[Our apologies if you receive duplicates of this posting] 3rd International Rules Challenge at RuleML-2009 co-located with the Business Rules Forum November 5-7 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA http://2009.ruleml.org/challenge ==================================================================== Second Call for Submissions to the 2009 Rules Challenge ==================================================================== The Rules Challenge is one of the highlights at RuleML-2009. Submissions are bound to come to the attention of a wide audience, for reasons outlined below. The goal of the Rules Challenge is to encourage any work of practical relevance in the field of Rule Based Applications, spanning the range from research to industry. * What to submit Submission topics may come from a wide range of the field, such as (but not limited to) the following: - best practice solutions, e.g., design patterns and architecture models; - case studies and experience reports describing novel or interesting solutions and use cases; - benchmarks and other evaluations of rule-based systems; - tools for manipulating rules and related data in existing or emerging standards (e.g., RuleML, RIF, SBVR, PRR,...) or commercial rule-based system implementations; - engineering methods for development and deployment of rule-based solutions. Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance and technical rigor in the field. A submission should consist of a paper (typically of 4-8 pages) describing any theoretical foundation, implementation issues, technical details and collected results of your work. If applicable, a demonstration program illustrating your development would be highly valued. * Publication and Review Peer-reviewed papers, which must be in English, will be published in additional special Challenge proceedings, to be published (as CEUR proceedings www.CEUR-WS.org), along with the online publication of your demo in the highly visible growing Rules Challenge pool (http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw). To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. A selection of revised papers from the Challenge will be resubmitted to a special issue of a journal. * Where to submit The RuleML-2009 Challenge papers submission website: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=2009ruleschallenge Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). The RuleML-2009 Demonstration systems submission website: http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw Alternatively, your demo could be provided online, as a Web service, or for downloading from a site of your choice. Links to product demos should be password-protected: please submit a password for anonymous login from any Web browser, giving us the permission to pass the password on up to 5 PC members. * Why you should participate RuleML-2009, the 3rd International Symposium on Rules, Applications and Interoperability in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, is one of the most attractive international conferences, now being in the top 100 venues for scientific impact factor in CiteseerX. Being this year collocated with the 12th Business Rules Forum, the world's largest Business Rules event, it is guaranteed to bring your contribution to the attention of the widest-ever audience. The participants of the Challenge will have the opportunity to be part of the latest trends in rule technology and standards development through high-density interaction with the experts in this field. Last, but not least - there are prestigious prizes to be won! * Important Dates September 4th – submission deadline for demo papers and systems September 15th – notification of accepted demo papers and systems October 22th - submission deadline for demo systems without papers October 29th - notification of accepted demo systems without papers MAKE RULEML-2009 YOUR SHOWCASE! * 2009 Rules Challenge Program Committee See Challenge website http://2009.ruleml.org/challenge. =================================================================== About RuleML-2009 =================================================================== 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). =================================================================== Supported by =================================================================== W3C, OMG, ACM, AAAI, ECCAI, IAAIL, ACM, Belgian Business Rules Forum MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, EPTS, BPM Forum Belgium =================================================================== Sponsored by =================================================================== 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) ===================================================================