<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">=================================================================</div><div class="">RuleML+RR 2020 CALL FOR PAPERS</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">RuleML+RR 2020: 4th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning</div><div class="">29 June - 1 July 2020</div><div class="">Oslo, Norway</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://2020.ruleml-rr.org" class="">http://2020.ruleml-rr.org</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Part of "Declarative AI 2020: Rules, Reasoning, Decisions and Explanations" </div><div class="">(DeclarativeAI 2020, <a href="https://2020.declarativeai.net" class="">https://2020.declarativeai.net</a>)</div><div class="">==================================================================</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">== SUMMARY ==</div><div class="">High-quality papers related to theoretical advances, novel technologies, </div><div class="">and artificial intelligence applications concerning explainable algorithmic </div><div class="">decision-making that involve rule-based representation and reasoning are </div><div class="">solicited.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Theme for 2020 edition: Explainable algorithmic decision-making </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Important paper submission dates:</div><div class="">- Abstract: 6 March 2020</div><div class="">- Full paper: 13 March 2020</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">== THE CONFERENCE ==</div><div class="">The 4th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR 2020) </div><div class="">is the leading international joint conference in the field of rule-based reasoning. </div><div class="">Stemming from the synergy with the DecisionCAMP summit, which brings together </div><div class="">leading decision management authorities, vendors, and practitioners, one of the</div><div class="">main goals of RuleML+RR is to build bridges between academia and industry in the </div><div class="">area of rule-based reasoning and applications. RuleML+RR 2020 is part of the event </div><div class="">"Declarative AI: Rules, Reasoning, Decisions, and Explanations" to be held in the </div><div class="">beautiful city of Oslo, Norway, between 29 June - 1 July 2020.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">RuleML+RR 2020 aims to bring together rigorous researchers and inventive practitioners, </div><div class="">interested in the foundations and applications of rules and reasoning in academia, </div><div class="">industry, engineering, business, finance, healthcare, environment, and other </div><div class="">application areas. It provides a forum for stimulating cooperation and</div><div class="">cross-fertilization between the many different communities focused on the research, </div><div class="">development, and applications of rule-based systems.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">== TOPICS ==</div><div class="">RuleML+RR welcomes research from all areas of Rules and Reasoning, including topics </div><div class="">from our 2020 theme: explainable algorithmic decision-making. The topics of the </div><div class="">conference include:</div><div class="">* Machine learning approaches involving rules (e.g, extracting rules from Deep </div><div class=""> Neural Networks or rule-based classification)</div><div class="">* Rules for knowledge graphs and ontology learning</div><div class="">* Rule-based approaches to natural language processing</div><div class="">* Explainable AI approaches based on rules, psychological aspects of rule learning</div><div class="">* Rules of ethics, biases, laws, policies, and regulations</div><div class="">* Production & business rule systems</div><div class="">* Communicating rule models with Decision Model and Notation (DMN)</div><div class="">* Applications of rule technologies with explainable AI (xAI) elements</div><div class="">* Foundations of declarative AI architectures and languages</div><div class="">* Rule-based approaches for intelligent systems and intelligent information access</div><div class="">* Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules</div><div class="">* Ontology-based data access</div><div class="">* Rule-based data integration</div><div class="">* Data management and data interoperability for web data</div><div class="">* Distributed agent-based systems for the web</div><div class="">* Rule-based approaches to agents</div><div class="">* Scalability and expressive power of logics for the semantic web</div><div class="">* Reasoning with incomplete, inconsistent and uncertain data</div><div class="">* Non-monotonic, common-sense, and closed-world reasoning for web data</div><div class="">* Non-classical logics and the Web</div><div class="">* Constraint programming</div><div class="">* Logic programming</div><div class="">* Streaming data and complex event processing</div><div class="">* Higher-order and modal rules</div><div class="">* Web reasoning and distributed rule inference and execution</div><div class="">* Rule markup languages and rule interchange formats</div><div class="">* Rule-based policies, reputation, and trust</div><div class="">* Rules, blockchain, and smart contracts</div><div class="">* Scalability and expressive power of logics for rules</div><div class="">* System descriptions, applications and experiences</div><div class="">* Rules and human language technology</div><div class="">* Rules in online market research and online marketing</div><div class="">* Applications of ontologies and rules in environmental protection</div><div class="">* Applications in climate change monitoring, mitigation & adaptation</div><div class="">* Applications in healthcare and life sciences</div><div class="">* Applications in peace and conflict studies</div><div class="">* Applications in equity and social welfare</div><div class="">* Applications in law, regulation, and finance</div><div class="">* Applications in Digital Twins</div><div class="">* Industrial applications of rules</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">== SUBMISSIONS ==</div><div class="">We accept the following submission formats for papers:</div><div class="">* Long papers (up to 15 pages in LNCS style)</div><div class="">* Short papers (up to 8 pages in LNCS style)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Long papers should present original and significant research</div><div class="">and/or development results.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Short papers should concisely describe general results or specific</div><div class="">applications, systems, or position statements.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been</div><div class="">published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a</div><div class="">conference/workshop with formal proceedings. Double submission to a</div><div class="">workshop with informal proceedings is allowed.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Submissions: via EasyChair</div><div class=""><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2020" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2020</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A selection of the best accepted papers of RuleML+RR 2020 (2-6 papers) will </div><div class="">be invited for submission to the Journal of Theory and Practice of Logic </div><div class="">Programming (TPLP) published by Cambridge University Press.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In addition to regular submissions, RuleML+RR 2020 will include the 14th </div><div class="">International Rule Challenge, a Doctoral Consortium, an Industry Track, and </div><div class="">a Posters and Interactions session. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">RuleML+RR 2020 is co-located with DecisionCAMP 2020 and the 16th Reasoning </div><div class="">Web Summer School (RW 2020), as part of the Declarative AI 2020 event.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">== PUBLICATION ==</div><div class="">The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture </div><div class="">Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All submissions must be prepared in Springer's LaTeX style LNCS </div><div class="">(<a href="http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/authors.html" class="">http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/authors.html</a>).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">== IMPORTANT DATES ==</div><div class="">Title and Abstract submission: 6 March 2020</div><div class="">Full papers submission: 13 March 2020</div><div class="">Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2020</div><div class="">Camera-ready submission: 8 May 2020</div><div class="">Conference: 29 June- 1 July 2020</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">== ORGANISATION ==</div><div class="">- General Chairs: </div><div class="">* Dumitru Roman (SINTEF AS / University of Oslo, Norway)</div><div class="">* Martin Giese (University of Oslo, Norway)</div><div class="">* Ahmet Soylu (NTNU / SINTEF AS, Norway)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Program Chairs:</div><div class="">* Victor Gutierrez Basulto (Cardiff University, UK)</div><div class="">* Tomas Kliegr (University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Doctoral Consortium Chairs</div><div class="">* Paul Fodor (Stony Brook University, USA)</div><div class="">* Daniela Inclezan (Miami University, USA)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Rule Challenge Chairs</div><div class="">* Sotiris Moschoyiannis (University of Surrey, U.K.)</div><div class="">* Jan Vanthienen (KU Leuven, Belgium)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Industry Track Chairs</div><div class="">* Francisco Martin-Recuerda (DNVGL, Norway)</div><div class="">* Nicolay Nikolov (SINTEF AS, Norway)</div><div class="">* Ioan Toma (Onlim, Austria)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Posters & Interactions Chairs</div><div class="">* Carlos A. Iglesias (Universidad PolitÈcnica de Madrid, Spain)</div><div class="">* Dia Trambitas-Miron (UMFST, Romania / John Snow Labs, USA)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Publicity chair </div><div class="">* Jean Christoph Jung (Bremen University, Germany)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Program Committee</div><div class=""><a href="https://2020.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/ruleml-rr-organization" class="">https://2020.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/ruleml-rr-organization</a> </div><div class="">
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