RuleML 2014 - 8th International Web Rule Symposium

The annual International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML) is the leading international event in the field of rules and their applications. It brings together and stimulates cooperation between researchers and practitioners from industry, academia and the broader AI community who are interested in the theory, design and development of rule technologies and rule-based systems, especially as part of the semantic technology stack. Fields of interest include production rules systems; logic programming rule engines; business rules engines/business rules management systems; Semantic Web rule languages and rule standards (e.g., RuleML, SWRL, RIF, PRR, SBVR); rule-based event processing languages (EPLs) and technologies; and research on inference rules, transformation rules, decision rules, production rules, and ECA rules. RuleML 2014, the eight event in this series, invites high-quality original submissions related (but not limited) to one or more of the following topics.
Objectives
RuleML 2014 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, RuleML 2014 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.
Topics
We invite high-quality submissions related (but not limited) to one or more of the following topics:
Rules and automated reasoning
Rule-based policies, reputation, and trust
Rule-based event processing and reaction rules
Rules and the web
Rule discovery from data
Association rule learning
Fuzzy rules and uncertainty
Logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning
Non-classical logics and the web (e.g modal and epistemic logics)
Hybrid methods for combining rules and statistical machine learning techniques (e.g., conditional random fields, PSL)
Rule transformation, extraction, and learning
Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules
Rule markup languages and rule interchange formats
Rule-based distributed/multi-agent systems
Rules, agents, and norms
Rule-based communication, dialogue, and argumentation models
Vocabularies and ontologies for pragmatic primitives (e.g. speech acts and deontic primitives)
Pragmatic web reasoning and distributed rule inference / rule execution
Rules in online market research and online marketing
Applications of rule technologies in health care and life sciences
Legal rules and legal reasoning
Industrial applications of rules
Controlled natural language for rule encoding (e.g. SBVR, ACE, CLCE)
Standards activities related to rules
General rule topics