CfP RuleML 5th International Symposium on Linked Rules Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, 3-5 November 2011

                                 CALL FOR PAPERS

                                RuleML2011@BRF
5th International Symposium on Linked Rules: Research-Based, 
Industry-Focused

              Westin Diplomat, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, 3-5 November 2011
                              http://2011.ruleml.org/america


About RuleML 2011@BRF
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In 2011, the RuleML Symposium will be held in two parts. The first will 
be held in conjunction with IJCAI 2011 in Barcelona, Spain, in July.
The second will be co-located with the Business Rule Forum to be held in 
early November in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA and will include the 
RuleML Challenge Award which, this year, is dedicated to Rules and 
Ontologies.


Objectives
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RuleML-2011@BRF is a research-based, industry-focused symposium: its 
main goal is to build a bridge between academia and industry in the 
field of rules and semantic technology, and so 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-2011 will feature hands-on 
demonstrations and challenges alongside a wide range of thematic tracks. 
It will thus be an exciting venue to exchange new ideas and share 
experiences on all issues related to the engineering, management, 
integration, interoperation, and interchange of rules in distributed 
enterprise intranets and open environments alike.


Topics
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As in the previous years, the Symposium will be organized in tracks; 
specifically, the RuleML-2011@BRF focus will be on the following areas:

*** Rules, Semantic Technology, and Cross-Industry Standards
*** Rules and Automated Reasoning
*** Rule-Based Distributed/Multi-Agent Systems
*** Rule Transformation and Extraction
*** Vocabularies, Ontologies, and Business rules
*** NIEM and Rules
*** Cloud Computing and Rules
*** Fuzzy Rules and Uncertainty
*** Rules and Norms
*** Rule-Based Policies, Reputation and Trust
*** Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules
*** General Topics
Submissions on general rule topics are welcome, such as:
   - Progress in rule language specification (in XML Schema, Relax NG, etc.)
   - Implemented tools for rule bases (e.g. XML and RDF rule validators)
   - Rule interchange and reasoning
   - Execution models, rule engines, and development environments
   - Graphical processing, modeling and rendering of rules
   - Rules and NLP
   - Rule-based applications
   - Usability and effectiveness of rule-based systems and languages
Case studies, experience reports, and industrial problem statements are 
particularly encouraged.

RuleML-2011 Challenge
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The RuleML-2011 Challenge is one of the highlights of RuleML-2011.
Prizes will be awarded to the two best applications, one for the focus 
theme and one for the other categories.
This year, the Challenge will be focused on the theme:

*** Combining Rules, Objects, and Ontologies: Implementations and 
Applications ***

The call for demos is available on: http://2011.ruleml.org/america/challenge

Submission Guidelines
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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

             https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2011brf

Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format 
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).
The selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer 
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
The selected demo papers will be published in CEUR proceedings.

Important Dates
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Abstract submission: May 22, 2011 (11:59PM, UTC-12)
Paper submission: June 12, 2011 (11:59PM, UTC-12)
Notification to authors: July 11, 2011
Camera-ready copy due: July 29, 2011
RuleML-2010 Challenge Demos submission: Sept. 2, 2011
RuleML-2011 dates: Nov 3-5, 2011

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