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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='color:red'>RuleML 2014 - one week to abstract submission deadline<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Call for Papers 8th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>In conjunction with ECAI 2014, the 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Prague, Czech Republic, August 18-20, 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>http://2014.ruleml.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>=============<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Abstract submission: 31 March 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Paper submission: 8 April 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Notification: 20 May 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Camera ready: 6 June 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>RuleML 2014 dates: 18-20 August 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Keynotes and Tutorials<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>===================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Rules, Events and Actions in Semantic Complex Event Processing, by Adrian Paschke, Freie Universität Berlin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Rule-based Clinical Decision Support, Jürgen Angele, Jürgen Angele, Semedy AG, Zug, Switzerland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Tutorial on Rule Learning, by Johannes Fuernkraz, TU Darmstadt<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>http://2014.ruleml.org/keynotes-tutorials<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Special Tracks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>============<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Rules and Human Language Technology <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>http://2014.ruleml.org/rules-and-human-language-technology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Learning (Business) Rules from Data <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>http://2014.ruleml.org/learning-business-rules-from-data<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Legal Rules and Norms<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>http://2014.ruleml.org/legal-rules-and-norms<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>RuleML 2014 is also hosting<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * The 4th RuleML Doctoral Consortium: http://2014.ruleml.org/dc<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * The 6th International Rule Challenge: http://2014.ruleml.org/challenge<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * The Face-to-Face LegalRuleML OASIS TC meeting<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Awards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>======<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>At a special session of RuleML 2014, we will present the following awards:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * RuleML Best Paper and Runner-up Awards <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Rule Challenge Best System and Runner-up Awards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Doctoral Consortium Best Paper and Runner-up Awards<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Topics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>======<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>We invite high-quality submissions related (but not limited) to the special tracks and to the following topics:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Rules and automated reasoning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Rule-based policies, reputation, and trust<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Rule-based event processing and reaction rules<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Rules and the Web<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Rule discovery from data<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Fuzzy rules and uncertainty<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Non-classical logics and the Web (e.g. modal, especially deontic and epistemic, logics)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Hybrid methods for combining rules and statistical machine learning techniques (e.g., conditional random fields, Probabilistic Soft Logic)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Rule transformation, extraction, and learning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Rule markup languages and rule interchange formats<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Rule-based distributed/multi-agent systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Rules, agents, and norms<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Rule-based communication, dialogue, and argumentation models<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Rule-based data integration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Vocabularies and ontologies for pragmatic primitives (e.g. speech acts and deontic primitives)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Pragmatic web reasoning and distributed rule inference / rule execution<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Rules in online market research and online marketing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Applications of rule technologies in health care and life sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Industrial applications of rules<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Rules and business process compliance checking<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Standards activities related to rules<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- Rules and social media<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>- General rule topics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Submission Guidelines<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>===================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Papers must be original contributions written in English and must be submitted at<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2014 as:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US> * Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Accepted papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. A selection of the best papers will be invited to be revised and extended for the post-conference publication in a Special Issue of TPLP (Theory and Practice of Logic Programming).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>========================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Website: http://2014.ruleml.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Twitter hashtag: #ruleml2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Blog: http://blog.ruleml.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Call for papers: http://2014.ruleml.org/call-for-papers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>