1st Call for Papers

RuleML-2010

4th International Web Rule Symposium: Research Based and Industry Focused

October 21-23, 2010, Washington, DC, USA

Co-located with the 13th Business Rules Forum


http://2010.ruleml.org/


Overview and Aim

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The International Web Rule Symposium has evolved from an annual series of international workshops since 2002, international conferences in 2005 and 2006, and international symposia since 2007. This year, the 4th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML-2010) will be held near Washington, DC, USA, co-located with the 13th Business Rules Forum, the world's largest Business Rules event. RuleML-2010 is devoted to practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications, which need language standards for rules (inter)operating in, e.g., the Semantic Web, Enterprise Systems, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures, and Service-Oriented Applications.



RuleML-2010 is a research-based, industry-focused symposium: its main goal is to build a bridge between academia and industry in the field of rules and semantic technology, and so to stimulate the cooperation and interoperability between business and research, by bringing together rule system providers, participants in rule standardization efforts, open source communities, practitioners, and researchers. The concept of the symposium has also advanced continuously in the face of extremely rapid progress in practical rule and event processing technologies. As a result, RuleML-2010 will feature hands-on demonstrations and challenges alongside a wide range of thematic tracks. It will thus be an exciting venue to exchange new ideas and experiences on all issues related to the engineering, management, integration, interoperation, and interchange of rules in distributed enterprise intranets and open distributed environments.





Conference Theme

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This year, we particularly welcome submissions that address applications of Web rule technologies for business and information systems. We invite you to share your ideas, results, and experiences: as an industry practitioner, rule system provider, technical expert, developer, rule user or researcher, exploring foundations, developing systems and applications, or using rule-based systems. We invite high-quality submissions related to (but not limited to) one or more of the following topics:





Track Topics

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Rules, Semantic Technology, and Cross-Industry Standards



Rule Transformation and Extraction



Rules and Uncertainty



Rules and Norms



Rules and Inferencing



Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules



Rule-Based Distributed/Multi-Agent Systems





We also welcome submissions on miscellaneous rule topics, such as

- Rules and ontologies

- Execution models, rule engines, and environments

- Graphical processing, modeling and rendering of rules





Case studies, experience reports, and industrial problem statements are particularly encouraged.





RuleML-2010 Challenge

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The RuleML-2010 Challenge is one of the highlights of RuleML-2010. Rules are used in interesting and practically relevant ways to, e.g., derive useful information, transform knowledge, provide decision support, and provide automated rule-based monitoring, enforcement, validation or management of the behavioral logic of an application. The Challenge offers participants the chance to demonstrate their commercial and open source tools, use cases, and applications.





Conference Language

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The official language of the conference will be English.





Submission

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Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance and technical rigor in the field, experience reports and show/use case demonstrations of effective and practical rule-based technologies, or applications deployed in distributed environments.





RuleML-2010 Submission Guidelines, Springer Proceedings, Best Paper Award

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Papers must be in English and may be submitted at



http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2010



as:



Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings)

Short Papers (8 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 the abstracts of their papers before May 25, 2010 and to upload their complete papers by June 1, 2010. The selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The best paper from all submissions will be determined by the PC and a Best Paper Award will be presented at the Symposium. All submissions must be made electronically. A selection of revised papers will be resubmitted to a special issue of a journal.





RuleML-2010 Challenge Submission Guidelines

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To be announced





Review Process

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The submitted papers will pass the blind review process. At least three members of the Program Committee will review each submission.





Important Dates:

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Abstract submission deadline: May 25, 2010

Paper Submission deadline: June 1, 2010

Notification of acceptance: July 7, 2010

Camera ready due: July 28, 2010

Symposium dates: October 21-23, 2010





Conference Venue

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RuleML-2010 will take place at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center, which is located 5 miles southwest of Washington, DC. The symposium is co-located with the 13th Business Rules Forum.



Hilton Alexandria Mark Center

5000 Seminary Road, Alexandria, Virginia, United States 22311



Internet: http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/DCAAHHF-Hilton-Alexandria-Mark-Center-Virginia/index.do





Program Committee

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General Chairs

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Mike Dean, Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA

Said Tabet, RuleML Initiative, USA





Program Chairs

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John Hall, Model Systems, UK

Antonino Rotolo, University of Bologna, Italy





Liaison Chair

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Mark Proctor, Red Hat, UK





Track Chairs

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Rules, Semantic Technology, and Cross-Industry Standards

Tracy Bost, Valocity, USA

Robert Golan, DBMind, USA



Rule Transformation and Extraction

Mark Linehan, IBM, USA



Rules and Uncertainty

Davide Sottara, University Bologna, Italy



Rules and Norms

Thomas Gordon, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia



Rules and Inferencing

Grigoris Antoniou, Information Systems Laboratory, FORTH, Greece



Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules

Alex Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd., UK

Adrian Paschke, Free Univ. Berlin, Germany



Rule-Based Distributed/Multi-Agent Systems

Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania





RuleML-2010 Challenge Chairs

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Enrico Francesconi, ITTIG-CNR, Italy

Monica Palmirani, University of Bologna, Italy

Fabio Vitali, University of Bologna, Italy