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RuleML-2006:
Second International Conference on
Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web
http://2006.ruleml.org
Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.
10-11 November 2006
Preliminary Program
Day 1: November 10
08:45 - 09:00 Welcome
09.00 - 10.00 Keynote I
* The limits and possibilities of combining
Description Logics and Datalog.
Riccardo Rosati
10.00 - 10.30 Coffee break
10.30 - 11.30 Research Session I - Ontologies and rules:
* Translating Ontologies from Predicate-based to Frame-based
Languages (Jos de Bruijn and Stijn Heymans)
* How to reason with OWL in a logic programming system (Markus
Krötzsch, Pascal Hitzler, Denny Vrandecic and Michael Sintek)
11.30 - 12.30 Research Session II - Rules and Interoperability
* Combining ECA Rules with Process Algebras for the Semantic
Web (Erik Behrends, Oliver Fritzen, Wolfgang May and Franz Schenk)
* A Framework for Composition and Interoperation of Rules in the
Semantic Web (Enrico Pontelli, Chitta Baral and Tran Son)
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 16.00 Tutorial I
* Semantic Web Policies: Where are we and What is still Missing?
Piero A. Bonatti, Daniel Olmedilla
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 - 18.30 Industry Session
* Generating Rewrite Rules by Browsing RDF Data
(Ora Lassila)
* Semantic Information Integration with Software AGs Information
Integrator (Juergen Angele and Michael Gesmann)
* BaseVISor: A Triples-Based Inference Engine Outfitted to
Process RuleML and R-Entailment Rules (Christopher Matheus,
Kenneth Baclawski and Mieczyslaw Kokar)
* Applying Semantic Rules to Achieve Dynamic Service Oriented
Architectures (Suzette Stoutenburg, Leo Obrst, Deborah
Nichols, Ken Samuel and Paul Franklin)
20.00 - 22:00: Poster Session and Reception (food served)
Day 2: November 11
08.30 - 10:30 Ontology and Rule Integration Workshop
* Workshop program TBA
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12.00 Fishbowl panel:
* Challenges in Real World Applications of Rules and Ontologies.
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 14.00 Keynote II
* Rule-based intelligence in the Semantic Web -or-
"I'll settle for a web that's just not so dumb!"
Dean Allemang
14:00 - 14:15 Coffee break
14.15 - 15.45 Research Session III - Uncertainty and rules
* Fuzzy Description Logic Programs under the Answer Set
Semantics (Thomas Lukasiewicz)
* An Approach to Representing Uncertainty Rules in RuleML
(Carlos Damasio, Jeff Pan, Giorgos Stoilos and Umberto
Straccia)
* Learning Rules to Pre-process Web Data for Automatic
Integration (Kai Simon, Thomas Hornung and Georg Lausen)
15.45 - 16.15 Coffee break
16.15 - 18.45 Tutorial II
* Bridging Research and Practice - Making Real-World
Application of Ontologies and Rules.
Harold Boley, John Gilman, Holger Knublauch