Rr2009

The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) is a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2009 builds on the success of the first two International Conferences on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, held in 2007 in Innsbruck and in and 2008 in Karlsruhe, which received enthusiastic support from the Web Rules community. In 2009, RR will continue the excellence of the new series and aim to attract the best Web Reasoning and Rules researchers from all over the world.

Suggested topics include the following, which is not to be considered as an exhaustive list:

• Representation techniques for web-based knowledge
• Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction
• Combining open and closed-world reasoning
• Combining rules and ontologies
• Design and analysis of reasoning languages
• Efficiency and benchmarking
• Implemented tools and systems
• Foundations and applications related to relevant standardization bodies such as the W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF), Web Ontology Language (OWL2) and SPARQL working groups, or the W3C Uncertainty Reasoning for the World Wide Web Incubator Group, etc.
• Ontology usability
• Ontology languages and their relationships
• Querying and optimization
• Rules and ontology management (such as inconsistency handling and evolution)
• Reasoning with uncertainty and under inconsistency
• Reasoning with constraints
• Rule languages and systems
• Rule interchange formats and Rule markup languages
• Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the web
• Approximate reasoning techniques for the Web
• Integration of statistical methods and symbolic reasoning
• Semantic Web Services modeling and applications
• Web and Semantic Web applications and experience papers

The conference is co-located with ISWC2009, the International Semantic Web Conference.

[edit] General chair

• Michael Kifer, SUNY Stony Brook, NY (USA)

[edit] Local Chair

• Guilin Qi, TU Karlsruhe (DE)

[edit] Program chairs

• Axel Polleres, National University of Ireland (IRE)
• Terrance Swift, Departamento de Informatica FCT/UNL (PT)

[edit] Program committee

• Gregoris Antoniou, University of Crete (GR)
• Marcelo Arenas, Pontificia Universidad Catolico de Chile (CL)
• Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, Ottawa (CA)
• Piero Bonatti, Univ. of Naples Frederico II (IT)
• Carlos Damasio, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (PT)
• Wlodek Drabent, IPI PAN Warszawa (PL)
• Bernardo Cuenca Grau, University of Oxford (UK)
• Volker Haarslev, Concordia University (CA)
• Giovambattista Ianni, Univ. of Calabria (IT)
• Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian Univ. of Athens (GR)
• Domenico Lembo, DIS, Univ. di Roma ``La Sapienza (IT)
• Thomas Lukasiewicz, Computing Lab. Univ. of Oxford (UK)
• Francesca Alessandra Lisi, Universita degli Studi di Bari (IT)
• Wolfgang May, University of Göttingen (DE)
• David Pearce, Universidad Politde Madrid (ES)
• Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University (US)
• Guilin Qi, University of Karlsruhe (DE)
• Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Grenoble (FR)
• Sebastian Rudolph, University of Karlsruhe (DE)
• Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaf (AT)
• Michael Sintek, DFKI GmbH Kaiserslautern (DE)
• Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens (GR)
• Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim (DE)
• York Sure, SAP AG (DE)
• Peter Szeredi, Budapest Univ of Tech. and Econ. (HU)
• Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen - Bolzano (IT)
• Hans Tompits, Vienna Univ. of Technology (AT)
• Dirk Vermeir, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE)