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IEEE APSCC 09 Call for Workshop Proposals
by Chai Teck Yoong 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

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CFP: 3rd International Conference on Adaptive Business Information Systems (ABIS'09)
by Adrian Paschke 10 Oct '08

10 Oct '08

[ our apologies should you receive this message more than one time ] 3rd International Conference on Adaptive Business Information Systems Leipzig, Germany, 23-25 March http://siwn.org.uk/2009leipzig/ABIS09.htm Call for Papers Second SIWN Congress (SIWN 2009) collocated with SOFTWARE, AGENTS, AND SERVICES FOR BUSINESS, RESEARCH, AND E-SCIENCES (SABRE 2009) ============================================================ Papers of the conference will be invited to publish their revised versions in a journal issue of the International Journal Communications of SIWN (CoSIWN) (ISSN 1757-4439) ============================================================ Overview -------- Information Technologies in their broad sense have been profoundly changing the ways, the processes and the philosophies of businesses. Adaptive business applications support processes whose workflows, user interfaces and business rules often change. The need for these dynamic applications is greater now than ever before and business systems in every perspective, management, workflow, information, infrastructure, etc. are evolving themselves towards being autonomic, adaptive, self-managing, self-organizing, and so forth. Emerging technologies such business rules management systems, complex event processing engines, event-driven business process management tools, corporate semantic web technologies, etc. are now gaining increasing momentum as they promise enhanced adaptive and agility capabilities to businesses, in order to sense unexpected environmental changes and to respond to business opportunities or to avoid business risks that turn up in a turbulent and quickly changing business environment. ABIS 2009 aims to provide a premier forum for stimulating exchange and in-depth discussion of advances, challenges and emerging areas in adaptive business information systems. Conference Venue ------------------------ Next year in March the European SIWN 2009 roof conference (see http://siwn.org.uk/2009leipzig/) which hosts ABIS'09 (http://siwn.org.uk/2009leipzig/ABIS09.htm) will take place in Leipzig together with the SABRE 2009 conference (see http://sabreconference.wifa.uni-leipzig.de/frontend/index.php) Moreover, that year will be the 600 anniversary of Leipzig University. Thus, after a series of successful ABIS conferences the 3rd ABIS'09 will be something very special and collocated with several other conferences and events. Deadlines --------- 05 December 2008 Submission of manuscripts 05 January 2009 Notification of acceptance 01 February 2009 Camera-Ready Version (CRV) & Presentation files due 23-25 March 2009 Conferences Topics of Interest ------------------ Topics of particular interest include (but not limited to) the followings. (1) Enterprise Information / Management Systems - business process integration - business process management - agile business process management - event-driven business process management - business rules and rule-based approaches for the business - enterprise resource planning - corporate semantic web - enterprise workflow management - inventory / warehouse management - management information systems - manufacturing resource planning - material requirement planning - product data management - product life cycle management - production and operation management - production planning and control - total quality management - business / IT service management and governance (2) Business Collaboration - business coalition - business partnership - coalition formation - collaborative e-business - agent-based e-business - enterprise federation - enterprise integration - global enterprise - global information systems - inter-enterprise transaction and workflow management - inter-organizational systems - corporate semantic web collaboration systems - knowledge network and management - virtual / networked enterprises - workflow interoperation (3) Supply Chains and Logistics - cooperation of supply chains - coordination / optimization in supply chains - customer / supplier relationship management - demand chain management - e-logistics - global supply networks - inventory management in supply chains - logistics and transportation systems - modeling of supply chains - multi-agent negotiations in supply chains - supply chain design and performance evaluation - supply chain dynamic formation - supply chain management (4) E-Business - agent mediated auction mechanisms - agent mediated bidding and negotiation - agent-mediated e-commerce - business rules in e-business - authentication / privacy / security in e-business - B2B, B2C, C2C models - e-banking - e-bidding and e-negotiation - e-business design and developments - e-business process modeling, integration, and monitoring - e-business security, trust and privacy - e-commerce - e-commerce content management - electronic data interchange - e-marketing and e-advertising - e-marketplaces - e-payment - e-taxation - e-work - global e-business - mobile commerce (5) Business Intelligence - artificial neural networks / evolutionary computation in business - data mining in business - group decision systems in business - information retrieval in business - intelligent agents in business - intelligent decision support systems in business - knowledge based / expert systems in business - knowledge management and ontology in business - machine learning in business - multi-linguistic user interfaces in business - natural language processing in business - particle swarm optimization / ant colony optimization in business - corporate semantic web in business - soft computing / fuzzy logic in business - swarm / collective / social intelligence in business (6) On-Demand Business - adaptive business - adaptive enterprises - agile business - agile enterprise - business adaptation / evolution - business process re-engineering - emergent enterprise - enterprise re-engineering - holonic enterprise - on-demand e-business - utility computing - service oriented computing - re-configurable enterprises - re-configurable / agile / holonic manufacturing system - responsive business - responsive enterprise - self-configuration of enterprise systems - self-organized production system - self-organizing business - self-organizing enterprises (7) Information Infrastructures of Businesses - complex event processing - business rules and rule-based approaches - distributed object systems - e-business applications and integration - electronic data interchange - enterprise (distributed) computing - enterprise applications interoperability - enterprise applications integration - enterprise collaborative computing - corporate semantic web and business ontologies - enterprise distributed intelligence - enterprise Grid computing - enterprise internet - enterprise middleware - enterprise portals - enterprise service bus - event-driven architectures - enterprise service oriented architectures - enterprise web services - enterprise XML Type of contributions and instructions ----------------------------------------------------- ABIS 2009 Technical Committee seeks original contributions in all areas of Adaptive Business Information Systems. Submissions must be original contributions that neither have been published nor have been under review for publication elsewhere. All submissions must be in English and no more than 7 pages in the format specified in the Instructions for Authors, which are available on http://siwn.org.uk/press/ita.htm. To submit a paper, a file in pdf format containing the manuscript of submission must be uploaded to the ABIS 2009 submission website at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=abis09 All manuscripts submitted will be sent to 3 members of the International Technical Program Committees of the Conferences for peer reviews and assessed according to the technical merits and presentation, on which the acceptance decision will be based. Accepted papers will be included in the CD-ROM Proceedings of SIWN 2009, which will be available for participants at the Conferences to promote the widest exchange and dissemination at the Conferences. Accepted papers of the conference will be invited to publish their revised versions in the international journal <<Communications of SIWN>> (CoSIWN, http://siwn.org.uk/cosiwn/) (ISSN 1757-4439) after the conference. Details can be seen on the SIWN 2009 website. Proposals of workshops, invited sessions and tutorials on emerging areas are welcome. Please discuss your proposals with Prof. Dr. Adrian Paschke, the Chair of ABIS 2009 Technical Committee (abis09(a)easychair.org) Program Committee ----------------------------- + Esma Aimeur, Université de Montréal, CA + Soeren Auer, University Leipzig, Germany + Matteo Baldoni, University of Torino, Italy + Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs, USA + Paul Buhler, College of Charleston, USA + Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, New University of Lisbon, Portugal + Jorge Cuellar, Siemens Corporate Research, Germany + Jiangbo Dang, Siemens Corporate Research, Germany + Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia + Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Vienna + Agata Filipowska, Poznan University of Economics, Poland + Rony G. Flatscher, Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, Austria + Dragan Gasevic, Simon Fraser University, Canada + Adrian Giurca, Technical University of Cottbus, Germany + Robert Golan, DB Mind, USA + Jaap Gordijn, Vrije Universiteit, NL + Dominic Greenwood, Whitestein Technologies AG, USA + Steven Guan, Xian Jiatong-Liverpool University, China + Oliver Guenther, HU Berlin, Germany + Ulrich Hasenkamp, Uni Marburg, Germany + Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria + Herbert Kopfer, Uni Bremen, Germany + Kyriakos Kritikos, ICS-FORTH, Greece + Leora Morgenstern, IBM, US + Gero Muehl, TU Berlin, Germany + Joerg Mueller, TU Clausthal, Germany + Dirk Neumann Albert-Ludwig University Freiburg, Germany + Volker Nissen, Technische Universitaet Ilmenau, Germany + Andreas Oberweis, Uni Karlsruhe, Germany + Alexander Pokahr, University of Hamburg, Germany + Dumitru Roman, DERI Innsbruck, Austria + Graham Rong, MIT, USA + Kurt Sandkuhl, Jönköping University, Sweden + Matthias Schumann, Uni Goettingen, Germany + Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia + Susanne Strahringer, TU Dresden, Germany + Vijay Sugumaran, Oakland University, USA + Klaus Turowski, Uni Augsburg, Germany + Jan Vanthienen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium + Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, Netherlands + Gerhard Weiss, Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH, Germany + Yingjie Yang, De Montfort University, UK ===================================================================== In Co-operation with: Corporate Semantic Web (http://www.corporate-semantic-web.de/) funded by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the BMBF Innovation Initiative for the New German Länder - Entrepreneurial Regions, "InnoProfile” RuleML (http://www.ruleml.org/) – Realize your knowledge CITT (http://www.citt-online.com/) - Centrum für Informations-Technologie Transfer (CITT) GmbH ===================================================================== Contact Prof. Dr. Adrian Paschke AG-CSW (Corporate Semantic Web) Institute of Informatics Free University Berlin paschke(a)inf.fu-berlin.de

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RuleML-2008: Deadline Extension
by Adrian Paschke 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

[ our apologies should you receive this message more than one time ] ===================================================================== Due to a number of requests we have to decided to extend the submission deadline by 2 weeks. NEW deadline for paper/demo submission: June 16 ===================================================================== 2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) October 30-31, 2008, Orlando, Florida http://2008.ruleml.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- RuleML-2008 Highlights: - Keynote speakers: * Michael Kifer (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA), on "Rule Interchange Format: Not Just Syntax". Joint keynote between RuleML-2008 and RR2008. * David Luckham (Stanford University, USA) on complex event processing. * Paul Haley (Haley Ltd) on business rules. * Benjamin Grosof (Vulcan Inc, USA) on the SILK KRR system of the HALO project. (Details at: http://2008.ruleml.org/keynote.php ) - Joint Lunch Panel with the Business Rules Forum about "Rules on the Web" - RuleML-2008 Challenge with prestigious prices (Details at: http://2008.ruleml.org/challenge.php ) (Submissions at: http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw/ ) - Lightning talks / Highlight talks Accepted papers will be published in Springer LNCS proceedings and a journal special issue (IEEE TKDE pending) is forthcoming. PRESS RELEASES: http://www.targetwire.com/vpo/rm/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Collocated with the 11th International Business Rules Forum, the 2008 International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) is the second symposium (after last year's highly successful RuleML-2007 - http://2007.ruleml.org/) devoted to work on practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi- Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing Applications. The RuleML symposium is a new kind of event where the Web Rules and Logic community joins the established, practically oriented Forum of the Business Rules community (http://www.businessrulesforum.com) to help cross- fertilizing between Web and Business Logic technology. The goal of RuleML-2008 is to bring together rule system providers, representatives of, and participants in, rule standardization efforts (e.g., SBVR, RuleML, RIF, PRR, CL) and open source rules communities (e.g., jBoss Rules, CLIPS/Jess, Prova, OO jDrew, Mandarax, XSB, XQuery), practitioners and technical experts, developers, users, and researchers. They will be offered an exciting venue to exchange new ideas, practical developments and experiences on issues pertinent to the interchange and application of rules in open distributed environments such as the Web. The Symposium gives emphasis on practical issues such as technical contributions and show case demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies, rule interchange formats and 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. We also welcome groundwork that helps to build an effective, practical, and deployable rule standard, improve rule technology, provide better understanding of the integration and interchange of rules, and make the current generation of rule engines and rule technology more usable for advanced Web and Service Oriented Architectures. More details in: http://2008.ruleml.org/cfp.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------- RuleML-2008 Challenge The RuleML-2008 Challenge is one of the highlights of RuleML-2008. It addresses the system demonstration for practical use of rule technologies in distributed and/or Web-based environments. The focus of the challenge is on rule technologies (including rule languages and engines), interoperation and interchange. The challenge offers participants the chance to demonstrate their commercial and open source tools, use cases, and applications. Prizes will be awarded to the two best applications. All accepted demos will be presented in a special Challenge Session. More details in: http://2008.ruleml.org/challenge.php -------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates - Paper Submissions due June 16, 2008 (EXTENDED) - Notification of acceptance July 22, 2008 - Final submissions due August 13, 2008 - Symposium date October 30-31, 2008 - RuleML Challenge October 30, 2008 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Site is open: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2008 Submission guidelines: http://2008.ruleml.org/submissions.php Topics of Interest: http://2008.ruleml.org/topics.php Organizing Committee: http://2008.ruleml.org/oc.php Program Committee: http://2008.ruleml.org/pc.php ===================================================================== Co-located with: The 11th International Business Rules Forum http://www.businessrulesforum.com ===================================================================== Sponsored by: Gold level : Vulcan Inc (pending) 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, ACM, ACM SIGART, ACM SIGMIS, ACM SIGWEB, Open Research 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 =====================================================================

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RuleML-2008: Call for Lightning / Highlight Talks & Fast Abstracts
by Adrian Paschke 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

[ our apologies should you receive this message more than one time ] 2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) October 30-31, 2008, Orlando, Florida http://2008.ruleml.org =================================================== Call for Lightning/Highlight Talks & Fast Abstracts =================================================== Lightning Talks --------------- A lightning talk is a five-minute presentation on any topic of interest to the RuleML community; it can be a new idea, a technology, an evaluation, an observation, a complaint, an explanation, a suggestion, a report of success or failure, a call to action, a description of a technique, or a lament. In general, it is supposed to be a short visionary talk which should initiate discussion. If you are a rule developer working on an exciting project and you do not have the time to submit a full paper, Lightning talks are a great way to interact with the RuleML community and receive feedback on your ideas. Lightning talks are presented back-to-back with a strictly enforced five minute limit, so make sure that you can fit your presentation within this time span. People interested at giving a lightning talk during RuleML-2008 should show their their interest by sending an email to ruleml2008(a)easychair.org by August 13, 2008, including a title and a 250-word abstract of their intended talk. Decisions will be notified by September 1st. Highlight Talks --------------- We invite the submission of outstanding full papers that have been published between 2007 and the submission deadline (August 13,2008). Publications that are "in press" and already linked on the journal web site are also welcome. A group of experts will select the papers to be presented at the meeting considering the impact of the work on the field, the likelihood that the work makes a good presentation, and the relevance for the topics of RuleML-2008, in general. Submissions should be sent directly to the RuleML-2008 chairs at ruleml2008(a)easychair.org by August 13, 2008, and must include the following: * Name/affiliation/email of submitter (assumed to be the presenter; note that the presenter cannot change because the identity and ability to present of that person will be an essential selection criterion). * Names/affiliations/email of ALL coauthors (note: any name appearing on a published paper has to be added here). Note that all co-authors have to agree to the submission and that it is the responsibility of the submitter to guarantee that all co- author email addresses are correct (email notifications of the submission will be sent to all co-authors). * Additional contact information (for presenter). * A 250-word abstract-like argument that explains how the submitted paper(s) suit the goal of presenting highlights that impacted the field. * Sources of original publication(s) (Year, Journal, Vol., pages). * PDF with paper(s) (note: in case of the submission of 2 papers, both have to be merged into one single PDF; all reviews will be based on the content of this PDF). * Optional: link to Google Video demonstrating presentation skills of presenter. * Note that we will need PDF submissions; the system will neither be able to handle ASCII, nor Word, nor LaTeX, nor anything other than standard PDF. It is the responsibility of the submitter to verify that the PDF is completely viewable/printable by all major operating systems (LINUX, MacOS, Windows). * Each presenter can submit a maximum of one application to present a highlight. The maximal number of submissions per author/co-author is 5. All submissions will be evaluated by a group of reviewers. Reviewers will consider the following criteria: * Relevance, interest, and value of the topic to RuleML-2008 attendees, * Impact of the paper(s) on rules (while the impact of papers on science is not fully reflected by ISI/Google-like impact factors or high number of downloads, high values in such factors will clearly stand as a strong argument for acceptance), * "Presentability" of the work to a large, diverse audience, * Quality of oral presentations by the submitter (if none). These "soft" criteria attempt to capture the underlying concept, namely the presentation of exciting and thought-provoking seminars that will both contribute to the success and attraction-value of RuleML-2008 and to the impact the meeting has on advancing rule interchange and applications. The criterion of "presentability" accounts for the fact that some papers that will completely change the field, or will become citation records may not translate to exciting seminars. The selected Highlights will be presented in a special track during the RuleML-2008 Symposium. All presentations will have to be completed within 20 minutes and will be followed by 5-minute discussions. While presenters are expected to focus mostly on the chosen paper(s), short infusions of more recent data are welcome. Decisions will be notified by September 1st. Fast Abstracts -------------- Fast Abstracts at RuleML-2008 are short presentations, either on new ideas or work in progress, or radical opinions that can address any issue relevant to RuleML-2008. Fast Abstracts provide an opportunity to receive early feedback from the community. Contributions are particularly solicited from industrial practitioners and academics that may not have been able to prepare full papers, but seek an opportunity to engage with the RuleML community. Fast Abstracts should be 4-pages long, and must be formatted in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) The submission deadline is August 13, 2008. Submissions should be sent directly by email to ruleml2008(a)easychair.org, and they will be refereed on the relevance to RuleML 2008, but also on their novelty of idea and/oor on their capacity to stimulate and intrigue the reader. Accepted contributions will be published in electronic form (at the Symposium's Web site and on CD), and an author will deliver a short talk in the Fast Abstracts track at the conference. Decisions will be notified by September 1st. Authors of accepted fast abstracts must provide the camera ready version by September 15. At least one author of each accepted Fast Abstract is expected to register to the conference before or on September 15. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================= The RuleML-2008 Symposium ========================= Collocated with the 11th International Business Rules Forum, the 2008 International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) is the second symposium (after last year's highly successful RuleML-2007 - http://2007.ruleml.org/) devoted to work on practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing Applications. The RuleML symposium is a new kind of event where the Web Rules and Logic community joins the established, practically oriented Forum of the Business Rules community ( http://www.businessrulesforum.com) to help cross- fertilizing between Web and Business Logic technology. The goal of RuleML-2008 is to bring together rule system providers, representatives of, and participants in, rule standardization efforts (e.g., SBVR, RuleML, RIF, PRR, CL) and open source rules communities (e.g., jBoss Rules, CLIPS/Jess, Prova, OO jDrew, Mandarax, XSB, XQuery), practitioners and technical experts, developers, users, and researchers. They will be offered an exciting venue to exchange new ideas, practical developments and experiences on issues pertinent to the interchange and application of rules in open distributed environments such as the Web. The Symposium gives emphasis on practical issues such as technical contributions and show case demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies, rule interchange formats and 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. We also welcome groundwork that helps to build an effective, practical, and deployable rule standard, improve rule technology, provide better understanding of the integration and interchange of rules, and make the current generation of rule engines and rule technology more usable for advanced Web and Service Oriented Architectures. -------------------------------------------------------------------- RuleML-2008 Highlights * Keynote speakers: o Michael Kifer (State University of New York at Stony Brook), on WC3's Rule Interchange Format (RIF). Joint keynote between RuleML-2008 and RR2008. o David Luckham (Stanford University, USA) on complex event processing. o Paul Haley (Haley Systems, Inc) on business rules. 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 special issue (IEEE TKDE pending) will be forthcoming. * Social events to promote networking among the symposium delegates in an informal setting. -------------------------------------------------------------------- ===================================================================== Due to a number of requests we have decided to extend the submission deadline for challenge/demo papers by 2 weeks. NEW deadline for challenge/demo paper submission: July 2 Accepted demo papers are published in Springer LNCS Proceedings. ===================================================================== RuleML-2008 Challenge The RuleML-2008 Challenge is one of the highlights of RuleML-2008. It addresses the system demonstration for practical use of rule technologies in distributed and/or Web-based environments. The focus of the challenge is on rule technologies (including rule languages and engines), interoperation and interchange. The challenge offers participants the chance to demonstrate their commercial and open source tools, use cases, and applications. Prizes will be awarded to the two best applications. All accepted demos will be presented in a special Challenge Session. Submissions to the RuleML Challenge 2008 consist of a demo paper (up to 8 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, or a download site. Demo papers should contain a substantial presentation of the system to enable a proper evaluation of the techniques used. The content of papers should be sufficiently substantial for publication in the conference proceedings. The demo paper should be submitted through EasyChair, while the demo link should be submitted through the Challenge Website, after which it will be publicly available immediately. NEW deadline for challenge/demo paper submission: July 2 More details in: http://2008.ruleml.org/challenge.php -------------------------------------------------------------------- ===================================================================== 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, ACM, ACM SIGART, ACM SIGMIS, ACM SIGWEB, Open Research 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 =====================================================================

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CFP: RuleML-2008 (2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications)
by Adrian Paschke 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

[ our apologies should you receive this message more than one time ] 2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) October 30-31, 2008, Orlando, Florida http://2008.ruleml.org ===================================================================== Co-located with: The 11th International Business Rules Forum http://www.businessrulesforum.com ===================================================================== Sponsored by: Silver level: Model Systems Bronze level: STI Innsbruck, ruleCore, JBoss ===================================================================== In Co-operation with: AAAI, W3C, BPM-Forum, Business Rules Forum , ECCAI, OASIS, OMG, European Business Rules Conference, Belgium Business Rules Forum, ACM, ACM SIGART, ACM SIGMIS, ACM SIGWEB, Open Research Society, IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society IEEE Computer Society TC on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems (pending) IEEE Computer Society TC on Intelligent Informatics (pending) IEEE SMCS TC on Intelligent Internet Systems IEEE SMCS TC on Distributed Intelligent Systems ===================================================================== Media Partners: Springer LNCS, MoDo Marketing ===================================================================== Call for Papers Collocated with the 11th International Business Rules Forum, the 2008 International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) is the second symposium (after last year's highly successful RuleML-2007 - http://2007.ruleml.org/) devoted to work on practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi- Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing Applications. The RuleML symposium is a new kind of event where the Web Rules and Logic community joins the established, practically oriented Forum of the Business Rules community (http://www.businessrulesforum.com) to help cross- fertilizing between Web and Business Logic technology. The goal of RuleML-2008 is to bring together rule system providers, representatives of, and participants in, rule standardization efforts (e.g., SBVR, RuleML, RIF, PRR, CL) and open source rules communities (e.g., jBoss Rules, CLIPS/Jess, Prova, OO jDrew, Mandarax, XSB, XQuery), practitioners and technical experts, developers, users, and researchers. They will be offered an exciting venue to exchange new ideas, practical developments and experiences on issues pertinent to the interchange and application of rules in open distributed environments such as the Web. The Symposium gives emphasis on practical issues such as technical contributions and show case demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies, rule interchange formats and 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. We also welcome groundwork that helps to build an effective, practical, and deployable rule standard, improve rule technology, provide better understanding of the integration and interchange of rules, and make the current generation of rule engines and rule technology more usable for advanced Web and Service Oriented Architectures. RuleML-2008 highlights include: - Plenary keynotes and a joint Boxed Lunch Panel about "Rules on the Web" together with the Business Rules Forum featuring prominent and visionary speakers. - There will be a joint keynote between RuleML-2008 and RR2008 (http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2008/) which will be broadcast from RR2008 to RuleML-2008. - 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 - Invited talks given by leaders from industry and world-class experts featuring practical topics on event and rule-based computing and industry success stories - Social events to promote networking among the symposium delegates in an informal setting. Topics of Interest ------------------ We invite industry practitioners, rule system providers, technical experts and developers, rule users, and researchers who are using rule-based systems, developing systems and applications, or exploring problems and best practices (especially in the areas of system interoperability, rule interchange, or business agility), to share their ideas, results, and experiences. We invite submissions related (but not limited to) to one or more of the following topics: - Representation and meta-annotation of rules and rule sets (modules) for publication and interchange - Collaborative authoring, modeling and engineering of rule specifications and rule repositories - Information integration of external data and domain knowledge into rules - Homogeneous and heterogeneous integration of rules and ontologies - Rules in Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 - Rules in Semantic Web Technologies - Rules in Web Intelligence Research - Hybrid rule systems - Management and maintenance of distributed rule bases and rule repositories during their lifecycle - Interchange and refactoring of rule bases in heterogeneous execution environments - Verification and validation of interchanged rule bases in heterogeneous execution environments - Contributions on effective, practical, and deployable Web standards on rules as well as special purpose, vertical domain rule languages - Rule-based agility and its role in middleware - Communication between rule based systems using interchange formats and processing / communication middleware - Applications, products, research, and development in rule-based, distributed complex event processing, event communication and reaction rules - Event-driven/action rule languages and models - Rule-based Event Processing Languages and rule-based CEP - Rule patterns and CEP patterns - Practical solutions tackling the real-world Software Engineering requirements of rule-based systems in open, distributed environments - Modeling of executable rule specifications and tool support - Execution models, rule engines, and environments - Compilation vs. interpretation approaches of rules - Applications and integration of rules in web standards - Rule-based software agents and (web) services - Applications of rules in the Semantic Web and Pragmatic Web - Comparing and advancing the state of current business rules engines and management system tools - Rule interchange standards and related industry interchange formats - Interoperation between different rule formats and ontological domain conceptualization - Applications based on (Semantic) Web rule standardization or standards- proposing efforts - Translation of interchangeable and domain-independent rule formats and rule models into executable technical rule specifications - Extraction and reengineering of platform-independent, interchangeable rules and rule models from existing platform-specific resources - Natural-language processing of rules - Graphical processing, modelling and rendering of rules - Incorporation of rule technology into distributed enterprise application architectures - Rule-based policies and electronic contracts: their specification, execution and management - Languages for exchanging and processing information through the web - E-contracting and automated negotiations with rule-based declarative strategies - Applications of rules in e.g. legal reasoning, compliance rules, security, IT government, security, risk management, trust and proof reasoning, etc. - Rule-based (multi-valued) reasoning with and representing uncertain and fuzzy information - Rule-based reasoning with non-monotonic negation, modalities, deontic, temporal, priority, scoped or other rule qualifications - Rule-based default reasoning with default logic, defeasible logic, and answer set programming RuleML-2008 Challenge --------------------- RuleML-2008 Challenge addresses the practical use of rule technologies in distributed and/or Web-based environments. The focus of the challenge is on rule technologies (including rule languages and engines), interoperation and interchange. The challenge offers participants the chance to demonstrate their commercial and open source tools, use cases, and applications. Prizes will be awarded to the two best applications. All accepted demos will be presented in a special Challenge Session. Intentionally, this year's challenge (as last year) does not define a specific task, data set, application domain, or technology to be used because the potential applicability of rules is very broad. Instead, a number of minimal criteria were defined which allow people to submit a broad range of applications. A submission to RuleML challenge has to meet the minimal requirement that declarative rules explicitly play a central role in the application. Basically this means that: - Rules are explicitly represented in a declarative format and they are decoupled from the application (rather than being compiled or hard-coded into the application logic). - Rules are used in interesting and practically relevant ways to, e.g., derive useful information, transform knowledge, provide decision support, provide automated rule-based monitoring, enforcement, validation or management of the behavioural logic of the application. The demo should preferably (but not necessarily) be embedded into a web-based or distributed environment so that there will be a need for features related to the ruleml conference topics, as listed in the call for papers. More details will be available on the RuleML-2008 web site. Important Dates --------------- - Paper Submissions due June 2, 2008 - Notification of acceptance July 18, 2008 - Final submissions due August 9, 2008 - Symposium date October 30-31, 2008 - RuleML Challenge October 30, 2008 Symposium Proceedings and Submission Details -------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit original contributions of practical relevance and technical rigor in the field, experience reports and show case / use case demonstrations of effective, practical, deployable rule-based technologies or applications in distributed environments. Papers must be in English and may be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2008 as: - Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings) - Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings) - RuleML-2008 Challenge Demo Paper + Show Cases (3-5 pages in the proceedings) Please upload all submissions as PDF files in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) 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. Authors are requested to upload their complete papers by June 2, 2008. The selected papers will be published in book form in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (pending) along with a CD with demo software and documents. The best paper from all submissions will be determined by the PC and a Best Paper Award will be handed over at the Symposium by a Sponsor. All submissions must be done electronically via http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2008. We will pursue the publication of a selection of revised papers to a special issue of a high- quality journal. Submissions to the RuleML Challenge 2008 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, or a download site. If the link is password-protected: then please submit a password for anonymous login from any Web browser, giving us the permission to pass the password on to 3 PC members. The submissions should satisfy the minimal requirements defined in the topics of interest. The demos will be evaluated by an independent jury of experts during RuleML-2008 and prizes will be awarded to the first two best applications. Please do not hesitate to email to the appropriate Symposium Chair(s), if you have any questions. Organizing Committee -------------------- General Chair Adrian Paschke, Technical University Dresden, Germany adrian.paschke AT biotec.tu-dresden.de Program Co-Chairs Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece nbassili AT csd.auth.gr Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia guido AT itee.uq.edu.au Challenge Co-Chairs Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania badica_costin AT software.ucv.ro Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan hu AT cs.nccu.edu.tw Panel Co-Chairs John Hall, Model Systems, UK john.hall AT modelsys.com Axel Polleres, DERI Galway, Ireland axel AT polleres.net Liaison Co-Chairs Mark Proctor, JBoss Rules, UK mproctor AT redhat.com Rainer von Ammon, CITT GmbH, Germany vonammon AT t-online.de Jan Vanthienen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Jan.Vanthienen AT econ.kuleuven.be Publicity Co-Chairs Matthias Nickles, University of Bath, UK M.L.Nickles AT cs.bath.ac.uk Tracy Bost, Valocity, USA tbost AT valocity.com (Sponsoring levels: http://2008.ruleml.org/sponsoring/) Web Chair Suzanne Embury, University of Manchester, UK Suzanne.Embury AT manchester.ac.uk Program Committee -------------------- - Asaf Adi, IBM, Israel - Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete-FORTH, Greece - Sidney Bailin, Knowledge Evolution, USA - Matteo Baldoni, University of Torino, Italy - Cristina Baroglio, University of Torino, Italy - Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs - Tim Bass, SilkRoad Inc. - Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany - Mikael Berndtsson, University of Skovde, Sweden - Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, Canada - Pedro Bizarro, University of Coimbra, Portugal - Peter Bollen, University of Maastricht, Netherlands - Christian Brelage, SAP Research, Germany - Donald Chapin, Business Semantics Ltd, UK - Shyi-Ming Chen, National University of Science and Technology, Taiwan - Jorge Cuellar, Siemens, Germany - Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA - Stan Devitt, Agfa Healthcare, Ontario, Canada - Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zeeland - Jurgen Dix, Technische Universitaet Clausthal, Germany - Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Andreas Eberhart, Portland State University, USA - Opher Etzion, IBM Research Laboratory Haifa, Israel - Dieter Fensel, DERI Innsbruck, Austria - Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada - Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, Germany - Stijn Goedertier, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium - Robert Golan, DBmind Technologies, USA - Christine Golbreich, University Rennes, France - Tom Gordon, Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems, Germany - Marek Hatala, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis, University of Patras, Greece - Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece - Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece - Alex Kozlenkov, Betfair Ltd., UK - Holger Lausen, DERI Innsbruck, Austria - John Lee, Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Mark Linehan, IBM Research, USA - Heiko Ludwig, IBM Watson Research, USA - Mirko Malekovic, University of Zagreb, Croatia - Christopher J. Matheus, Vistology, USA - Craig McKenzie, Science Applications International, USA - Jing Mei, IBM Research Lab China, China - Zoran Milosevic, Deontik Inc, Australia - Jang Minsu, E&T Research Institute, Korea - Leora Morgenstern, Stanford, USA - Gero Muehl, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany - Jorg Muller, TU Clausthal, Germany - Chieko Nakabasami, Toyo University, Japan - Ilkka Niemela, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland - Bart Orriens, Tilburg University, Netherlands - Jeff Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK - Paula-Lavinia Patranjan, Rewerse, Germany - Jon Pellant, Pega Systems Inc., USA - Jeff Pollock, Oracle, USA - Alun Preece, Cardiff University, UK - Maher Rahmouni, HP Labs - Girish Ranganathan, University of New Brunswick, Canada - Dave Reynolds, HP, England - Graham Rong, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA - Antonio Rotolo, CIRSFID, University of Bologna, Italy - Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Christian de Sainte Marie, ILOG, France - Marco Seirio, ruleCore, Sweden - Timos Sellis, Institute for the Management of Information Systems and National Technical University of Athens, Greece - Michael Sintek, DFKI, Germany - Silvie Spreeuwenberg, LibRT, The Netherlands - Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece - Giorgos Stoilos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece - Terrance Swift, XSB Inc., USA - Kuldar Taveter, University of Melbourne, Australia - James Taylor, Fair Isaac Corp., USA - Vagan Terziyan, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland - Paul Vincent, TIBCO Software, USA - George Vouros, University of the Aegean, Greece - Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia - Mehmet Emre Yegen, Ygntec Inc., USA

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Manweek 2007 - Call for Participation
by Sumit Naiksatam 22 Sep '07

22 Sep '07

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 3rd International Week on Management of Networks and Services *** M A N W E E K 2 0 0 7 *** (http://www.manweek.org/2007/) October 29 - November 2, 2007, San Jose/ Silicon Valley, California, USA NEWS: >>> Two complimentary tutorials! >>> Early Bird registration until Monday, September 24! (Regular rates apply afterwards) We cordially invite you to participate in Manweek 2007! Manweek 2007 will take place at the Marriott Hotel in downtown San José, California, right in middle of Silicon Valley, in walking distance to restaurants and downtown attractions. In its third incarnation, Manweek 2007 is host to five of the most reputable workshops and conferences in the area of management of networks and services: * DSOM 2007 - 18th IFIP/IEEE Internatl. Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (Oct 29-31) * MMNS 2007 - 10th IFIP/IEEE Internatl. Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (Oct 31 - Nov 2) * IPOM 2007 - 7th IEEE Internatl. Workshop on IP Operations and Management (Oct 31 - Nov 2) * MACE 2007 - 2nd IEEE Internatl. Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments (Oct 29-30) * EVGM 2007 - 3rd IEEE/IFIP Internatl. Workshop on End-to-End Virtualization and Grid Management (formerly known as AGNM) (Oct 29-30) This year's Manweek also features two tutorials, participation in which is free for registered Manweek attendees: * Device Instrumentation for Active and Passive Performance Monitoring (Ralf Wolter, Cisco Systems) * Basica and Advanced Concepts in Wireless Networking (Mallik Tatipamula, Juniper Networks) Please visit the conference Website for details: http://www.manweek.org/2007/ Manweek also features a number of keynote speeches, a welcome reception, a social event at the San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation, and a social event at nearby Santa Clara Mission Gardens. Contact: chairs(a)manweek.org Organizing Committee: * Steering Committee and Finance: Raouf Boutaba (U of Waterloo, Canada) * Chairs: Alexander Clemm (Cisco, USA), Silvia Figueira (Santa Clara Univ., USA), Masum Hasan (Cisco, USA) * Treasurer: Brendan Jennings (Waterford Inst of Tech, Ireland) * Publications: Tom Pfeifer (Waterford Inst of Tech, Ireland) * Publicity, Website, Registrations: Sven van der Meer (Waterford Inst of Tech, Ireland), Sumit Naiksatam (Cisco, USA), Edgar Magana (UPC/Cisco, Spain/ USA) * Submissions: Lisandro Granville (UFRGS, Brazil) * Workshops: - DSOM Alexander Clemm (Cisco, USA), Lisandro Granville (UFRGS, Brazil), Rolf Stadler (KTH, Sweden) - MACE Brendan Jennings (Waterford Inst of Tech, Ireland), Joan Serrat (UPC, Spain), John Strassner (Motorola, USA) - EVGM Masum Hasan (Cisco, USA), Silvia Figueira (Santa Clara U, USA) - IPOM Deep Medhi (U Missouri/Kansas City, USA), Jose Marcos Nogueira (Fed U of Minas Gerais, Brazil),S. Felix Wu (U of California/ Davis, USA) - MMNS Dilip Krishnaswamy (Qualcomm, USA), Danny Raz (Technion, Israel)

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Call for Participation GridNets'07: 1st Intl Conf on Networks for Grid Applications
by Sumit Naiksatam 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.) ********************************************************************* * CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * * * * GridNets 2007 * * First International Conference on Networks for Grid Applications * * Co-Sponsored by Create-Net, ICST and INRIA * * In-technical cooperation with ACM SIGARCH and EU-IST * * Lyon, France, October 17-19, 2007 * * http://www.gridnets.org/2007 * * * ********************************************************************* The GridNets conference series is an annual international meeting which provides a focused and highly interactive forum where researchers and technologists have the opportunity to present and discuss leading research, developments, and future directions in the Grid networking area. The objective of this event is to serve as both the premier conference presenting best Grid Networking research and a forum where new concepts can be introduced and explored. The previous events in this series were: GridNets 2004 in San Jose (USA), GridNets 2005 in Boston (USA), GridNets 2006 in San Jose (USA). All of these events have been successful in attracting high quality papers and a wide international participation. From the first event through the fourth, we have been known as the GridNets Workshop affiliated with the IEEE BroadNets conference series. For this, our fifth event, we will convene our first meeting as a conference and in Europe. The proceedings will be published by ACM and will be available through ACM Digital Library. Best papers will be considered for publication in a special section of Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) - The International Journal of Grid Computing: Theory, Methods and Application. Grid developers and practicioners are increasingly realising the importance of an efficient network support. Entire classes of applications would greatly benefit by a network-aware Grid middleware, able to effectively manage the network resource in terms of scheduling, access and use. Conversely, the peculiar requirements of Grid applications provide stimulating drivers for new challenging research towards the development of Grid-aware networks. Cooperation between Grid middleware and network infrastructure driven by a common control plane is a key factor to effectively empower the global Grid platform for the execution of network-intensive applications, requiring massive data transfers, very fast and low-latency connections, and stable and guaranteed transmission rates. Big e-science projects, as well as industrial and engineering applications for data analysis, image processing, multimedia, or visualisation just to name a few are awaiting an efficient Grid network support. They would be boosted by a global Grid platform enabling end-to-end dynamic bandwidth allocation, broadband and low-latency access, interdomain access control, and other network performance monitoring capabilities. Scope ----- * Network architectures and technologies for grids * Integration of advanced optical networking technologies into the grid environment. * End to end lightpath provisioning software systems and emergent standards * The network as a first class grid resource: network resource information publication, brokering and co-scheduling with other Grid resources. * Interaction of the network with distributed data management systems. * Network monitoring, traffic characterisation and performance analysis * Inter-layer interactions: optical layer with higher layer protocols, integration among layers * Experience with pre-production optical network infrastructures and exchange points * Peer-to-peer network enhancements applied to the Grid * Network support for wireless and ad hoc Grids * Data replication and multicasting strategies and novel data transport protocols * Fault-tolerance, self healing networks * Security and scalability issues when connecting a large number of sites within a virtual organization VPN. * Simulations * New concepts and requirements which may fundamentally reshape the evolution of Networks. Keynote Speakers ---------------- October 17 - Bill St Arnaud (Senior Director Advanced Networks for CANARIE Inc.) October 18 - Mike Fisher (BT Group Chief Technology Office) Important Dates --------------- Authors' registration deadline: September 7, 2007 Early registration deadline: September 17, 2007 Conference in Lyon: October 17-19, 2007 (For submission instructions, refer to http://www.gridnets.org) Organizing Committee ==================== General co-chairs: Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA, ENS-Lyon), Michael Welzl (University of Innsbruck) Local co-chairs: Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA, ENS-Lyon), Paulo Goncalves (INRIA,ENS-Lyon) Program Committee co-chairs: Peter Clarke (University of Edinburgh), David Hutchison (Lancaster University), Joe Mambretti (Northwestern University) Publicity chair: Serafim Kotrotsos (EXIS IT) for Europe, Tomohiro Kudoh (AIST) for Asia, Sumit Naiksatam (Cisco Systems) for USA Publications chair: Piero Spinnato (LNGS - INFN) Workshop chair: Laurent Lefevre (INRIA, ENS-Lyon) Steering Committee: Imrich Chlamtac, Chair, (CREATE-NET), Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA,ENS-Lyon), Michael Welzl (University of Innsbruck) Industry track chair: Bela Berde (Alcatel) Panels chair: Volker Sander (University of Applied Sciences Aachen) Exhibits and sponsorship chair: Laurent Lefevre (INRIA, ENS-Lyon) Conference coordination and registration: Zita Rozsa (ICST) Finance chair: Karen Decker (ICST) Webmaster: Jean-Christophe Mignot (CNRS, ENS-Lyon)

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CFP Manweek 2007 - 3rd International Week on Management of Networks and Services
by Sumit Naiksatam 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 3rd International Week on Management of Networks and Services *** M A N W E E K 2 0 0 7 *** (http://www.manweek.org/2007/) October 29 - November 2, 2007, San Jose/ Silicon Valley, California, USA We cordially invite you to participate in Manweek 2007! Manweek 2007 will take place at the Marriott Hotel in downtown San José, California, right in middle of Silicon Valley, in walking distance to restaurants and downtown attractions. In its third incarnation, Manweek 2007 is host to five of the most reputable workshops and conferences in the area of management of networks and services: * DSOM 2007 - 18th IFIP/IEEE Internatl. Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (Oct 29-31) * MMNS 2007 - 10th IFIP/IEEE Internatl. Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (Oct 31 - Nov 2) * IPOM 2007 - 7th IEEE Internatl. Workshop on IP Operations and Management (Oct 31 - Nov 2) * MACE 2007 - 2nd IEEE Internatl. Workshop on Modelling Autonomic Communications Environments (Oct 29-30) * EVGM 2007 - 3rd IEEE/IFIP Internatl. Workshop on End-to-End Virtualization and Grid Management (formerly known as AGNM) (Oct 29-30) Manweek also features a number of keynote speeches, a welcome reception, a social event at the San Jose Tech Museum of Innovation, and a social event at nearby Santa Clara Mission Gardens. Collocating those events allows for five days of intensive exchange of ideas between research communities and topics that are distinct but interrelated, allowing participants to forge links and exploit synergies with researchers of adjacent areas of interest. The general theme of Manweek 2007 is End-to-end Virtualization of Networks and Services, a topic that captures the imagination of industry and researchers alike. Each of the workshops, organized by their own technical program committees, supports this general theme. Please visit the conference Website, http://www.manweek.org/2007/, for details on the program. Contact: chairs(a)manweek.org Organizing Committee: * Steering Committee and Finance: Raouf Boutaba (U of Waterloo, Canada) * Chairs: Alexander Clemm (Cisco, USA), Silvia Figueira (Santa Clara Univ., USA), Masum Hasan (Cisco, USA) * Treasurer: Brendan Jennings (Waterford Inst of Tech, Ireland) * Publications: Tom Pfeifer (Waterford Inst of Tech, Ireland) * Publicity, Website, Registrations: Sven van der Meer (Waterford Inst of Tech, Ireland), Sumit Naiksatam (Cisco, USA), Edgar Magana (UPC/Cisco, Spain/ USA) * Submissions: Lisandro Granville (UFRGS, Brazil) * Workshops: - DSOM Alexander Clemm (Cisco, USA), Lisandro Granville (UFRGS, Brazil), Rolf Stadler (KTH, Sweden) - MACE Brendan Jennings (Waterford Inst of Tech, Ireland), Joan Serrat (UPC, Spain), John Strassner (Motorola, USA) - EVGM Masum Hasan (Cisco, USA), Silvia Figueira (Santa Clara U, USA) - IPOM Deep Medhi (U Missouri/Kansas City, USA), Jose Marcos Nogueira (Fed U of Minas Gerais, Brazil),S. Felix Wu (U of California/ Davis, USA) - MMNS Dilip Krishnaswamy (Qualcomm, USA), Danny Raz (Technion, Israel)

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CfPart: International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2007)
by Adrian Paschke 02 Sep '07

02 Sep '07

[ our apologies should you receive this message more than one time ] ===================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2007) October 25-26, 2007, Orlando, Florida *** NOTE: The early registration deadline is on 15 September 2007 *** http://2007.ruleml.org ===================================================================== Co-located with: The 10th International Business Rules Forum http://www.businessrulesforum.com ===================================================================== In Co-operation with: ECCAI, AAAI, ACM, ACM SIGAPP, ACM SIGMIS, ACM SIGART, ACM SIGMOD, IEEE, IEEE Computer TCAAS, IEEE SMCS, BPM-Forum, W3C, OMG, and OASIS We invite you to attend the International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2007) to be held during October 25-26, 2007 in Orlando, Florida. As this is a 'first-of-its-kind' event, 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 10th International Business Rules Forum, the International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2007) is the first event devoted to work on practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications. These need language standards for rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing Applications. After a series of successful RuleML workshops and then conferences (e.g. http://2006.ruleml.org) this is a new kind of event where the Web Logic community joins the established, practically oriented Forum of the Business Rules community (http://www.businessrulesforum.com) to help cross-fertilizing between Web and Business Logic technology. The goal of RuleML-2007 is to bring together rule system providers, representatives of, and participants in, rule standardization efforts (e.g., RuleML, RIF, PRR, CL, SBVR) and open source rules communities (e.g., jBoss Rules, Jess, Prova, OO jDREW, Mandarax, XSB, XQuery), practitioners and technical experts, developers, users, and researchers. It is an excellent opportunity, for experienced rule researchers/ practitioners as well as newcomers, to learn more about this innovation-driven technology market, characterized by strong growth and commercial opportunities. They will be offered an exciting venue to exchange new ideas, practical developments and experiences on issues related to the engineering, management, integration, interoperation and interchange of rules in open distributed environments such as the Web. The scope of RuleML-2007 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: * Ron Ross, Business Rules Solution LLC, USA: "Business Requirements for Rule Modeling" * Jürgen Angele, Ontoprise, Germany: "How Ontologies and Rules Help to Advance Automobile Development" * Adrian Bowles, OMG, USA: "Sharing Policy Rules for IT Governance" * Harold Boley, National Research Council, Canada: "Are Your Rules Online? Four Web Rule Essentials" * 2 Invited papers * 9 Long research papers * 9 Short research papers * Industry and demo presentations * Challenge with awards * Panel discussion on Web Business Rules The full symposium program is available at: http://2007.ruleml.org/index-Dateien/Page646.htm ========================== RuleML-2007 Registration ========================== Early Registration Deadline: September 15, 2007 Late Registration Deadline: after September 15, 2007 RuleML-2007 Symposium: October 25-26, 2007 The registration page is available at: http://2007.ruleml.org/index-Dateien/Page930.htm As shown there, special discounts are available for our collaboration partners and sponsors. The symposium will be held at the Buena Vista Palace in Orlando, Florida, near the Walt Disney World Resort. Information about accommodation and the symposium venue is available here: http://2007.ruleml.org/index-Dateien/Page716.htm (Venue) http://2007.ruleml.org/index-Dateien/Page861.htm (Accommodation) ======================= Program Committee ======================= - Asaf Adi, IBM Research Laboratory Haifa, Israel - Bill Andersen, Ontology Works, USA - Grigoris Antoniou, University of Crete, Greece - Arun Ayachitula, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA - Youcef Baghdadi, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman - Sidney Bailin, Knowledge Evolution, USA - Claudio Bartolini, HP Labs Palo Alto, USA - Tim Bass, SilkRoad Inc., USA - Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece - Bernhard Bauer, University of Augsburg, Germany - Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, Canada - Anthony Brown, University of New Brunswick, Canada - Loreto Bravo, University of Edinburgh, UK - Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy - Donald Chapin, Business Semantics Ltd, UK - Keith Clark, Imperial College, UK - Jorge Cuellar, Siemens AG, Germany - Mike Dean, BBN Technologies, USA - Stan Devitt, Agfa Healthcare, Canada - Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zeeland - Juergen Dix, Technische Universitaet Clausthal, Germany - Scharam Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Andreas Eberhart, HP, Germany - Maarten van Emden, University of Victoria, Canada - Opher Etzion, IBM Research Laboratory Haifa, Israel - Dieter Fensel, DERI Innsbruck, Austria - Tim Finin, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA - Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada - Allen Ginsberg, MITRE, USA - Robert Golan, DBmind Technologies, USA - Christine Golbreich, Univ. of Versailles Saint-Quentin, France - Guido Governatori, University of Queensland, Australia - Sung Ho Ha, Kyungpook National University, South Korea - Gary Hallmark, Oracle, USA - Marek Hatala, Simon Fraser University, Canada - Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity, Netherlands - Jochen Hiller, Top Logic, Germany - David Hirtle, University of Waterloo, Canada - Christian Huemer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Jane Hunter, University of Queensland, Australia - Elisa Kendall, Sandpiper Software, USA - Matthias Klusch, DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany - Holger Lausen, DERI Innsbruck, Austria - John Lee, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Heiko Ludwig, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA - Thomas Lukasiewicz, University Roma La Sapienza, Italy - Christopher Matheus, Vistology, Inc., USA - Mala Mehrota, Pragati Research, USA - Jing Mei, IBM China Research Lab, China - Zoran Milosevic, Deontik, Australia - Jang Minsu, E&T Research Institute, Korea - Leora Morgenstern, Stanford University, USA - Joerg Mueller, TU Clausthal, Germany - Chieko Nakabasami, Toyo University, Japan - Matthias Nickles, Technical University Munich, Germany - Ilkka Niemelae, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland - Bart Orriens, Tilburg University, Netherlands - Paula-Lavinia Patranjan, Rewerse, Germany - Cheyne Patterson, USAchurch, USA - Axel Polleres, DERI Galway, Irland - Jeff Pollock, Oracle, USA - Alun Preece, University of Aberdeen, UK - Maher Rahmouni, HP Labs, UK - Girish Ranganathan, University of New Brunswick, Canada - Dave Reynolds, HP, England - Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Marco Seirioe, RuleCore, Sweden - Kai Simon, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany - Michael Sintek, DFKI, Germany - Silvie Spreeuwenberg, LibRT, Netherlands - Giorgos Stoilos, NTU Athens, Greece - Terrance Swift, XSB, Inc., USA - Kuldar Taveter, University of Melbourne, Australia - Vagan Terziyan, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland - Paul Vincent, TIBCO Software, Inc., USA - Kewen Wang, Griffith University, Australia - Guizhen Yang, SRI, USA ======================= Organizing Committee ======================= 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 ======================================================================= Sponsorship from: ------------------- Top Logic <http://www.top-logic.com>, Vistology <http://vistology.com/>, Inferware <http://www.inferware.com/> =======================================================================

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RuleML-2007 Challenge - Extended Deadlines, 7th/17th August
by Adrian Paschke 02 Aug '07

02 Aug '07

[Apologies for multiple postings] -- Extended Deadlines: August 7th/17th -- RuleML-2007 Challenge: Rule Technology Showcase October, 25th, 2007 - Orlando, Florida http://2007.ruleml.org/index-Dateien/Page787.htm With its unique emphasis on the practical use of rule technologies in distributed Web-based environments, RuleML-2007 will feature a Challenge with a focus on rule applications and rule-based tools. The challenge offers participants a unique possibility to demonstrate their commercial or open source tools, use cases, and applications. Those demo paper submissions that are received by August 7th, and accepted, will participate in the Challenge and be published in the Springer LNCS Proceedings. Those that are received a little later, but by August 17th very latest, and accepted, will participate in the Challenge and may be considered for publication in the Proceedings. Submissions of demo papers (3-5 pages) for the RuleML-2007 Challenge can be sent to ruleml2007 AT easychair.org. The RuleML-2007 Challenge is being held as part of the International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2007: http://2007.ruleml.org/) - to be held in Orlando, Florida, on 25th/26th October, in co-location with the 10th Business Rules Forum. For more information please visit: http://2007.ruleml.org/index-Dateien/Page787.htm Sincerely Yours, 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

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