Rules for the Semantic Web

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                    *** Call for Papers ***
                   International Workshop on
      Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web 
                          RuleML-2003 
                http://www.semanticwebrules.org 
                    In conjunction with the 
          International Semantic Web Conference ISWC03 
                   Sanibel Island, Florida, USA 
                        20 October 2003 

Workshop Description 

The Semantic Web is a major world-wide endeavour to advance the Web by 
enriching its content with propositional information that can be 
processed by inference-enabled Web applications. Rules and rule markup 
languages, such as RuleML, will play an important role for the success 
of the Semantic Web. Rules will act as a means to draw inferences, to 
express constraints, to specify policies, to react to events/changes, 
to transform data, etc. Rule markup languages will allow to enrich web 
ontologies by adding definitions of derived concepts, to publish rules 
on the Web, to exchange rules between different systems and tools, etc. 
The workshop builds on the success of  RuleML-2002, which was held in 
conjunction with ISWC-2002, Sardinia, Italy. The proceedings of 
RuleML-2002 are published at http://www.ceur-ws.org/Vol-60/. The 
proceedings of RuleML-2003 will be published with Springer-Verlag. 

Topics of Interest 

We encourage  submissions on all   topics  related to rules  and  rule 
mark-up lanugages for the   Semantic Web. In particular, the  workshop 
seeks papers addressing   syntax   and semantics of  rule   languages, 
execution engines, implemented systems, and applications. 

- reaction rules for the Semantic Web 
- event/action languages 
- execution models 
- defeasible rules for the Semantic Web 
- defeasible concept definitions in ontologies 
- resolving conflicts in triggered action sets 
- tools and systems for rules on the Semantic Web 
- combining rules and ontologies 
- integrating rules and description logics 
- multiple language rules (Prolog, KIF, SQL, OCL, XML, RDF, etc.) 
- future application scenarios based on RDF, ontologies and rules 
- RuleML-based applications 
- deployment of rule-based applications on the Web 
- rule-based software agents and the Semantic Web 
- connecting rules to legacy knowledge bases 
- integrating rule bases and distributed fact bases 
- handling lineage and reliability of distributed information 
- processing negative information with negation(s) 
- using URIs in rules 
- XSL transformations of rules 
- <yourTopic ... /> 


Submission 

We invite articles of no more than 15 pages length formated in 
Springer's LNCS style  (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) 
describing original completed work, work in progress, or interesting 
problems or use cases. Submitted papers will be fully refereed based 
on the originality and significance of the  ideas presented as well as 
on technical aspects.  
 
Submissions should be made electronically, either in postscript or PDF 
format via http://www.semanticwebrules.org 

Accepted papers will be published with Springer-Verlag. 


Important Dates for Authors 

15 June 2003 -- Deadline for paper submissions. 
15 July 2003 -- Notification of acceptance. 
31 July 2003 -- Final paper due. 
20 October 2003 -- RuleML-2003. 


Workshop Co-Chairs 

Michael Schroeder, City University, London, UK 
Gerd Wagner, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands 


Programme committee 

Grigoris Antoniou, University of Bremen, Germany 
Harold Boley, University of New Brunswick, Canada 
Francois Bry, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany 
Carlos Damasio, New University of Lisbon, Portugal 
Mike Dean, BBN Technologies / Verizon, USA 
Stefan Decker, Information Science Institute, USA 
Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, Grenoble, France 
Benjamin Grosof, MIT, USA 
Jan Maluszynski, Linkoeping University, Sweden 
Massimo Marchiori, W3C, MIT, USA and University of Venice, Italy 
Donald Nute, University of Georgia, USA 
Steve Ross-Talbot, Enigmated, UK 
Michael Schroeder, City University, London, UK 
Bruce Spencer, University of New Brunswick, Canada 
Said Tabet, Consultant, USA 
Gerd Wagner, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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