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| Description
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Semantic Web technologies have
matured to
the point where they are being adopted by many organizations for
applications as diverse as data integration, optimized search, and
decision support. The increasing use of the technology has resulted
from mainstream commercial software vendors providing solutions that
support Semantic Web technologies, and W3C making RDF and OWL standard
recommendations. It is widely recognized that rules are the next layer
of focus within the Semantic Web technology stack, and consequently
interest and activity in this area has grown rapidly over recent years.
Semantic Web rules would allow the integration, transformation and
derivation of data from numerous sources in a distributed, scalable,
and transparent manner.
The rules landscape features
theoretical
areas such as knowledge representation (KR) and algorithms; design
aspects of rule markup; engineering of engines, translators, and other
tools; standardization efforts, such as the recent Rules Interchange
Format activity at W3C; and applications.
Rules complement and extend ontologies
on
the Semantic Web. They can be used in combination with ontologies, or
as a means to specify ontologies. In these settings, rules can be used
either in conjunction with or as an alternative to description logics.
Rules are also frequently applied over ontologies, to draw inferences,
express constraints, specify policies, react to events, discover new
knowledge, transform data, etc. Rule markup languages enrich Web
ontologies by supporting publishing rules on the Web, exchange rules
between different systems and tools, share guidelines and policies,
merge and maintain rulebases, and more.
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The RuleML-2006 Conference is aimed
to be
the premiere scientific forum for exchanging ideas on all aspects of
rules for the Semantic Web. It follows on the heels of three successful
workshops on the topic, in 2002, 2003, and 2004, and the first RuleML
conference that took place in 2005. Like its precursors, RuleML-2006
will be held in collaboration with the International Semantic
Web Conference and will be co-located with it. The
RuleML-2006 Conference will consist of both an academic track and an
industry track.
- Academic Track:
Papers submitted
to the academic track are expected to focus on research related to the
development and advancement of rule formalisms for the Semantic Web.
The work reported should be of foundational or conceptual nature and
will be judged according to the usual criteria of novelty,
significance, technical quality, etc.
- Industrial Track:
The industrial
track is designed to encourage participation from builders of rules
engines and of practitioners who use rules for e-business, information
integration, and other areas of the Semantic Web. It is not necessary
for a Semantic Web rule engine to have been deployed, although
preference will be given to systems that have adopted or are exploring
the adoption of new rules technology such as SWRL, RuleML or hybrid
approaches to using DL or Datalog with Semantic Technology. If systems
have been deployed, preference will be given to papers that have
determined and measured figures of merit.
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We encourage submissions on all topics
related to rules and rule markup languages for the Semantic Web,
including (but not limiting to) the following:
- Rule-based policies: their
specification, execution, and management
- Combining rules (including active
rules) with ontologies
- Reactive rules for the Semantic Web
- Complex event processing
- Event-driven/action rule languages
and models
- Semantic Rule Management
- Extraction of rules from
unstructured data sources
- Semantics of rule frameworks, which
interoperate with RDF and OWL
- Rules and nonmonotonic reasoning
- Querying the semantic Web with
rules
- Complexity of reasoning problems
involving rules
- Languages, including standards
(RuleML, SWRL, Jess, N3, F-logic, etc.)
- Execution models, rule engines, and
environments
- Implemented tools and systems for
rules on the Semantic Web
- Active rules for Semantic Web
Services
- Uncertainty and fuzziness in
rule-based systems
- Modeling of business rules and
event-driven/active rules
- Rule-based software agents and the
Semantic Web
- E-contracting and automated
negotiations with rule-based declarative strategies
- Connecting event-driven and
reactive rules to legacy knowledge bases
- Distributed rule bases
- Rule base validation, verification
and exception handling on the Semantic Web
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We invite articles of no more than 10
pages in length in IEEE
two-column format
describing original completed work, work in progress, or interesting
problems or use cases. The page limit includes title, abstract, and all
figures, and references. Submitted papers will be fully refereed based
on the originality and significance of the ideas presented as well as
on technical aspects. The proceedings will be published by IEEE.
Submissions should be made online in
PDF format on the conference submission site,
by 5 June 2006 midnight Hawaii time. Multiple submission is not
allowed. Submissions should clearly indicate the appropriate track
(academic or industrial).
Camera-ready versions of articles
should be formatted according to the IEEE PDF specifications.
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Early registration deadline for
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| Conference
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Program Co-Chairs
Academic track
- Thomas Eiter, Technical University,
Vienna, Austria
- Enrico Franconi, Free University of
Bolzano, Italy
Industrial track
- Susie Stephens, Oracle, USA
- Ralph Hodgson, TopQuadrant, Inc.,
USA
Conference General Chair
- Michael Kifer, State University of
New York at Stony Brook, USA
Conference Publicity Chair
- Jos de Bruijn, DERI Innsbruck,
Austria
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- Asaf Adi, IBM, Israel
- Grigoris Antoniou, University of
Crete, FORTH, Greece
- Harold Boley, National Research
Council and University of New Brunswick, Canada
- Benjamin Grosof, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, USA
- Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA
- Dieter Fensel, Digital Enterprise
Research Institute, Ireland and Austria
- Michael Kifer, State University of
New York at Stony Brook
- Jeff Z. Pan, University of
Aberdeen, UK
- Steve Ross-Talbot, Pi4
Technologies, USA
- Giorgos Stamou, National Technical
University of Athens
- Suzette Stoutenburg, The MITRE
Corporation, USA
- Said Tabet, RuleML Initiative and
Macgregor Inc., USA
- Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University
of Technology at Cottbus, Germany
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Academic track
- Jose Alferes, University Nova
Lisbon, Portugal
- Chitta Baral, Arizona State
University, USA
- Leo Bertossi, Carleton University,
Canada
- Jos de Bruijn, DERI Innsbruck,
Austria
- Andrea Cali, Free University of
Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
- Tran Cao Son, University of New
Mexico, USA
- Carlos Damasio, Universtiy Nova
Lisboa, Portugal
- Juergen Dix, TU Clausthal, Germany
- Guido Governatori, University of
Queensland, Australia
- Pascal Hitzler, AIFB, University of
Karlsruhe, Germany
- Giovambattista Ianni, University of
Calabria, Italy
- Georg Lausen, Freiburg University,
Germany
- Nicola Leone, University of
Calabria, Italy
- Thomas Lukasiewicz, University Roma
La Sapienza, Italy
- Jan Maluszynski, Linkoping
University, Sweden
- Massimo Marchiori, University of
Venice, Italy
- Alberto Martelli, University of
Torino, Italy
- Wolfgang May, University of
Goettingen, Germany
- Boris Motik, University of
Manchester, UK
- Marie-Laure Mugnier, LIRMM, France
- Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S, Germany
- Axel Polleres, Universidad Rey Juan
Carlos, Spain
- Riccardo Rosati, University Roma
"La Sapienza", Italy
- Marie-Christine Rousset, University
of Grenoble, France
- Ulrike Sattler, University of
Manchester, UK
- Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg
Research, Austria
- Michael Sintek, DFKI, Germany
- Umberto Straccia, CNR, Pisa, Italy
- VS Subrahmanian, University of
Maryland, USA
- Terrance Swift, XSB, Inc., USA
- Hans Tompits, TU Vienna, Austria
- Dirk Vermeir, University of
Brussels, Belgium
- Kewen Wang, Griffith University,
Australia
- Guizhen Yang, SRI, USA
Industrial track
- Alain Leger, France Telecom, France
- Allen Ginsberg, Mitre, US
- Bill Andersen, Ontology Works, US
- Christian de Sainte Marie, ILOG,
France
- Christine Golbreich, University
Rennes, France
- Con Kenney, US FAA Agency, US
- Eric Neumann, Teranode, US
- Harold Solbrig, Mayo Clinic, US
- Jeff Pollock, Cerebra, US
- Jos De Roo, AGFA, Belgium
- Juergen Angele, Ontoprise, Germany
- Leo Obrst, Mitre, US
- Michael Bodkin, Lockheed Martin, US
- Ora Lassila, Nokia, US
- Parsa Mirhaji, University of Texas
Medical Center, US
- Ralph Traphoener, Empolis, Germany
- Ruediger Klein, Daimer-Chrysler,
Germany
- Sidney Bailin, Knowledge Evolution,
US
- Silvie Spreeuwenberg, LibRT, The
Netherlands
- Yaser Bishr, Image Matters, US
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