[rules-users] RuleApps2008: Two Weeks Before Submission Deadline

[Emilian Pascalau]

[We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]

2nd East European Workshop on Rule-Based Applications - RuleApps'2008
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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
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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
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Papers submission: April 10, 2008
Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2008
Final submission: May 26, 2008
Workshop date: July 21-22, 2008

Submission Requirements
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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
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   - 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
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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
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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