RuleML Doctoral Consortium & Challenge *DEADLINE EXTENSION*

Dear Colleagues,

The International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning RuleML+RR 2019 (http://2019.ruleml-rr.org), the leading conference in the field of rule-based reasoning, will be held in Bolzano, Italy, September 16-19, as a part of BRAIN 2019 (https://brain2019.inf.unibz.it), the Bolzano Rules and Artificial Intelligence Summit. With its special focus theme on "Beneficial AI", BRAIN 2019 brings together RuleML+RR 2019, DecisionCAMP 2019, the Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2019), and the Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence (GCAI 2019).

====DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM====
The RuleML+RR+GCAI Doctoral Consortium 2019 is an initiative of the RuleML, RR, and GCAI communities to attract and promote student research in Artificial Intelligence, especially research on rule-based formalisms and reasoning. It offers students a close contact with leading experts in the field, as well as the opportunity to present and discuss their ideas in a dynamic and friendly setting. This DC is organized as part of BRAIN 2019 (Bolzano Rules and Artificial INtelligence Summit, 16-24 September 2019, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy).
We invite PhD students at an early or intermediate stage of their PhD studies as well as exceptional Master’s students who are interested in pursuing a PhD to submit papers describing their research on any of the topics of interest of RuleML+RR 2019 and GCAI 2019.

NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE
New submission deadline: August 2nd.

BROADLY INDEXED PROCEEDINGS
Accepted papers will be published online as part of http://ceur-ws.org Proceedings, which are broadly indexed, e.g., by SCOPUS and listed in standard bibliographic databases such as DBLP.

STUDENT TRAVEL SUPPORT
Registration information is available at the main web site https://brain2019.inf.unibz.it

Reduced registration fees are offered to all student participants.
Additional student support is also available. Applications will be evaluated on case-by-case basis.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
DC papers are limited to 8 pages written in English following the LNCS format http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html and submitted electronically in PDF format jointly with a maximum 2 pages CV.

Please submit your paper and CV via:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2019 under the Doctoral Consortium track. If you do not have an EasyChair account, please sign up at https://easychair.org.


====RULE CHALLENGE====
The RuleML+RR 2019 Challenge is one of the highlights of the conference, and seeks to provide competition among innovative rule-oriented applications, aimed at both the research and industrial side. Submissions may present demos related to the RuleML+RR 2019 track topics, supply benchmarks and comparison results for rule engines, illustrate rule- and model-driven engineering, report on industrial experiences, present real cases and practical experiences, or realize mobile deployment of rule-based reasoning.

DEADLINE EXTENSION
New submission deadline: August 2nd.

AWARD FOR BEST PAPER/DEMO
The best paper/demonstration in the Challenge will receive an award of 500 EURO!

BROADLY INDEXED PROCEEDINGS
Accepted papers will be published online as part of the http://ceur-ws.org Proceedings series, which is broadly indexed, e.g., by SCOPUS and listed in standard bibliographic databases such as DBLP.

TOPICS
Key themes of the RuleML+RR 2019 Challenge include, but are not limited to the following:

Rule-based Event Processing and Stream Reasoning
Business Rules Modeling
Graph-Relational Data and Knowledge systems
Higher-Order-Logic and Modal-Logic systems
Rule and Ontology combinations
Modular Rule systems
Distributed Rule systems
Ontology-Based Data Access (OBDA) systems
Answer Set Programming (ASP) systems
Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) systems
Blockchain Rule systems
Defeasible, Argumentation, and Legal systems
(Controlled) Natural language interfaces
Benchmarks and comparison results for rule engines
Distributed rule bases and rule services
Rules and model-driven engineering
Reports on industrial experience about rule systems
Real cases and practical experiences
Rules in online market research and online marketing
Rule-based distributed / multi-agent systems
Combining rules with knowledge extraction and information retrieval
Rules and social media
Rule-based automation for asset trading
Rule-based machine learning tools and techniques
Rule-based approaches for intelligent systems

SUBMISSIONS
The challenge seeks high quality, original papers, potentially referencing online material, and ranging between 5-25 pages (in LNCS style). Submitted papers must be original contributions written in English.
Submissions: via EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2019


====JOINT KEYNOTES====
Joint Keynotes (https://brain2019.inf.unibz.it/?p=keynotes):
- Mike Gualtieri on “The Future of Enterprise AI and Digital Decisions”
- Marlon Dumas on “Artificial Intelligence for Business Process Management: Status, Challenges, and Perspectives”
- Giuseppe De Giacomo
RuleML+RR Keynote: Marie-Laure Mugnier on “Existential Rules: a Study Through Chase Termination, FO-Rewritability and Boundedness”

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