[DL] CfP: The 9th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML 2015), August 3-5, 2015, Berlin, Germany

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Call for Papers: The 9th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML 2015)
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August 3-5, 2015, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany
http://2015.ruleml.org


++++++++++++ News ++++++++++++++++
- Keynotes by Michael Genesereth on FOL Herbrand Semantics
  and Thom Fruewirth on Constraint Handling Rules
- Industry Track
http://2015.ruleml.org/industrytrack.html
- 9th International Rule Challenge
http://2015.ruleml.org/challenge.html
- 5th Doctoral Consortium
http://2015.ruleml.org/DoctoralConsortium.html
- Student Travel support
http://2015.ruleml.org/student-travel-support.html
- Co-located with: CADE 2015, RR 2015, Reasoning Web 2015, FOMIS 2015
- Sponsors and Partners: Association for Logic Programming, ECCAI, W3C, OMG,
OASIS LegalXML,  
  IEEE Technical Committee on Semantic Computing, IFCoLog,
  Coherent Knowledge, Binarypark, ShareLatex, Corporate Semantic Web,
Springer

The annual International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML) is the leading
international event in the field of 
rules and their applications. RuleML 2015, the ninth event in this series,
will be held in Berlin, Germany, 
August 3-5 in conjunction with the Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE),
the Conference on Web Reasoning and 
Rule Systems (RR) and the Reasoning Web Summer School (RW). 

RuleML 2015 will host multiple tracks on Complex Event Processing,
Existential Rules and Datalog+/-, 
Industry, Legal Rules and Reasoning and Rule Learning, as well as hosting
the 9th International Rule 
Challenge and the 5th RuleML Doctoral Consortium. 


Objectives
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RuleML 2015 will bring together practitioners, interested in the theory and
applications of rules in 
academic research, industry, engineering, business and other diverse
application areas. It will provide a 
forum for stimulating co-operation and cross-fertilization between the many
different communities 
focused on the research and development of rule-based systems. 

The symposium's areas of research and development have helped drive rapid
progress in technologies for 
practical rule and event processing in distributed enterprise, intranets,
and open distributed environments. 
Industry practitioners, rule-system providers, users of rules, technical
experts and developers, and 
researchers who are exploring foundational issues, developing systems and
applications, or using rule-
based systems are invited to share ideas, results, and experiences. 


Topics 
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The conference will have 5 special tracks, as well as general sessions. The
tracks are: 
* Complex Event Processing 
* Existential Rules and Datalog+/ 
* Legal Rules and Reasoning 
* Rule Learning 
* Industry 

We invite high-quality submissions related (but not limited) to the special
tracks and within the general 
theme of the conference. 


Track Topics 
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Complex Event Processing (Main theme: Uncertainty Handling in Complex Event
Processing) 
- Scalable CEP under uncertainty
- Visual analytics for CEP systems 
- Distributed CEP under uncertainty
- Real-world applications of CEP 
- Event forecasting under uncertainty
- Privacy issues in CEP 
- Multi-scale temporal aggregation of events
- Benchmarks and testbeds for CEP 
- Machine learning for event processing and forecasting 

Existential Rules and Datalog+/ 
- Decidability paradigms for existential rules 
- Consistent query answering 
- Reasoning and querying 
- Query Rewriting 
- Nonmonotonic reasoning 
- Query Optimization 
- Probabilistic reasoning 
- Ontology Languages 
- Data and knowledge integration and exchange 
- Ontology-based Data Access System 
- Conceptual modeling 
- Descriptions and applications 
- Semi-structured data, graph databases and (Semantic) Web data 

Legal Rules and Reasoning 
- Learning from legal texts 
- Modeling normative rules 
- Reguratory compliance by rules 
- Modeling legislation 
- XML, standards for legal documents 
- Legal ontology 
- Semantic Web in Legal Domain 
- Legal Open Data and Rules 
- Reasoning about normative rules 
- Normative rules extraction by natural language processing 

Rule Learning 
- Inductive rule learning 
- Classification rules 
- Association rules 
- Learning rules for the semantic web 
- Preference rules 
- Rule-based recommender systems 
- Relational learning 
- Learning business rules 
- Descriptive rule learning 
- Predictive rule learning 

Industry Track
The RuleML 2015 Industry Track targets businesses and the 
private sector interested in sharing, exploring, and learning
about the use of rules and rule technologies for solving 
real life business problems. 
For further information about the Industry Track topics 
and submission see: http://2015.ruleml.org/industrytrack.html

Generel Topics (not limited to)
- Rules and automated reasoning 
- Rule-based policies, reputation, and trust 
- Reaction rules 
- Rules and the Web 
- Rule discovery from data 
- Fuzzy rules and uncertainty 
- Logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning 
- Non-classical logics and the Web (e.g modal, especially deontic and
epistemic, logics) 
- Hybrid methods for combining rules and statistical machine learning
techniques (e.g., conditional random fields, Probabilistic Soft Logic) 
- Rule transformation and extraction 
- Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules 
- Rule markup languages and rule interchange formats 
- Rule-based distributed/multi-agent systems 
- Rules, agents, and norms 
- Rule-based communication, dialogue, and argumentation models 
- Rule-based data integration 
- Vocabularies and ontologies for pragmatic primitives (e.g. speech acts and
deontic primitives) 
- Pragmatic web reasoning and distributed rule inference / rule execution 
- Rules in online market research and online marketing 
- Applications of rule technologies in health care and life sciences 
- Rules and Human Language Technology 
- Industrial applications of rules 
- Rules and business process compliance checking 
- Standards activities related to rules 
- Rules and social media 
- General rule topics 


Student Travel Support 
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Student Travel Support of EUR 500 will be provided for the two best student
(first author) submissions. 
For a paper to be considered, its first author must be a student. Proof of
studentship will be required at 
time of registration. More detailed information on how to apply will be sent
to authors of accepted papers 
through Easychair. 


Important Dates 
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Abstract Submission February 25, 2015 
Paper Submission March 4, 2015 
Notification May 4, 2015 
Camera Ready May 18, 2015 
Symposium Dates August 3-5, 2015 


Submission guidelines 
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(except for the Industry Track - the guidelines for the Industry Track can
be found at http://2015.ruleml.org/industrytrack.html) 

Papers must be original contributions written in English and must be
submitted at EasyChair 
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2015) as: 

For all Tracks and general topics: 
# Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings) 
# Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings) 

For submission to a particular track please select that particular
track/category. To submit under the 
general topics simply select the "General RuleML track" category. 

All papers must have at least three keywords identifying the main topics of
the paper. 

Please upload all submissions in LNCS format 
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0). To
ensure high quality, 
submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on
originality, significance, 
technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Selected papers, including
those accepted for the special 
tracks will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series 
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-0-0-0). 

Short papers may contain 1 extra page maximum for which there is a charge of
US$200, while for long 
papers you are allowed 2 extra pages maximum for EACH of which there is a
charge of US$200. 


More information 
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Website: http://2015.ruleml.org

Twitter hashtag: #ruleml2015 (https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23ruleml2015) 

Blog: http://blog.ruleml.org 

Call for papers: http://2015.ruleml.org/calls.html 

Sponsoring: http://2015.ruleml.org/sponsorship.html