Call for Papers: 9th International Rule Challenge 2015

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Submission Deadline: 23 May 2015

Call for Papers
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9th International Rule Challenge 2015
part of the 9th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML 2015)

including challenge track "Rule-based Recommender Systems for the Web of Data" http://2015.ruleml.org/recsysrules-2015.html
and RuleML Rulebase Competition http://2015.ruleml.org/challenge.html

Location: Berlin, Germany
Dates: August 2-5, 2015
URL: http://2015.ruleml.org/challenge.html

co-located with:

- The 11th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2015), July 31 - August 4, 2015
  http://reasoningweb.org/2015
- 9th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2015), August 4-6, 2015
  http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2015
- 25th International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-25), August 1-7, 2015
  http://www.cade-25.info/
- 7th Workshop on Formal Ontologies meet Industry (FOMI 2015), August 5th
  http://www.csw.inf.fu-berlin.de/fomi2015/

About Rule Challenge 2015
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The RuleML 2015 Challenge is one of the highlights at RuleML 2015 Conference which seeks to provide a competition among innovative rule-oriented applications,
aimed at both the research and industrial side.

Topics
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Key themes of the RuleML 2015 Challenge include, but are not limited to the following:
- Demos related to the RuleML 2015 Track Topics
- Rule-based Event Processing and Stream Reasoning
- Rule learning
- Distributed rule bases and rule services
- Reports on industrial experience about rule systems
- Real cases and practical experiences

Tracks
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This year the Challenge organizes three tracks:

Rule modeling, rule authoring, rule engines and applications
- Innovative UX for rule modeling, rule editors, NLP powered rule authoring
- Cloud-based applications for rule storage and execution
- Translators between different rule languages, open source rule engines
- Semantic Web rule applications using social media data
- Rule-based applications for crowdsourcing

Rule-based Recommender Systems for the Web of Data
- rule learning algorithms applied on recommender problems
- using the linked open data cloud for feature set extension

RuleML Rulebase Competition

RuleML Inc announces three awards (of $500, $300, $200) for the three best RuleML Rulebases of 2015. This year's rulebases are solicited in Reaction RuleML 1.0 or 1.02, Deliberation RuleML 1.01 or 1.02 or Consumer RuleML 1.02.

Prizes
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Like in the previous edition, RuleML Inc. will offer two prizes:
- RuleML Challenge Award
- RuleML Challenge Runner-up Award
- Three best RuleML Rulebase Awards
- Four prizes in the Rule-based Recommender Systems for the Web of Data track

Important Dates
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Paper submission: 23 May 2015
Notification: 6 June 2015
Camera ready: 20 June 2015
Rule Challenge 2015 dates: 2-5 August 2015


Submission Guidelines
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High quality, original papers, potentially referencing online material, and ranging between 5-15 pages can be submitted at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2015challenge

All submissions must conform with the 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 clarity and significance of objectives and demonstration of results.


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Website: http://2015.ruleml.org/challenge.html
Twitter hashtag: #ruleml2015
Blog: http://blog.ruleml.org

Received on Sunday, 29 March 2015 19:57:32 UTC