RULE 2010

Call for papers

With the renewed interest in rule-based computing for industrial applications (e.g., Business Rules) especially as it relates to the Semantic Web ( e.g., the W3C's Rule Interchange Format), it is timely to explore the practical benefits delivered by computing with rules and ontologies in the large. Thus, this year's theme will focus on rule-based programming in Industry and the Semantic Web. The emphasis will be on implemented systems that have been actually used in pragmatic situations where the advantages of rule-driven computation and inference have made all the difference, such advantages being:

• agility
• declarativeness
• maintainability
• documentability
• scalability
• meta-programmability
• reliability
• formal semantics
• etc., ...

In terms of the Semantic Web, we explicitly call for submissions that probe (in a pragmatic setting) how rule-based approaches complement ontology-based approaches, which share some of the characteristics of rule systems, such as declarativeness and formal semantics.

Paper submission

We are solliciting papers dealing with topics related to this year's theme discussing any or several of the itemized facets of the combinations of rules and ontologies, going beyond academic experiments and meant for large-scale or industrial applications. Papers should contain no more than 10 pages, including figures, and submitted through EasyChair using the standard EPTCS LaTeX style file.

Program committee

In alphabetical order by last name:

• Hassan Aït-Kaci, IBM, Canada (co-chair)

• Maria Alpuente, Universidàd Politècnica de Valencia, Spain

• Harold Boley, National Research Council, Canada

• Mike Dean, BBN, USA

• Mohand-Saïd Hacid, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France

• Gary Hallmark, Oracle, USA

• Pierre-Etienne Moreau, INRIA Nancy, France

• Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

• Dave Reynolds, Epimorphics Ltd., United Kingdom (co-chair)

• Eelco Visser, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Invited Speakers

To be announced.

Important dates

Workshop venue

RULE 2010 will be a satellite workshop of the conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA 2010) affiliated to the Federated Logic of Computing conferences (FLoC 2010), to take place in Edinburgh, UK, July 9-21, 2010.

RULE 2010 will be the 11th event organized as an International Workshop on Rule-Based Specification and Programming.

The previous workshops in this series were (10th) RULE 2009, at RDP 2009 in Bazilia, Brazil, (9th) RULE 2008, at RTA 2008 in Hagenberg, Austria, (8th) RULE 2007, at RTA 2007 in Paris, France, (7th) RULE 2006, at FLoC 2006 in Seattle, Washington, USA, (6th) RULE 2005, at RDP 2005 in Nara, Japan, (5th) RULE 2004, at RDP 2004 in Aachen, Germany, (4th) RULE 2003, at RDP 2003 in Valencia, Spain, (3rd) RULE 2002 at PLI 2002 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, (2nd) RULE 2000 at PLI in Montréal, Canada.

Workshop date

Workshop place

Proceedings

The proceedings will be published through Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS).