- From: Michael Kifer, Thomas Eiter, Enrico Franconi, Susie Stephens, Ralph <jos.debruijn@deri.org>
- Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 16:35:21 +0200
- To: Jos de Bruijn <jos.debruijn@deri.org>
- Message-Id: <1148222121.5582.112.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Dear Colleague,
This year's conference on Rules for the Semantic Web (RuleML-2006) has
expanded its organisation and scope, and it is lead by well-known
members of the scientific and industrial communities:
- MICHAEL KIFER (Stony Brook),
general chair;
- THOMAS EITER (TU Vienna) and ENRICO FRANCONI (Univ. Bolzano),
academic program chairs;
- SUSIE STEPHENS (Oracle) and RALPH HODGSON (Top Quadrant),
industrial track chairs.
The program committee consists of top researchers and practitioners in
the areas of rule-based language, semantic Web, and knowledge
representation. We invite your contribution to the technical program
RuleML 2006.
We have revised the submission dates: you can now submit papers up to
**the 5th of JUNE**
Abstracts are due May 27th.
RuleML-2006:
Second International Conference on
Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web
http://2006.ruleml.org
Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.
9-10 November 2006
Call For Papers
Semantic Web technologies have matured to the point where they are
being adopted by many organizations for applications as diverse as
data integration, optimized search, and decision support. The
increasing use of the technology has resulted from mainstream
commercial software vendors providing solutions that support Semantic
Web technologies, and W3C making RDF and OWL standard recommendations.
It is widely recognized that rules are the next layer of focus within
the Semantic Web technology stack, and consequently interest and
activity in this area has grown rapidly over recent years. Semantic
Web rules would allow the integration, transformation and derivation
of data from numerous sources in a distributed, scalable, and
transparent manner.
The rules landscape features theoretical areas such as knowledge
representation (KR) and algorithms; design aspects of rule markup;
engineering of engines, translators, and other tools; standardization
efforts, such as the recent Rules Interchange Format activity at W3C
(http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg.html); and applications.
Rules complement and extend ontologies on the Semantic Web. They can
be used in combination with ontologies, or as a means to specify
ontologies. In these settings, rules can be used either in
conjunction with or as an alternative to description logics. Rules are
also frequently applied over ontologies, to draw inferences, express
constraints, specify policies, react to events, discover new
knowledge, transform data, etc. Rule markup languages enrich Web
ontologies by supporting publishing rules on the Web, exchange rules
between different systems and tools, share guidelines and policies,
merge and maintain rulebases, and more.
Meeting Format
The RuleML-2006 Conference is aimed to be the premier scientific
forum for exchanging ideas on all aspects of rules for the Semantic
Web. It follows on the heels of three successful workshops on the
topic, in 2002, 2003, and 2004, and the first RuleML conference that
took place in 2005. Like its precursors, RuleML-2006 will be held in
collaboration with the International Semantic Web Conference
(http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org/) and will be co-located with it. The
RuleML-2006 Conference will consist of both an academic track and an
industry track.
- Academic Track
Papers submitted to the academic track are expected to focus on
research related to the development and advancement of rule formalisms
for the Semantic Web. The work reported should be of foundational or
conceptual nature and will be judged according to the usual criteria
of novelty, significance, technical quality, etc.
- Industrial Track
The industrial track is designed to encourage participation from
builders of rules engines and of practitioners who use rules for
e-business, information integration, and other areas of the Semantic
Web. It is not necessary for a Semantic Web rule engine to have been
deployed, although preference will be given to systems that have
adopted or are exploring the adoption of new rules technology such as
SWRL, RuleML or hybrid approaches to using DL or Datalog with Semantic
Technology. If systems have been deployed, preference will be given to
papers that have determined and measured figures of merit.
Topics of interest
We encourage submissions on all topics related to rules and rule
markup languages for the Semantic Web, including (but not limiting to)
the following:
o Rule-based policies: their specification, execution, and
management
o Combining rules (including active rules) with ontologies
o Reactive rules for the Semantic Web
o Complex event processing
o Event-driven/action rule languages and models
o Semantic Rule Management
o Extraction of rules from unstructured data sources
o Semantics of rule frameworks, which interoperate with RDF and OWL
o Rules and nonmonotonic reasoning
o Querying the semantic Web with rules
o Complexity of reasoning problems involving rules
o Languages, including standards (RuleML, SWRL, Jess, N3, F-logic,
etc.)
o Execution models, rule engines, and environments
o Implemented tools and systems for rules on the Semantic Web
o Active rules for Semantic Web Services
o Uncertainty and fuzziness in rule-based systems
o Modeling of business rules and event-driven/active rules
o Rule-based software agents and the Semantic Web
o E-contracting and automated negotiations with rule-based
declarative strategies
o Connecting event-driven and reactive rules to legacy knowledge
bases
o Distributed rule bases
o Rule base validation, verification and exception handling on
the Semantic Web
Submission
We invite articles of no more than 10 pages in length in IEEE
two-column format describing original completed work, work in
progress, or interesting problems or use cases. The page limit
includes title, abstract, figures, references, etc. Submitted papers
will be fully refereed based on the originality and significance of
the ideas presented as well as on technical aspects. The proceedings
will be published by IEEE.
Submissions should be made online in PDF format on the conference
submission site (http://www.easychair.org/RuleML2006/), by 5 June 2006
midnight Hawaii time. Multiple submission is not allowed. Submissions
should clearly indicate the appropriate track (academic or
industrial).
Important Dates
o 27 May 2006 -- Deadline for abstracts.
o 5 June 2006 -- Deadline for paper submissions.
o 15 July 2006 -- Notification of acceptance.
o 21 August 2006 -- Final version of paper (camera-ready) due.
o 16 September 2006 -- Early registration deadline for conference
authors.
o 9-10 November 2006 - RuleML 2006
Conference Program Co-Chairs
o Academic track
* Thomas Eiter, Technical University, Vienna, Austria
* Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bolzano, Italy
o Industrial track
* Susie Stephens, Oracle, USA
* Ralph Hodgson, TopQuadrant, Inc., USA
Conference General Chair
o Michael Kifer, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Conference Publicity Chair
o Jos de Bruijn, DERI Innsbruck, Austria
Steering Committee
o Asaf Adi, IBM, Israel
o Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete, FORTH, Greece
o Harold Boley, National Research Council and University of
New Brunswick, Canada
o Benjamin Grosof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
o Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA
o Dieter Fensel, Digital Enterprise Research Institute,
Ireland and Austria
o Michael Kifer, State University of New York at Stony Brook
o Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK
o Steve Ross-Talbot, Pi4 Technologies, USA
o Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens
o Suzette Stoutenburg, The MITRE Corporation, USA
o Said Tabet, RuleML Initiative and Macgregor Inc., USA
o Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus,
Germany
Program Committee
o Academic track
Jose Alferes, University Nova Lisbon, Portugal
Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA
Leo Bertossi, Carleton University, Canada
Jos de Bruijn, DERI Innsbruck, Austria
Andrea Cali, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Tran Cao Son, University of New Mexico, USA
Carlos Damasio, Universtiy Nova Lisboa, Portugal
Juergen Dix, TU Clausthal, Germany
Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia
Pascal Hitzler, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria, Italy
Georg Lausen, Freiburg University, Germany
Nicola Leone, University of Calabria, Italy
Thomas Lukasiewicz, University Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Jan Maluszynski, Linkoping University, Sweden
Massimo Marchiori, University of Venice, Italy
Alberto Martelli, University of Torino, Italy
Wolfgang May, University of Goettingen, Germany
Boris Motik, University of Manchester, UK
Marie-Laure Mugnier, LIRMM, France
Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S, Germany
Axel Polleres, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Riccardo Rosati, University Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Grenoble, France
Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester, UK
Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research, Austria
Michael Sintek, DFKI, Germany
Umberto Straccia, CNR, Pisa, Italy
VS Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA
Terrance Swift, XSB, Inc., USA
Hans Tompits, TU Vienna, Austria
Dirk Vermeir, University of Brussels, Belgium
Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia
Guizhen Yang, SRI, USA
o Industrial track
Alain Leger, France Telecom, France
Allen Ginsberg, Mitre, USA
Bill Andersen, Ontology Works, USA
Christian de Sainte Marie, ILOG, France
Christine Golbreich, University Rennes, France
Con Kenney, US FAA Agency, USA
Eric Neumann, Teranode, USA
Harold Solbrig, Mayo Clinic, USA
Jeff Pollock, Cerebra, USA
Jos De Roo, AGFA, Belgium
Juergen Angele, Ontoprise, Germany
Leo Obrst, Mitre, USA
Michael Bodkin, Lockheed Martin, USA
Ora Lassila, Nokia, USA
Parsa Mirhaji, University of Texas Medical Center, USA
Rachel Yager, Citigroup, USA
Ralph Traphoener, Empolis, Germany
Ruediger Klein, Daimer-Chrysler, Germany
Sidney Bailin, Knowledge Evolution, USA
Silvie Spreeuwenberg, LibRT, The Netherlands
Yaser Bishr, Image Matters, USA
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