[DBWorld] RuleML+RR 2021 - Submission Deadline July 2nd

Call for Papers
RuleML+RR 2021

The 5th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR 20=
21) is the leading international joint conference in the field of rule-base=
d reasoning. Stemming from the synergy with the DecisionCAMP summit, which =
brings together leading decision management authorities, vendors, and pract=
itioners, one of the main goals of RuleML+RR is to build bridges between ac=
ademia and industry in the area of rule-based reasoning and applications. =

RuleML+RR 2021 is part of the event =93Declarative AI: Rules, Reasoning, De=
cisions, and Explanations=94 and is co-located with DecisionCAMP 2021 and t=
he Reasoning Web Summer School.
https://declarativeai2021.net/

RuleML+RR 2021 aims to bring together rigorous researchers and inventive pr=
actitioners, interested in the foundations and applications of rules and re=
asoning in academia, industry, engineering, business, finance, healthcare, =
environment, and other application areas. It provides a forum for stimulati=
ng cooperation and cross-fertilization between the many different communiti=
es focused on the research, development, and applications of rule-based sys=
tems. We are looking for high-quality papers related to theoretical advance=
s, novel technologies, and artificial intelligence applications concerning =
explainable algorithmic decision-making that involve rule-based representat=
ion and reasoning.

Theme for the 2021 edition: Blended rules, decisions, rule-based machine le=
arning, Artificial Intelligence.

RuleML+RR 2021 Chairs
* Sotiris Moschoyiannis, Department of Computer Science, University of Surr=
ey, UK ([email protected])
* Rafael Penaloza Nyssen, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy (rafael.penal=
[email protected])

Industry Track Chairs
* Nikolay Nikolov (SINTEF, Norway)
* Ioan Toma (ONLIM, Austria)

Proceedings Chair
* Dumitru Roman (University of Oslo, Norway)

Topics
RuleML+RR welcomes research from all areas of Rules and Reasoning.
The topics of the conference are:
* Machine learning approaches involving rules (e.g, extracting rules from D=
eep Neural Networks or rule-based classification)
* Rules for knowledge graphs and ontology learning
* Rule-based approaches to natural language processing
* Explainable AI approaches based on rules, psychological aspects of rule l=
earning
* Rules of ethics, biases, laws, policies, and regulations
* Production & business rule systems
* Communicating rule models with Decision Model and Notation (DMN)
* Applications of rule technologies with explainable AI (xAI) elements
* Foundations of declarative AI architectures and languages
* Rule-based approaches for intelligent systems and intelligent information=
 access
* Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules
* Ontology-based data access
* Rule-based data integration
* Data management and data interoperability for web data
* Distributed agent-based systems for the web
* Rule-based approaches to agents
* Scalability and expressive power of logics for the semantic web
* Reasoning with incomplete, inconsistent and uncertain data
* Non-monotonic, common-sense, and closed-world reasoning for web data
* Non-classical logics and the Web
* Constraint programming
* Logic programming
* Streaming data and complex event processing
* Higher-order and modal rules
* Web reasoning and distributed rule inference and execution
* Rule markup languages and rule interchange formats
* Rule-based policies, reputation, and trust
* Rules, blockchain, and smart contracts
* Scalability and expressive power of logics for rules
* System descriptions, applications and experiences
* Rules and human language technology
* Rules in online market research and online marketing
* Applications of ontologies and rules in environmental protection
* Applications in climate change monitoring, mitigation & adaptation
* Applications in healthcare and life sciences
* Applications in peace and conflict studies
* Applications in equity and social welfare
* Applications in law, regulation, and finance
* Applications in Digital Twins
* Industrial applications of rules

Main conference track
High-quality papers related to theoretical advances, novel technologies, an=
d artificial intelligence applications concerning explainable algorithmic d=
ecision-making that involve rule-based representation and reasoning are sol=
icited.
We accept the following submission formats for papers:
* Long papers (up to 15 pages in LNCS style)
* Short papers (up to 8 pages in LNCS style)
Long papers should present original and significant research and/or develop=
ment results. Short papers should concisely describe general results or spe=
cific applications, systems, or position statements.

Rule Challenge
The 15th famous International Rule Challenge, presenting innovative rule-ba=
sed tools, demos and applications, related to the RuleML+RR 2021 topics.
Rule Challenge papers are limited to 25pages and appear in CEUR proceedings=
 (indexed by all major bibliographic databases). =


Industry track
The RuleML+RR industry track welcomes original work from all areas of Rules=
 and Reasoning based technologies specifically for solving real industry pr=
oblems. We are interested in experiences from practitioners when applying r=
ules to industries such as engineering, manufacturing, agriculture, energy,=
 media, financials, telecommunications, healthcare, life sciences, governme=
nt, smart cities, and cultural heritage. We will also encourage submissions=
 on the following topics:
* Uses of rules and reasoning in data processing and management (including =
data access, interpretation, transformation, curation, integration, validat=
ion, versioning and distribution) on industry applications =

* Using rules and reasoning for data processing and management approaches a=
nd tools specifically used for building, extending and maintaining industri=
al knowledge graphs and ontologies =

* Natural language processing and conversational AI for automating communic=
ation with customers, suppliers and service providers =

Incentives for industry participation in this track include: Present own re=
sults / solutions for use of rule technologies in business settings; Learn =
about new trends in rule technologies, and how they can be used to address =
business problems; Exchange experiences about business cases and use of rul=
es.
For the industry track, we recommend the inclusion of information related t=
o: the business case, the technological challenges, the rule-based solution=
, the status of the approach and the importance of the solution for busines=
s.
Industry track papers are limited to 12 pages written in English following =
the LNCS format

Submissions
Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been =
published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference=
/workshop with formal proceedings. Double submission to a workshop with inf=
ormal proceedings is allowed. Papers put on arXiv are also allowed as long =
as they are not refereed (i.e., formally reviewed by peers).
Submit via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Drulemlrr2021
All submissions must be prepared in Springer's LaTeX style LNCS (http://www=
.springer.com/comp/lncs/authors.html).

In addition to regular submissions, RuleML+RR 2021 will include the 15th In=
ternational Rule Challenge and a Doctoral Consortium. RuleML+RR 2021 is co-=
located with DecisionCAMP 2021 and the 17th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW=
 2021).

Important dates
* June 27: Title and abstract submission
* July 2: Submission deadline
* July 16: Notification of acceptance
* July 24: Rule Challenge submission deadline
For each of these deadlines, a cut-off point of 23:59 AOE applies. =

* September 13-15: Conference

Publication
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Not=
es in Computer Science series (LNCS). The conference can be looked up in th=
e widely recognized CORE Rank under the acronym RuleML, used before its mer=
ger with the RR conference.
The proceedings will be published after the conference. =

A selection of the best accepted papers of RuleML+RR 2021 (2-6 papers) will=
 be invited for submission to the Journal of Theory and Practice of Logic P=
rogramming (TPLP) published by Cambridge University Press. Accepted papers =
will also be considered for the best paper award and best student paper awa=
rds sponsored by Springer.

Thanks to our partners and sponsors: KU Leuven - Artificial Intelligence Jo=
urnal (AIJ) =96 Springer LNCS =96 Leuven.AI

Check out further details at https://declarativeai2021.net/conference/
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