[ our apologies should you receive this message more than one time ] ===================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) October 30-31, 2008, Orlando, Florida http://2008.ruleml.org *** The early registration deadline is only ONE WEEK away *** on 19 September 2008 Register by September 19, receive $100 off. Special team discounts also available ===================================================================== Open Calls for RuleML-2008 Challenge/Showcase Demos, Lightning/Highlight Talks & Fast Abstracts http://2008.ruleml.org/lightning.php Submission deadline: September 15 ===================================================================== We invite you to attend the 2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) to be held during October 30-31, 2008 in Orlando, Florida. As this is a relatively new event, being only its 2nd year, participants can make a difference about shaping the future direction and structure of the field, including about rule standards supporting their own approaches and about their own possible involvement in the organization of future events. Co-located with the 11th International Business Rules Forum, RuleML-2008 provides a unique opportunity to exchange your ideas about practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications. Meet the Web rules experts and discuss with them status and progress of the rules technology. Discuss your recent work with colleagues in the informal atmosphere of the symposium. You should not miss the high-quality technical presentations, the innovative applications presented in detail and the state of the art reports of the plenary speakers. RuleML-2008 is a must for all people active in rules technologies or entering the field. The scope of RuleML-2008 covers all topics relevant to rule-based technologies, rule interchange formats and rule-based applications as well as discussions of lessons learned that have to be taken into account when employing rule-based technologies in distributed, (partially) open, heterogeneous environments. ======================= Technical Program ======================= The symposium will feature a strong, single-track technical program consisting of: * Keynote speakers: o Michael Kifer (State University of New York at Stony Brook), on "Rule Interchange Format: Not Just Syntax". Joint keynote between RuleML-2008 and RR2008. o David Luckham (Stanford University, USA) on "The Power of Events: An Introduction to Complex Event Processing in Distributed Enterprise Systems". o Paul Haley (Haley Systems, Inc) on "Event and Process Semantics will Rule". o Benjamin Grosof (Vulcan, Inc.) on the SILK KRR system of the HALO project. * Joint Lunch Panel held in conjunction with the co-located Business Rules Forum on "Rules on the Web". * Lightning talks/Highlight talks * A RuleML-2008 Challenge with prizes to demonstrate tools, use cases, and applications. * Industry, demo and scientific research & development papers and presentations advancing and assessing the state of the art in event and rule-based systems selected in a peer-reviewed fashion by an international program committee. * Papers will be published as a Springer LNCS proceedings. A related journal special issue (IEEE TKDE) on "Rule Representation, Interchange and Reasoning in Distributed, Heterogeneous Environments", open to all, has been scheduled. * Social events to promote networking among the symposium delegates in an informal setting. The full symposium program is available at: http://2008.ruleml.org/program.php ========================== RuleML-2008 Registration ========================== Early Registration Deadline: September 19, 2008 Late Registration Deadline: after September 19, 2008 RuleML-2008 Symposium: October 30-31, 2008 The registration page is available at: http://2008.ruleml.org/registration.php As shown there, special discounts are available for our collaboration partners and sponsors, as well as a group discount. The symposium will be held at the Buena Vista Palace in Orlando, Florida, near the Walt Disney World Resort. Information about the symposium venue are available here: http://2008.ruleml.org/venue.php ========================== RuleML-2008 Challenge ========================== The new RuleML-2008 Challenge provides an excellent opportunity to demonstrate rule-based tools, use cases, and applications (and to win a prestigious prize). Late-breaking demos for the RuleML-2008 Challenge are welcome. Please send title, author(s) and brief description by September, 15th to ruleml2008@easychair.org More detail can be found at: http://2008.ruleml.org/lightning.php#soft ===================================================================== Co-located with: The 11th International Business Rules Forum http://www.businessrulesforum.com ===================================================================== Sponsored by: Gold level : Vulcan Inc Silver level: Model Systems Bronze level: STI Innsbruck, ruleCore, JBoss Sponsoring opportunities: http://2008.ruleml.org/sponsoring/ ===================================================================== In Co-operation with: AAAI, W3C, BPM-Forum, Business Rules Forum, ECCAI, OASIS, OMG, Dallas Rules Group, Belgium Business Rules Forum, MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, Event Processing Technical Society, ACM, ACM SIGART, ACM SIGMIS, ACM SIGWEB, Open Research Society, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society, IEEE SMCS TC on Intelligent Internet Systems, IEEE SMCS TC on Distributed Intelligent Systems, IEEE Computer Society TC on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems ===================================================================== Media Partners: Springer LNCS, MoDo Marketing =====================================================================