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<p>I will be at the RuleML conference again this year. Last year was a
great event with lots of good presentations and knowledge sharing.
While the conference is organised by the RuleML group it is not
specific to the RuleML standard and various standards and technologies
are discussed at this event - which is what makes it so important.<br>
<br>
As
always these things can't happen without funding. This year Red Hat
will be a RuleML sponsor and I strongly encourage others to help
sponsor this fantastic event. Sponsorship starts from as little as $500
for Bronze. You can view the pdf detailing these sponsorship packages <a
href="http://www.athico.com/ruleml/Sponsorship%20Package%202008.pdf">here</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.athico.com/ruleml/Sponsorship%20Package%202008.pdf">http://www.athico.com/ruleml/Sponsorship%20Package%202008.pdf</a>.</p>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">International RuleML Symposium on Rule
Interchange and Applications<br>
<br>
</span>The 2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and
Applications, RuleML-2008 (<a href="http://2008.ruleml.org/">http://2008.ruleml.org</a>),
is the primary industrial-oriented meeting place to discuss the
applicability and commercialisation of web rule technologies for
enterprises and public organizations. At this, RuleML-2008 addresses
users, system providers, practitioners, developers and researchers as
well as representatives of rule/event standardization efforts and open
source rule communities. After last year's highly successful
RuleML-2007 (<a href="http://2007.ruleml.org/">http://2007.ruleml.org</a>),
RuleML-2008 again joins the established, practically oriented Business
Rules Forum (<a href="http://www.businessrulesforum.com/">http://www.businessrulesforum.com</a>)
to help cross-fertilizing between Web and Business Logic technology.<br>
<br>
The
symposium will be again held in Orlando, Florida, US, October 30/31,
2008. Participants will be offered an exciting venue to exchange new
ideas, practical developments and experiences on issues related to the
engineering, management, integration, interoperation and interchange of
rules in open distributed environments such as the Web. RuleML-2008
will enable delegates to better understand web rules and event
processing technologies and their potential, and how to exploit these
technologies in their organizations<br>
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The RuleML-2008 highlights will include:<br>
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<ol>
<li>Plenary keynotes and a panel discussion featuring prominent and
visionary speakers.</li>
<li>A RuleML-2008 Challenge with prizes to demonstrate tools, use
cases, and applications.</li>
<li>Scientific
research, industry, and demo papers and presentations advancing and
assessing the state of the art in event and rule-based systems selected
in a peer-reviewed fashion by an international program committee.</li>
<li>Invited
talks given by world-class scientists and industrials featuring
conceptual topics on event and rule-based computing and industry
success stories.</li>
<li>Social events to promote networking among the symposium delegates
in an informal setting.</li>
</ol>
The
RuleML-2008 Challenge with prestigious prizes provides an excellent
opportunity to showcase your organization and become associated with
this innovation driven technology market, characterized by strong
market growth, visibility and commercial opportunities.<br>
To share
your ideas, results and experiences, and to learn more about rules
technology, RuleML-2008 invites all of you, including:<br>
<ul>
<li>IT Services, Rules and Event Processing system providers</li>
<li>Representatives of, and participants in, rule standardization
efforts</li>
<li>Members of open source rules communities</li>
<li>CTOs and Strategists of technology firms</li>
<li>Information Architects and Strategic Technology Planners</li>
<li>CIOs and Information Technology Managers</li>
<li>Venture Capitalists and Investors</li>
<li>CEOs of software start-ups</li>
<li>Product Managers from software and hardware companies</li>
<li>Data Analysts from major public and private organizations</li>
<li>Academics and Researchers</li>
<li>Software Developers</li>
<li>Press and Analysts</li>
<li>Technology Consultants</li>
</ul>
For further details please see the Symposium website <a
href="http://2008.ruleml.org/">http://2008.ruleml.org/.</a><br>
For more information please contact:<a
href="mailto://ruleml2008@easychair.org"> ruleml2008@easychair.org.</a>
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