[PragmaticWeb] RuleML: Rule Challenge 2014 Final Call for Papers

[Adrian Paschke]

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Final Call for Papers
8th International Rule Challenge 2014 (http://2014.ruleml.org/challenge)
part of the RuleML 2014 symposium held in conjunction with ECAI 2014, the 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence Prague, Czech Republic, August 19, 2014

About Rule Challenge 2014
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The Rule Challenge 2014 is one of the highlights at the RuleML 2014 Symposium: it provides a showcase for innovative rule-oriented applications, aimed at both the research and industrial side.

Rule Challenge 2014 proceedings will be published as CEUR Proceedings and indexed by SCOPUS, DBLP etc. and a selection of the best systems will be invited for demonstration at PAIS 2014 (part of ECAI 2014). Moreover, a complimentary 1-year online membership is offered by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) to RuleML Symposium participants who are new to AAAI.

RuleML 2014 Rulebase Competition
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RuleML Inc announces a US$1000 Award for the best RuleML Rulebase of 2014. This year's rulebases are solicited in Deliberation RuleML 1.01.
More information is available here: http://blog.ruleml.org/post/28221570-4652-42e6-9556-8d304372bdeb/, "RuleML 2014 Rulebase Competition"

Topics
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Key themes of the RuleML 2014 Challenge include, but are not limited to the following:
- Demos related to the RuleML 2014 Track Topics
- Extensions and implementations of rule-related standards, e.g. RIF, CL, SBVR, BPMN, BPEL, RuleML, etc.
- Rule-based Event Processing and Stream Reasoning
- Editing environments and IDEs for Web rules
- Benchmarks and comparison results for rule engines
- Distributed rule bases and rule services
- Reports on industrial experience about rule systems
- Real cases and practical experiences

Awards
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At a special session of RuleML 2014, we will present the following awards:
 * Rule Challenge Best System and Runner-up Awards
 * RuleML 2014 Rulebase Competition Award

RuleML 2014 Challenge Chairs
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Theodore Patkos (FORTH-ICS, Greece)
Adam Wyner (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Adrian Giurca (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus–Senftenberg, Germany)

Important Dates
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Paper submission: 23 May 2014
Notification: 6 June 2014
Camera ready: 20 June 2014
Rule Challenge 2014 dates: 19 August 2014

Submission Guidelines
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High quality, original papers, potentially referencing online material, and ranging between 2-15 pages can be submitted at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2014challenge

Please upload all submissions in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on clarity and significance of objectives and demonstration of results.

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Website: http://ruleml2014.vse.cz/challenge
Twitter hashtag: #ruleml2014
Blog: http://blog.ruleml.org



The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.
Tha Oilthigh Obar Dheathain na charthannas clàraichte ann an Alba, Àir. SC013683.

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