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<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font><span lang="ES">November 5-7
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<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">The Rules Challenge is one of the highlights at
RuleML-2009 with prestigious</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">prizes. Submissions of benchmarks/evaluations, demos,
case studies / use</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">cases, experience reports, best practice solutions
(e.g. design patterns,</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">reference architectures, models), rule-based
implementations/ tools/</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">applications, demonstrations engineering methods,
implementations of rule</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">standards (e.g. RuleML, RIF,
SBVR, PRR, rule-based Event Processing</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">languages, BPMN+rules, BPEL+rules, ...), rules +
industrial standards (e.g.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">XBRL, MISMO, Accord, ...), and industrial problem
statements are</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">particularly encouraged. </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">The participants of the Challenge have the opportunity
to understand the</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">most current trend of rule technology and standard
development through</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">highly interactive with the experts in this field. </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Submission</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">============================================================================</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">In addition to your demo/hands-on/report/.. it is
possible to submit</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Challenge demo papers describing research,
implementation, and technical</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">details of your submission. The peer-reviewed and
selected papers will be</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">published in additional special Challenge proceedings
(CEURS proceedings are</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">requested) along with the online publication of your
demo in the highly</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">visible growing Rules Challenge pool. A selection of
revised papers from the</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Challenge will be resubmitted to a special issue of a
journal.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Authors are invited to submit original contributions
of practical relevance</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">and technical rigor in the field, benchmarks,
evaluations, experience</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">reports and show case/use case demonstrations of
effective, practical,</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">deployable rule-based technologies or applications in
distributed</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">environments. Papers must be in English. </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Demo papers submission website:
<a href="http://www.easychair.org" target="_blank">http://www.easychair.org</a></span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Demo systems submission website:
<a href="http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw" target="_blank">http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw</a> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS
format</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">(<a href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html" target="_blank">http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html</a>). To
ensure high quality,</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3
PC members based on</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">originality, significance, technical soundness, and
clarity of exposition.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Submissions to the Rules Challenge 2009 consist of a
demo paper of 4-8</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">pages, describing the demo show case, and a link to
more information about</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">the demo/show case, e.g. a project site, an online
demonstration, a</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">presentation about the demonstration, or a download
site for the</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">demonstration. In case of product demos, the link can
be password-protected:</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">please submit a password for anonymous login from any
Web browser, giving us</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">the permission to pass the password on to 3 PC
members. </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Important Date</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">September 4th - submission deadline for demo papers
and demo systems</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">September 15th - notification of accepted demo papers
and demo systems</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">October 29th - submission deadline for demo systems
only </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> **** MAKE RULEML-2009 YOUR SHOWCASE! **** </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">2009 Rules Challenge Program Committee</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">----------------------------------------</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">see Challenge website <a href="http://2009.ruleml.org/challenge" target="_blank">http://2009.ruleml.org/challenge</a></span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">W3C RIF Workshop at
RuleML-2009</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">============================================================================</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">The W3C Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group
(<a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/" target="_blank">www.w3.org/2005/rules/</a>)</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">has recently published 6 specifications for the W3C
Rule Interchange Format</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">standard which includes a W3C RIF Production Rules
Dialect (RIF-PRD) and a</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">W3C Basic Logic Dialect (RIF-BLD).</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">The mission of the Rule Interchange Format (RIF)
Working Group is to produce</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">W3C recommendations for rules interchange languages. Next
step will be the</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">call for implementations of RIF
which might be demonstrated at the</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">RuleML-2009 W3C RIF
Workshop. Upcoming future RIF dialects might
address a</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">reaction rules dialect for rule-based complex event
processing (CEP).</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">The new RIF standard
is featured at the RuleML 2009 Conference in a W3C RIF</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">workshop in November 2009 (see <a href="http://2009.ruleml.org" target="_blank">http://2009.ruleml.org</a>)
with a keynote from</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Sandro Hawke (W3C staff representative on the RIF WG)
and a tutorial from</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Christian de Sainte Marie (ILOG/IBM, co-chair of the
RIF WG). There will be</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">also keynote by Paul Vincent (TIBCO CTO for Business
Rules and CEP, EPTS-RA</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">WG Co-Chair) about "Why Rules Matter in Complex
Event Processing... and vice</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">versa" and a keynote by Donald Chapin (co-chair
of the OMG Business Modeling</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">& Integration Domain Task Force, co-chair OMG
SBVR) about "Terminology: The</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Semantic Foundation for an Organization's Executable
Rules".</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">About RuleML-2009</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">============================================================================</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">This year, the 3rd International Symposium on Rules,
Applications and</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Interoperability (RuleML-2009) takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada,
USA,</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">collocated with the 12th Business Rules Forum, the
world's largest Business</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Rules event. RuleML-2009 is devoted to practical
distributed rule</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">technologies and rule-based applications. The
International Symposium on</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Rules, Applications and Interoperability has evolved
from an annual series</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">of international workshops since 2002, international
conferences in 2005 and</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">2006, and international symposia since 2007, and is
now in the top 100</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">venues for scientific impact factor in CiteseerX</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">(<a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/stats/venues" target="_blank">http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/stats/venues</a>).</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Supported by</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">===================================================================</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">W3C, OMG, ACM, AAAI, ECCAI, IAAIL, ACM, Belgian
Business Rules Forum MIT</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Sloan CIO Symposium, EPTS, BPM Forum Belgium</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Sponsored by</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Franz Inc</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">NICTA (National ICT Australia) Ltd</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Corporate Semantic Web</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Logic Programming Associated Ltd</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">ruleCore</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">JBoss</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Modelsystems Ltd</span></font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">(sponsoring opportunities: <a href="http://www.defeasible.org/ruleml2009/sponsors" target="_blank">http://www.defeasible.org/ruleml2009/sponsors</a>)</span></font></p>
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