[We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] 2nd East European Workshop on Rule-Based Applications - RuleApps'2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------- July 21-22, 2008, Patras, Greece http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/RuleApp2008/ Workshop within the ECAI 2008 conference http://www.ece.upatras.gr/ecai2008/ Paper submission: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleapp2008 Topics --------------- Rules are becoming increasingly important in business modeling and requirements engineering, and as a high level programming paradigm especially in the engineering of e-business applications and of the Semantic Web applications. Rules are used in applications to model and manage specific parts of the application business logic. They are best used in applications with a dynamic business logic i.e. applications where changes in the business logic are frequently and they need to be immediately reflected in the application behavior. This workshop seeks contributions that address theoretic foundations, practical techniques, empirical studies, experience, and lessons learned related, but not limited, to the following topics: - Artificial Intelligence Rules and Rule Systems - Web Rules and Semantic Web Rules - Best Practices in Business Rules - Rules Modeling (including Production Rules and ECA Rules) - Combining rules and ontologies - Languages for rule interchange - Rule base Visualization, Verbalization, Validation, Verification and Exception Handling. - Rule Engines Architectures - Rules in Web 2.0 Applications - Rule-based modeling of mechanisms, policies, strategies and contracts. - Rules and Web Services Integration - Implemented tools and systems Important dates --------------- Papers submission: April 10, 2008 Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2008 Final submission: May 26, 2008 Workshop date: July 21-22, 2008 Submission Requirements ----------------------- RuleApps2008 looks for three categories of submissions: regular papers, poster submissions and applications. - The submission web site is http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleapp2008. - Authors have to use the ECAI'2008 style to prepare their submissions. A description of the style is available - Regular papers submissions must not exceed 5 pages. The same style has to be used for poster submissions which cannot exceed 2 pages. - Applications have to be described in a 2 pages short paper (part of the proceedings too). They must be available for demo either in a download or online form during the review process. Publication ----------- - Each workshop participant will receive a hardcopy of the proceedings of the workshop (s)he participates, as well as a CD with the proceedings of all ECAI'08 workshops. The workshops CD will be produced by ECAI2008 and will be separate from the CD with the proceedings of the main conference. - Workshop authors will have to sign a permission allowing the local organizers to include their paper in the workshop's proceedings. - Additionally the accepted papers will be published as CEUR-WS( http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/ ) The copyright for the individual items (subsuming any type of computer-represented files containing articles, software demos, videos, etc.) within a proceedings volume is owned by default by their respective authors. Copying of items, in particular papers, and proceedings volumes is permitted only for private and academic purposes. Copying or use for commercial purposes is forbidden unless an explicit permission is acquired from the copyright owners (i.e. authors). - Extended versions of the best technical papers of the workshop will be invited to Handbook of Research on Emerging Rule-Based Languages and Technologies ( http://oxygen.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/handbook/ ) Workshop Co-Chairs ------------------ Anastasia Analyti, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Greece Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany Program Committee ----------------- Anastasia Analyti, FORTH, Greece Grigoris Antoniou, FORTH, Greece Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Phillipe Bonnard, ILOG, France Carlos Viegas Damasio, Universidade de Nova Lisboa, Portugal Vladan Devedzic, University of Belgrade, Serbia Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zealand Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany Antoni Ligeza, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Grzegorz J. Nalepa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania Paula Lavinia Patranjan, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Muenchen, Germany Mark Proctor, JBoss Rules, Redhat Dave Reynolds, Hewlett-Packard Semantic Web Research, England Silvie Spreeuwenberg, LibRT, Amsterdam, Netherlands Kuldar Taveter, University of Melbourne, Australia Laurentiu Alexandru Vasiliu, DERI Galway, Ireland Sanja Vranes, Mihailo Pupin Institute, Belgrade, Serbia Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany