[PragmaticWeb] CFP: Industry track - Business Cases and Technologies for Rules in Industry @ RuleML2015

[Adrian Paschke]

Industry track - Business Cases and Technologies for Rules in Industry @
RuleML2015

Call for Papers

Business Cases and Technologies for Rules in Industry: State of 
practice, Challenges and Opportunities
Industry Track @ RuleML 2015
http://2015.ruleml.org/industrytrack.html 

The 9th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML) 
August 2-5, 2015 
Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany 
http://2015.ruleml.org 

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Business Cases and Technologies for Rules in Industry: State of 
practice, Challenges and Opportunities
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With the increased importance of big data for improving operational 
performance in all sectors of industry, the role of rule technologies 
has become ever more manifest (and even critical). Indeed, if Data 
assets have been recognized as the "new oil", then Rule technologies 
should be introduced for the most important processing steps in 
generating value from data. For example, event-condition rules enable 
the detection of an anomaly state in the process execution by processing 
huge streams of sensor data. However, not only the creation and 
execution of such rules, but also their maintenance and refinement 
require a systematic approach, provided usually through rule management 
methodologies and systems. On the other hand the industry is still not 
completely aware of the importance of such approaches for an efficient 
utilization of rules in the era of big data. Therefore, there is a need 
for industry to share, exploit, and learn about the use of rules and 
rule technologies for solving real life business problems. The proposed 
industry track aims to be a forum for all sectors of industry (and the 
corresponding public sectors) to address such needs. 


Incentives for industry participation in this track include: 

- Present own results / 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 

- Learn about new trends in other domains (like Big data, Internet of 
Things) that influence the application of rule technologies in industry 

- Exchange experiences about business cases and use of rules 

- Compete for a RuleML award for best business case for use of rules 
technologies 



Why at RuleML? 
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The International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML) has been a leading 
international conference on research, applications, languages and 
standards for rule technologies. During the past 8 years it has built 
bridges between academia and industry in the field of rules and its 
applications, especially as part of the semantic technology stack. See 
further details at http://2015.ruleml.org. 



Submissions 
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The track seeks two types of submissions in LNCS format: 

- Extended abstracts of up to 2 pages 

- Short papers of up to 8 pages 

Irrespective of the type, the submissions must follow the following 
structure / template: 

1. Business case - explain the business case and the value proposition 

2. Technological challenges - explaining why the business case challenge 
is difficult to solve using traditional technologies 

3. Rule-based solution - technical details, esp. the usage of rules 

4. Results - the benefits of the solution, including improvement of KPIs 

5. Importance and impact - describe the importance of the solution for 
business/technology 

Topic-wise any rules-related topics are welcome as long as they follow 
the above structure. 

The submissions will be peer-reviewed. Selected best industry papers 
will be published in the RuleML Springer LNCS Proceedings and all other 
accepted industry papers will be published in the RuleML CEUR 
proceedings. The papers must be submitted via RuleML submission system 
at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2015 and selecting the 
track "RuleML 2015 - Industry Track". 

Besides presenting their business case papers, selected authors of 
industry track papers, among others, will be invited to participate in a 
panel related to the use of rules and rule technologies in business 
cases. 


Deadlines
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Paper Submission: April 30, 2015 

Author Notification May 15, 2015 

Camera Ready May 30, 2015 

Industry Track dates: 3-5 Aug, 2015 



Contacts
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Nenad Stojanovic, Nissatech Innovation Centre, Serbia, 
nenad.stojanovic at nissatech.com 

Dumitru Roman, SINTEF, Norway, dumitru.roman at sintef.no 

Mark Proctor, Redhat, UK, mproctor at redhat.com