- From: Adrian Paschke <adrian.paschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:55:08 +0100
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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/
co-located with
12th International Business Rules Forum
Sponsored by
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NICTA (National ICT Australia) <http://www.nicta.com.au/>
BMBF InnoProfile <http://www.corporate-semantic-web.de/> Corporate Semantic
Web
Logic Programming Associated Ltd <http://www.lpa.co.uk/>
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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, Intelligent Multi-Agent
Systems,
Event-Driven Architectures, and Service-Oriented Applications. Especially,
this year's focus will be on the practical adoption and application of
standards
such as W3C RIF, OMG SBVR, OMG PRR, RuleML, ISO Common Logic, OASIS
BPEL++Rules,
OMG BPMN++Rules, and industry standards in relation with rules such as XBRL,
MISMO, FIXatdl, FIX, FpML, HL7, Acord, etc.
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, thus and 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
rule
- 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
- Miscellaneous rule topics
Case studies, experience reports, and industrial problem statements are
particularly encouraged.
RuleML-2009 Challenge
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**** MAKE RULEML-2009 YOUR WEB RULES SHOWCASE! ****
The RuleML-2009 Challenge is one of the highlights of RuleML-2009. 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. The recommended categories for the Challenge submissions are:
- derivation rules and constructive views over data,
- production rules and (complex) event processing reaction rules,
- benchmark for evaluation of rule engines, and
- use cases / case studies (possibly using rule standards).
We strongly suggest participants declare their submissions related to at
least
one of the above categories.
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 please consult the RuleML-2009 Challenge
website:
http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw
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,
2008 and to upload their complete papers by June 16, 2008. 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 Ssbmission 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.
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
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, Univ. 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 Rule
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Alex Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd., UK
Adrian Paschke, Freie Universitaet 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 GmbH, Austria
RuleML 2009 Sponsors
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NICTA (National ICT Australia) <http://www.nicta.com.au/>
BMBF InnoProfile <http://www.corporate-semantic-web.de/> Corporate Semantic
Web
Logic Programming Associated Ltd <http://www.lpa.co.uk/>
(sponsoring opportunities - http://2009.ruleml.org/sponsors)
RuleML 2009 Partners
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Belgian Business Rules Forum
MIT Sloan CIO Symposium
SKG2009 5th International Conference on Semantic, Knowledge and Grid
RR-2009 3rd International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems
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