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* CALL FOR PAPERS *
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* RuleApps 2009 *
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* 3rd East European Workshop on Rule-Based Applications *
* Cottbus, Germany, September 21, 2009 *
* http://hydrogen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/wiki/index.php/RuleApps2009 *
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* Paper submission deadline: July 30, 2009 *
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Aims and Audience
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The workshop aims to be a common space where those with experience or interest
in rule modeling, rule languages and rule engines meet researchers with expertise
in other areas such as: Artificial Intelligence, Business Process Modeling,
Cloud Computing, Intelligent Agents, Model-Driven Architecture, and Semantic Web.

Attending this workshop will give researchers the possibility to identify new
trends and challenges in rule-based applications, and it will provide a forum for
potential users of innovative AI techniques.


Topics of Interest
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The workshop seeks contributions addressing,
but not limited to, the following topics:
* Artificial Intelligence Rules and Rule Systems
* Best Practices in Business Rules
* Combining rules and ontologies
* Rules in Enterprise Modeling
* Implemented tools and systems
* Rules and Web Services Integration
* Rules Modeling and Business Processes (including Production Rules and ECA Rules)
* Rule base Visualization, Verbalization, Validation, Verification and Exception Handling.
* Rule-based agents modeling and simulation
* Rule-based modeling of mechanisms, policies, strategies and contracts.
* Rule Engines Architectures
* Rules in Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0

Past Events
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* 2nd East European Workshop on Rule-Based Applications RuleApps'2008
Collocated with the 18th biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
ECAI'2008, July 21-25, 2008, Patras, Greece
* 1st East European Workshop on Rule-Based Applications RuleApps'2007
Collocated with the 9th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms
for Scientific Computing SYNASC'2007 September 26-29, 2007, Timisoara, Romania

Submission Details
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RuleApps2009 looks for three categories of submissions:
regular, short, and application papers:
* Regular papers - max. 12 pages (including figures) LNCS format
describing completed research.
* Short papers and application papers - max. 6 pages (including figures) LNCS format
describing early results and novel ideas. Software described in application papers
should be available online during the review process.

The submission web site is:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleapp2009

For any additional questions regarding the submission of papers ask
organizers by email(please include /RuleApps'2009/ in the subject).

Publication
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The accepted papers will be published as CEUR-WS Proceedings.

The copyright for the individual items (subsuming any type of
computer-represented files containing articles, software demos,
videos, etc.) within the proceedings volume is owned by default by
their respective authors. Copying of items, in particular papers, and
proceedings volumes is permitted only for private and academic
purposes. Copying or use for commercial purposes is forbidden unless
an explicit permission is acquired from the copyright owners (i.e. authors).

Extended versions of the best regular papers of the workshop will be
invited for publication in an indexed scientific journal.

Important dates
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Submissions due: July 30, 2009
Notification of acceptance: August 30, 2009
Camera ready copy due: September 15, 2009
Workshop date: September 21, 2009


Organization
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Workshop Organizers
* Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany
* Grzegorz J. Nalepa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
* Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany


Program Committee (tentative)
* Grigoris Antoniou, FORTH, Greece
* Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
* Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
* Aicha-Nabila Benharkat, Institut National des Sciences Appliquees de Lyon, France
* Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zealand
* Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada
* Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany
* Isambo Karali, University of Athens, Greece
* Ion Iancu, University of Craiova, Romania
* Antoni Ligeza, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
* Grzegorz J. Nalepa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
* Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania
* Paula Lavinia Patranjan, SKYTEC AG, Germany
* Mark Proctor, Drools, Redhat
* Dave Reynolds, Hewlett-Packard Semantic Web Research, England
* Kuldar Taveter, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
* Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany