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href="http://2005.ruleml.org/"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">RuleML-2005</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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face="Times New Roman">International Conference
on<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Rules
and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">and
</FONT><A href="http://www.mindswap.org/2005/OWLWorkshop/"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">OWL Workshop</FONT></A></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><B>Galway</B></st1:City><B>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Ireland</st1:country-region></B></st1:place><BR><B>10-12 November 2005
</B></FONT></FONT></P>
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align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Call
for Participation</FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt">Register Here: </SPAN></B><U><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><A
href="https://eurwebsite.com/mlrules/register.asp">https://eurwebsite.com/mlrules/register.asp</A></SPAN></U></FONT></P>
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align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><STRONG></STRONG><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT> </P>
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align=center><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><A
href="http://2005.ruleml.org/Program.html">Preliminary Program
Available<o:p></o:p></A></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt; mso-outline-level: 3"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Summary<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt; mso-outline-level: 3"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Rules are widely recognized to be a major part of
the frontier of the Semantic Web, and critical to the early adoption and
applications of knowledge-based techniques in e-business, especially enterprise
integration and B2B e-commerce. This includes knowledge representation (KR)
theory and algorithms; markup languages based on such KR; engines, translators,
and other tools; relationships to standardization efforts; and, not least,
applications.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Interest and activity
in the area of Rules for the Semantic Web has grown rapidly over the last five
years. The RuleML-2005 Conference is aimed to be this year’s premiere scientific
conference on the topic.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
continues in topic, leadership, and collaboration with the previous series of
three highly successful annual international workshops (last year’s was<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>RuleML-2004).<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>RuleML-2005 is co<SPAN
class=714073321-04102005>l</SPAN>located with the International Semantic Web
Conference (</FONT><A href="http://iswc2005.semanticweb.org/"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>http://iswc2005.semanticweb.org/</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>) which meets in <st1:place
w:st="on">Galway</st1:place> 6-10 November 2005.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt; mso-outline-level: 3"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Th<SPAN class=714073321-04102005>e</SPAN> theme
for RuleML 2005 is rule languages for reactive and proactive rules, complex
event processing, and event-driven rules, for applications on the Semantic
Web.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The conference will also
include an <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">OWL Workshop</B>, hosted by
Peter Patel-Schneider.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Our keynote speaker is <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Sir Tim Berners-Lee</B>, who will speak on
the topic of “Web of Rules”.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
talk will discuss whether knowledge can be represented in a web-like way using
rules, so as to derive serendipitous benefit from the unplanned reuse of such
knowledge.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> <STRONG>
</STRONG></SPAN><STRONG>Dr.</STRONG> <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Opher Etzion</B> from IBM is also an
invited speaker, who will discuss an architecture for event driven
applications.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><STRONG>Dr. Susie
Stephens</STRONG> from Oracle will give a talk on the use of Semantic Web
technologies and rules in life sciences.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt; mso-outline-level: 3"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p><SPAN class=714073321-04102005><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Conference Goal</FONT></SPAN></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt; mso-outline-level: 3"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt; mso-outline-level: 3"><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">The
goal of RuleML 2005 is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and
providers to exchange information about requirements, applications, technology
solutions, and the latest research on rule languages and standards, with the
ultimate goal of advancing a standard framework for Semantic Web
rules.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt; mso-outline-level: 3"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt; mso-outline-level: 3"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Background<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt; mso-outline-level: 3"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Rules complement and extend ontologies on the
Semantic Web.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Rules can be used in
combination with ontologies, or as a means to specify ontologies.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In particular, simple rules and axioms
can be applied via ontology languages, either in conjunction with or as an
alternative to description logics. Rules can also be applied over ontologies, so
as to draw inferences, express constraints, specify policies, react to
events/changes, discover new knowledge, transform data, etc. Rule markup
languages enrich web ontologies so as to extend definitions of derived concepts,
and supporting publishing rules on the Web, exchange rules between different
systems and tools, share guidelines and policies, merge and maintain rule bases,
and more.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt; mso-outline-level: 3"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3> </FONT></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt; mso-outline-level: 3"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Topics of
Interest<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt; mso-outline-level: 3"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Topics of
interest include the following. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<UL type=disc>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Rule-based policies:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>their specification, execution, and
management</FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Combining rules with ontologies</FONT>
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style="MARGIN: 0pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Reaction rules for the Semantic
Web<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT>
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style="MARGIN: 0pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Complex event
processing<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Rules for event
correlation<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT>
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style="MARGIN: 0pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Event-driven/action rule languages and
models<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Semantic Rule
Management<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Resolving conflicts in triggered action
sets <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Extraction of rules from unstructured data
sources<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Languages, including standards (RuleML,
SWRL, Jess, N3, F-logic/FLORA-2, etc.) <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Execution models, rule engines, and environments
</FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Implemented tools and systems for active rules
on the Semantic Web </FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Combining active rules and ontologies</FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Integrating active rules and description
logics</FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Applying active rules for Semantic Web
Services</FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Modeling of business rules and
event-driven/active rules</FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Rule-based software agents and the Semantic Web
</FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>E-contracting and automated negotiations with
rule-based declarative strategies </FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Connecting event-driven and reactive rules to
legacy knowledge bases </FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Integrating rule bases and distributed fact
bases </FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Rule base validation, verification and exception
handling on the Semantic Web</FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>XSL transformations of event-driven and reactive
rules </FONT></LI></UL>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Venue<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>A
limited number of rooms have been held for delegates in The Radisson SAS,
<st1:place w:st="on">Galway</st1:place> at a special online rate of <STRONG>€135
for a single</STRONG> and <STRONG>€160 for a double or twin</STRONG>.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The above rates quoted include
breakfast. Reservation requests are subject to availability and will be
allocated on a first come first served basis.</FONT></P>
<P><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>If you
wish us to reserve your accommodation, please indicate your requirements at the
</FONT><A href="https://eurwebsite.com/mlrules/register.asp"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>RuleML 2005 Registration Page</FONT></A><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Important Dates<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<UL type=disc>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo5"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>11 July 2005 -- Deadline for paper submissions.
</FONT>
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style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo5"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>10 August 2005-- Notification of acceptance.
</FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo5"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><st1:date w:st="on" Year="2005" Day="2"
Month="9">2 September 2005</st1:date> -- Final version of paper (camera-ready)
due. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT>
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style="MARGIN: 0pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo5"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">14 October 2005 -- Early registration
deadline. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
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style="COLOR: black"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>10-12 November 2005 –
RuleML 2005</FONT></SPAN></LI></UL>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Conference Program
Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<UL type=disc>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Asaf Adi, IBM, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region></st1:place></FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Suzette Stoutenburg, The MITRE
Corporation, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place></FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Said Tabet, RuleML Initiative and
Macgregor Inc., <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region></FONT></FONT></LI></UL>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Conference General
Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<UL type=disc>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Harold Boley, National Research Council and
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of New
Brunswick</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place> </FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Benjamin Grosof, Massachusetts Institute of
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Technology</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>
</FONT></LI></UL>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Steering
Committee<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<UL type=disc>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Asaf Adi, IBM, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region></st1:place></FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Grigoris Antoniou, <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Crete</st1:PlaceName>, FORTH, <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Greece</st1:place></st1:country-region></FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Harold Boley, National Research Council and
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of New
Brunswick</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place> </FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Benjamin Grosof, Massachusetts Institute of
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Technology</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place> </FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2"><SPAN
lang=DE style="mso-ansi-language: DE"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Dieter Fensel, <SPAN
style="COLOR: windowtext">Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI),
National <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of
Ireland</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Ireland</st1:country-region></st1:place></SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext">Michael
Kifer, State <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">New
York</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> at Stony
Brook</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Steve Ross-Talbot, Pi4 Technologies,
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place></FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Suzette Stoutenburg, The MITRE
Corporation, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place></FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Said Tabet, RuleML Initiative and
Macgregor Inc., <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region></FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><st1:City w:st="on">Gerd
Wagner</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Brandenburg</st1:State> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Technology</st1:PlaceName> at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Cottbus</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place></FONT></FONT></LI></UL>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Program Committee <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<UL type=disc>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Grigoris Antoniou, <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Crete</st1:PlaceName>, FORTH, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region></st1:place></FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Nick Bassiliades, <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Aristotle</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceName> of <st1:City
w:st="on">Thessaloniki</st1:City>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Greece</st1:country-region></st1:place> </FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Harold Boley, National Research Council and
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of New
Brunswick</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place> </FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3"><SPAN
lang=DE style="mso-ansi-language: DE"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA
<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><st1:PersonName w:st="on">Andreas
Eberhart</st1:PersonName>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">International University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place> </FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Dieter Fensel, <SPAN
style="COLOR: windowtext">Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI),
National <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of
Ireland</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Ireland</st1:country-region></st1:place></SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext">Ilia
Goldfarb</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Benjamin Grosof, Massachusetts Institute of
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Technology</st1:City>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place> </FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; COLOR: black; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Guido Governatori, The <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Queensland</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Australia</st1:place></st1:country-region> <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Michael Kifer, State <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">New York</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> at Stony
Brook</FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Sandy Liu, National Research Council and
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of New
Brunswick</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place> </FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Jan Maluszynski, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Linköping University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Sweden</st1:country-region></st1:place> </FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Massimo Marchiori, W3C, <st1:City
w:st="on">MIT</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">University of Venice</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region></st1:place> </FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Donald Nute, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">University of Georgia</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place> </FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Royi Ronen, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Technion</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region></st1:place></FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Michael Sintek, DFKI, <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Germany</st1:place></st1:country-region>
</FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Bruce Spencer, National Research Council and
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">University of New
Brunswick</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Canada</st1:country-region></st1:place> </FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">Said Tabet, RuleML Initiative and
Macgregor Inc., <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region></FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Dmitry Tsarkov, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">University of Manchester</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place> </FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Carlos Viegas Damasio</FONT>
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style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3"><FONT
size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><st1:City w:st="on">Gerd
Wagner</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Brandenburg</st1:State> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Technology</st1:PlaceName> at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Cottbus</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region></st1:place></FONT></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo3"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>Kewen Wang, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Griffith University</st1:City>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region></st1:place> </FONT></LI></UL>
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