RuleML2006

RuleML2006 is the Second International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web. It is held from start date:=November 9 2006 to end date:=November 10 2006 in located in::Athens, Georgia, USA.

Call for Papers
Semantic Web technologies have matured to the point where they are being adopted by many organizations for applications as diverse as data integration, optimized search, and decision support. The increasing use of the technology has resulted from mainstream commercial software vendors providing solutions that support Semantic Web technologies, and W3C making RDF and OWL standard recommendations.

It is widely recognized that rules are the next layer of focus within the Semantic Web technology stack, and consequently interest and activity in this area has grown rapidly over recent years. Semantic Web rules would allow the integration, transformation and derivation of data from numerous sources in a distributed, scalable, and transparent manner.

The rules landscape features theoretical areas such as knowledge representation (KR) and algorithms; design aspects of rule markup; engineering of engines, translators, and other tools; standardization efforts, such as the recent Rules Interchange Format activity at W3C (http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg.html); and applications.

Rules complement and extend ontologies on the Semantic Web. They can be used in combination with ontologies, or as a means to specify ontologies. In these settings, rules can be used either in conjunction with or as an alternative to description logics. Rules are also frequently applied over ontologies, to draw inferences, express constraints, specify policies, react to events, discover new knowledge, transform data, etc. Rule markup languages enrich Web ontologies by supporting publishing rules on the Web, exchange rules between different systems and tools, share guidelines and policies, merge and maintain rulebases, and more.

Meeting Format
The RuleML-2006 Conference is aimed to be the premier scientific forum for exchanging ideas on all aspects of rules for the Semantic Web. It follows on the heels of three successful workshops on the topic, in 2002, 2003, and 2004, and the first RuleML conference that took place in 2005. Like its precursors, RuleML-2006 will be held in collaboration with the International Semantic Web Conference (http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org/) and will be co-located with it. The RuleML-2006 Conference will consist of both an academic track and an industry track.

Academic Track
Papers submitted to the academic track are expected to focus on research related to the development and advancement of rule formalisms for the Semantic Web. The work reported should be of foundational or conceptual nature and will be judged according to the usual criteria of novelty, significance, technical quality, etc.

Industrial Track
The industrial track is designed to encourage participation from builders of rules engines and of practitioners who use rules for e-business, information integration, and other areas of the Semantic Web. It is not necessary for a Semantic Web rule engine to have been deployed, although preference will be given to systems that have adopted or are exploring the adoption of new rules technology such as SWRL, RuleML or hybrid approaches to using DL or Datalog with Semantic Technology. If systems have been deployed, preference will be given to papers that have determined and measured figures of merit.

Topics of interest
We encourage submissions on all topics related to rules and rule markup languages for the Semantic Web, including (but not limiting to) the following:


 * Rule-based policies: their specification, execution, and management
 * Combining rules (including active rules) with ontologies
 * Reactive rules for the Semantic Web
 * Complex event processing
 * Event-driven/action rule languages and models
 * Semantic Rule Management
 * Extraction of rules from unstructured data sources
 * Semantics of rule frameworks, which interoperate with RDF and OWL
 * Rules and nonmonotonic reasoning
 * Querying the semantic Web with rules
 * Complexity of reasoning problems involving rules
 * Languages, including standards (RuleML, SWRL, Jess, N3, F-logic, etc.)
 * Execution models, rule engines, and environments
 * Implemented tools and systems for rules on the Semantic Web
 * Active rules for Semantic Web Services
 * Uncertainty and fuzziness in rule-based systems
 * Modeling of business rules and event-driven/active rules
 * Rule-based software agents and the Semantic Web
 * E-contracting and automated negotiations with rule-based declarative strategies
 * Connecting event-driven and reactive rules to legacy knowledge bases
 * Distributed rule bases
 * Rule base validation, verification and exception handling on the Semantic Web

Submission
We invite articles of no more than 10 pages in length in IEEE two-column format describing original completed work, work in progress, or interesting problems or use cases. The page limit includes title, abstract, figures, references, etc. Submitted papers will be fully refereed based on the originality and significance of the ideas presented as well as on technical aspects. The proceedings will be published by IEEE.

Submissions should be made online in PDF format on the conference submission site (http://www.easychair.org/RuleML2006/), by 5 June 2006 midnight Hawaii time. Multiple submission is not allowed. Submissions should clearly indicate the appropriate track (academic or industrial).

Academic track

 * has co-chair::Thomas Eiter, Technical University, Vienna, Austria
 * has co-chair::Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bolzano, Italy

Industrial track

 * has co-chair::Susie Stephens, Oracle, USA
 * has co-chair::Ralph Hodgson, TopQuadrant, Inc., USA

Conference General Chair

 * has general chair::Michael Kifer, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA

Conference Publicity Chair

 * has publicity chair::Jos de Bruijn, DERI Innsbruck, Austria

Steering Committee

 * has OC member::Asaf Adi, IBM, Israel
 * has OC member::Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete, FORTH, Greece
 * has OC member::Harold Boley, National Research Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada
 * has OC member::Benjamin Grosof, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
 * has OC member::Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA
 * has OC member::Dieter Fensel, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Ireland and Austria
 * has OC member::Michael Kifer, State University of New York at Stony Brook
 * has OC member::Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK
 * has OC member::Steve Ross-Talbot, Pi4 Technologies, USA
 * has OC member::Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens
 * has OC member::Suzette Stoutenburg, The MITRE Corporation, USA
 * has OC member::Said Tabet, RuleML Initiative and Macgregor Inc., USA
 * has OC member::Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany

Academic track

 * has PC member::Jose Alferes, University Nova Lisbon, Portugal
 * has PC member::Chitta Baral, Arizona State University, USA
 * has PC member::Leo Bertossi, Carleton University, Canada
 * has PC member::Jos de Bruijn, DERI Innsbruck, Austria
 * has PC member::Andrea Cali, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
 * has PC member::Tran Cao Son, University of New Mexico, USA
 * has PC member::Carlos Damasio, Universtiy Nova Lisboa, Portugal
 * has PC member::Juergen Dix, TU Clausthal, Germany
 * has PC member::Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia
 * has PC member::Pascal Hitzler, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
 * has PC member::Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria, Italy
 * has PC member::Georg Lausen, Freiburg University, Germany
 * has PC member::Nicola Leone, University of Calabria, Italy
 * has PC member::Thomas Lukasiewicz, University Roma La Sapienza, Italy
 * has PC member::Jan Maluszynski, Linkoping University, Sweden
 * has PC member::Massimo Marchiori, University of Venice, Italy
 * has PC member::Alberto Martelli, University of Torino, Italy
 * has PC member::Wolfgang May, University of Goettingen, Germany
 * has PC member::Boris Motik, University of Manchester, UK
 * has PC member::Marie-Laure Mugnier, LIRMM, France
 * has PC member::Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S, Germany
 * has PC member::Axel Polleres, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
 * has PC member::Riccardo Rosati, University Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
 * has PC member::Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Grenoble, France
 * has PC member::Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchester, UK
 * has PC member::Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research, Austria
 * has PC member::Michael Sintek, DFKI, Germany
 * has PC member::Umberto Straccia, CNR, Pisa, Italy
 * has PC member::VS Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA
 * has PC member::Terrance Swift, XSB, Inc., USA
 * has PC member::Hans Tompits, TU Vienna, Austria
 * has PC member::Dirk Vermeir, University of Brussels, Belgium
 * has PC member::Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia
 * has PC member::Guizhen Yang, SRI, USA

Industrial track

 * has PC member::Alain Leger, France Telecom, France
 * has PC member::Allen Ginsberg, Mitre, USA
 * has PC member::Bill Andersen, Ontology Works, USA
 * has PC member::Christian de Sainte Marie, ILOG, France
 * has PC member::Christine Golbreich, University Rennes, France
 * has PC member::Con Kenney, US FAA Agency, USA
 * has PC member::Eric Neumann, Teranode, USA
 * has PC member::Harold Solbrig, Mayo Clinic, USA
 * has PC member::Jeff Pollock, Cerebra, USA
 * has PC member::Jos De Roo, AGFA, Belgium
 * has PC member::Juergen Angele, Ontoprise, Germany
 * has PC member::Leo Obrst, Mitre, USA
 * has PC member::Michael Bodkin, Lockheed Martin, USA
 * has PC member::Ora Lassila, Nokia, USA
 * has PC member::Parsa Mirhaji, University of Texas Medical Center, USA
 * has PC member::Rachel Yager, Citigroup, USA
 * has PC member::Ralph Traphoener, Empolis, Germany
 * has PC member::Ruediger Klein, Daimer-Chrysler, Germany
 * has PC member::Sidney Bailin, Knowledge Evolution, USA
 * has PC member::Silvie Spreeuwenberg, LibRT, The Netherlands
 * has PC member::Yaser Bishr, Image Matters, USA

for demonstration purposes, we have
 * RuleML2006 (non semantic verison)
 * RuleML2006 (simple semantic version)