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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Apologies for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and students. Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Call for Papers: The 9th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML 2015)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE>========================================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE>August 3-5, 2015, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://2015.ruleml.org">http://2015.ruleml.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>++++++++++++ News ++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Keynotes by Michael Genesereth on FOL Herbrand Semantics<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> and Thom Fruewirth on Constraint Handling Rules<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Industry Track<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://2015.ruleml.org/industrytrack.html">http://2015.ruleml.org/industrytrack.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- 9th International Rule Challenge<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://2015.ruleml.org/challenge.html">http://2015.ruleml.org/challenge.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- 5th Doctoral Consortium<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://2015.ruleml.org/DoctoralConsortium.html">http://2015.ruleml.org/DoctoralConsortium.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Student Travel support<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://2015.ruleml.org/student-travel-support.html">http://2015.ruleml.org/student-travel-support.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Co-located with: CADE 2015, RR 2015, Reasoning Web 2015, FOMIS 2015<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Sponsors and Partners: Association for Logic Programming, ECCAI, W3C, OMG, OASIS LegalXML, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> IEEE Technical Committee on Semantic Computing, IFCoLog,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Coherent Knowledge, Binarypark, ShareLatex, Corporate Semantic Web, Springer<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The annual International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML) is the leading international event in the field of <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>rules and their applications. RuleML 2015, the ninth event in this series, will be held in Berlin, Germany, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>August 3-5 in conjunction with the Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE), the Conference on Web Reasoning and <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rule Systems (RR) and the Reasoning Web Summer School (RW). <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>RuleML 2015 will host multiple tracks on Complex Event Processing, Existential Rules and Datalog+/-, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Industry, Legal Rules and Reasoning and Rule Learning, as well as hosting the 9th International Rule <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Challenge and the 5th RuleML Doctoral Consortium. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Objectives<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>----------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>RuleML 2015 will bring together practitioners, interested in the theory and applications of rules in <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>academic research, industry, engineering, business and other diverse application areas. It will provide a <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>forum for stimulating co-operation and cross-fertilization between the many different communities <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>focused on the research and development of rule-based systems. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The symposium's areas of research and development have helped drive rapid progress in technologies for <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>practical rule and event processing in distributed enterprise, intranets, and open distributed environments. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Industry practitioners, rule-system providers, users of rules, technical experts and developers, and <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>researchers who are exploring foundational issues, developing systems and applications, or using rule-<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>based systems are invited to share ideas, results, and experiences. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Topics <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The conference will have 5 special tracks, as well as general sessions. The tracks are: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>* Complex Event Processing <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>* Existential Rules and Datalog+/ <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>* Legal Rules and Reasoning <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>* Rule Learning <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>* Industry <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We invite high-quality submissions related (but not limited) to the special tracks and within the general <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>theme of the conference. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Track Topics <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Complex Event Processing (Main theme: Uncertainty Handling in Complex Event Processing) <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Scalable CEP under uncertainty<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Visual analytics for CEP systems <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Distributed CEP under uncertainty<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Real-world applications of CEP <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Event forecasting under uncertainty<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Privacy issues in CEP <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Multi-scale temporal aggregation of events<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Benchmarks and testbeds for CEP <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Machine learning for event processing and forecasting <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Existential Rules and Datalog+/ <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Decidability paradigms for existential rules <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Consistent query answering <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Reasoning and querying <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Query Rewriting <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Nonmonotonic reasoning <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Query Optimization <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Probabilistic reasoning <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Ontology Languages <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Data and knowledge integration and exchange <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Ontology-based Data Access System <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Conceptual modeling <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Descriptions and applications <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Semi-structured data, graph databases and (Semantic) Web data <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Legal Rules and Reasoning <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Learning from legal texts <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Modeling normative rules <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Reguratory compliance by rules <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Modeling legislation <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- XML, standards for legal documents <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Legal ontology <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Semantic Web in Legal Domain <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Legal Open Data and Rules <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Reasoning about normative rules <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Normative rules extraction by natural language processing <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Rule Learning <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Inductive rule learning <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Classification rules <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Association rules <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Learning rules for the semantic web <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Preference rules <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Rule-based recommender systems <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Relational learning <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Learning business rules <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Descriptive rule learning <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Predictive rule learning <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Industry Track<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The RuleML 2015 Industry Track targets businesses and the <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>private sector interested in sharing, exploring, and learning<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>about the use of rules and rule technologies for solving <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>real life business problems. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For further information about the Industry Track topics <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>and submission see: <a href="http://2015.ruleml.org/industrytrack.html">http://2015.ruleml.org/industrytrack.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Generel Topics (not limited to)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Rules and automated reasoning <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Rule-based policies, reputation, and trust <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Reaction rules <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Rules and the Web <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Rule discovery from data <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Fuzzy rules and uncertainty <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Non-classical logics and the Web (e.g modal, especially deontic and epistemic, logics) <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Hybrid methods for combining rules and statistical machine learning techniques (e.g., conditional random fields, Probabilistic Soft Logic) <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Rule transformation and extraction <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Rule markup languages and rule interchange formats <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Rule-based distributed/multi-agent systems <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Rules, agents, and norms <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Rule-based communication, dialogue, and argumentation models <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Rule-based data integration <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Vocabularies and ontologies for pragmatic primitives (e.g. speech acts and deontic primitives) <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Pragmatic web reasoning and distributed rule inference / rule execution <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Rules in online market research and online marketing <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Applications of rule technologies in health care and life sciences <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Rules and Human Language Technology <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Industrial applications of rules <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Rules and business process compliance checking <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Standards activities related to rules <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Rules and social media <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- General rule topics <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Student Travel Support <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>----------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Student Travel Support of EUR 500 will be provided for the two best student (first author) submissions. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For a paper to be considered, its first author must be a student. Proof of studentship will be required at <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>time of registration. More detailed information on how to apply will be sent to authors of accepted papers <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>through Easychair. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Important Dates <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>---------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Abstract Submission February 25, 2015 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Paper Submission March 4, 2015 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Notification May 4, 2015 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Camera Ready May 18, 2015 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Symposium Dates August 3-5, 2015 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Submission guidelines <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>---------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(except for the Industry Track - the guidelines for the Industry Track can be found at <a href="http://2015.ruleml.org/industrytrack.html">http://2015.ruleml.org/industrytrack.html</a>) <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Papers must be original contributions written in English and must be submitted at EasyChair <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2015">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2015</a>) as: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For all Tracks and general topics: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal># Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings) <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal># Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings) <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For submission to a particular track please select that particular track/category. To submit under the <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>general topics simply select the "General RuleML track" category. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>All papers must have at least three keywords identifying the main topics of the paper. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please upload all submissions in LNCS format <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(<a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0</a>). To ensure high quality, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on originality, significance, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Selected papers, including those accepted for the special <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>tracks will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(<a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-0-0-0">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-0-0-0</a>). <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Short papers may contain 1 extra page maximum for which there is a charge of US$200, while for long <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>papers you are allowed 2 extra pages maximum for EACH of which there is a charge of US$200. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>More information <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>----------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Website: <a href="http://2015.ruleml.org">http://2015.ruleml.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Twitter hashtag: #ruleml2015 (<a href="https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23ruleml2015">https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23ruleml2015</a>) <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Blog: <a href="http://blog.ruleml.org">http://blog.ruleml.org</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Call for papers: <a href="http://2015.ruleml.org/calls.html">http://2015.ruleml.org/calls.html</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sponsoring: <a href="http://2015.ruleml.org/sponsorship.html">http://2015.ruleml.org/sponsorship.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>