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RuleML2008
Second International Web Rule Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications
Start October 30 2008
Homepage: Homepage
Location
City: Orlando, Florida
State: Florida
Country: USA
Important dates
Abstracts due: June 1 2008
Notification: July 22 2008
Camera ready due: August 13 2008
Event in series RuleML

RuleML2008 is the Second International Web Rule Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications. It is held from October 30 2008 to October 31 2008 in Orlando, Florida, USA.

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[edit] Objectives

In recent years rule based technologies have enjoyed remarkable adoption in two areas: (1) Business Rules Processing and (2) Web-Centred Reasoning. The first trend is caused by the software development life cycle, which needs to be accelerated at reduced cost. The second trend is related to the Semantic Web and Service-oriented technologies, which aim to turn the Web into a huge repository of cross-referenced, machine-understandable data and processes. For both trends, rules can be used to extract, derive, transform, and integrate information in a platform-independent manner. While early rule engines and environments were complex, expensive to maintain, and not very user friendly, the current generation of rule technology provides enhanced usability, scalability and performance, and is less costly. A general advantage of using rules is that they are usually represented in a platform independent manner, often using XML. This fits well into today’s distributed, heterogeneous Web-based system environments. Rules represented in standardized Web formats can be discovered, interchanged and invoked at runtime within and across Web systems, and can be interpreted and executed on any platform.

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 RuleML2007) 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 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.

[edit] Topics of Interest

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 purposes
  • Collaborative authoring, modeling and engineering of rule specifications and rule repositories
  • Heterogeneous and homogenous information integration of external data and domain knowledge into rules including object-oriented data representations, databases, Web resources, meta-data repositories and Semantic Web ontologies
  • 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 combining, e.g. declarative rules and object-oriented programming or forward-reasoning production rules and backward-reasoning derivation rules
  • 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
  • Communication between rule based systems using interchange formats and processing / communication middleware such as Event Processing Networks (EPN), and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Event Driven Architectures (EDA)
  • Applications, products, research, and development in rule-based, distributed complex event processing (CEP), event communication and reaction rules (e.g., ECA rules, production rules, trigger rules)
  • Event-driven/action rule languages and models
  • Practical solutions tackling the real-world Software Engineering requirements of rule-based systems in open, distributed environments such as the Web
  • Modeling of executable rule specifications and tool support (e.g. development environments, editors, compilers, interpreters, translators/transformations, rule code generators) · Execution models, rule engines, and environments
  • Compilation vs. interpretation approaches of rules
  • Rule interchange standards and related industry interchange formats, e.g. SBVR, PRR, XBRL,FIX/FPL, FpML, MISMO, ACORD, RuleML, RIF, SWRL, etc.
  • Applications and integration of rules in web standards, e.g., semantic web services (SWS), WS-standards, BPEL, security (e.g. XRML), meta data processing (e.g. personal information management DC, vCard, FOAF, vCalendar etc.)
  • Rule-based software agents and (web) services
  • Applications of rules in the Semantic Web and Pragmatic Web (e.g. negotiation of ontology meaning or communication within a pragmatic context)
  • Comparing and advancing the state of current business rules engines (BRE) and business rules management system (BRMS) tools
  • Practical interoperation between different rule formats such as business rules, decision tables, decision trees, reactive rules, derivation rules, logical formulas, constraints, association rules, transformation rules and ontological domain conceptualization including meaning negotiation and practical use of agreed rules and vocabularies
  • 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 and information
  • Natural-language processing of rules
  • Graphical processing, modelling and rendering of rules
  • Incorporation of rules technology into distributed enterprise application architectures such as such as Real-Time Enterprise (RTE), Business Activity Management (BAM), Business Performance Management (BPM), Business Process Management, Enterprise Workflow Systems, Database Management Systems or Supply Chain Management Solutions and related areas such as Service-based Architectures (Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) / Service Oriented Computing (SOC) / Service Component Architectures (SCA) ), Semantic Web Services (SWS), IT Service Management (ITSM) and IT Service Level Management (IT SLM) , and Policy solutions
  • Rule-based policies and electronic contracts: their specification, execution, and management
  • Languages for exchanging and processing information through the web, e.g. common base event, WS-standards, ebXML etc.
  • 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

[edit] 2nd International Rule Challenge

The RuleML-2008 Rule Challenge is one of the highlights of RuleML-2008. It addresses the system demonstration for 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.

A submission to RuleML challenge has to meet the 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 and 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.

For more details please consult the RuleML-2008 Challenge website (http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw).

[edit] Important Dates

  • Paper Submissions due June 16, 2008
  • Notification of acceptance July 22, 2008
  • Final submissions due August 13, 2008
  • Symposium date October 30-31, 2008
  • RuleML Challenge October 30, 2008

[edit] Proceedings and Journal Special Issue

The RuleML-2008 proceedings have been published as Springer LNCS proceedings:

  • Nick Bassiliades, Guido Governatori, Adrian Paschke (Eds.), "Rule Representation, Interchange and Reasoning on the Web", Proceedings of The 2008 International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008), Orlando, Florida, USA, 30-31 Oct. 2008, Springer, LNCS, Vol. 5321, 2008, ISBN: 978-3-540-88807-9. [1]

The 2nd International Rule Challenge papers an demos have been published online:

An additional journal special issue has been published:

  • Nick Bassiliades, Guido Governatori, Adrian Paschke, Jürgen Dix: Guest Editors' Introduction: Rule Representation, Interchange, and Reasoning in Distributed, Heterogeneous Environments. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 22(11): 1489-1491 (2010) [2]

[edit] Organizing Committee

[edit] General Chair

[edit] Program Co-Chairs

[edit] Challenge Co-Chairs

[edit] Panel Co-Chairs

[edit] Liaison Co-Chairs

[edit] Publicity Co-Chairs

[edit] Web Chair

[edit] Program Committee

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