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RuleML-2009
3rd International Rule Challenge @ RuleML 2009
(Extended Submission Deadline, September 11 2009)
co-located with the Business Rules Forum
November 5-7 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
http://2009.ruleml.org
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Call for Participation
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This year, the 3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and
Interoperability (RuleML-2009) takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA,
collocated with the 12th Business Rules Forum, the world's largest
Business Rules event. RuleML-2009 is devoted to practical distributed
rule technologies and rule-based applications. The International
Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability has evolved
from an annual series of international workshops since 2002,
international conferences in 2005 and 2006, and international symposia
since 2007, and is now in the top 100 venues for scientific impact
factor in CiteseerX (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/stats/venues).
Deadline for early-bird registration: 18 September 2009
RuleML-2009 registration page: http://2009.ruleml.org/registration.html
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3rd International Rule Challenge
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Due to numerous requests we have decided to extend the submission deadline
to
Friday, September 11 2009.
For further submission details see:
http://2009.ruleml.org/challenge.html
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Highlights
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Keynote Speakers
- Sandro Hawke (W3C@MIT):
Bringing Order to Chaos: RIF as the New Standard for Rule Interchange
- Paul Vincent (TIBCO Software):
Why Rules Matter in Complex Event Processing... and vice versa
- Donald Chapin (Business Semantics):
Terminology: the Semantic Foundation for an Organization’s Executable
Rules
Joint Boxed Lunch Panel on "Rules on the Web" held in conjunction with the
co-located Business Rules Forum.
Joint Session on Rule Standards in conjunction with the co-located Business
Rules Forum.
3rd International Rules Challenge with prizes to demonstrate tools, use
cases,
and applications.
Tutorials:
- Christian de Sainte Marie (IBM/ILog): RIF Tutorial
- Mark Proctor (Red Hat): Drools Tutorials
- Larry Goldberg (KPI): The Decision Model Tutorial
Industry, demo, scientific research & development 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.
Social events to promote networking among the symposium delegates in an
informal setting.
You 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 and events in open
distributed environments such as Enterprise Architectures, the Web,
Event-Driven and Service Oriented Architectures etc.
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Preliminary Program
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Day 1: Thursday, November 5 2009
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8:30 Keynote: Bringing Order to Chaos: RIF as the New Standard for Rule
Interchange. Sandro Hawke, World Wide Web Consortium
9:30 RIF Tutorial. Christian de Sainte Marie, IBM/ILOG
11:00 Break
11:20 Standards for Business Rules (joint with BR Forum). John Hall, Model
Systems
12:20 Boxed Lunch & Panel Discussion: "Rules on the Web" (joint with BR
Forum)
Moderator: John Hall, Model Systems
Rule Systems on the Web
13:45 Challenges for Rule Systems on the Web. Yuh-Jong Hu, Ching-Long Yeh
and
Wolfgang Laun
14:00 A modest proposal to enable RIF dialects with limited forward
compatibility. Christiane de Sainte Marie
14:15 RIF RuleML Rosetta Ring: Round-Tripping the Dlex Subset of Datalog
RuleML and RIF-Core. Harold Boley
14:30 WellnessRules: A Web 3.0 Case Study in RuleML-Based Prolog-N3
Profile
Interoperation. Harold Boley, Taylor Osmun, and Benjamin Craig
RuleML Challenge and Demos
14:45 RuleML Challenge and Demos
16:00 Break
16:30 RuleML Challenge and Demos
RuleML 2009 Conference Dinner
Day 2: Friday, November 6 2009
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8:30 Keynote: Why Rules Matter in Complex Event Processing... and vice
versa
Paul Vincent, TIBCO
Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules
9:30 Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules. Adrian Paschke and
Alexander Kozlenkov
9:45 Correlating Business Events for Event-Triggered Rules. Josef Schiefer,
Hannes Obweger and Martin Suntinger
10:00 Semantic Rule-Based Complex Event Processing. Kia Teymourian and
Adrian
Paschke
10:15 Break
General Rule Topics
10:45 Generation of Rules from Ontologies for High-Level Scene
Interpretation.
Wilfried Bohlken and Bernd Neumann
11:15 RBDT-1: a New Rule-based Decision Tree Generation Technique. Amany
Abdelhalim, Issa Traore and Bassam Sayed
11:45 Process Materialization using Templates and Rules to Design Flexible
Process Models. Akhil Kumar and Wen Yao
12:15 Lunch
14:00 Keynote: Terminology: the Semantic Foundation for an Organization’s
Executable Rules. Donald Chapin, Business Semantics
Rule Transformation and Extraction
15:00 Introduction to "Rule Transformation and Extraction" Track. Mark H.
Linehan and Eric Putrycz
15:15 An SBVR Framework for RESTful Web Applications. Alexandros Marinos and
Paul Krause
15:45 Towards an improvement of Software Development Processes through
Standard Business Rules. José L. Martínez-Fernández, Paloma Martínez
and
José C. González-Cristóbal
16:00 Break
16:30 A Rule-Based System Implementing a Method for Translating FOL Formulas
into NL Sentences. Aikaterini Mpagouli and Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis
17:00 An Empirical Study of Unsupervised Rule Set Extraction of Clustered
Categorical Data using a Simulated Bee Colony Algorithm. James D.
McCaffrey and Howard Dierking
17:30 Transformation of Graphical ECA Policies into Executable PonderTalk
Code. Raphael Romeikat, Markus Sinsel and Bernhard Bauer
RuleML Steering Committee (closed)
Day 3: Saturday, November 7 2009
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Tutorials
8:30 Drools Tutorial. Mark Proctor, Red Hat
The Decision Model. Larry Goldberg, KPI
10:30 Break
Process and Data
11:00 A Rule-Based Approach to Match Structural Patterns with Business
Process
Models. Jens Müller
11:30 Usage of the Jess engine, rules and ontology to query a relational
database. Jaroslaw Bak, Czeslaw Jedrzejek and Maciej Falkowski
12:00 An XML-Based Manipulation and Query Language for Rule-based
Information.
Essam Mansour and Hagen Höpfner
12:30 Lunch
Best Paper Award, RuleML-2009 Challenge Winner Award, RuleML-2009 Challenge
Runner-up Award
14:00 Exploration of SWRL Rule Bases through Visualization, Paraphrasing,
and
Categorization of Rules. Saeed Hassanpour, Martin J. O’Connor
and Amar K. Das
14:30 TomML: A Rule Language For Structured Data. Horatiu Cirstea,
Pierre-Etienne Moreau and Amar Reilles
14:45 Geospatial-Enabled RuleML in a Study
on Querying Respiratory Disease
Information. Sheng Gao, Harold Boley, Darka Mioc, Francois Anton and
Xiaolun Yi
Rules and Norms
15:00 Rules and Norms: Requirements for Rule Interchange Languages in the
Legal Domain. Thomas F. Gordon, Guido Governatori and Antonino Rotolo
15:15 A Java Implementation of Temporal Defeasible Logic. Rossella Rubino
and
Antonino Rotolo
15:30 Fill the Gap in the Legal Knowledge Modelling. Monica Palmirani,
Giuseppe Contissa and Rossella Rubino
15:45 The Making of SPINdle. Ho-Pun Lam and Guido Governatori
16:00 Break
Rules and Uncertainty
16:30 Approaches to Uncertain or Imprecise Rules - A Survey. Matthias
Nickles
and Davide Sottara
16:45 Fuzzy Reasoning with a Rete-OO Rule Engine. Nikolaus Wulff and Davide
Sottara
17:00 Towards Modelling Defeasible Reasoning with Imperfection in Production
Rule Systems. Davide Sottara, Paola Mello and Mark Proctor
17:15 Close
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Supported by
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W3C, OMG, ACM, AAAI, ECCAI, IAAIL, ACM, Belgian Business Rules Forum MIT
Sloan CIO Symposium, EPTS, BPM Forum Belgium
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Sponsored by
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BBN Technologies
Franz Inc
NICTA (National ICT Australia) Ltd
Corporate Semantic Web
Logic Programming Associated Ltd
ruleCore
JBoss
Modelsystems Ltd
(Sponsoring opportunities: http://2009.ruleml.org/sponsors)
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