[Web4lib] RULE 2010 - Call For Papers

[Mohand-Said Hacid]

Call for papers
RULE 2010

Eleventh International Workshop on Rule-Based Specification and Programming
Rule-Based Programming in Industry and the Semantic Web
Edinburgh, UK
July 14, 2010

Workshop affiliated to FLoC 2010 as post-conference event of RTA 2010

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With the renewed interest in rule-based computing for industrial 
applications (e.g., Business Rules) especially
as it relates to the Semantic Web ( e.g., the W3C's Rule Interchange 
Format), it is timely to explore the
practical benefits delivered by computing with rules and ontologies in 
the large. Thus, this year's theme will
focus on rule-based programming in Industry and the Semantic Web. The 
emphasis will be on implemented systems
that have been actually used in pragmatic situations where the 
advantages of rule-driven computation and
inference have made all the difference, such advantages being:

  * agility
  * declarativeness
  * maintainability
  * documentability
  * scalability
  * meta-programmability
  * reliability
  * formal semantics
  * etc., ...

In terms of the Semantic Web, we explicitly call for submissions that 
probe (in a pragmatic setting) how
rule-based approaches complement ontology-based approaches, which share 
some of the characteristics of rule
systems, such as declarativeness and formal semantics.

Paper submission

We are solliciting papers dealing with topics related to this year's 
theme discussing any or several of
the itemized facets of the combinations of rules and ontologies, going 
beyond academic experiments and
meant for large-scale or industrial applications. Papers should contain 
no more than 10 pages, including
figures, and submitted through EasyChair using the standard EPTCS LaTeX 
style file.

Program committee

In alphabetical order by last name:

  * Hassan Aït-Kaci, IBM, Canada (co-chair)

  * Maria Alpuente, Universidàd de Valencia, Spain

  * Harold Boley, National Research Council, Canada

  * Mike Dean, BBN, USA

  * Mohand-Saïd Hacid, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France

  * Gary Hallmark, Oracle, USA

  * Pierre-Etienne Moreau, INRIA Nancy, France

  * Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

  * Dave Reynolds, Epimorphics Ltd., United Kingdom (co-chair)

  * Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Important dates

Submission opens:     Monday, March 1, 2010
Submission ends:     Friday, April 16, 2010
Authors notified:     Thursday, June 3, 2010
Final copies due:     Friday, June 25, 2010
RULE 2010 Workshop:     Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Workshop venue

RULE 2010 will be a satellite workshop of the conference on Rewriting 
Techniques and Applications (RTA 2010)
affiliated to the Federated Logic of Computing conferences (FLoC 2010), 
to take place in
Edinburgh, UK, July 9-21, 2010.

RULE 2010 will be the 11th event organized as an International Workshop 
on Rule-Based Specification
and Programming.

Workshop date:
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 (the day after RTA 2010)

Workshop place:
Edinburgh, United Kingdom (during FLoC 2010)

Proceedings:
The proceedings will be published through Electronic Proceedings in 
Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS).
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