[Apologies if you receive this more than once] The International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2007) October 25-26, 2007, Orlando, Florida http://2007.ruleml.org Dear Colleagues, Due to numerous requests about conflicting deadlines, and with Springer as confirmed publisher, online submissions to RuleML-2007 will be allowed until July 20 (hard deadline): Abstract submission before July 10, 2007 Paper submission due July 20, 2007 Notification of acceptance August 6, 2007 Final submissions due August 23, 2007 The International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2007) will take place, October 25-26, 2007, in Orlando, Florida http://2007.ruleml.org, co-located with The 10th International Business Rules Forum <http://www.businessrulesforum.com>. RuleML-2007 is devoted to practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Web 2.0/3.0, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures, Service-Oriented Computing Applications and Rule-based Enterprise Application Systems. A RuleML-2007 Challenge with prizes will be organized to demonstrate tools, use cases, and applications. Call for Papers: http://2007.ruleml.org/cfp.pdf Highlights: - Accepted papers will be published as Springer LNCS proceedings - 2 Keynote speakers; Confirmed Keynote by Jürgen Angele (Ontoprise): "Rule-based Development Support in the Automotive Industry" - In cooperation with ECCAI (confirmend) and IEEE Computer TCAAS - Selection of revised papers will be resubmitted to a special journal issue - Best Paper Award - Prestigious prizes will be awarded to the first two best applications of the Challenge - Panel by world-class scientists and practitioners, featuring topics on event and rule-based computing and industry success stories Updates: 1) Modified Challenge Requirements: "Submissions to the RuleML Challenge 2007 consist of a demo paper of 3-5 pages, describing the demo show case, and a link to more information about the demo/show case, e.g. a project site, an online demonstration, a presentation about the demonstration, or a download site for the demonstration. The show case should demonstrate the use of rules of various kinds in interesting and practically relevant ways, preferably (but not necessarily) embedded into a Web-based or distributed environment." More information regarding submissions can be found in the RuleML-2007 web site: http://2007.ruleml.org/index-Dateien/Page787.htm 2) Enhanced Topics: - Rules in Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 - Rules in Semantic Web Technologies - Rules in Web Intelligence Research We invite submissions of full, short and demo papers related (but not limited) to one or more of the topics listed at: http://2007.ruleml.org/index-Dateien/Page431.htm 3) All papers and demos will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members of the Program Committee: http://2007.ruleml.org/index-Dateien/Page508.htm Sincerely, General Chair Said Tabet, Inferware Corp. stabet AT ruleml.org Program Co-Chairs Adrian Paschke, Technical University Munich, Germany paschke AT in.tum.de Yevgen Biletskiy, University of New Brunswick, Canada biletski AT unb.ca Challenge Co-Chairs Alexander Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd., London, UK alex.kozlenkov AT betfair.com Ralph Hodgson, TopQuadrant, Inc., Mountain View, USA rhodgson AT topquadrant.com Panel Chair John Hall, Model Systems, UK john.hall AT modelsys.com Publicity Chair Suzette Stoutenburg, MITRE Corporation, USA suzette AT mitre.org