CFP: RuleML-2008 (2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchang

[Adrian Paschke <paschke@in.tum.de>]

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           2008 International RuleML Symposium
      on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008)

         October 30-31, 2008, Orlando, Florida
              http://2008.ruleml.org

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Co-located with:

        The 11th International Business Rules Forum
             http://www.businessrulesforum.com
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Sponsored by:

Silver level: Model Systems
Bronze level: STI Innsbruck, ruleCore, JBoss
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In Co-operation with:

AAAI, W3C, BPM-Forum, Business Rules Forum , ECCAI, OASIS, OMG,
European Business Rules Conference, Belgium Business Rules Forum,
ACM, ACM SIGART, ACM SIGMIS, ACM SIGWEB, Open Research Society,
IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society
IEEE Computer Society TC on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems (pending)
IEEE Computer Society TC on Intelligent Informatics (pending)
IEEE SMCS TC on Intelligent Internet Systems
IEEE SMCS TC on Distributed Intelligent Systems

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Media Partners:

        Springer LNCS, MoDo Marketing
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Call for Papers

Collocated with the 11th International Business Rules Forum, the 2008
International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications 
(RuleML-2008) is
the second symposium (after last year's highly successful RuleML-2007 -
http://2007.ruleml.org/) devoted to work on practical distributed rule
technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for
rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent 
Multi-
Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing
Applications. The RuleML symposium is a new kind of event where the Web 
Rules
and Logic community joins the established, practically oriented Forum of the
Business Rules community (http://www.businessrulesforum.com) to help cross-
fertilizing between Web and Business Logic technology.

The goal of RuleML-2008 is to bring together rule system providers,
representatives of, and participants in, rule standardization efforts (e.g.,
SBVR, RuleML, RIF, PRR, CL) and open source rules communities (e.g., jBoss
Rules, CLIPS/Jess, Prova, OO jDrew, Mandarax, XSB, XQuery), 
practitioners and
technical experts, developers, users, and researchers. They will be offered
an exciting venue to exchange new ideas, practical developments and
experiences on issues pertinent to the interchange and application of rules
in open distributed environments such as the Web.

The Symposium gives emphasis on practical issues such as technical
contributions and show case demonstrations of effective, practical,
deployable rule-based technologies, rule interchange formats and 
applications
as well as discussions of lessons learned that have to be taken into account
when employing rule-based technologies in distributed, (partially) open,
heterogeneous environments. We also welcome groundwork that helps to 
build an
effective, practical, and deployable rule standard, improve rule technology,
provide better understanding of the integration and interchange of 
rules, and
make the current generation of rule engines and rule technology more usable
for advanced Web and Service Oriented Architectures.

RuleML-2008 highlights include:
- Plenary keynotes and a joint Boxed Lunch Panel about "Rules on the Web"
 together with the Business Rules Forum featuring prominent and visionary
 speakers.
- There will be a joint keynote between RuleML-2008 and RR2008
 (http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2008/), which will be broadcast from 
RR2008
 to RuleML-2008.
- A RuleML-2008 Challenge with prizes to demonstrate tools, use cases, and
 applications
- Industry, demo and scientific research & development papers and
 presentations advancing and assessing the state of the art in event and
 rule- based systems selected in a peer-reviewed fashion by an 
international
 program committee
- Invited talks given by leaders from industry and world-class experts
 featuring practical topics on event and rule-based computing and industry
 success stories
- Social events to promote networking among the symposium delegates in an
 informal setting.


Topics of Interest
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We invite industry practitioners, rule system providers, technical experts
and developers, rule users, and researchers who are using rule-based 
systems,
developing systems and applications, or exploring problems and best 
practices
(especially in the areas of system interoperability, rule interchange, or
business agility), to share their ideas, results, and experiences. We invite
submissions related (but not limited to) to one or more of the following
topics:

- Representation and meta-annotation of rules and rule sets (modules) for
 publication and interchange
- Collaborative authoring, modeling and engineering of rule specifications
 and rule repositories
- Information integration of external data and domain knowledge into rules
- Homogeneous and heterogeneous integration of  rules and ontologies
- Rules in Web 2.0 and Web 3.0
- Rules in Semantic Web Technologies
- Rules in Web Intelligence Research
- Hybrid rule systems
- Management and maintenance of distributed rule bases and rule repositories
 during their lifecycle
- Interchange and refactoring of rule bases in heterogeneous execution
 environments
- Verification and validation of interchanged rule bases in heterogeneous
 execution environments
- Contributions on effective, practical, and deployable Web standards on
 rules as well as special purpose, vertical domain rule languages
- Rule-based agility and its role in middleware
- Communication between rule based systems using interchange formats and
 processing / communication middleware
- Applications, products, research, and development in rule-based,
 distributed complex event processing, event communication and reaction
 rules
- Event-driven/action rule languages and models
- Rule-based Event Processing Languages and rule-based CEP
- Rule patterns and CEP patterns
- Practical solutions tackling the real-world Software Engineering
 requirements of rule-based systems in open, distributed environments
- Modeling of executable rule specifications and tool support
- Execution models, rule engines, and environments
- Compilation vs. interpretation approaches of rules
- Applications and integration of rules in web standards
- Rule-based software agents and (web) services
- Applications of rules in the Semantic Web and Pragmatic Web
- Comparing and advancing the state of current business rules engines and
 management system tools
- Rule interchange standards and related industry interchange formats
- Interoperation between different rule formats and ontological domain
 conceptualization
- Applications based on (Semantic) Web rule standardization or standards-
 proposing efforts
- Translation of interchangeable and domain-independent rule formats and 
rule
 models into executable technical rule specifications
- Extraction and reengineering of platform-independent, interchangeable 
rules
 and rule models from existing platform-specific resources
- Natural-language processing of rules
- Graphical processing, modelling and rendering of rules
- Incorporation of rule technology into distributed enterprise application
 architectures
- Rule-based policies and electronic contracts: their specification,
 execution and management
- Languages for exchanging and processing information through the web
- E-contracting and automated negotiations with rule-based declarative
 strategies
- Applications of rules in e.g. legal reasoning, compliance rules, security,
 IT government, security, risk management, trust and proof reasoning, etc.
- Rule-based (multi-valued) reasoning with and representing uncertain and
 fuzzy information
- Rule-based reasoning with non-monotonic negation, modalities, deontic,
 temporal, priority, scoped or other rule qualifications
- Rule-based default reasoning with default logic, defeasible logic, and
 answer set programming


RuleML-2008 Challenge
---------------------

RuleML-2008 Challenge addresses the practical use of rule technologies in
distributed and/or Web-based environments. The focus of the challenge is on
rule technologies (including rule languages and engines), interoperation and
interchange. The challenge offers participants the chance to demonstrate
their commercial and open source tools, use cases, and applications. Prizes
will be awarded to the two best applications. All accepted demos will be
presented in a special Challenge Session.

Intentionally, this year's challenge (as last year) does not define a
specific task, data set, application domain, or technology to be used 
because
the potential applicability of rules is very broad. Instead, a number of
minimal criteria were defined which allow people to submit a broad range of
applications.

A submission to RuleML challenge has to meet the minimal 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).
- Rules are used in interesting and practically relevant ways to, e.g.,
 derive useful information, transform knowledge, provide decision support,
 provide automated rule-based monitoring, enforcement, validation or
 management of the behavioural logic of the application.

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. More
details will be available on the RuleML-2008 web site.


Important Dates
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- Paper Submissions due        June 2, 2008
- Notification of acceptance    July 18, 2008
- Final submissions due        August 9, 2008
- Symposium date        October 30-31, 2008
- RuleML Challenge        October 30, 2008


Symposium Proceedings and Submission Details
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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=ruleml2008 as:

- Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings)
- Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings)
- RuleML-2008 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 their complete papers by June 2, 2008. The
selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes
in Computer Science (LNCS) series (pending) 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 via
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2008. We will pursue the
publication of a selection of revised papers to a special issue of a high-
quality journal.

Submissions to the RuleML Challenge 2008 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, or a download site. If the link is password-protected: then
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.
The demos will be evaluated by an independent jury of experts during
RuleML-2008 and prizes will be awarded to the first two best applications.

Please do not hesitate to email to the appropriate Symposium Chair(s), 
if you
have any questions.


Organizing Committee
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General Chair

Adrian Paschke, Technical University Dresden, Germany
      adrian.paschke AT biotec.tu-dresden.de

Program Co-Chairs

Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
      nbassili AT csd.auth.gr
Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia
      guido AT itee.uq.edu.au

Challenge Co-Chairs

Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
      badica_costin AT software.ucv.ro
Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
      hu AT cs.nccu.edu.tw

Panel Co-Chairs

John Hall, Model Systems, UK
      john.hall AT modelsys.com
Axel Polleres, DERI Galway, Ireland
      axel AT polleres.net

Liaison Co-Chairs

Mark Proctor, JBoss Rules, UK
      mproctor AT redhat.com
Rainer von Ammon, CITT GmbH, Germany
      vonammon AT t-online.de
Jan Vanthienen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
      Jan.Vanthienen AT econ.kuleuven.be


Publicity Co-Chairs

Matthias Nickles, University of Bath, UK
      M.L.Nickles AT cs.bath.ac.uk
Tracy Bost, Valocity, USA
      tbost AT valocity.com
(Sponsoring levels: http://2008.ruleml.org/sponsoring/)

Web Chair

Suzanne Embury, University of Manchester, UK
      Suzanne.Embury AT manchester.ac.uk


Program Committee
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- Asaf Adi, IBM, Israel
- Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete-FORTH, Greece
- Sidney Bailin, Knowledge Evolution, USA
- Matteo Baldoni, University of Torino, Italy
- Cristina Baroglio, University of Torino, Italy
- Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs
- Tim Bass, SilkRoad Inc.
- Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany
- Mikael Berndtsson, University of Skovde, Sweden
- Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, Canada
- Pedro Bizarro, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Peter Bollen, University of Maastricht, Netherlands
- Christian Brelage, SAP Research, Germany
- Donald Chapin, Business Semantics Ltd, UK
- Shyi-Ming Chen, National University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
- Jorge Cuellar, Siemens, Germany
- Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA
- Stan Devitt, Agfa Healthcare, Ontario, Canada
- Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zeeland
- Jurgen Dix, Technische Universitaet Clausthal, Germany
- Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Andreas Eberhart, Portland State University, USA
- Opher Etzion, IBM Research Laboratory Haifa, Israel
- Dieter Fensel, DERI Innsbruck, Austria
- Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada
- Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany
- Stijn Goedertier, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- Robert Golan, DBmind Technologies, USA
- Christine Golbreich, University Rennes, France
- Tom Gordon, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Germany
- Marek Hatala, Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece
- Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
- Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
- Alex Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd., UK
- Holger Lausen, DERI Innsbruck, Austria
- John Lee, Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
- Mark Linehan, IBM Research, USA
- Heiko Ludwig, IBM Watson Research, USA
- Mirko Malekovic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Christopher J. Matheus, Vistology, USA
- Craig McKenzie, Science Applications International, USA
- Jing Mei, IBM Research Lab China, China
- Zoran Milosevic, Deontik Inc, Australia
- Jang Minsu, E&T Research Institute, Korea
- Leora Morgenstern, Stanford, USA
- Gero Muehl, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany
- Jorg Muller, TU Clausthal, Germany
- Chieko Nakabasami, Toyo University, Japan
- Ilkka Niemela, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- Bart Orriens, Tilburg University, Netherlands
- Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK
- Paula-Lavinia Patranjan, Rewerse, Germany
- Jon Pellant, Pega Systems Inc., USA
- Jeff Pollock, Oracle, USA
- Alun Preece, Cardiff University, UK
- Maher Rahmouni, HP Labs
- Girish Ranganathan, University of New Brunswick, Canada
- Dave Reynolds, HP, England
- Graham Rong, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA
- Antonio Rotolo, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy
- Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Christian de Sainte Marie, ILOG, France
- Marco Seirio, ruleCore, Sweden
- Timos Sellis, Institute for the Management of Information Systems and
 National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Michael Sintek, DFKI, Germany
- Silvie Spreeuwenberg, LibRT, The Netherlands
- Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Giorgos Stoilos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Terrance Swift, XSB Inc., USA
- Kuldar Taveter, University of Melbourne, Australia
- James Taylor, Fair Isaac Corp., USA
- Vagan Terziyan, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
- Paul Vincent, TIBCO Software, USA
- George Vouros, University of the Aegean, Greece
- Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia
- Mehmet Emre Yegen, Ygntec Inc., USA