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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
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Co-located with:
The 11th International Business Rules Forum
http://www.business
rulesforum.com
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Sponsored by:
Silver level: Model Systems
Bronze level: STI Innsbruck, ruleCore, JBoss
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In Co-operation with:
AAAI, W3C, BPM-Forum, Business Rules Forum , ECCAI, OASIS,
OMG,
European Business Rules Conference, Belgium Business Rules
Forum,
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
(pending)
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Media Partners:
Springer LNCS (pending approval), MoDo Marketing
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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.business
rulesforum.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-co
nference.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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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- 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
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