W3C RIF at RuleML-2008 International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications

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Von: Adrian Paschke [mailto:adrian.paschke@gmx.de] 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. November 2008 21:03
An: 'Adrian Paschke'
Betreff: W3C RIF at RuleML-2008 International Symposium on Rule Interchange
and Applications 

Dear RIF Working Group,

This year the International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications
(RuleML-2008, http://2008.ruleml.org) had a very strong program with many
highlights and a lot of presentations, keynote talks and demos about W3C
RIF.  

The presentations are linked from the RuleML-2008 program available at
http://2008.ruleml.org/program.php. 

* Four keynotes
http://2008.ruleml.org/keynotes.php

  o Paul Haley (Haley Systems, Inc) on "Event and Process Semantics
    will Rule".

  o David Luckham (Stanford University, USA) on "The Power of Events:
    An Introduction to Complex Event Processing in Distributed
    Enterprise Systems".

  o Michael Kifer (State University of New York at Stony Brook), on
    "Rule Interchange Format: The Framework".
     Joint keynote between RuleML-2008 and RR2008.

  o Benjamin Grosof (Vulcan, Inc.) on "Hyper Logic Programs in SILK:
    Redefining the KR Playing Field for Business and VLKB".


* Special Invited Sessions on Rule Standards
http://2008.ruleml.org/program.php#rule_standards

    o OMG Production Rule Representation 
    Paul Vincent 

    o RIF Production Rule Dialect
    Christian de Sainte Marie 

    o An SBVR Vocabulary for Date and Time
    Mark Linehan 

* A Joint Lunch Panel on "Rules on the Web" with 125 participants from the
Web Rules and Business Rules community
http://2008.ruleml.org/panel.php

* A RuleML-2008 Challenge with two demos on W3C RIF
http://2008.ruleml.org/program.php#challenge_session

    o Please Pass the Rules: A Rule Interchange Demonstration
   Gary Hallmark, Christian de Sainte Marie, Marcos Didonet Del Fabro,
Patrick Albert and Adrian Paschke

    o Storing and Querying RIF Rules in pureXML
   Susan Malaika 



... and many other interesting presentations, demos and talks.



The submitted papers have been published in Springer LNCS proceedings:

http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems/book/978-3-540-88807-9

Nick Bassiliades, Guido Governatori, Adrian Paschke (Eds.), "Rule
Representation, Interchange and Reasoning on the Web", Proceedings of The
2008 International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications
(RuleML-2008), Orlando, Florida, USA, 30-31 Oct. 2008, Springer, LNCS, Vol.
5321, 2008, ISBN: 978-3-540-88807-9.



We are now editing an additional special issue of the renowned IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering journal (IEEE TKDE) on " Rule
Representation, Interchange and Reasoning in Distributed, Heterogeneous
Environments".

http://lpis.csd.auth.gr/publications/tkde-si/

Please consider to contribute to this issue and forward the open call for
contributions to your interested colleagues.



Next year, RuleML-2009 (http://2009.ruleml.org) will most likely be in Las
Vegas, beginning of November 2009, co-located again with the Business Rules
Forum.



Thanks,

Adrian

Received on Tuesday, 11 November 2008 20:06:46 UTC