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    RuleML is just around the corner and will be in Fort Lauderdale this
    time.<br>
    <br>
    The RuleML Challenge sessions are always interesting and fun and a
    great way to show case your work and get noticed. So hurry up and
    submit now :)<br>
    <br>
    If you aren't sure that your work it suitable to submit, just email
    me and we will be happy to discuss it with you.<br>
    <br>
    Mark<br>
    On 01/08/2011 10:38, Adrian Paschke wrote:
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                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">*
                      RuleML2011@BRF - 5th International Rule
                      Challenge&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                      *&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
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4th&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">* Westin
                      Diplomat, Ft <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city
                          w:st="on">Lauderdale</st1:city>, <st1:state
                          w:st="on">Florida</st1:state></st1:place>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">*
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://2011.ruleml.org/america/?page_id=126">http://2011.ruleml.org/america/?page_id=126</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                      *<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">====================================================================*<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">* Call for
                      Demos - Submission Deadline - Sept. 2nd,
                      2011&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; *<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">* New
                      categories in the Challenge with prestigious
                      prizes&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; *<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">* Demo
                      papers published as CEUR
                      proceedings&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                      *<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">* 15%
                      RuleML2011@BRF Partner discounts - see
                      registration page&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; *<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">*
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://2011.ruleml.org/america/">http://2011.ruleml.org/america/</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                      *<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">*
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.businessrulesforum.com/register.php">http://www.businessrulesforum.com/register.php</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                      *<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">*********************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Overview and
                      Aim<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">======================================================<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">The
                      RuleML2011@BRF Challenge is one of the highlights
                      at RuleML2011@BRF <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Conference.The
                      RuleML2011@BRF Challenge is dedicated
                      to practical experiences <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">with
                      rule-oriented applications. In particular,
                      submissions of benchmarks<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">/
                      evaluations, demos, case studies / use cases,
                      experience
                      reports, best<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">practice
                      solutions (e.g. design patterns, reference
                      architectures, models),<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">rule-based
                      implementations / tools / applications,
                      demonstrations of<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">engineering
                      methods, implementations of rule standards
                      (e.g. RuleML, <st1:place w:st="on">RIF</st1:place>,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">SBVR, PRR,
                      rule-based Event Processing languages,
                      BPMN+rules, BPEL+rules,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">...), rules
                      + industrial standards (e.g. XBRL, MISMO,
                      Accord, ...), and<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">industrial
                      problem statements are particularly
                      encouraged.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Key themes
                      of the RuleML2011@BRF Challenge include the
                      following:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">* Demos
                      related to the RuleML2011@BRF Track Topics<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">* Extensions
                      and implementations of rule standards:
                      W3C RIF, RuleML, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;SBVR, ...<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">* Editing
                      environments and IDEs for Web rules<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">* Benchmarks
                      and comparison results for rule engines<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">*
                      Distributed rule bases and rule services<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">* Reports on
                      industrial experience about rule systems<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">A dedicated
                      track of RuleML2011@BRF Challenge will be
                      focused on the theme:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">**Combining
                      Rules, Objects, and Ontologies:
                      Implementations and Applications**<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">-
                      Loose/tight integrations of rules and knowledge
                      bases<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">- Knowledge
                      Modelling and Reasoning<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">- Real cases
                      and practical experiences<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Ideally,
                      demos submitted to the Challenge track should
                      tackle knowledge-rich<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">domain
                      problems. The proposed solution should address
                      such problem using a<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">combination
                      of rule-based modelling and semantic
                      knowledge-based modelling.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Solutions
                      ranging from loosely coupled hybrid systems
                      (i.e. where different<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">frameworks
                      are put together), to unified homogeneous
                      architectures (i.e. where<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">a unified
                      model / semantics, within a single
                      framework, is proposed) will be<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">of great
                      interest for the special track.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Prizes will
                      be awarded to the two best applications
                      from the main focus theme<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">and for the
                      all categories. All accepted demos will be
                      presented in a special<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Challenge
                      Session.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Submission<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">======================================================<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">The
                      submission is composed of two parts:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">-
                      open-source or commercial demo<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">- demo
                      papers describing research, implementation, and
                      technical details of<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">&nbsp;&nbsp; your
                      submission.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Submissions
                      to the Rules Challenge 2011 consist of a
                      demo paper of 4-8 pages,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">describing
                      the demo show case, and a link to the
                      demo/show case, e.g. a<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">project
                      site, an online demonstration, a presentation
                      about the demonstration,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">or a
                      download site for the demonstration.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Demo and
                      papers submission website:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2011challenge">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2011challenge</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Please
                      upload all demo papers submissions as PDF files
                      in LNCS format<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html">http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html</a>).
                      <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">To ensure
                      high quality, submitted papers will be
                      carefully peer-reviewed<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">according to
                      the evaluation criteria indicated below.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">To better
                      disseminate your work, please also udpate
                      your demo in the systems<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">submission
                      website with a brief abstract presentation:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://2011.ruleml.org/america/?page_id=184">http://2011.ruleml.org/america/?page_id=184</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Challenge
                      Evaluation Criteria <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">======================================================<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Submissions
                      to the RuleML2011@BRF Challenge general
                      Track will be evaluated <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">according to
                      the following criteria:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">- clear
                      exposition of the objectives, outcomes,
                      benefits for going beyond the<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">&nbsp; state of
                      the art in the application domain
                      (25%)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">- demos
                      should demonstrate a good level of
                      effectiveness to manage complex<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">&nbsp; rules
                      according to
                      statistical/analytical/benchmarking evaluations
                      (25%)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">- demos have
                      to demonstrate the results with a
                      concrete example balancing<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">&nbsp;
                      conciseness and completeness (25%)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">- demos
                      should preferably (but not necessarily) be
                      embedded into a web-based<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">&nbsp; or
                      distributed environment (15%)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">- demos
                      should pay attention to end-user interactions,
                      providing an adequate<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">&nbsp; and usable
                      interface that favors a concrete
                      usage of the application (10%).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Submissions
                      focused on this year's special theme
                      (Knowledge-Based Applications<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">combining
                      Rules and Ontologies) should show the
                      potential and benefits of<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">combining
                      rule-based reasoning and
                      taxonomic/frame/description-logic reasoning<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">in a
                      realistic application. Demos submitted to the
                      Special Theme will be<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">evaluated
                      according to the following criteria:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">- papers
                      should clearly expose the objectives,
                      outcomes, benefits for going<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">&nbsp; beyond the
                      state of the art in the application
                      domain (20%)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">- demos
                      should demonstrate a good level of integration
                      or interaction between<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">&nbsp; rules and
                      ontologies (40%)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">- demos
                      should demonstrate their results with a simple
                      but meaningful case<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">&nbsp; study,
                      balancing conciseness and completeness
                      (20%)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">- demos
                      should preferably be deployed in a web-based
                      or distributed<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">&nbsp;
                      environment where multiple nodes exchange
                      information (10%)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">- demos
                      should pay attention to end-user interactions,
                      providing an adequate<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">&nbsp; and usable
                      interface that favors a concrete
                      usage of the application (10%).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Proceedings<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">======================================================<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Authors are
                      invited to submit original contributions
                      of practical relevance<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">and
                      technical rigor in the field, benchmarks,
                      evaluations, experience reports<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">and show/use
                      case demonstrations of effective,
                      practical, deployable<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">rule-based
                      technologies or applications in
                      web-distributed environments.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Papers must
                      be in English.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Accepted
                      papers will be published as CEUR Workshop
                      Proceedings.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Exhibition
                      Room<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">======================================================<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">The
                      RuleML2011@BRF Chairs are currently evaluating the
                      possibility to have an<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">exhibition
                      space where to present the demo live to the
                      participants throughout<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">the
                      Symposium.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">More
                      information will be released with the
                      notification of acceptance of the<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">demo papers
                      and demo systems.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Important
                      Dates<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">======================================================<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Submission
                      deadline for demo papers and demo systems:
                      Sept. 2nd, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Notification
                      of accepted demo papers and demo systems:
                      Sept. 23rd, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Camera ready
                      papers: Sept. 30th, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">RuleML2011@BRF
                      Challenge Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">======================================================<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Stefano
                      Bragaglia, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city
                          w:st="on">University of Bologna</st1:city>, <st1:country-region
                          w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Marco
                      Montali, KRDB, Free <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city
                          w:st="on">University of Bozen-Bolzano</st1:city>,
                        <st1:country-region w:st="on">Italy</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Charles
                      Petrie, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Stanford

                          University</st1:city>, <st1:country-region
                          w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoPlainText"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span
                      style="font-size:10.5pt" lang="EN-US">Mark
                      Proctor, Red <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city
                          w:st="on">Hat</st1:city>, <st1:country-region
                          w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users">https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users</a>
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