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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>++++ Abstract/Paper Deadline Extended to Feb. 21st/Feb. 28th ++++++<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Call for Papers, Call for Demos, Call for PhD Papers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>RuleML 2013: 7th International Web Rule Symposium<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>University of Washington, Seattle,USA, July 11-13, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://2013.ruleml.org"><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://2013.ruleml.org</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>The RuleML2013 Conference is also hosting:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>- The 7th International Rule Challenge<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>- The 3rd Doctoral Consortium on Rules<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>- The OASIS Legal RuleML TC Meeting and Tutorial<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>=================================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>The annual International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML) is an international conference on research, applications, languages and standards for rule technologies. RuleML is the leading conference for building bridges between academia and industry in the field of rules and its applications, especially as part of the semantic technology stack. It is devoted to rule-based programming and rule-based systems including production rules systems, logic programming rule engines, and business rules engines/business rules management systems; Semantic Web rule languages and rule standards (e.g., RuleML, SWRL, RIF, PRR, SBVR); Legal RuleML; rule-based event processing languages (EPLs) and technologies; hybrid rule-based methods; and research on inference rules, transformation rules, decision rules, production rules, and ECA rules.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>The 7th International Symposium on Rules and the Web (RuleML 2013) will be held on July 11-13, 2013 just prior to the AAAI conference at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. Selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Objectives<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>==========<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>RuleML-2013 will stimulate cooperation and interoperability between research and business in a community of researchers and practitioners who are interested in the theory and applications of rules. The symposium's areas of research and development have helped drive the rapid progress in technologies for practical rule and event processing. As a result,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>RuleML-2013 promises to be an exciting venue for the exchange of new ideas and experiences on issues related to engineering, management, integration, interoperability of rule systems, and interchange of rules in distributed enterprise, intranets, and open distributed environments. Industry practitioners, rule-system providers, users of rules, technical experts and developers, and researchers who are exploring foundational issues, developing systems and applications, or using rule-based systems are invited to share ideas, results, and experiences.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Topics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>=======<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>We invite high-quality submissions related (but not limited) to one or more of the following topics:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Rules and automated reasoning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Rule-based policies, reputation, and trust<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Rule-based event processing and reaction rules<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Rules and the web<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Fuzzy rules and uncertainty<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Non-classical logics and the web (e.g modal and epistemic logics)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Hybrid methods for combining rules and statistical machine learning techniques (e.g., conditional random fields, PSL)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Rule transformation, extraction, and learning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Rule markup languages and rule interchange formats<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Rule-based distributed/multi-agent systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Rules, agents, and norms<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Rule-based communication, dialogue, and argumentation models<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Vocabularies and ontologies for pragmatic primitives (e.g. speech acts and deontic primitives)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Pragmatic web reasoning and distributed rule inference / rule execution<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Rules in online market research and online marketing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Applications of rule technologies in health care and life sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Legal rules and legal reasoning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Industrial applications of rules<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Controlled natural language for rule encoding (e.g. SBVR, ACE, CLCE)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Standards activities related to rules<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* General rule topics<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Conference Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>=================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Adrian Paschke (Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Program Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>===============<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Leora Morgenstern (Science Applications International Corporation, USA) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Petros Stefaneas (NTUA, Greece)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>===============<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Abstract submission (extended): Feb. 21, 2013 23:59 UTC-12 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Paper submission (extended): Feb. 28, 2013, 23:59 UTC-12 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 12, 2013 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Camera-ready copy due: May 3, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>RuleML-2013 dates: July 11-13, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Submission guidelines<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>=====================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Papers must be original contributions written in English and must be submitted at </span><a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2013"><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2013</span></a><span lang=EN-US> as:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>* Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Please upload all submissions in LNCS format (</span><a href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html"><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html</span></a><span lang=EN-US>). To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>7th International Rule Challenge<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>==========================<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Open Call for Demos:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.csw.inf.fu-berlin.de/ruleml2013/content/7th-international-rule-challenge"><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://www.csw.inf.fu-berlin.de/ruleml2013/content/7th-international-rule-challenge</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Submission deadlines - RuleML-2013 Challenge:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Submission deadline for demo papers and demo systems: May 3rd, 2013 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Notification of accepted demo papers and demo systems: June 7th, 2013 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Camera-ready deadline: June 21st, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>3rd Doctoral Consortium<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>==========================<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Call for PhD Papers: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.csw.inf.fu-berlin.de/ruleml2013/content/3rd-ruleml-doctoral-consortium"><span lang=EN-US style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://www.csw.inf.fu-berlin.de/ruleml2013/content/3rd-ruleml-doctoral-consortium</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Submission deadlines - RuleML 2013 Doctoral Consortium:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Submission deadline for demo papers and demo systems: May 3rd, 2013 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Notification of accepted demo papers and demo systems: June 7th, 2013 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-US>Camera-ready deadline: June 21st, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>