Call for Papers: The 9th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML 2015)

   **** DEADLINE - Paper Submission March 4th ****


Call for Papers: The 9th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML 2015)=20

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August 2-5, 2015, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany =
http://2015.ruleml.org


++++++++++++ News ++++++++++++++++
- Keynotes by Michael Genesereth on FOL Herbrand Semantics
  and Thom Fruewirth on Constraint Handling Rules
- Tutorial Day http://2015.ruleml.org/tutorials.html
- Industry Track http://2015.ruleml.org/industrytrack.html
- 9th International Rule Challenge http://2015.ruleml.org/challenge.html
- with challenge track "Rule-based Recommender Systems for the Web of =
Data" http://2015.ruleml.org/recsysrules-2015.html
- and RuleML Rulebase Competition Award and Demo Award =
http://2015.ruleml.org/challenge.html
- 5th Doctoral Consortium http://2015.ruleml.org/DoctoralConsortium.html
- Student Travel support =
http://2015.ruleml.org/student-travel-support.html
- Co-located with: CADE 2015, RR 2015, Reasoning Web 2015, FOMIS 2015 =
and further CADE workshops
- Sponsors and Partners: ECCAI, AAAI, W3C, OMG, OASIS LegalXML, =
Association for Logic Programming,
  IEEE Technical Committee on Semantic Computing, IFCoLog, Signavio, =
Model Systems, Coherent Knowledge, Binarypark, ShareLatex, Corporate =
Semantic Web, Springer LNCS, Athan Services

The annual International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML) is the leading =
international event in the field of rules and their applications. RuleML =
2015, the ninth event in this series, will be held in Berlin, Germany, =
August 3-5 in conjunction with the Conference on Automated Deduction =
(CADE), the Workshop on Formal Ontologies meet Industry (FOMI), the =
Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) and the Reasoning Web =
Summer School (RW).=20

RuleML 2015 will host multiple tracks on Complex Event Processing, =
Existential Rules and Datalog+/-, Industry, Legal Rules and Reasoning =
and Rule Learning, as well as hosting the 9th International Rule =
Challenge, the 5th RuleML Doctoral Consortium, the RuleML tutorial day, =
and the 7th Workshop on Formal Ontologies meets Industry.=20


Objectives
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RuleML 2015 will bring together practitioners, interested in the theory =
and applications of rules in academic research, industry, engineering, =
business and other diverse application areas. It will provide a forum =
for stimulating co-operation and cross-fertilization between the many =
different communities focused on the research and development of =
rule-based systems.=20

The symposium's areas of research and development have helped drive =
rapid progress in technologies for practical rule and event processing =
in distributed enterprise, intranets, and open distributed environments. =

Industry practitioners, rule-system providers, users of rules, technical =
experts and developers, and researchers who are exploring foundational =
issues, developing systems and applications, or using rule- based =
systems are invited to share ideas, results, and experiences.=20


Topics
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The conference will have 5 special tracks, as well as general sessions. =
The tracks are:=20
* Complex Event Processing
* Existential Rules and Datalog+/-
* Legal Rules and Reasoning
* Rule Learning
* Industry=20

We invite high-quality submissions related (but not limited) to the =
special tracks and within the general theme of the conference.=20


Track Topics
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Complex Event Processing (Main theme: Uncertainty Handling in Complex =
Event Processing)
- Scalable CEP under uncertainty
- Visual analytics for CEP systems
- Distributed CEP under uncertainty
- Real-world applications of CEP
- Event forecasting under uncertainty
- Privacy issues in CEP
- Multi-scale temporal aggregation of events
- Benchmarks and testbeds for CEP
- Machine learning for event processing and forecasting=20

Existential Rules and Datalog+/
- Decidability paradigms for existential rules
- Consistent query answering
- Reasoning and querying
- Query Rewriting
- Nonmonotonic reasoning
- Query Optimization
- Probabilistic reasoning
- Ontology Languages
- Data and knowledge integration and exchange
- Ontology-based Data Access System
- Conceptual modeling
- Descriptions and applications
- Semi-structured data, graph databases and (Semantic) Web data=20

Legal Rules and Reasoning
- Learning from legal texts
- Modeling normative rules
- Reguratory compliance by rules
- Modeling legislation
- XML, standards for legal documents
- Legal ontology
- Semantic Web in Legal Domain
- Legal Open Data and Rules
- Reasoning about normative rules
- Normative rules extraction by natural language processing=20

Rule Learning
- Inductive rule learning
- Classification rules
- Association rules
- Learning rules for the semantic web
- Preference rules
- Rule-based recommender systems
- Relational learning
- Learning business rules
- Descriptive rule learning
- Predictive rule learning=20

Industry Track
The RuleML 2015 Industry Track targets businesses and the private sector =
interested in sharing, exploring, and learning about the use of rules =
and rule technologies for solving real life business problems.=20
For further information about the Industry Track topics and submission =
see: http://2015.ruleml.org/industrytrack.html

Generel Topics (not limited to)
- Rules and automated reasoning
- Rule-based policies, reputation, and trust
- Reaction rules
- Rules and the Web
- Rule discovery from data
- Fuzzy rules and uncertainty
- Logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning
- Non-classical logics and the Web (e.g modal, especially deontic and =
epistemic, logics)
- Hybrid methods for combining rules and statistical machine learning =
techniques (e.g., conditional random fields, Probabilistic Soft Logic)
- Rule transformation and extraction
- Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules
- Rule markup languages and rule interchange formats
- Rule-based distributed/multi-agent systems
- Rules, agents, and norms
- Rule-based communication, dialogue, and argumentation models
- Rule-based data integration
- Vocabularies and ontologies for pragmatic primitives (e.g. speech acts =
and deontic primitives)
- Pragmatic web reasoning and distributed rule inference / rule =
execution
- Rules in online market research and online marketing
- Applications of rule technologies in health care and life sciences
- Rules and Human Language Technology
- Industrial applications of rules
- Rules and business process compliance checking
- Standards activities related to rules
- Rules and social media
- General rule topics=20


Student Travel Support
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Student Travel Support of EUR 500 will be provided for the two best =
student (first author) submissions.=20
For a paper to be considered, its first author must be a student. Proof =
of studentship will be required at time of registration. More detailed =
information on how to apply will be sent to authors of accepted papers =
through Easychair.=20


Important Dates
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Abstract Submission February 25, 2015
Paper Submission March 4, 2015
Notification May 4, 2015
Camera Ready May 18, 2015
Symposium Dates August 3-5, 2015=20


Submission guidelines
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(except for the Industry Track - the guidelines for the Industry Track =
can be found at http://2015.ruleml.org/industrytrack.html)=20

Papers must be original contributions written in English and must be =
submitted at EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3Druleml2015) as:=20

For all Tracks and general topics:=20
# Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings) # Short Papers (8 pages in =
the proceedings)=20

For submission to a particular track please select that particular =
track/category. To submit under the general topics simply select the =
"General RuleML track" category.=20

All papers must have at least three keywords identifying the main topics =
of the paper.=20

Please upload all submissions in LNCS format =
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=3D0-40209-0-0-0=
). 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. Selected papers, =
including those accepted for the special tracks will be published in =
book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) =
series (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=3D0-164-0-0-0).=20

Short papers may contain 1 extra page maximum for which there is a =
charge of US$200, while for long papers you are allowed 2 extra pages =
maximum for EACH of which there is a charge of US$200.=20


More information=20
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Website: http://2015.ruleml.org

Twitter hashtag: #ruleml2015 =
(https://twitter.com/search/?q=3D%23ruleml2015)=20

Blog: http://blog.ruleml.org=20

Call for papers: http://2015.ruleml.org/calls.html=20

Sponsoring: http://2015.ruleml.org/sponsorship.html