CfP: 8th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML 2014)

RuleML 2014 - one week to abstract submission deadline

 

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Call for Papers 8th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML 2014)

In conjunction with ECAI 2014, the 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Prague, Czech Republic, August 18-20, 2014.

http://2014.ruleml.org

 

Important Dates

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Abstract submission: 31 March 2014

Paper submission: 8 April 2014

Notification: 20 May 2014

Camera ready: 6 June 2014

RuleML 2014 dates: 18-20 August 2014

 

Keynotes and Tutorials

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* Rules, Events and Actions in Semantic Complex Event Processing, by Adrian Paschke, Freie Universität Berlin

* Rule-based Clinical Decision Support, Jürgen Angele, Jürgen Angele, Semedy AG, Zug, Switzerland

* Tutorial on Rule Learning, by Johannes Fuernkraz, TU Darmstadt

http://2014.ruleml.org/keynotes-tutorials

 

Special Tracks

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* Rules and Human Language Technology 

http://2014.ruleml.org/rules-and-human-language-technology

* Learning (Business) Rules from Data 

http://2014.ruleml.org/learning-business-rules-from-data

* Legal Rules and Norms

http://2014.ruleml.org/legal-rules-and-norms

 

RuleML 2014  is also hosting

* The 4th RuleML Doctoral Consortium: http://2014.ruleml.org/dc

* The 6th International Rule Challenge: http://2014.ruleml.org/challenge

* The Face-to-Face LegalRuleML OASIS TC meeting

 

Awards

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At a special session of RuleML 2014, we will present the following awards:

* RuleML Best Paper and Runner-up Awards 

 * Rule Challenge Best System and Runner-up Awards

* Doctoral Consortium Best Paper and Runner-up Awards

 

Topics

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We invite high-quality submissions related (but not limited) to the special tracks and to the following topics:

- Rules and automated reasoning

- Rule-based policies, reputation, and trust

- Rule-based event processing and reaction rules

- Rules and the Web

- Rule discovery from data

- Fuzzy rules and uncertainty

- Logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning

- Non-classical logics and the Web (e.g. modal, especially deontic and epistemic, logics)

- Hybrid methods for combining rules and statistical machine learning techniques (e.g., conditional random fields, Probabilistic Soft Logic)

- Rule transformation, extraction, and learning

- Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules

- Rule markup languages and rule interchange formats

- Rule-based distributed/multi-agent systems

- Rules, agents, and norms

- Rule-based communication, dialogue, and argumentation models

- Rule-based data integration

- Vocabularies and ontologies for pragmatic primitives (e.g. speech acts and deontic primitives)

- Pragmatic web reasoning and distributed rule inference / rule execution

- Rules in online market research and online marketing

- Applications of rule technologies in health care and life sciences

- Industrial applications of rules

- Rules and business process compliance checking

- Standards activities related to rules

- Rules and social media

- General rule topics

 

Submission Guidelines

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Papers must be original contributions written in English and must be submitted at

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2014 as:

* Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings)

* Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings)

 

Accepted papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. A selection of the best papers will be invited to be revised and extended for the post-conference publication in a Special Issue of TPLP (Theory and Practice of Logic Programming).

 

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Website: http://2014.ruleml.org

Twitter hashtag: #ruleml2014

Blog: http://blog.ruleml.org

Call for papers: http://2014.ruleml.org/call-for-papers