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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/
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*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
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Sponsored by
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Franz Inc
NICTA (National ICT Australia) Ltd
Corporate Semantic Web
Logic Programming Associated Ltd
Modelsystems Ltd
ruleCore
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Overview and Aim
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The official language of the conference will be English.
Submission
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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=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
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The submitted papers will pass the blind review process.
At least three
members of the Program Committee will review each
submission.
Important Dates:
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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
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RuleML-2009 will take place at the Bellagio in Las Vegas
collocated with the
Business Rules Forum.
Keynote Speakers
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- Sandro Hawke, W3C RIF Team Contact
The Future of Rule Interchange
- TBA
Programme Committee
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General Chair
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Adrian Paschke, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Program Chairs
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Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia
John Hall, Model System, UK
Liaison Chair
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Hai Zhuge, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Publicity Chair
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William Langley, NRC-IRAP, Canada
Track Chairs
Rule Transformation and Extraction
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Erik Putrycz, Canada
Mark Linehan, IBM, USA
Rules and Uncertainty
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Matthias Nickles, University of Bath, UK
Davide Sottara, University Bologna, Italy
Rules and Norms
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Thomas Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
Antonino Rotolo, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy
Rule-based Game AI
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Benjamin Craig, National Research Council, Canada
Weichang Du, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules
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Alex Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd., UK
Adrian Paschke, Free Univ. Berlin, Germany
Rules and Cross Industry Standards
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Tracy Bost, Valocity, USA
Robert Golan, DBMind, USA
RuleML Challenge
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Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Ching-Long Yeh, Tatung University, Taiwan
Wolfgang Laun, Thales Rail Signalling Solutions GesmbH,
Austria
RuleML 2009 Sponsors
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Silver Sponsors
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Franz Inc
NICTA (National ICT Australia) Ltd
Corporate Semantic Web
Bronze Sponsors
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Logic Programming Associated Ltd
Modelsystems Ltd
ruleCore
RuleML 2009 Partners
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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