission category (Long Paper/ Short Paper). Papers can be uploaded via the
workshop page on easychair, the address can be found on the workshop homepage
(http://icep-edbpm09.fzi.de).
Selected papers will be published in the Special issue in Journal of Software
Process Improvement and Practice for selected BPM 2009 workshop papers.
-------------------------------
Important Dates
-------------------------------
Deadline paper submissions: 7 May 2009
Notification of acceptance: 2 June 2009
Camera-ready papers: 17 June 2009
Workshops: 7 September 2009
-------------------------------
Organizing Committee
-------------------------------
Rainer von Ammon, CITT Regensburg, Germany
Opher Etzion, IBM Research Haifa,
Israel Heiko Ludwig, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
Adrian Paschke, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Nenad Stojanovic, FZI Research Center for Information Technologies at the
University of Karlsruhe, Germany
-------------------------------
Program Committee
-------------------------------
- Marco Aiello, Rijksuniversiteit of Groningen, Netherlands
- Karim Bana, ENSIAS, Morocco
- Martin Bartonitz, Saperion AG, Germany
- Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Djamal Benslimane, Universit Claude Bernard Lyon, France
- Pedro Bizarro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, USA
- Anis Charfi, SAP Research Darmstadt, Germany
- Peter Dadam, University of Ulm, Germany
- Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy.
- Vincenzo D'Andrea, University Degli Studi di Trento, Italy
- Jrg Desel, KU Eichsttt, Germany
- Schahram Dustdar, TU Vienna, Austria
- Christian Fillies, Semtation GmbH, Germany
- Albert Fleischmann, jCOM1 AG, Germany
- Peter Forbrig, University of Rostock, Germany
- Torsten Greiner, Bausparkasse Schwbisch Hall, Germany
- Claude Godard, University Henri Poincar Nancy, France
- Guido Governatori, Queensland Research Laboratory, Australia
- Helge He, IDS Scheer AG, Germany
- Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto, Canada
- Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
- Gerti Kappel, TU Vienna, Austria
- Anton Kramm, Valial Solution, Germany
- Akhil Kumar, Penn State University, USA
- Shailendra Mishra, Oracle, USA
- Massimo Mecella, SAPIENZA Universit di Roma, Italy
- Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Boris Petkoff, AccordSystems, Germany
- Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Germany
- Wolfgang Reisig, HU Berlin, Germany
- Guy Sharon, IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel
- Harald Schoening, Software AG, Germany
- Bernhard Seeger, University of Marburg, Germany
- York Sure, SAP Research Karlsruhe, Germany
- Azzelarabe Taleb-Bendiab, Liverpool John Moores Universtiy, UK
- Farouk Toumani, Blaise Pascale University, France
- Jan Vanthienen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- Christian Wolff, University of Regensburg, Germany
- Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, Netherlands
-------------------------------
Additional Information
-------------------------------
A complete overview about relevant topics, detailed workshop information And
contact addresses can be found on the workshop website
http://icep-edbpm09.fzi.de
______________________________________________
Call for Papers
edBPM 09
2nd International Workshop on Event-Driven Business Process Management
7-10 September 2009, Ulm, Germany
http://icep-edbpm09.fzi.de
-------------------------------
Information about the workshop
-------------------------------
The recently coined term Event-Driven Business Process Management (EDBPM) is
nowadays an enhancement of Business Process Management (BPM) by new concepts of
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Event Driven Architecture (EDA), Software
as a Service (SaaS), Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) and Complex Event
Processing (CEP). In this context BPM means a software platform which provides
companies the ability to model, manage, and optimize these processes for
significant gain. As an independent system, CEP is a parallel running platform
that analyses and processes events. The BPM- and the CEP-platform correspond via
events which are produced by the BPM-workflow engine and by the if distributed
- IT services which are associated with the business process steps. Also events
coming from different event sources in different forms can trigger a business
process or influence the execution of the process or a service, which can result
in another event. Even more, the correlation of these events in a particular
context can be treated as a complex, business level event, relevant for the
execution of other business processes or services. A business process
arbitrarily fine or coarse grained can be seen as a service again and can be
"choreographed" with other business processes or services, even between
different enterprises and organisations.
Loosely coupled event-driven architecture for BPM provides important benefits:
- Responsiveness. Events can occur at any time from any source and processes
respond to them immediately, whenever they happen and wherever they happen.
- Agility. New processes can be modeled, implemented, deployed, and optimized
more quickly in response to changing business requirements.
- Flexibility. Processes can span heterogeneous platforms and programming
languages. Participating applications can be upgraded or changed without
breaking the process model.
Authors are invited to submit novel contributions in the above mentioned problem
domain. Specifically, the relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
- Event-driven BPM: Concepts e.g. Role of event processing in BPM, Business
Events: types and representation, Event stream processing in business processes,
Data- and event-driven business processes
- Design-time CEP and BPM e.g. Modelling events in human-oriented tasks,
Semantics/Ontologies for event-driven BPM, BPMN and event processing.
- Run-time CEP and BPM e.g. Event pattern detection, BPEL and event processing,
Reasoning about unknown/similar events
- Applications/Use cases for event-driven BPM e.g. Event-driven monitoring/BAM ,
Event-driven SLA monitoring
-------------------------------
Submission
-------------------------------
The following types of submission are solicited:
- Long paper submissions, describing substantial contributions of novel ongoing
work. Long papers should be at most 12 pages long.
- Short paper submissions, describing work in progress. These papers should be
at most 6 pages long.
Papers should be submitted in the new LNBIP format
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-487211-0). Papers have to
present original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere.
The title page must contain a short abstract, a classification of the topics
covered, preferably using the list of topics above, and an indication of the
submission category (Long Paper/ Short Paper).
Papers can be uploaded via the workshop page on easychair, the address can be
found on the workshop homepage (http://icep-edbpm09.fzi.de).
Selected papers will be published in the Special issue in Journal of Software
Process Improvement and Practice for selected BPM 2009 workshop papers.
-------------------------------
Important Dates
-------------------------------
Deadline paper submissions: 7 May 2009
Notification of acceptance: 2 June 2009
Camera-ready papers: 17 June 2009
Workshops: 7 September 2009
-------------------------------
Organizing Committee
-------------------------------
Rainer von Ammon, CITT Regensburg, Germany
Opher Etzion, IBM Research Haifa, Israel
Heiko Ludwig, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
Adrian Paschke, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Nenad Stojanovic, FZI Karlsruhe, Germany
-------------------------------
Program Committee
-------------------------------
- Marco Aiello, Rijksuniversiteit of Groningen, Netherlands
- Karim Bana, ENSIAS, Morocco
- Martin Bartonitz, Saperion AG, Germany
- Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Djamal Benslimane, Universit Claude Bernard Lyon, France
- Pedro Bizarro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, USA
- Anis Charfi, SAP Research Darmstadt, Germany
- Peter Dadam, University of Ulm, Germany
- Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy.
- Vincenzo D'Andrea, University Degli Studi di Trento, Italy
- Jrg Desel, KU Eichsttt, Germany
- Schahram Dustdar, TU Vienna, Austria
- Christian Fillies, Semtation GmbH, Germany
- Albert Fleischmann, jCOM1 AG, Germany
- Peter Forbrig, University of Rostock, Germany
- Torsten Greiner, Bausparkasse Schwbisch Hall, Germany
- Claude Godard, University Henri Poincar Nancy, France
- Guido Governatori, Queensland Research Laboratory, Australia
- Helge He, IDS Scheer AG, Germany
- Hans-Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto, Canada
- Dimitris Karagiannis, University of Vienna, Austria
- Gerti Kappel, TU Vienna, Austria
- Anton Kramm, Valial Solution, Germany
- Akhil Kumar, Penn State University, USA
- Shailendra Mishra, Oracle, USA
- Massimo Mecella, SAPIENZA Universit di Roma, Italy
- Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Boris Petkoff, AccordSystems, Germany
- Manfred Reichert, University of Ulm, Germany
- Wolfgang Reisig, HU Berlin, Germany
- Guy Sharon, IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel
- Harald Schoening, Software AG, Germany
- Bernhard Seeger, University of Marburg, Germany
- York Sure, SAP Research Karlsruhe, Germany
- Azzelarabe Taleb-Bendiab, Liverpool John Moores Universtiy, UK
- Farouk Toumani, Blaise Pascale University, France
- Jan Vanthienen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- Christian Wolff, University of Regensburg, Germany
- Andreas Wombacher, University of Twente, Netherlands
-------------------------------
Additional Information
-------------------------------
A complete overview about relevant topics, detailed workshop information and
contact addresses can be found on the workshop website
http://icep-edbpm09.fzi.de
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Call for Papers
RuleML 2009
3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability
November 5-7 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
http://2009.ruleml.org/
co-located with
12th International Business Rules Forum
Sponsored by
==============================================================================
NICTA (National ICT Australia)
BMBF InnoProfile Corporate Semantic Web
Logic Programming Associated Ltd
==============================================================================
Overview and Aim
==============================================================================
The International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability has
evolved from an annual series of international workshops since 2002,
international conferences in 2005 and 2006, and international symposia since
2007. This year, the 3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and
Interoperability (RuleML-2009) takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA,
collocated with the 12th Business Rules Forum, the world's largest Business
Rules event. RuleML-2009 is devoted to practical distributed rule technologies
and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules
(inter)operating in, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems,
Event-Driven Architectures, and Service-Oriented Applications. Especially,
this year's focus will be on the practical adoption and application of standards
such as W3C RIF, OMG SBVR, OMG PRR, RuleML, ISO Common Logic, OASIS BPEL++Rules,
OMG BPMN++Rules, and industry standards in relation with rules such as XBRL,
MISMO, FIXatdl, FIX, FpML, HL7, Acord, etc.
The main goal of RuleML-2009 is to stimulate the cooperation and
interoperability between business and research, by bringing together rule
system providers, participants in rule standardization efforts, open source
communities, practitioners, and researchers. The concept of the symposium has
also advanced continuously in the face of extremely rapid progress in
practical rule and event processing technologies. As a result, RuleML-2009
will feature hands-on demonstrations and challenges alongside a wide range of
thematic tracks, thus and will be an exciting venue to exchange new ideas and
experiences on all issues related to the engineering, management, integration,
interoperation and interchange of rules in open distributed environments such
as the Web.
Conference Theme
==============================================================================
This year, we particularly welcome submissions that address applications of
Web rule technologies for business and information systems. We invite you to
share your ideas, results, and experiences: as an industry practitioner, rule
system provider, technical expert and developer, rule user or researcher,
exploring foundations, developing systems and applications, or using
rule-based systems. We invite high-quality submissions related to (but not
limited to) one or more of the following topics:
Track Topics
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rule Transformation and Extraction
- Transformation and extraction with rule standards, such as SBVR, RIF and
OCL
- Extraction of rules from code
- Transformation and extraction in the context of frameworks such as KDM
(Knowledge Discovery meta-model)
- Extraction of rules from natural language
- Transformation or rules from one dialect into another
Rules and Uncertainty
- Languages for the formalization of uncertainty rules
- Probabilistic, fuzzy and other rule frameworks for reasoning with
uncertain or incomplete information
- Handling inconsistent or disparate rules using uncertainty
- Uncertainty extensions of event processing rules, business rules, reactive
rules, causal rules, derivation rules, association rules, or
transformation rules
Rules and Norms
- Methodologies for modeling regulations using both ontologies and rules
- Defeasibility: modeling rule exceptions and priority relations among rule
- The relationship between rules and legal argumentation schemes
- Rule language requirements for the "isomorphic" modeling of legislation
- Rule based inference mechanism for legal reasoning
- E-contracting and automated negotiations with rule-based declarative
strategies
Rule-based Game AI
- Rule-based movement, decision making, strategies, behavior design
- Rule-based environmental programming, virtual reality
- Rules for multi-agent/character games
- Rules for serious games
- Rule-based agent design
Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules
- Reaction rule languages and engines (production rules, ECA rules, logic
event action formalisms, vocabularies/ontologies)
- State management approaches and frameworks
- Concurrency control and scalability
- Event and action definition, detection, consumption, termination,
lifecycle management
- Dynamic rule-based workflows and intelligent event processing (rule-based
CEP)
- Non-functional requirements, use of annotations, metadata to capture those
- Design time and execution time aspects of rule-based (Semantic) Business
Processes Modeling and Management
- Practical and business aspects of rule-based (Semantic) Business Process
Management (business scenarios, case studies, use cases etc.)
Rules and Cross Industry Standards
- Rules in Current Industry Standards, including:
- XBRL: Extensible Business Reporting Language
- MISMO: Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Org
- FIXatdl: FIX Algorithmic Trading Definition Language
- FpML: Financial products Markup Language
- HL7: Health Level 7
- Acord: Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development
(Insurance Industry)
- Rules for Governance, Risk, & Compliance (GRC), e.g., rules for internal
audit, SOX compliance, enterprise risk management (ERM), operational
risk, etc
- Rules and Corporate Actions
General Rule Topics
- Rules and ontologies
- Execution models, rule engines, and environments
- From rules to FOL to modal logics
- Rule-based reasoning with non-monotonic negation, modalities, deontic,
temporal, priority, scoped or other rule qualification
- Rule-based default reasoning with default logic, defeasible logic, and
answer set programming
- Graphical processing, modelling and rendering of rules
- Rules in Semantic Web Technologies
- Miscellaneous rule topics
Case studies, experience reports, and industrial problem statements are
particularly encouraged.
RuleML-2009 Challenge
==============================================================================
**** MAKE RULEML-2009 YOUR WEB RULES SHOWCASE! ****
The RuleML-2009 Challenge is one of the highlights of RuleML-2009. Rules are
used in interesting and practically relevant ways to, e.g., derive useful
information, transform knowledge, provide decision support and provide
automated rule-based monitoring, enforcement, validation or management of the
behavioural logic of the application. The Challenge offers participants the
chance to demonstrate their commercial and open source tools, use cases, and
applications. The recommended categories for the Challenge submissions are:
- derivation rules and constructive views over data,
- production rules and (complex) event processing reaction rules,
- benchmark for evaluation of rule engines, and
- use cases / case studies (possibly using rule standards).
We strongly suggest participants declare their submissions related to at least
one of the above categories.
Prizes will be awarded to the two best applications from each category. All
accepted demos will be presented in a special Challenge Session. A submission
to the RuleML Challenge has to meet the requirement that declarative rules
explicitly play a central role in the application. Basically this means that:
Rules are explicitly represented in a declarative format and they are
decoupled from the application (rather than being compiled or hard-coded into
the application logic). The demo should preferably (but not necessarily) be
embedded into a web-based or distributed environment so that there will be a
need for features related to the RuleML conference topics, as listed in the
call for papers. For more details please consult the RuleML-2009 Challenge
website:
http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw
Conference Language
==============================================================================
The official language of the conference will be English.
Submission
==============================================================================
Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance
and technical rigor in the field, experience reports and show case/use case
demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies or
applications in distributed environments. Papers must be in English and may be
submitted at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2009
as:
Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings)
Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings)
RuleML-2009 Challenge Demo Paper + Show Cases (3-5 pages in the proceedings)
Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). To ensure high quality,
submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on
originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.
Authors are requested to upload the abstracts of their papers before June 9,
2008 and to upload their complete papers by June 16, 2008. The selected papers
will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS) series along with a CD with demo software and documents. The
best paper from all submissions will be determined by the PC and a Best Paper
Award will be handed over at the Symposium by a Sponsor. All submissions must
be done electronically. A selection of revised papers will be resubmitted to a
special issue of a journal.
Submissions to the RuleML Challenge 2009 consist of a demo paper of 3-5 pages,
describing the demo show case, and a link to more information about the
demo/show case, e.g. a project site, an online demonstration, a presentation
about the demonstration, or a download site for the demonstration. In case of
product demos, the link can be password-protected: please submit a password
for anonymous login from any Web browser, giving us the permission to pass the
password on to 3 PC members. The submissions should satisfy the minimal
requirements defined in the topics of interest and preferably exhibit some of
the additional desiderata. The more desiderata are met by an application, the
higher the score will be. The demos will be evaluated by the RuleML-2009
Program Committee and prizes will be awarded to the two best applications,
sponsored by the RuleML Inc. non-profit organization.
Review Process
==============================================================================
The submitted papers will pass the blind review process. At least three
members of the Program Committee will review each submission.
Important Dates:
==============================================================================
Abstract submission deadline: June 9, 2009
Paper Ssbmission deadline: June 16, 2009
Notification of acceptance: July 18, 2009
Camera ready due: August 9, 2009
Symposium dates: November 5-7, 2009
RuleML Challenge: November 5, 2009
Conference Venue
==============================================================================
RuleML-2009 will take place at the Bellagio in Las Vegas collocated with the
Business Rules Forum.
Programme Committee
==============================================================================
General Chair
--------------------
Adrian Paschke, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Program Chairs
--------------------
Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia
John Hall, Model System, UK
Liaison Chair
--------------------
Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Track Chairs
Rule Transformation and Extraction
--------------------
Erik Putrycz, Canada
Mark Linehan, IBM, USA
Rules and Uncertainty
--------------------
Matthias Nickles, Univ. of Bath, UK
Davide Sottara, University Bologna, Italy
Rules and Norms
--------------------
Thomas Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
Antonino Rotolo, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy
Rule-based Game AI
--------------------
Benjamin Craig, National Research Council, Canada
Weichang Du, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rule
--------------------
Alex Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd., UK
Adrian Paschke, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Rules and Cross Industry Standards
--------------------
Tracy Bost, Valocity, USA
Robert Golan, DBMind, USA
RuleML Challenge
--------------------
Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Ching-Long Yeh, Tatung University, Taiwan
Wolfgang Laun, Thales Rail Signalling Solutions GmbH, Austria
RuleML 2009 Sponsors
==============================================================================
NICTA (National ICT Australia)
BMBF InnoProfile Corporate Semantic Web
Logic Programming Associated Ltd
(sponsoring opportunities - http://2009.ruleml.org/sponsors)
RuleML 2009 Partners
==============================================================================
Belgian Business Rules Forum
MIT Sloan CIO Symposium
SKG2009 5th International Conference on Semantic, Knowledge and Grid
RR-2009 3rd International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems
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Call for Papers
RuleML 2009
3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability
November 5-7 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
http://2009.ruleml.org/
co-located with
12th International Business Rules Forum
Sponsored by
==============================================================================
NICTA (National ICT Australia)
BMBF InnoProfile Corporate Semantic Web
Logic Programming Associated Ltd
==============================================================================
Overview and Aim
==============================================================================
The International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability has
evolved from an annual series of international workshops since 2002,
international conferences in 2005 and 2006, and international symposia since
2007. This year, the 3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and
Interoperability (RuleML-2009) takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA,
collocated with the 12th Business Rules Forum, the world's largest Business
Rules event. RuleML-2009 is devoted to practical distributed rule technologies
and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules
(inter)operating in, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems,
Event-Driven Architectures, and Service-Oriented Applications. Especially,
this year's focus will be on the practical adoption and application of standards
such as W3C RIF, OMG SBVR, OMG PRR, RuleML, ISO Common Logic, OASIS BPEL++Rules,
OMG BPMN++Rules, and industry standards in relation with rules such as XBRL,
MISMO, FIXatdl, FIX, FpML, HL7, Acord, etc.
The main goal of RuleML-2009 is to stimulate the cooperation and
interoperability between business and research, by bringing together rule
system providers, participants in rule standardization efforts, open source
communities, practitioners, and researchers. The concept of the symposium has
also advanced continuously in the face of extremely rapid progress in
practical rule and event processing technologies. As a result, RuleML-2009
will feature hands-on demonstrations and challenges alongside a wide range of
thematic tracks, thus and will be an exciting venue to exchange new ideas and
experiences on all issues related to the engineering, management, integration,
interoperation and interchange of rules in open distributed environments such
as the Web.
Conference Theme
==============================================================================
This year, we particularly welcome submissions that address applications of
Web rule technologies for business and information systems. We invite you to
share your ideas, results, and experiences: as an industry practitioner, rule
system provider, technical expert and developer, rule user or researcher,
exploring foundations, developing systems and applications, or using
rule-based systems. We invite high-quality submissions related to (but not
limited to) one or more of the following topics:
Track Topics
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Rule Transformation and Extraction
- Transformation and extraction with rule standards, such as SBVR, RIF and
OCL
- Extraction of rules from code
- Transformation and extraction in the context of frameworks such as KDM
(Knowledge Discovery meta-model)
- Extraction of rules from natural language
- Transformation or rules from one dialect into another
Rules and Uncertainty
- Languages for the formalization of uncertainty rules
- Probabilistic, fuzzy and other rule frameworks for reasoning with
uncertain or incomplete information
- Handling inconsistent or disparate rules using uncertainty
- Uncertainty extensions of event processing rules, business rules, reactive
rules, causal rules, derivation rules, association rules, or
transformation rules
Rules and Norms
- Methodologies for modeling regulations using both ontologies and rules
- Defeasibility: modeling rule exceptions and priority relations among rule
- The relationship between rules and legal argumentation schemes
- Rule language requirements for the "isomorphic" modeling of legislation
- Rule based inference mechanism for legal reasoning
- E-contracting and automated negotiations with rule-based declarative
strategies
Rule-based Game AI
- Rule-based movement, decision making, strategies, behavior design
- Rule-based environmental programming, virtual reality
- Rules for multi-agent/character games
- Rules for serious games
- Rule-based agent design
Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules
- Reaction rule languages and engines (production rules, ECA rules, logic
event action formalisms, vocabularies/ontologies)
- State management approaches and frameworks
- Concurrency control and scalability
- Event and action definition, detection, consumption, termination,
lifecycle management
- Dynamic rule-based workflows and intelligent event processing (rule-based
CEP)
- Non-functional requirements, use of annotations, metadata to capture those
- Design time and execution time aspects of rule-based (Semantic) Business
Processes Modeling and Management
- Practical and business aspects of rule-based (Semantic) Business Process
Management (business scenarios, case studies, use cases etc.)
Rules and Cross Industry Standards
- Rules in Current Industry Standards, including:
- XBRL: Extensible Business Reporting Language
- MISMO: Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Org
- FIXatdl: FIX Algorithmic Trading Definition Language
- FpML: Financial products Markup Language
- HL7: Health Level 7
- Acord: Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development
(Insurance Industry)
- Rules for Governance, Risk, & Compliance (GRC), e.g., rules for internal
audit, SOX compliance, enterprise risk management (ERM), operational
risk, etc
- Rules and Corporate Actions
General Rule Topics
- Rules and ontologies
- Execution models, rule engines, and environments
- From rules to FOL to modal logics
- Rule-based reasoning with non-monotonic negation, modalities, deontic,
temporal, priority, scoped or other rule qualification
- Rule-based default reasoning with default logic, defeasible logic, and
answer set programming
- Graphical processing, modelling and rendering of rules
- Rules in Semantic Web Technologies
- Miscellaneous rule topics
Case studies, experience reports, and industrial problem statements are
particularly encouraged.
RuleML-2009 Challenge
==============================================================================
**** MAKE RULEML-2009 YOUR WEB RULES SHOWCASE! ****
The RuleML-2009 Challenge is one of the highlights of RuleML-2009. Rules are
used in interesting and practically relevant ways to, e.g., derive useful
information, transform knowledge, provide decision support and provide
automated rule-based monitoring, enforcement, validation or management of the
behavioural logic of the application. The Challenge offers participants the
chance to demonstrate their commercial and open source tools, use cases, and
applications. The recommended categories for the Challenge submissions are:
- derivation rules and constructive views over data,
- production rules and (complex) event processing reaction rules,
- benchmark for evaluation of rule engines, and
- use cases / case studies (possibly using rule standards).
We strongly suggest participants declare their submissions related to at least
one of the above categories.
Prizes will be awarded to the two best applications from each category. All
accepted demos will be presented in a special Challenge Session. A submission
to the RuleML Challenge has to meet the requirement that declarative rules
explicitly play a central role in the application. Basically this means that:
Rules are explicitly represented in a declarative format and they are
decoupled from the application (rather than being compiled or hard-coded into
the application logic). The demo should preferably (but not necessarily) be
embedded into a web-based or distributed environment so that there will be a
need for features related to the RuleML conference topics, as listed in the
call for papers. For more details please consult the RuleML-2009 Challenge
website:
http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw
Conference Language
==============================================================================
The official language of the conference will be English.
Submission
==============================================================================
Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance
and technical rigor in the field, experience reports and show case/use case
demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies or
applications in distributed environments. Papers must be in English and may be
submitted at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2009
as:
Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings)
Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings)
RuleML-2009 Challenge Demo Paper + Show Cases (3-5 pages in the proceedings)
Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). To ensure high quality,
submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on
originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.
Authors are requested to upload the abstracts of their papers before June 9,
2008 and to upload their complete papers by June 16, 2008. The selected papers
will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS) series along with a CD with demo software and documents. The
best paper from all submissions will be determined by the PC and a Best Paper
Award will be handed over at the Symposium by a Sponsor. All submissions must
be done electronically. A selection of revised papers will be resubmitted to a
special issue of a journal.
Submissions to the RuleML Challenge 2009 consist of a demo paper of 3-5 pages,
describing the demo show case, and a link to more information about the
demo/show case, e.g. a project site, an online demonstration, a presentation
about the demonstration, or a download site for the demonstration. In case of
product demos, the link can be password-protected: please submit a password
for anonymous login from any Web browser, giving us the permission to pass the
password on to 3 PC members. The submissions should satisfy the minimal
requirements defined in the topics of interest and preferably exhibit some of
the additional desiderata. The more desiderata are met by an application, the
higher the score will be. The demos will be evaluated by the RuleML-2009
Program Committee and prizes will be awarded to the two best applications,
sponsored by the RuleML Inc. non-profit organization.
Review Process
==============================================================================
The submitted papers will pass the blind review process. At least three
members of the Program Committee will review each submission.
Important Dates:
==============================================================================
Abstract submission deadline: June 9, 2009
Paper Ssbmission deadline: June 16, 2009
Notification of acceptance: July 18, 2009
Camera ready due: August 9, 2009
Symposium dates: November 5-7, 2009
RuleML Challenge: November 5, 2009
Conference Venue
==============================================================================
RuleML-2009 will take place at the Bellagio in Las Vegas collocated with the
Business Rules Forum.
Programme Committee
==============================================================================
General Chair
--------------------
Adrian Paschke, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Program Chairs
--------------------
Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia
John Hall, Model System, UK
Liaison Chair
--------------------
Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Track Chairs
Rule Transformation and Extraction
--------------------
Erik Putrycz, Canada
Mark Linehan, IBM, USA
Rules and Uncertainty
--------------------
Matthias Nickles, Univ. of Bath, UK
Davide Sottara, University Bologna, Italy
Rules and Norms
--------------------
Thomas Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
Antonino Rotolo, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy
Rule-based Game AI
--------------------
Benjamin Craig, National Research Council, Canada
Weichang Du, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules
--------------------
Alex Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd., UK
Adrian Paschke, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Rules and Cross Industry Standards
--------------------
Tracy Bost, Valocity, USA
Robert Golan, DBMind, USA
RuleML Challenge
--------------------
Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Ching-Long Yeh, Tatung University, Taiwan
Wolfgang Laun, Thales Rail Signalling Solutions GmbH, Austria
RuleML 2009 Sponsors
==============================================================================
NICTA (National ICT Australia)
BMBF InnoProfile Corporate Semantic Web
Logic Programming Associated Ltd
(sponsoring opportunities - http://2009.ruleml.org/sponsors)
RuleML 2009 Partners
==============================================================================
Belgian Business Rules Forum
MIT Sloan CIO Symposium
SKG2009 5th International Conference on Semantic, Knowledge and Grid
RR-2009 3rd International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems
Dear Colleagues,
Rule markup languages will be the vehicle for using rules on the Web
and in other distributed systems. They allow deploying, executing,
publishing and communicating rules in a network. They may also play
the role of a lingua franca for exchanging rules between different
systems and tools. The main purposes of a rule markup language are to
permit reuse, interchange and publication of rules used e.g., in a
Corporate Semantic Web to represent business rules, semantic business
process flows, regulations, and policies.
2008 sees a major step forward for rules on the Web. The W3C Rule
Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group [1] has published several
public specifications for a new standardized Rule Interchange Format
(W3C RIF) which is part of the latest Semantic Web stack [2].
The Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group has just published
five new Working Drafts. Since the Last Call Working Drafts of RIF
Basic Logic Dialect (BLD) [3] and RIF RDF and OWL Compatibility [4] in
July, the group has been developing other dialects, components, and
test cases.
The new publications are:
RIF Use Cases and Requirements (minor changes)
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-ucr-20081218/
RIF Core (new design to support both BLD and PRD)
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-core-20081218/
RIF Datatypes and Built-Ins 1.0 (various improvements)
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-dtb-20081218/
RIF Production Rule Dialect (PRD) (operational semantics are
complete)
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-prd-20081218/
RIF Test Cases (early stages of test suite)
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-test-20081218/
Feedback and comments from the community at large are welcome and
should be sent to: public-rif-comments@... before 23 January 2009,
2008. All comments (and responses to them) will be available at the
public archive [5].
Thanks,
Adrian Paschke
[1] http://www.w3.org/2005/rules
[2] http://www.w3.org/2007/03/layerCake.png
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-bld-20080730/
[4] http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-rif-rdf-owl-20080730/
[5] archived at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rif-comments/
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Call for Papers
I-Semantics 2009: International Conference on Semantic Systems
Graz, Austria, 2 - 4 September 2009
http://www.i-semantics.at
Scope
=====
I-SEMANTICS 2009 (www.i-semantics.at) is the 5th conference in the
I-SEMANTICS series and provides a forum for academic and industrial
research & development that focuses on semantic technologies and the
Semantic Web. I-SEMANTICS 2009 will bring together both researchers
and practitioners in the areas of Social Software and the Semantic Web
in order to present and develop innovative ideas that help realising
the "Social Semantic Web" and the "Corporate Semantic Web".
I-SEMANTICS 2009 will be the host of this year`s regional Pragmatic
Web Conference as well as the second edition of the TRIPLIFICATION
Challenge. Further on I-SEMANTICS will be complemented by I-KNOW
(www.i-know.at), the International Conference on Knowledge Management.
This setup is aiming to reflect the increasing importance and
convergence of knowledge management and semantic systems.
Topics
======
Social Software systems such as Blogs and Wikis have led to a dramatic
increase of content available on the Web and within organisations.
Professional content is nowadays to large extents created by
independent individuals instead of large publishers, it is shared and
made available free of charge, and often constantly improved by
collaborative processes. A question that is yet unsolved, is how to
find the relevant information in increasingly large and complex
content bases, a problem where technologies developed in the course of
the Semantic Web initiative can help. Likewise, it will be beneficial
to harness social content production not only for traditional content
but also for the creation and improvement of machine-understandable
knowledge, such as meta-data, taxonomies and ontologies for purposes
on the web as well as within organisations.
The special focus of I-SEMANTICS 2009 is Semantic Web & Semantic
Social Software Pragmatic Aspects for Corporations, Communities and
Individuals".
As a conference aiming to bring together science and industry,
I-SEMANTICS encourages both, scientific (research/application) and
industrial contributions. The following table summarises the topics we
are interested in:
Semantic Social Software
------------------------
Semantic / structured blogging
Semantic / structured tagging
Semantic wikis
Semantic content management systems
Semantic data web: browsers and end-points
Semantic desktop
Semantic mashups
Storage, inference and caching for scalable SSW applications
Semantic Content Engineering
----------------------------
Ontology Engineering & Ontology Merging
Ontology Design Patterns
Ontology Life Cycle Management
Ontology Learning
Ontology and semantic knowledge federation
Linguistic and statistic approaches (text-mining, NLP, etc.) for
structuring and extracting content and entities
Automated annotation, extreme tagging and digital curation approaches
Web of Data and Linked Data
---------------------------
Contributing to the linked data cloud
Triplification approaches
Vocabularies, taxonomies, schemas
Semantic interoperability
Upper level ontologies for open data
Linked Data Applications & Linked Data Browsing
Querying Linked Data
Using Linked Data in Enterprises
Building Blocks for Semantic Web Applications
---------------------------------------------
Rules and ontologies as building blocks for Semantic Web Applications
Existing tools and applications
Application domains
Application stacks for the design of semantic applications
Design processes from requirements to maintenance
Design patterns, Best practices and Reference Models
Persistence of semantic data
Applications utilizing open data sets
Semantic media management and retrieval
Semantic web services
Semantifying legacy web applications and semantic heterogeneous
information systems
Social semantic web and mobile services
User-interface components, template languages supporting semantic
social content
Integration of distributed semantic repositories
Policy Awareness & Policy Aware Web
Pragmatic Web
-------------
For a detailed description of the topics of this year`s Pragmatic Web
Conference (ICPW 09) please go to http://www.pragmaticweb.info/
Theories, Frameworks, Models and Methods...inspired by Pragmatics
and Pragmatism, or less formally, case study reflections on
"pragmatic" uses of the Web that supported the negotiation of
social/work relationships and common ground
Applied pragmatic theory
Communication, dialogue and argumentation models
Pragmatic Web media for communicative actions
Pragmatic collaboration and coordination tools
Pragmatic context models (e.g. within conversation-based collaborations)
Pragmatic design principles for Web contents where trust and
commitment to action play a role
Vocabularies / ontologies for pragmatic primitives (e.g. speech
acts, deontic primitives, etc.)
Linguistic metaphor: its value for framing the Syntactic, Semantic
and Pragmatic Web
Pragmatic model of scientific inquiry in Semantic Web research
Negotiation, mediation, conflict resolution, and coordination
combining existing ontologies and schemata, collaborative ontology
sharing and matching techniques
Integrative frameworks: approaches to integrating insights from
component disciplines (e.g. language-action perspectives,cognition,
linguistics, semiotics, knowledge representation, philosophy,
interaction design, negotiation, media studies)
Pragmatic reasoning supporting adaptive semantic collaboration and
virtual collaborative teams
Sense making, analysis and decision-making in a cooperative or
non-cooperative pragmatic model
Argumentation, dialogue and debate
Personalized / role-based Pragmatic Web Agents and intelligent
conversation or action based web services
Pragmatic Web based human-human and human-computer interaction
Semiotically motivated approaches to information systems
Semiotic engineering and Semiotics in business computing
Semiotic theory, concepts, methods and techniques, and their
practical applications
Studies, Metrics & Benchmarks
-----------------------------
Case studies of semantic systems usage
Use cases for semantic web systems
Evaluation perspectives, methods and Semantic Web research
methodologies
Technology assessment, acceptance/media choice theories
Usability and user interaction with semantic technologies
Analysis of emergent effects within social software
Ontology quality models
Quality analysis of socially generated semantic content
Corporate Semantic Web
----------------------
Semantics, Pragmatics and Semiotics in Organizations
Corporate Semantic Web business applications and deep semantic web
Social software in a corporate context
Semantic Business Information Management
Semantic Enterprise Application Integration
Corporate thesauri, corporate business vocabularies / ontologies and
business rules
Semantic Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Semantic Business Process Management
Semantic Business Information Systems
Semantic technologies in enterprise governance, enterprise decision
management and enterprise operations management
Economic and entrepreneurial aspects of semantic-enriched enterprise
application systems and enterprise service networks
Economies of "attention" for semantic collaboration
Business models for social semantic web applications
Business use and use cases for corporate semantic web systems
Models measuring costs/benefits of semantic technologies in the
sense of entrepreneurial activity
Implementation of gratification and reward systems
Authentication, authorization, pricing, and accounting - policies,
charging and billing models for semantic (social) software
Methodologies for the introduction of enterprise wikis &
semantically enhanced enterprise software
Governance & Social Issues on the Semantic Web
----------------------------------------------
Group management, presence, social interaction enablers in mobile
service platforms
Strategies for implementing architectures of semantic participation
Trust and privacy issues in social software
Analysis of motivations and behavior of social software users
Triplification Challenge
========================
I-SEMANTICS 2009 will also hold the 2nd TRIPLFICATION Challenge. We
encourage submissions such as:
Applications of Linked Data tools and techniques such as for example
Triplify, Virtuoso or D2RQ on custom Web applications and data sets
exposing a large quantity and variety of content.
Implementations of exporters and mappers from existing content
repository formats (such as mbox mailing list archives, BibTeX,
XML-Schemes etc.) into RDF and Linked Data.
Adoptions / configurations of Triplify for standard Web
applications, such as for example Wikis, Weblogs, Webshops, Forums,
Web-Gallery, ERP/CRM systems and Web-calendar software. You can find
popular Web applications for example at SourceForge.
Portings of the Triplify script into other Web application
programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Perl, ASP. The Triplify
script is very small (<300 lines of code) however, the port should be
as compatible as possible with the current reference implementation
but integrate well with the environment given by the programming
language.
Applications showcasing the benefits of Linked Data to end-users
such as for information syndication, specialized search, browsing or
augmentation of content.
The challenge is open to anyone interested in applying Semantic Web
and Linked Data technologies. This might include students, developers,
researchers, and people from industry. Individual or group submissions
are both acceptable.
Please find further information at
http://i-semantics.tugraz.at/triplification_challenge.
Submission Information
======================
All accepted papers of I-SEMANTICS 2009 will appear in the printed
conference proceedings published by the Journal of Universal Computer
Science (JUCS). Selected papers will also be invited for an extension
to be published as journal publication in a special issue of Elsevier
DKE (Data & Knowledge Engineering). Submissions must be original and
must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Articles
should follow the JUCS guidelines for formatting
(http://www.jucs.org/ujs/jucs/info/submissions/style_guide.html) and
must be submitted via the online submission system available at the
conference website as PDF documents (other formats will not be
accepted). For the camera-ready version, we will also need the source
files (Latex, OpenOffice, Word).
Research/Application Papers
---------------------------
Research/Application papers report on novel research and/or
applications relevant to the topics of the conference. The number of
pages of research papers is limited to 8 pages including references
and an optional appendix.
Posters, Demos & Tutorials
--------------------------
The conference also particularly welcomes the submission of posters,
demos, and tutorials. Submissions should consist of a 2-4 page
description that allows us to judge the quality of your presentation.
Descriptions will also be published as part of the proceedings.
Important Dates
===============
Paper Submission Deadline: 9 March 2009
Acceptance of Notification: to be announced
Submission of Camera-Ready Paper: to be announced
Conference: 2 - 4 September 2009
Organising Committee
====================
(in alphabetical order)
Programme Chairs
----------------
* Wernher Behrendt (Salzburg Research)
* Andreas Blumauer (Semantic Web Company)
* Michael Hausenblas (Joanneum Research / DERI Galway)
* Adrian Paschke (Free University of Berlin)
* Klaus Tochtermann (Know Center Graz)
* Hans Weigand (University of Tilburg)
Organisation Chairs
-------------------
* Georg Gntner (Salzburg NewMediaLab)
* Markus Luczak-Rsch (Free University of Berlin)
* Tassilo Pellegrini (Semantic Web School)
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AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Event Processing
AAAI Spring Symposium Wednesday, March 23"25, 2009 at Stanford University
http://icep-aaai09.fzi.de/
Deadline for submissions: October 31st, 2008 (12.00 AM, GMT)
=====================================================================
Event-based systems are now gaining increasing momentum as witnessed
by current efforts in areas including event-driven architectures,
business process management and modeling, Grid computing, Web services
notifications, and message-oriented middleware. They become ever
important in various application domains, ranging from traditional
business applications, like supply-chain management, to the
entertainment industry, like on-line gaming applications.
However, the current status of development is just the tip of the
iceberg compared with the impact that event processing could achieve,
as already reported by market research companies. Indeed, existing
approaches are dealing primarily with the syntactical (but very
scalable) processing of low-level signals and primitive actions, which
usually goes with an inadequate treatment of the notions of time,
context or concurrency (for example, synchronization). For example,
some of the current event processing products are descendents of the
active database research that misses efficient (formal) handling of
termination, priority ordering, and confluence in rule bases.
AI and especially symbolic (for example, logic-based) approaches
provide native background for the (formal) representation of the above
mentioned missing concepts, enabling evolution from event processing
systems into intelligent reactive systems. The work done in temporal
logic, spatial reasoning, knowledge representation, ontologies, and so
on enables more declarative representation of events and actions and
their semantic processing. Contextual reasoning can support complex
event prediction. Transactional logic can be used for ensuring the
consistency between highly dependent processes in a formal way.
On the other side, the heterogeneous and highly distributed nature of
event-processing systems, especially on the web, provides new
challenges for AI and logics, like the contextualized reasoning over
large stream data, scalable mapping of complex structures, or
distributed approximate reasoning, to name but a few.
Possible symposium topics comprise, but are not limited to:
-----------------------------------------------------------
Modeling
* Conceptual modeling in event-driven processing
* Modeling context in event-driven processing
* Event processing languages
* Business rules and event-driven processing
* Editors for complex events
* Complex event processing in highly distributed AI applications
* Modeling reactive systems using event-driven processing
* Event stream processing
* Event-driven architecture for Intelligent Event Processing
Discovery
* Complex event patterns mining
* Temporal aspects in event mining
* Prediction of events
* Discovery of similar event
* Discovery of unknown events
* Dealing with missing events
Reasoning/Processing
* Complex event detection
* The role of logic in event processing
* Distributed reasoning for events
* Reasoning with uncertain events
* Reasoning under real-time constraints
* Complexity in reasoning for Intelligent Event Processing
Advanced Applications
* Distributed event processing as a basis for AI applications
* Financial trading
* Web / Internet of Things
* Entertainment
* Ubiquitous Computing/ Ambient Intelligence
* Business Activity Monitoring
* AI in global epidemiology monitoring systems
* Other domains
Submissions
-----------
Papers should be prepared using the two-column AAAI conference paper
format.
Long papers should be at most six pages; short papers at most two pages.
Papers must be submitted electronically via the symposium website.
Submissions must be in PDF using the workshop submission system for
SSS09, at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sss09
More Information
http://icep-aaai09.fzi.de/
Important Dates
---------------
Deadline for submissions: October 31st, 2008 (12.00 AM, GMT)
Notification of acceptance: December 9th, 2008
Camera-ready versions: January 16th, 2009
Symposium: March 23-25, 2009
Organizing Committee
---------------------
Nenad Stojanovic, (FZI - Research Center for Information Technologies
at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany),
Andreas Abecker (FZI, Germany),
Opher Etzion (IBM Research Lab, Haifa, Israel).
Adrian Paschke (Corporate Semantic Web, Free University Berlin,
Germany and RuleML Inc, Canada)
Program Committee
------------------
Alex Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd. UK
Brian Connell, WestGlobal, Ireland
Christian Brelage, SAP, Germany
Darko Anicic, FZI at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany
David Luckham, Stanford University, USA
Dieter Gawlick, Oracle, USA
Gregoris Mentzas, ICCS, University of Athens, Greece
Jean-Pierre Lorre, EBM Websourcing, France
José Júlio Alferes, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia/Universidade
Nova de
Lisboa, Portugal
Jun-jang Jeng, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Ljiljana Stojanovic, FZI at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Michal Rosen-Zvi, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Pedro Bizarro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Prasad Vishnubhotla, IBM Software Group, USA
Rainer von Ammon, CITT, Germany
Ronen Vaisenberg UC Irvine, USA
Segev Wasserkrug, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
3rd International Conference on
Adaptive Business Information Systems
Leipzig, Germany, 23-25 March
http://siwn.org.uk/2009leipzig/ABIS09.htm
Call for Papers
Second SIWN Congress (SIWN 2009)
collocated with
SOFTWARE, AGENTS, AND SERVICES FOR BUSINESS, RESEARCH, AND E-SCIENCES
(SABRE 2009)
============================================================
Papers of the conference will be invited to publish
their revised versions in a journal issue of the
International Journal Communications of SIWN
(CoSIWN) (ISSN 1757-4439)
============================================================
Overview
--------
Information Technologies in their broad sense have been profoundly
changing
the ways, the processes and the philosophies of businesses. Adaptive
business applications support processes whose workflows, user
interfaces and
business rules often change. The need for these dynamic applications is
greater now than ever before and business systems in every perspective,
management, workflow, information, infrastructure, etc. are evolving
themselves towards being autonomic, adaptive, self-managing,
self-organizing, and so forth. Emerging technologies such business rules
management systems, complex event processing engines, event-driven
business
process management tools, corporate semantic web technologies, etc.
are now
gaining increasing momentum as they promise enhanced adaptive and agility
capabilities to businesses, in order to sense unexpected environmental
changes and to respond to business opportunities or to avoid business
risks
that turn up in a turbulent and quickly changing business environment.
ABIS 2009 aims to provide a premier forum for stimulating exchange and
in-depth discussion of advances, challenges and emerging areas in adaptive
business information systems.
Conference Venue
------------------------
Next year in March the European SIWN 2009 roof conference (see
http://siwn.org.uk/2009leipzig/), which hosts ABIS'09
(http://siwn.org.uk/2009leipzig/ABIS09.htm), will take place in Leipzig
together with the SABRE 2009 conference (see
http://sabreconference.wifa.uni-leipzig.de/frontend/index.php). Moreover,
that year will be the 600 anniversary of Leipzig University.
Thus, after a series of successful ABIS conferences the 3rd ABIS'09
will be
something very special and collocated with several other conferences and
events.
Deadlines
---------
05 December 2008 Submission of manuscripts
05 January 2009 Notification of acceptance
01 February 2009 Camera-Ready Version (CRV) & Presentation files due
23-25 March 2009 Conferences
Topics of Interest
------------------
Topics of particular interest include (but not limited to) the followings.
(1) Enterprise Information / Management Systems
- business process integration
- business process management
- agile business process management
- event-driven business process management
- business rules and rule-based approaches for the business
- enterprise resource planning
- corporate semantic web
- enterprise workflow management
- inventory / warehouse management
- management information systems
- manufacturing resource planning
- material requirement planning
- product data management
- product life cycle management
- production and operation management
- production planning and control
- total quality management
- business / IT service management and governance
(2) Business Collaboration
- business coalition
- business partnership
- coalition formation
- collaborative e-business
- agent-based e-business
- enterprise federation
- enterprise integration
- global enterprise
- global information systems
- inter-enterprise transaction and workflow management
- inter-organizational systems
- corporate semantic web collaboration systems
- knowledge network and management
- virtual / networked enterprises
- workflow interoperation
(3) Supply Chains and Logistics
- cooperation of supply chains
- coordination / optimization in supply chains
- customer / supplier relationship management
- demand chain management
- e-logistics
- global supply networks
- inventory management in supply chains
- logistics and transportation systems
- modeling of supply chains
- multi-agent negotiations in supply chains
- supply chain design and performance evaluation
- supply chain dynamic formation
- supply chain management
(4) E-Business
- agent mediated auction mechanisms
- agent mediated bidding and negotiation
- agent-mediated e-commerce
- business rules in e-business
- authentication / privacy / security in e-business
- B2B, B2C, C2C models
- e-banking
- e-bidding and e-negotiation
- e-business design and developments
- e-business process modeling, integration, and monitoring
- e-business security, trust and privacy
- e-commerce
- e-commerce content management
- electronic data interchange
- e-marketing and e-advertising
- e-marketplaces
- e-payment
- e-taxation
- e-work
- global e-business
- mobile commerce
(5) Business Intelligence
- artificial neural networks / evolutionary computation in business
- data mining in business
- group decision systems in business
- information retrieval in business
- intelligent agents in business
- intelligent decision support systems in business
- knowledge based / expert systems in business
- knowledge management and ontology in business
- machine learning in business
- multi-linguistic user interfaces in business
- natural language processing in business
- particle swarm optimization / ant colony optimization in business
- corporate semantic web in business
- soft computing / fuzzy logic in business
- swarm / collective / social intelligence in business
(6) On-Demand Business
- adaptive business
- adaptive enterprises
- agile business
- agile enterprise
- business adaptation / evolution
- business process re-engineering
- emergent enterprise
- enterprise re-engineering
- holonic enterprise
- on-demand e-business
- utility computing
- service oriented computing
- re-configurable enterprises
- re-configurable / agile / holonic manufacturing system
- responsive business
- responsive enterprise
- self-configuration of enterprise systems
- self-organized production system
- self-organizing business
- self-organizing enterprises
(7) Information Infrastructures of Businesses
- complex event processing
- business rules and rule-based approaches
- distributed object systems
- e-business applications and integration
- electronic data interchange
- enterprise (distributed) computing
- enterprise applications interoperability
- enterprise applications integration
- enterprise collaborative computing
- corporate semantic web and business ontologies
- enterprise distributed intelligence
- enterprise Grid computing
- enterprise internet
- enterprise middleware
- enterprise portals
- enterprise service bus
- event-driven architectures
- enterprise service oriented architectures
- enterprise web services
- enterprise XML
Type of contributions and instructions
-----------------------------------------------------
ABIS 2009 Technical Committee seeks original contributions in all areas of
Adaptive Business Information Systems.
Submissions must be original contributions that neither have been
published
nor have been under review for publication elsewhere. All submissions must
be in English and no more than 7 pages in the format specified in the
Instructions for Authors, which are available on
http://siwn.org.uk/press/ita.htm.
To submit a paper, a file in pdf format containing the manuscript of
submission must be uploaded to the ABIS 2009 submission website at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=abis09
All manuscripts submitted will be sent to 3 members of the International
Technical Program Committees of the Conferences for peer reviews and
assessed according to the technical merits and presentation, on which the
acceptance decision will be based.
Accepted papers will be included in the CD-ROM Proceedings of SIWN 2009,
which will be available for participants at the Conferences to promote the
widest exchange and dissemination at the Conferences.
Accepted papers of the conference will be invited to publish their revised
versions in the international journal <<Communications of SIWN>> (CoSIWN,
http://siwn.org.uk/cosiwn/) (ISSN 1757-4439) after the conference. Details
can be seen on the SIWN 2009 website.
Proposals of workshops, invited sessions and tutorials on emerging
areas are
welcome. Please discuss your proposals with Prof. Dr. Adrian Paschke, the
Chair of ABIS 2009 Technical Committee (abis09@...).
Program Committee
-----------------------------
+ Esma Aimeur, Université de Montréal, CA
+ Soeren Auer, University Leipzig, Germany
+ Matteo Baldoni, University of Torino, Italy
+ Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs, USA
+ Paul Buhler, College of Charleston, USA
+ Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
+ Jorge Cuellar, Siemens Corporate Research, Germany
+ Jiangbo Dang, Siemens Corporate Research, Germany
+ Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia
+ Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Vienna
+ Agata Filipowska, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
+ Rony G. Flatscher, Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Austria
+ Dragan Gasevic, Simon Fraser University, Canada
+ Adrian Giurca, Technical University of Cottbus, Germany
+ Robert Golan, DB Mind, USA
+ Jaap Gordijn, Vrije Universiteit, NL
+ Dominic Greenwood, Whitestein Technologies AG, USA
+ Steven Guan, Xian Jiatong-Liverpool University, China
+ Oliver Guenther, HU Berlin, Germany
+ Ulrich Hasenkamp, Uni Marburg, Germany
+ Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
+ Herbert Kopfer, Uni Bremen, Germany
+ Kyriakos Kritikos, ICS-FORTH, Greece
+ Leora Morgenstern, IBM, US
+ Gero Muehl, TU Berlin, Germany
+ Joerg Mueller, TU Clausthal, Germany
+ Dirk Neumann Albert-Ludwig University Freiburg, Germany
+ Volker Nissen, Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, Germany
+ Andreas Oberweis, Uni Karlsruhe, Germany
+ Alexander Pokahr, University of Hamburg, Germany
+ Dumitru Roman, DERI Innsbruck, Austria
+ Graham Rong, MIT, USA
+ Kurt Sandkuhl, Jönköping University, Sweden
+ Matthias Schumann, Uni Goettingen, Germany
+ Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia
+ Susanne Strahringer, TU Dresden, Germany
+ Vijay Sugumaran, Oakland University, USA
+ Klaus Turowski, Uni Augsburg, Germany
+ Jan Vanthienen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
+ Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, Netherlands
+ Gerhard Weiss, Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH, Germany
+ Yingjie Yang, De Montfort University, UK
=====================================================================
In Co-operation with:
Corporate Semantic Web (http://www.corporate-semantic-web.de/) funded by
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the BMBF
Innovation Initiative for the New German Länder - Entrepreneurial Regions,
"InnoProfile”
RuleML (http://www.ruleml.org/) " Realize your knowledge
CITT (http://www.citt-online.com/) - Centrum für Informations-Technologie
Transfer (CITT) GmbH
=====================================================================
Contact
Prof. Dr. Adrian Paschke
AG-CSW (Corporate Semantic Web)
Institute of Informatics
Free University Berlin
paschke@...
Dear Colleagues,
Please consider to participate in RuleML-2008 (http://2008.ruleml.org/)
which will be in about 3 weeks in Orlando, Florida, collocated with the
world largest Business Rules Forum.
We have a very interesting program with renowned speakers, a prestigious
rules Challenge, a special session + panel about Rule standards, etc.
We also edit a special issue of IEEE TKDE. Please consider to
contribute to
this issue and forward the open call for contributions (below) to your
interested colleagues.
Thanks,
Adrian
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===========================================================================
CALL FOR Contributions
Rule Representation, Interchange and Reasoning in Distributed,
Heterogeneous Environments
Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Guest Editors: N. Bassiliades, G. Governatori, A. Paschke, J. Dix
===========================================================================
In recent years rule based technologies have enjoyed remarkable
adoption in
two areas: (1) Business Rule Processing and (2) Web-Centered
Reasoning. The
first trend is caused by the software development life cycle, which needs
to be accelerated at reduced cost. The second trend is related to the
Semantic Web and Service-oriented technologies, which aim to turn the Web
into a huge repository of cross-referenced, machine-understandable
data and
processes. For both trends, rules can be used to extract, derive,
transform, and integrate information in a platform-independent manner.
While early rule engines and environments were complex, expensive to
maintain, and not very user friendly, the current generation of rule
technology provides enhanced usability, scalability and performance,
and is
less costly. A general advantage of using rules is that they are usually
represented in a platform independent manner, often using XML. This fits
well into today's distributed, heterogeneous Web-based system
environments.
Rules represented in standardized Web formats can be discovered,
interchanged and invoked at runtime within and across Web systems, and can
be interpreted and executed on any platform.
This special issue solicits state-of-the-art approaches, solutions and
applications in the area of Rule Representation, Reasoning and Interchange
in the context of distributed, (partially) open, heterogeneous
environments, such as the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems,
Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing. We strongly
advise that solicited contributions should clearly identify the target
class of applications they enable.
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Topics
=======
Original contributions, not currently under review or accepted by another
journal, are solicited in relevant areas including (but not limited
to) the
following:
- Rule Representation and Languages
* Rule languages for exchanging and processing information through the
web
* Representation and meta-annotation of rules and rule sets for
publication and interchange
* Event-driven/action rule languages and models
* Rule-based event processing languages and rule-based complex event
processing
* Modeling of executable rule specifications and tool support
* Natural-language processing of rules
* Graphical processing, modeling and rendering of rules
* Rules in web 2.0, web 3.0, semantic web technologies and web
intelligence research
- Reasoning and Rule Engines
* Execution models, rule engines, and environments
* Rule-based (multi-valued) reasoning with and representing uncertain
and fuzzy information
* Rule-based reasoning with non-monotonic negation, modalities,
deontic,
temporal, priority, scoped or other rule qualifications
* Rule-based default reasoning with default logic, defeasible
logic, and
answer set programming
* Compilation vs. interpretation approaches of rules
* Hybrid rule systems
- Rule Interchange and Integration
* Interchange and refactoring of rule bases in heterogeneous execution
environments
* Rule-based agility and its role in middleware
* Communication between rule based systems using interchange
formats and
processing / communication middleware
* Information integration of external data and domain knowledge into
rules
* Homogeneous and heterogeneous integration of rules and ontologies
* Extraction and reengineering of platform-independent,
interchangeable
rules and rule models from existing platform-specific resources
* Rule interchange standards and related industry interchange formats
* Incorporation of rule technology into distributed enterprise
application architectures
* Interoperation between different rule formats and ontological domain
conceptualization
* Translation of interchangeable and domain-independent rule
formats and
rule models into executable technical rule specifications
- Rule Engineering and Repositories
* Verification and validation of interchanged rule bases in
heterogeneous execution environments
* Practical solutions tackling the real-world software engineering
requirements of rule-based systems in open, distributed environments
* Collaborative authoring, modeling and engineering of rule
specifications and rule repositories
* Management and maintenance of distributed rule bases and rule
repositories during their lifecycle
- Web Rule Applications
* Applications and integration of rules in web standards
* Applications of rules in the semantic web and pragmatic web
* Applications based on (semantic) web rule standardization or
standards-proposing efforts
* Applications of rules in e.g. legal reasoning, compliance rules,
security, government, security, risk management, trust and proof
reasoning, etc.
* E-contracting and automated negotiations with rule-based declarative
strategies
* Specification, execution and management of rule-based policies and
electronic contracts
* Rule-based software agents and (web) services
* Theoretical and/or empirical evaluation of rule-based system
performance and scalability
=======================
Submission Guidelines
=======================
Prospective authors should prepare manuscripts according to the
Information
for Authors as published in recent issues of the journal or at
http://www.computer.org/tkde/. Note that mandatory over-length page
charges
and color charges will apply.
Manuscripts should be submitted through the online IEEE manuscript
submission system at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee.
Updated information of this call can be found at
http://lpis.csd.auth.gr/publications/tkde-si/.
=======================
Schedule
=======================
Deadline for paper submission: March 1, 2009
Completion of first review: June 19, 2009
Minor/Major revision due: August 21, 2009
Final decision notification: November 6, 2009
Publication materials due: December 4, 2009
Publication date (tentative): July 2010
=======================
Guest Editors
=======================
Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
nbassili AT csd.auth.gr
Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia
guido.governatori AT nicta.com.au
Adrian Paschke, Free University Berlin, Corporate Semantic Web, Germany
paschke AT inf.fu-berlin.de
Jurgen Dix, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
dix AT tu-clausthal.de
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AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Event Processing
AAAI Spring Symposium Wednesday, March 23"25, 2009 at Stanford University
http://icep-aaai08.fzi.de/
=====================================================================
Event-based systems are now gaining increasing momentum as witnessed
by current efforts in areas including event-driven architectures,
business process management and modeling, Grid computing, Web services
notifications, and message-oriented middleware. They become ever
important in various application domains, ranging from traditional
business applications, like supply-chain management, to the
entertainment industry, like on-line gaming applications.
However, the current status of development is just the tip of the
iceberg compared with the impact that event processing could achieve,
as already reported by market research companies. Indeed, existing
approaches are dealing primarily with the syntactical (but very
scalable) processing of low-level signals and primitive actions, which
usually goes with an inadequate treatment of the notions of time,
context or concurrency (for example, synchronization). For example,
some of the current event processing products are descendents of the
active database research that misses efficient (formal) handling of
termination, priority ordering, and confluence in rule bases.
AI and especially symbolic (for example, logic-based) approaches
provide native background for the (formal) representation of the above
mentioned missing concepts, enabling evolution from event processing
systems into intelligent reactive systems. The work done in temporal
logic, spatial reasoning, knowledge representation, ontologies, and so
on enables more declarative representation of events and actions and
their semantic processing. Contextual reasoning can support complex
event prediction. Transactional logic can be used for ensuring the
consistency between highly dependent processes in a formal way.
On the other side, the heterogeneous and highly distributed nature of
event-processing systems, especially on the web, provides new
challenges for AI and logics, like the contextualized reasoning over
large stream data, scalable mapping of complex structures, or
distributed approximate reasoning, to name but a few.
Possible symposium topics comprise, but are not limited to:
-----------------------------------------------------------
Modeling
* Conceptual modeling in event-driven processing
* Modeling context in event-driven processing
* Event processing languages
* Business rules and event-driven processing
* Editors for complex events
* Complex event processing in highly distributed AI applications
* Modeling reactive systems using event-driven processing
* Event stream processing
* Event-driven architecture for Intelligent Event Processing
Discovery
* Complex event patterns mining
* Temporal aspects in event mining
* Prediction of events
* Discovery of similar event
* Discovery of unknown events
* Dealing with missing events
Reasoning/Processing
* Complex event detection
* The role of logic in event processing
* Distributed reasoning for events
* Reasoning with uncertain events
* Reasoning under real-time constraints
* Complexity in reasoning for Intelligent Event Processing
Advanced Applications
* Distributed event processing as a basis for AI applications
* Financial trading
* Web / Internet of Things
* Entertainment
* Ubiquitous Computing/ Ambient Intelligence
* Business Activity Monitoring
* AI in global epidemiology monitoring systems
* Other domains
Submissions
-----------
Papers should be prepared using the two-column AAAI conference paper
format.
Long papers should be at most six pages; short papers at most two pages.
Papers must be submitted electronically via the symposium website.
Submissions must be in PDF using the workshop submission system for
SSS09, at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sss09
More Information
http://icep-aaai09.fzi.de/
Important Dates
---------------
Deadline for submissions: October 31st, 2008 (12.00 AM, GMT)
Notification of acceptance: December 9th, 2008
Camera-ready versions: January 16th, 2009
Symposium: March 23-25, 2009
Organizing Committee
---------------------
Nenad Stojanovic, chair, (FZI - Research Center for Information
Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany),
Andreas Abecker (FZI, Germany),
Opher Etzion (IBM Research Lab, Haifa, Israel).
Adrian Paschke (RuleML Inc, Canada and Free University Berlin, Germany)
Program Committee
------------------
Alex Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd. UK
Brian Connell, WestGlobal, UK
Christian Brelage, SAP, Germany
Darko Anicic, FZI at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany
David Luckham, Stanford University, USA
Dieter Gawlick, Oracle, USA
Gregoris Mentzas, ICCS, University of Athens, Greece
Jean-Pierre Lorre, EBM Websourcing, France
José Júlio Alferes, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia/Universidade
Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Jun-jang Jeng, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Ljiljana Stojanovic, FZI at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Michal Rosen-Zvi, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Pedro Bizarro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Prasad Vishnubhotla, IBM Software Group, USA
Rainer von Ammon, CITT, Germany
(to be completed)
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2008 International RuleML Symposium
on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008)
October 30-31, 2008, Orlando, Florida
http://2008.ruleml.org
===================================================
Call for Lightning/Highlight Talks & Fast Abstracts
===================================================
Lightning Talks
---------------
A lightning talk is a five-minute presentation on any topic of interest to
the RuleML community; it can be a new idea, a technology, an
evaluation, an
observation, a complaint, an explanation, a suggestion, a report of
success
or failure, a call to action, a description of a technique, or a
lament. In
general, it is supposed to be a short visionary talk which should initiate
discussion. If you are a rule developer working on an exciting project and
you do not have the time to submit a full paper, Lightning talks are a
great way to interact with the RuleML community and receive feedback on
your ideas. Lightning talks are presented back-to-back with a strictly
enforced five minute limit, so make sure that you can fit your
presentation
within this time span.
People interested at giving a lightning talk during RuleML-2008 should
show
their their interest by sending an email to ruleml2008@... by
August 13, 2008, including a title and a 250-word abstract of their
intended talk.
Decisions will be notified by September 1st.
Highlight Talks
---------------
We invite the submission of outstanding full papers that have been
published between 2007 and the submission deadline (August 13,2008).
Publications that are "in press" and already linked on the journal web
site
are also welcome. A group of experts will select the papers to be
presented
at the meeting considering the impact of the work on the field, the
likelihood that the work makes a good presentation, and the relevance for
the topics of RuleML-2008, in general.
Submissions should be sent directly to the RuleML-2008 chairs at
ruleml2008@... by August 13, 2008, and must include the
following:
* Name/affiliation/email of submitter (assumed to be the presenter; note
that the presenter cannot change because the identity and ability to
present of that person will be an essential selection criterion).
* Names/affiliations/email of ALL coauthors (note: any name appearing on a
published paper has to be added here). Note that all co-authors have to
agree to the submission and that it is the responsibility of the
submitter to guarantee that all co- author email addresses are correct
(email notifications of the submission will be sent to all co-authors).
* Additional contact information (for presenter).
* A 250-word abstract-like argument that explains how the submitted
paper(s) suit the goal of presenting highlights that impacted the
field.
* Sources of original publication(s) (Year, Journal, Vol., pages).
* PDF with paper(s) (note: in case of the submission of 2 papers, both
have
to be merged into one single PDF; all reviews will be based on the
content of this PDF).
* Optional: link to Google Video demonstrating presentation skills of
presenter.
* Note that we will need PDF submissions; the system will neither be able
to handle ASCII, nor Word, nor LaTeX, nor anything other than standard
PDF. It is the responsibility of the submitter to verify that the
PDF is
completely viewable/printable by all major operating systems (LINUX,
MacOS, Windows).
* Each presenter can submit a maximum of one application to present a
highlight. The maximal number of submissions per author/co-author is 5.
All submissions will be evaluated by a group of reviewers.
Reviewers will consider the following criteria:
* Relevance, interest, and value of the topic to RuleML-2008 attendees,
* Impact of the paper(s) on rules (while the impact of papers on
science is
not fully reflected by ISI/Google-like impact factors or high number of
downloads, high values in such factors will clearly stand as a strong
argument for acceptance),
* "Presentability" of the work to a large, diverse audience,
* Quality of oral presentations by the submitter (if none).
These "soft" criteria attempt to capture the underlying concept,
namely the
presentation of exciting and thought-provoking seminars that will both
contribute to the success and attraction-value of RuleML-2008 and to the
impact the meeting has on advancing rule interchange and applications. The
criterion of "presentability" accounts for the fact that some papers that
will completely change the field, or will become citation records may not
translate to exciting seminars.
The selected Highlights will be presented in a special track during the
RuleML-2008 Symposium. All presentations will have to be completed within
20 minutes and will be followed by 5-minute discussions. While presenters
are expected to focus mostly on the chosen paper(s), short infusions of
more recent data are welcome.
Decisions will be notified by September 1st.
Fast Abstracts
--------------
Fast Abstracts at RuleML-2008 are short presentations, either on new ideas
or work in progress, or radical opinions that can address any issue
relevant to RuleML-2008. Fast Abstracts provide an opportunity to receive
early feedback from the community. Contributions are particularly
solicited
from industrial practitioners and academics that may not have been able to
prepare full papers, but seek an opportunity to engage with the RuleML
community.
Fast Abstracts should be 4-pages long, and must be formatted in LNCS
format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
The submission deadline is August 13, 2008.
Submissions should be sent directly by email to ruleml2008@...,
and they will be refereed on the relevance to RuleML 2008, but also on
their novelty of idea and/oor on their capacity to stimulate and intrigue
the reader. Accepted contributions will be published in electronic
form (at
the Symposium's Web site and on CD), and an author will deliver a short
talk in the Fast Abstracts track at the conference. Decisions will be
notified by September 1st. Authors of accepted fast abstracts must provide
the camera ready version by September 15. At least one author of each
accepted Fast Abstract is expected to register to the conference before or
on September 15.
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The RuleML-2008 Symposium
=========================
Collocated with the 11th International Business Rules Forum, the 2008
International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008)
is the second symposium (after last year's highly successful RuleML-2007 -
http://2007.ruleml.org/) devoted to work on practical distributed rule
technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for
rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent
Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented
Computing Applications. The RuleML symposium is a new kind of event where
the Web Rules and Logic community joins the established, practically
oriented Forum of the Business Rules community (
http://www.businessrulesforum.com) to help cross- fertilizing between Web
and Business Logic technology.
The goal of RuleML-2008 is to bring together rule system providers,
representatives of, and participants in, rule standardization efforts
(e.g., SBVR, RuleML, RIF, PRR, CL) and open source rules communities
(e.g.,
jBoss Rules, CLIPS/Jess, Prova, OO jDrew, Mandarax, XSB, XQuery),
practitioners and technical experts, developers, users, and researchers.
They will be offered an exciting venue to exchange new ideas, practical
developments and experiences on issues pertinent to the interchange and
application of rules in open distributed environments such as the Web.
The Symposium gives emphasis on practical issues such as technical
contributions and show case demonstrations of effective, practical,
deployable rule-based technologies, rule interchange formats and
applications as well as discussions of lessons learned that have to be
taken into account when employing rule-based technologies in distributed,
(partially) open, heterogeneous environments. We also welcome groundwork
that helps to build an effective, practical, and deployable rule standard,
improve rule technology, provide better understanding of the integration
and interchange of rules, and make the current generation of rule engines
and rule technology more usable for advanced Web and Service Oriented
Architectures.
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RuleML-2008 Highlights
* Keynote speakers:
o Michael Kifer (State University of New York at Stony Brook), on WC3's
Rule Interchange Format (RIF). Joint keynote between RuleML-2008 and
RR2008.
o David Luckham (Stanford University, USA) on complex event
processing.
o Paul Haley (Haley Systems, Inc) on business rules.
o Benjamin Grosof (Vulcan, Inc.) on the SILK KRR system of the
HALO project.
* Joint Lunch Panel held in conjunction with the co-located Business Rules
Forum on "Rules on the Web".
* Lightning talks/Highlight talks
* A RuleML-2008 Challenge with prizes to demonstrate tools, use cases, and
applications.
* Industry, demo and scientific research & development papers and
presentations advancing and assessing the state of the art in event and
rule-based systems selected in a peer-reviewed fashion by an
international program committee.
* Papers will be published as a Springer LNCS proceedings. A special issue
(IEEE TKDE pending) will be forthcoming.
* Social events to promote networking among the symposium delegates in an
informal setting.
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Due to a number of requests we have decided to extend
the submission deadline for challenge/demo papers by 2 weeks.
NEW deadline for challenge/demo paper submission: July 2
Accepted demo papers are published in Springer LNCS Proceedings.
=====================================================================
RuleML-2008 Challenge
The RuleML-2008 Challenge is one of the highlights of RuleML-2008. It
addresses the system demonstration for practical use of rule technologies
in distributed and/or Web-based environments. The focus of the
challenge is
on rule technologies (including rule languages and engines),
interoperation
and interchange. The challenge offers participants the chance to
demonstrate their commercial and open source tools, use cases, and
applications. Prizes will be awarded to the two best applications. All
accepted demos will be presented in a special Challenge Session.
Submissions to the RuleML Challenge 2008 consist of a demo paper (up to 8
pages), describing the demo show case, and a link to more information
about
the demo/show case, e.g. a project site, an online demonstration, a
presentation, or a download site. Demo papers should contain a substantial
presentation of the system to enable a proper evaluation of the techniques
used. The content of papers should be sufficiently substantial for
publication in the conference proceedings. The demo paper should be
submitted through EasyChair, while the demo link should be submitted
through the Challenge Website, after which it will be publicly available
immediately.
NEW deadline for challenge/demo paper submission: July 2
More details in: http://2008.ruleml.org/challenge.php
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=====================================================================
Co-located with:
The 11th International Business Rules Forum
http://www.businessrulesforum.com
=====================================================================
Sponsored by:
Gold level : Vulcan Inc
Silver level: Model Systems
Bronze level: STI Innsbruck, ruleCore, JBoss
Sponsoring opportunities: http://2008.ruleml.org/sponsoring/
=====================================================================
In Co-operation with:
AAAI, W3C, BPM-Forum, Business Rules Forum , ECCAI, OASIS, OMG,
Dallas Rules Group, Belgium Business Rules Forum,
MIT Sloan CIO Symposium,
ACM, ACM SIGART, ACM SIGMIS, ACM SIGWEB, Open Research Society,
IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society
IEEE SMCS TC on Intelligent Internet Systems
IEEE SMCS TC on Distributed Intelligent Systems
IEEE Computer Society TC on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems
=====================================================================
Media Partners:
Springer LNCS, MoDo Marketing
=====================================================================
Dear Colleagues,
I'd like to draw your attention to RuleML-2008
(http://2008.ruleml.org) and ask you to consider submitting a paper or
demo (or both) to it.
We are building an interesting program. Highlights include:
- Keynotes:
* David Luckham (Stanford University, USA) on complex event processing.
* Michael Kifer (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA),
on W3C's Rule Interchange Format (RIF).
* Paul Haley (Haley Ltd) on business rules.
* 4th speaker (pending)
- Joint Lunch Panel with the Business Rules Forum about “Rules on the Web”
- RuleML-2008 Challenge with prestigious prices
- Lightning talks / Highlight talks
Papers will be published in Springer LNCS proceedings and a special
journal issue (IEEE TKDE pending) is forthcoming.
Please find below the link to the CFP. I would also like to ask you to
forward the CFP to your colleagues.
http://2008.ruleml.org
Deadline 2 June
CFP: http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ruleML/cfp.pdf
The submission Site is open:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2008
PRESS RELEASE can be found at: http://www.targetwire.com/vpo/rm/
Sponsoring opportunities: http://2008.ruleml.org/sponsoring/
Thanks a lot.
Best regards,
Adrian
[ our apologies should you receive this message more than one time ]
2008 International RuleML Symposium
on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008)
October 30-31, 2008, Orlando, Florida
http://2008.ruleml.org
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Deadlines are approaching: June 2
Proceedings published by Springer LNCS
Submission Site is open:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2008
PRESS RELEASE: http://www.targetwire.com/vpo/rm/
Sponsoring opportunities: http://2008.ruleml.org/sponsoring/
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=====================================================================
Co-located with:
The 11th International Business Rules Forum
http://www.businessrulesforum.com
=====================================================================
Sponsored by:
Silver level: Model Systems
Bronze level: STI Innsbruck, ruleCore, JBoss
=====================================================================
In Co-operation with:
AAAI, W3C, BPM-Forum, Business Rules Forum , ECCAI, OASIS, OMG,
European Business Rules Conference, Belgium Business Rules Forum,
MIT Sloan CIO Symposium,
ACM, ACM SIGART, ACM SIGMIS, ACM SIGWEB, Open Research Society,
IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society
IEEE SMCS TC on Intelligent Internet Systems
IEEE SMCS TC on Distributed Intelligent Systems
IEEE Computer Society TC on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems
=====================================================================
Media Partners:
Springer LNCS, MoDo Marketing
=====================================================================
Call for Papers
Collocated with the 11th International Business Rules Forum, the 2008
International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications
(RuleML-2008) is
the second symposium (after last year's highly successful RuleML-2007 -
http://2007.ruleml.org/) devoted to work on practical distributed rule
technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for
rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent
Multi-
Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing
Applications. The RuleML symposium is a new kind of event where the Web
Rules
and Logic community joins the established, practically oriented Forum
of the
Business Rules community (http://www.businessrulesforum.com) to help
cross-
fertilizing between Web and Business Logic technology.
The goal of RuleML-2008 is to bring together rule system providers,
representatives of, and participants in, rule standardization efforts
(e.g.,
SBVR, RuleML, RIF, PRR, CL) and open source rules communities (e.g., jBoss
Rules, CLIPS/Jess, Prova, OO jDrew, Mandarax, XSB, XQuery),
practitioners and
technical experts, developers, users, and researchers. They will be
offered
an exciting venue to exchange new ideas, practical developments and
experiences on issues pertinent to the interchange and application of
rules
in open distributed environments such as the Web.
The Symposium gives emphasis on practical issues such as technical
contributions and show case demonstrations of effective, practical,
deployable rule-based technologies, rule interchange formats and
applications
as well as discussions of lessons learned that have to be taken into
account
when employing rule-based technologies in distributed, (partially) open,
heterogeneous environments. We also welcome groundwork that helps to
build an
effective, practical, and deployable rule standard, improve rule
technology,
provide better understanding of the integration and interchange of
rules, and
make the current generation of rule engines and rule technology more
usable
for advanced Web and Service Oriented Architectures.
RuleML-2008 highlights include:
- Plenary keynotes, highlight/lightning session, and a joint Boxed Lunch
Panel
about "Rules on the Web" together with the Business Rules Forum
featuring
prominent and visionary speakers.
- Keynote speakers:
* Michael Kifer (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA),
on W3C's Rule Interchange Format (RIF).
* David Luckham (Stanford University, USA) on complex event processing.
* Paul Haley (Haley Ltd) on business rules.
- A RuleML-2008 Challenge with prizes to demonstrate tools, use cases, and
applications
- Industry, demo and scientific research & development papers and
presentations advancing and assessing the state of the art in event and
rule- based systems selected in a peer-reviewed fashion by an
international
program committee
- Invited talks given by leaders from industry and world-class experts
featuring practical topics on event and rule-based computing and
industry
success stories
- Social events to promote networking among the symposium delegates in an
informal setting.
Topics of Interest
------------------
We invite industry practitioners, rule system providers, technical experts
and developers, rule users, and researchers who are using rule-based
systems,
developing systems and applications, or exploring problems and best
practices
(especially in the areas of system interoperability, rule interchange, or
business agility), to share their ideas, results, and experiences. We
invite
submissions related (but not limited to) to one or more of the following
topics:
- Representation and meta-annotation of rules and rule sets (modules) for
publication and interchange
- Collaborative authoring, modeling and engineering of rule specifications
and rule repositories
- Information integration of external data and domain knowledge into rules
- Homogeneous and heterogeneous integration of rules and ontologies
- Rules in Web 2.0 and Web 3.0
- Rules in Semantic Web Technologies
- Rules in Web Intelligence Research
- Hybrid rule systems
- Management and maintenance of distributed rule bases and rule
repositories
during their lifecycle
- Interchange and refactoring of rule bases in heterogeneous execution
environments
- Verification and validation of interchanged rule bases in heterogeneous
execution environments
- Contributions on effective, practical, and deployable Web standards on
rules as well as special purpose, vertical domain rule languages
- Rule-based agility and its role in middleware
- Communication between rule based systems using interchange formats and
processing / communication middleware
- Applications, products, research, and development in rule-based,
distributed complex event processing, event communication and reaction
rules
- Event-driven/action rule languages and models
- Rule-based Event Processing Languages and rule-based CEP
- Rule patterns and CEP patterns
- Practical solutions tackling the real-world Software Engineering
requirements of rule-based systems in open, distributed environments
- Modeling of executable rule specifications and tool support
- Execution models, rule engines, and environments
- Compilation vs. interpretation approaches of rules
- Applications and integration of rules in web standards
- Rule-based software agents and (web) services
- Applications of rules in the Semantic Web and Pragmatic Web
- Comparing and advancing the state of current business rules engines and
management system tools
- Rule interchange standards and related industry interchange formats
- Interoperation between different rule formats and ontological domain
conceptualization
- Applications based on (Semantic) Web rule standardization or standards-
proposing efforts
- Translation of interchangeable and domain-independent rule formats and
rule
models into executable technical rule specifications
- Extraction and reengineering of platform-independent, interchangeable
rules
and rule models from existing platform-specific resources
- Natural-language processing of rules
- Graphical processing, modelling and rendering of rules
- Incorporation of rule technology into distributed enterprise application
architectures
- Rule-based policies and electronic contracts: their specification,
execution and management
- Languages for exchanging and processing information through the web
- E-contracting and automated negotiations with rule-based declarative
strategies
- Applications of rules in e.g. legal reasoning, compliance rules,
security,
IT government, security, risk management, trust and proof reasoning,
etc.
- Rule-based (multi-valued) reasoning with and representing uncertain and
fuzzy information
- Rule-based reasoning with non-monotonic negation, modalities, deontic,
temporal, priority, scoped or other rule qualifications
- Rule-based default reasoning with default logic, defeasible logic, and
answer set programming
RuleML-2008 Challenge
---------------------
The RuleML-2008 Challenge is one of the highlights of RuleML-2008. It
addresses the system demonstration for practical use of rule
technologies in
distributed and/or Web-based environments. The focus of the challenge
is on
rule technologies (including rule languages and engines),
interoperation and
interchange. The challenge offers participants the chance to demonstrate
their commercial and open source tools, use cases, and applications.
Prizes
will be awarded to the two best applications. All accepted demos will be
presented in a special Challenge Session.
A submission to RuleML challenge has to meet the requirement that
declarative
rules explicitly play a central role in the application. Basically this
means
that:
- Rules are explicitly represented in a declarative format and they are
decoupled from the application (rather than being compiled or hard-coded
into the application logic).
- Rules are used in interesting and practically relevant ways to, e.g.,
derive useful information, transform knowledge, provide decision
support,
provide automated rule-based monitoring, enforcement, validation or
management of the behavioural logic of the application.
The demo should preferably (but not necessarily) be embedded into a
web-based
or distributed environment so that there will be a need for features
related
to the RuleML conference topics, as listed in the call for papers.
For more details please consult the RuleML-2008 Challenge website
(http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw).
Important Dates
---------------
- Paper Submissions due June 2, 2008
- Notification of acceptance July 18, 2008
- Final submissions due August 9, 2008
- Symposium date October 30-31, 2008
- RuleML Challenge October 30, 2008
Symposium Proceedings and Submission Details
--------------------------------------------
Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical
relevance
and technical rigor in the field, experience reports and show case / use
case
demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based
technologies or
applications in distributed environments. Papers must be in English
and may
be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2008 as:
- Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings)
- Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings)
- RuleML-2008 Challenge Demo Paper + Show Cases (up to 8 pages in the
proceedings)
Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). To ensure high quality,
submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on
originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.
Authors are requested to upload their complete papers by June 2, 2008. The
selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture
Notes
in Computer Science (LNCS) series along with a CD with demo software and
documents. The best paper from all submissions will be determined by
the PC
and a Best Paper Award will be handed over at the Symposium by a
Sponsor. All
submissions must be done electronically via
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2008. We will pursue the
publication of a selection of revised papers to a special issue of a high-
quality journal.
Submissions to the RuleML Challenge 2008 consist of a demo paper of up
to 8
pages, describing the demo show case, and a link to more information about
the demo/show case, e.g. a project site, an online demonstration, a
presentation, or a download site. Demo papers should contain a substantial
presentation of the system to enable a proper evaluation of the techniques
used. The content of papers should be sufficiently substantial for
publication in the conference proceedings. The demo paper should be
submitted
at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2008, while the demo
link
should be submitted at http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw/, and it
will be
immediately publicly available. If the link is password-protected, then
please submit a password for anonymous login from any Web browser,
giving us
the permission to pass the password on to 3 PC members. The submissions
should satisfy the minimal requirements defined in the topics of interest.
The demos will be evaluated during RuleML-2008 and prizes will be
awarded to
the first two best applications.
Please do not hesitate to email to the appropriate Symposium Chair(s),
if you
have any questions.
Organizing Committee
--------------------
General Chair
Adrian Paschke, Technical University Dresden, Germany
adrian.paschke AT biotec.tu-dresden.de
Program Co-Chairs
Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
nbassili AT csd.auth.gr
Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia
guido AT itee.uq.edu.au
Challenge Co-Chairs
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
badica_costin AT software.ucv.ro
Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
hu AT cs.nccu.edu.tw
Panel Co-Chairs
John Hall, Model Systems, UK
john.hall AT modelsys.com
Axel Polleres, DERI Galway, Ireland
axel AT polleres.net
Liaison Co-Chairs
Mark Proctor, JBoss Rules, UK
mproctor AT redhat.com
Rainer von Ammon, CITT GmbH, Germany
vonammon AT t-online.de
Jan Vanthienen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Jan.Vanthienen AT econ.kuleuven.be
Publicity Co-Chairs
Matthias Nickles, University of Bath, UK
M.L.Nickles AT cs.bath.ac.uk
Tracy Bost, Valocity, USA
tbost AT valocity.com
(Sponsoring levels: http://2008.ruleml.org/sponsoring/)
Web Chair
Suzanne Embury, University of Manchester, UK
Suzanne.Embury AT manchester.ac.uk
Program Committee
--------------------
- Asaf Adi, IBM, Israel
- Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete-FORTH, Greece
- Sidney Bailin, Knowledge Evolution, USA
- Matteo Baldoni, University of Torino, Italy
- Cristina Baroglio, University of Torino, Italy
- Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs
- Tim Bass, SilkRoad Inc.
- Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany
- Mikael Berndtsson, University of Skovde, Sweden
- Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, Canada
- Pedro Bizarro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Peter Bollen, University of Maastricht, Netherlands
- Christian Brelage, SAP Research, Germany
- Donald Chapin, Business Semantics Ltd, UK
- Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology,
Taiwan
- Jorge Cuellar, Siemens, Germany
- Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA
- Stan Devitt, Agfa Healthcare, Ontario, Canada
- Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zeeland
- Jurgen Dix, Technische Universitaet Clausthal, Germany
- Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Andreas Eberhart, fluid Operations, Germany
- Opher Etzion, IBM Research Laboratory Haifa, Israel
- Dieter Fensel, DERI Innsbruck, Austria
- Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada
- Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany
- Stijn Goedertier, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- Robert Golan, DBmind Technologies, USA
- Christine Golbreich, University of Versailles, France
- Tom Gordon, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Germany
- Marek Hatala, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece
- Martin Hepp, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Elisa Kendall, Sandpiper Software, USA
- Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
- Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Greece
- Alex Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd., UK
- Holger Lausen, DERI Innsbruck, Austria
- John Lee, Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
- Mark Linehan, IBM Research, USA
- Heiko Ludwig, IBM Watson Research, USA
- Mirko Malekovic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Christopher J. Matheus, Vistology, USA
- Craig McKenzie, Science Applications International, USA
- Jing Mei, IBM Research Lab China, China
- Zoran Milosevic, Deontik Inc, Australia
- Jang Minsu, E&T Research Institute, Korea
- Leora Morgenstern, Stanford, USA
- Gero Muehl, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany
- Jorg Muller, TU Clausthal, Germany
- Chieko Nakabasami, Toyo University, Japan
- Ilkka Niemela, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- Bart Orriens, Tilburg University, Netherlands
- Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK
- Paula-Lavinia Patranjan, Skytec AG, Germany
- Jon Pellant, Pega Systems Inc., USA
- Jeff Pollock, Oracle, USA
- Alun Preece, Cardiff University, UK
- Maher Rahmouni, HP Labs
- Girish Ranganathan, University of New Brunswick, Canada
- Dave Reynolds, HP, England
- Graham Rong, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA
- Antonio Rotolo, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy
- Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Christian de Sainte Marie, ILOG, France
- Marco Seirio, ruleCore, Sweden
- Timos Sellis, Institute for the Management of Information Systems and
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Michael Sintek, DFKI, Germany
- Silvie Spreeuwenberg, LibRT, The Netherlands
- Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Giorgos Stoilos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Terrance Swift, XSB Inc., USA
- Kuldar Taveter, University of Melbourne, Australia
- James Taylor, Fair Isaac Corp., USA
- Vagan Terziyan, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
- Paul Vincent, TIBCO Software, USA
- George Vouros, University of the Aegean, Greece
- Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia
- Mehmet Emre Yegen, Ygntec Inc., USA
[ our apologies should you receive this message more than one time ]
2008 International RuleML Symposium
on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008)
October 30-31, 2008, Orlando, Florida
http://2008.ruleml.org
=====================================================================
Co-located with:
The 11th International Business Rules Forum
http://www.businessrulesforum.com
=====================================================================
Sponsored by:
Silver level: Model Systems
Bronze level: STI Innsbruck, ruleCore, JBoss
=====================================================================
In Co-operation with:
AAAI, W3C, BPM-Forum, Business Rules Forum , ECCAI, OASIS, OMG,
European Business Rules Conference, Belgium Business Rules Forum,
ACM, ACM SIGART, ACM SIGMIS, ACM SIGWEB, Open Research Society,
IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society
IEEE Computer Society TC on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems (pending)
IEEE Computer Society TC on Intelligent Informatics (pending)
IEEE SMCS TC on Intelligent Internet Systems
IEEE SMCS TC on Distributed Intelligent Systems
=====================================================================
Media Partners:
Springer LNCS, MoDo Marketing
=====================================================================
Call for Papers
Collocated with the 11th International Business Rules Forum, the 2008
International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications
(RuleML-2008) is
the second symposium (after last year's highly successful RuleML-2007 -
http://2007.ruleml.org/) devoted to work on practical distributed rule
technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for
rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent
Multi-
Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing
Applications. The RuleML symposium is a new kind of event where the
Web Rules
and Logic community joins the established, practically oriented Forum
of the
Business Rules community (http://www.businessrulesforum.com) to help
cross-
fertilizing between Web and Business Logic technology.
The goal of RuleML-2008 is to bring together rule system providers,
representatives of, and participants in, rule standardization efforts
(e.g.,
SBVR, RuleML, RIF, PRR, CL) and open source rules communities (e.g., jBoss
Rules, CLIPS/Jess, Prova, OO jDrew, Mandarax, XSB, XQuery),
practitioners and
technical experts, developers, users, and researchers. They will be
offered
an exciting venue to exchange new ideas, practical developments and
experiences on issues pertinent to the interchange and application of
rules
in open distributed environments such as the Web.
The Symposium gives emphasis on practical issues such as technical
contributions and show case demonstrations of effective, practical,
deployable rule-based technologies, rule interchange formats and
applications
as well as discussions of lessons learned that have to be taken into
account
when employing rule-based technologies in distributed, (partially) open,
heterogeneous environments. We also welcome groundwork that helps to
build an
effective, practical, and deployable rule standard, improve rule
technology,
provide better understanding of the integration and interchange of
rules, and
make the current generation of rule engines and rule technology more
usable
for advanced Web and Service Oriented Architectures.
RuleML-2008 highlights include:
- Plenary keynotes and a joint Boxed Lunch Panel about "Rules on the Web"
together with the Business Rules Forum featuring prominent and visionary
speakers.
- There will be a joint keynote between RuleML-2008 and RR2008
(http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2008/), which will be broadcast from
RR2008
to RuleML-2008.
- A RuleML-2008 Challenge with prizes to demonstrate tools, use cases, and
applications
- Industry, demo and scientific research & development papers and
presentations advancing and assessing the state of the art in event and
rule- based systems selected in a peer-reviewed fashion by an
international
program committee
- Invited talks given by leaders from industry and world-class experts
featuring practical topics on event and rule-based computing and
industry
success stories
- Social events to promote networking among the symposium delegates in an
informal setting.
Topics of Interest
------------------
We invite industry practitioners, rule system providers, technical experts
and developers, rule users, and researchers who are using rule-based
systems,
developing systems and applications, or exploring problems and best
practices
(especially in the areas of system interoperability, rule interchange, or
business agility), to share their ideas, results, and experiences. We
invite
submissions related (but not limited to) to one or more of the following
topics:
- Representation and meta-annotation of rules and rule sets (modules) for
publication and interchange
- Collaborative authoring, modeling and engineering of rule specifications
and rule repositories
- Information integration of external data and domain knowledge into rules
- Homogeneous and heterogeneous integration of rules and ontologies
- Rules in Web 2.0 and Web 3.0
- Rules in Semantic Web Technologies
- Rules in Web Intelligence Research
- Hybrid rule systems
- Management and maintenance of distributed rule bases and rule
repositories
during their lifecycle
- Interchange and refactoring of rule bases in heterogeneous execution
environments
- Verification and validation of interchanged rule bases in heterogeneous
execution environments
- Contributions on effective, practical, and deployable Web standards on
rules as well as special purpose, vertical domain rule languages
- Rule-based agility and its role in middleware
- Communication between rule based systems using interchange formats and
processing / communication middleware
- Applications, products, research, and development in rule-based,
distributed complex event processing, event communication and reaction
rules
- Event-driven/action rule languages and models
- Rule-based Event Processing Languages and rule-based CEP
- Rule patterns and CEP patterns
- Practical solutions tackling the real-world Software Engineering
requirements of rule-based systems in open, distributed environments
- Modeling of executable rule specifications and tool support
- Execution models, rule engines, and environments
- Compilation vs. interpretation approaches of rules
- Applications and integration of rules in web standards
- Rule-based software agents and (web) services
- Applications of rules in the Semantic Web and Pragmatic Web
- Comparing and advancing the state of current business rules engines and
management system tools
- Rule interchange standards and related industry interchange formats
- Interoperation between different rule formats and ontological domain
conceptualization
- Applications based on (Semantic) Web rule standardization or standards-
proposing efforts
- Translation of interchangeable and domain-independent rule formats
and rule
models into executable technical rule specifications
- Extraction and reengineering of platform-independent,
interchangeable rules
and rule models from existing platform-specific resources
- Natural-language processing of rules
- Graphical processing, modelling and rendering of rules
- Incorporation of rule technology into distributed enterprise application
architectures
- Rule-based policies and electronic contracts: their specification,
execution and management
- Languages for exchanging and processing information through the web
- E-contracting and automated negotiations with rule-based declarative
strategies
- Applications of rules in e.g. legal reasoning, compliance rules,
security,
IT government, security, risk management, trust and proof reasoning,
etc.
- Rule-based (multi-valued) reasoning with and representing uncertain and
fuzzy information
- Rule-based reasoning with non-monotonic negation, modalities, deontic,
temporal, priority, scoped or other rule qualifications
- Rule-based default reasoning with default logic, defeasible logic, and
answer set programming
RuleML-2008 Challenge
---------------------
RuleML-2008 Challenge addresses the practical use of rule technologies in
distributed and/or Web-based environments. The focus of the challenge
is on
rule technologies (including rule languages and engines),
interoperation and
interchange. The challenge offers participants the chance to demonstrate
their commercial and open source tools, use cases, and applications.
Prizes
will be awarded to the two best applications. All accepted demos will be
presented in a special Challenge Session.
Intentionally, this year's challenge (as last year) does not define a
specific task, data set, application domain, or technology to be used
because
the potential applicability of rules is very broad. Instead, a number of
minimal criteria were defined which allow people to submit a broad
range of
applications.
A submission to RuleML challenge has to meet the minimal requirement that
declarative rules explicitly play a central role in the application.
Basically this means that:
- Rules are explicitly represented in a declarative format and they are
decoupled from the application (rather than being compiled or hard-coded
into the application logic).
- Rules are used in interesting and practically relevant ways to, e.g.,
derive useful information, transform knowledge, provide decision
support,
provide automated rule-based monitoring, enforcement, validation or
management of the behavioural logic of the application.
The demo should preferably (but not necessarily) be embedded into a
web-based
or distributed environment so that there will be a need for features
related
to the ruleml conference topics, as listed in the call for papers. More
details will be available on the RuleML-2008 web site.
Important Dates
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- Paper Submissions due June 2, 2008
- Notification of acceptance July 18, 2008
- Final submissions due August 9, 2008
- Symposium date October 30-31, 2008
- RuleML Challenge October 30, 2008
Symposium Proceedings and Submission Details
--------------------------------------------
Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical
relevance
and technical rigor in the field, experience reports and show case /
use case
demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based
technologies or
applications in distributed environments. Papers must be in English
and may
be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2008 as:
- Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings)
- Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings)
- RuleML-2008 Challenge Demo Paper + Show Cases (3-5 pages in the
proceedings)
Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). To ensure high quality,
submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on
originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.
Authors are requested to upload their complete papers by June 2, 2008. The
selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture
Notes
in Computer Science (LNCS) series (pending) along with a CD with demo
software and documents. The best paper from all submissions will be
determined by the PC and a Best Paper Award will be handed over at the
Symposium by a Sponsor. All submissions must be done electronically via
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2008. We will pursue the
publication of a selection of revised papers to a special issue of a high-
quality journal.
Submissions to the RuleML Challenge 2008 consist of a demo paper of 3-5
pages, describing the demo show case, and a link to more information about
the demo/show case, e.g. a project site, an online demonstration, a
presentation, or a download site. If the link is password-protected: then
please submit a password for anonymous login from any Web browser,
giving us
the permission to pass the password on to 3 PC members. The submissions
should satisfy the minimal requirements defined in the topics of interest.
The demos will be evaluated by an independent jury of experts during
RuleML-2008 and prizes will be awarded to the first two best applications.
Please do not hesitate to email to the appropriate Symposium Chair(s),
if you
have any questions.
Organizing Committee
--------------------
General Chair
Adrian Paschke, Technical University Dresden, Germany
adrian.paschke AT biotec.tu-dresden.de
Program Co-Chairs
Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
nbassili AT csd.auth.gr
Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia
guido AT itee.uq.edu.au
Challenge Co-Chairs
Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
badica_costin AT software.ucv.ro
Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
hu AT cs.nccu.edu.tw
Panel Co-Chairs
John Hall, Model Systems, UK
john.hall AT modelsys.com
Axel Polleres, DERI Galway, Ireland
axel AT polleres.net
Liaison Co-Chairs
Mark Proctor, JBoss Rules, UK
mproctor AT redhat.com
Rainer von Ammon, CITT GmbH, Germany
vonammon AT t-online.de
Jan Vanthienen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Jan.Vanthienen AT econ.kuleuven.be
Publicity Co-Chairs
Matthias Nickles, University of Bath, UK
M.L.Nickles AT cs.bath.ac.uk
Tracy Bost, Valocity, USA
tbost AT valocity.com
(Sponsoring levels: http://2008.ruleml.org/sponsoring/)
Web Chair
Suzanne Embury, University of Manchester, UK
Suzanne.Embury AT manchester.ac.uk
Program Committee
--------------------
- Asaf Adi, IBM, Israel
- Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete-FORTH, Greece
- Sidney Bailin, Knowledge Evolution, USA
- Matteo Baldoni, University of Torino, Italy
- Cristina Baroglio, University of Torino, Italy
- Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs
- Tim Bass, SilkRoad Inc.
- Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany
- Mikael Berndtsson, University of Skovde, Sweden
- Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, Canada
- Pedro Bizarro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Peter Bollen, University of Maastricht, Netherlands
- Christian Brelage, SAP Research, Germany
- Donald Chapin, Business Semantics Ltd, UK
- Shyi-Ming Chen, National University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
- Jorge Cuellar, Siemens, Germany
- Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA
- Stan Devitt, Agfa Healthcare, Ontario, Canada
- Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zeeland
- Jurgen Dix, Technische Universitaet Clausthal, Germany
- Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Andreas Eberhart, Portland State University, USA
- Opher Etzion, IBM Research Laboratory Haifa, Israel
- Dieter Fensel, DERI Innsbruck, Austria
- Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada
- Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany
- Stijn Goedertier, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- Robert Golan, DBmind Technologies, USA
- Christine Golbreich, University Rennes, France
- Tom Gordon, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Germany
- Marek Hatala, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece
- Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
- Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Greece
- Alex Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd., UK
- Holger Lausen, DERI Innsbruck, Austria
- John Lee, Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
- Mark Linehan, IBM Research, USA
- Heiko Ludwig, IBM Watson Research, USA
- Mirko Malekovic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Christopher J. Matheus, Vistology, USA
- Craig McKenzie, Science Applications International, USA
- Jing Mei, IBM Research Lab China, China
- Zoran Milosevic, Deontik Inc, Australia
- Jang Minsu, E&T Research Institute, Korea
- Leora Morgenstern, Stanford, USA
- Gero Muehl, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany
- Jorg Muller, TU Clausthal, Germany
- Chieko Nakabasami, Toyo University, Japan
- Ilkka Niemela, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- Bart Orriens, Tilburg University, Netherlands
- Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK
- Paula-Lavinia Patranjan, Rewerse, Germany
- Jon Pellant, Pega Systems Inc., USA
- Jeff Pollock, Oracle, USA
- Alun Preece, Cardiff University, UK
- Maher Rahmouni, HP Labs
- Girish Ranganathan, University of New Brunswick, Canada
- Dave Reynolds, HP, England
- Graham Rong, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA
- Antonio Rotolo, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy
- Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Christian de Sainte Marie, ILOG, France
- Marco Seirio, ruleCore, Sweden
- Timos Sellis, Institute for the Management of Information Systems and
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Michael Sintek, DFKI, Germany
- Silvie Spreeuwenberg, LibRT, The Netherlands
- Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Giorgos Stoilos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Terrance Swift, XSB Inc., USA
- Kuldar Taveter, University of Melbourne, Australia
- James Taylor, Fair Isaac Corp., USA
- Vagan Terziyan, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
- Paul Vincent, TIBCO Software, USA
- George Vouros, University of the Aegean, Greece
- Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia
- Mehmet Emre Yegen, Ygntec Inc., USA
FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications
(RuleML-2007)
http://2007.ruleml.org/
We would like to kindly remind you that RuleML-2007 will be in one week
starting on October 25, 2007.
The International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications
(RuleML-2007) will take place, October 25-26, 2007, in Orlando, Florida
<http://2007.ruleml.org>, co-located with The 10th International
Business Rules Forum <http://www.businessrulesforum.com>. RuleML-2007 is
devoted to practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based
applications which need language standards for rules operating in the
context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Web 2.0, Intelligent Multi-Agent
Systems, Event-Driven Architectures, and Service-Oriented Computing
Applications.
Registration:
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If you plan participate in RuleML-2007, but have not registered yet,
please, register now at:
http://2007.ruleml.org/index-Dateien/Page930.htm
Accommodation:
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RuleML-2007 will be co-located with the Business Rules Forum and take
place in Buena Vista Palace, Orlando, Florida:
http://2007.ruleml.org/index-Dateien/Page861.htm
If you haven't booked any hotel, please be quick as it's hard to predict
the room availability.
RuleML-2007 news:
-------------------------------------
1. RuleML-2007 program available at:
http://2007.ruleml.org/index-Dateien/Page646.htm
2. RuleML Keynotes, Panel, Challenge + BRF Expo
(http://www.rulesexpo.com/):
Registered RuleML-2007 participants can attend all of them free
Thank you,
Adrian Paschke
(RuleML-2007 Program Co-Chair)
Sponsorship from:
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NASA AMES Research Center <www.arc.nasa.gov>
Top Logic <http://www.top-logic.com>
Vistology <http://vistology.com/>
Inferware <http://www.inferware.com/>
In Co-operation with:
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ECCAI, AAAI, ACM, ACM SIGAPP, ACM SIGMIS, ACM SIGART, ACM SIGMOD, IEEE,
IEEE Computer TCAAS, IEEE SMCS, BPM-Forum, W3C, OMG, and OASIS
Supported by:
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Springer LNCS, Business Rules Forum
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