RuleApps2008

RuleApps2008
2nd East European Workshop on Rule-Based Applications
Subevent of	ECAI 2008
Start	July 21 2008
End	July 22 2008
Homepage:	RuleApps2008
Location
City:	Patras
Country:	Greece
Important dates
Papers due:	April 30, 2008
Notification:	May 15, 2008
Camera ready due:	May 26, 2008

Rules are becoming increasingly important in business modeling and requirements engineering, and as a high level programming paradigm especially in the engineering of e-business applications and of the Semantic Web applications. Rules are used in applications to model and manage specific parts of the application business logic. They are best used in applications with a dynamic business logic i.e. applications where changes in the business logic are frequently and they need to be immediately reflected in the application behavior.

This workshop seeks contributions that address theoretic foundations, practical techniques, empirical studies, experience, and lessons learned related, but not limited, to those listed in the topics of interests section.

Contents 1 Topics of Interest 2 Intended audience 3 Program Committee 3.1 Workshop Co-Chairs 3.2 Program Committee 4 Submission Requirements 5 Registration and Accommodation 5.1 Registration 5.2 Venue and Accommodation 6 Publication 7 Accepted Papers 8 Past events

Topics of Interest

The workshop seeks contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Artificial Intelligence Rules and Rule Systems
• Web Rules and Semantic Web Rules
• Best Practices in Business Rules
• Rules Modeling (including Production Rules and ECA Rules)
• Combining rules and ontologies
• Languages for rule interchange
• Rule base Visualization, Verbalization, Validation, Verification and Exception Handling.
• Rule Engines Architectures
• Rules in Web 2.0 Applications
• Rule-based modeling of mechanisms, policies, strategies and contracts.
• Rules and Web Services Integration
• Implemented tools and systems

Intended audience

While the intended audience for this workshop includes those with experience or interest in (enterprise) rule languages and tools, as well as researchers with expertise in other areas such as:

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Semantic Web (SW)
• Software Engineering (SE)
• Object Oriented Design (OOD)
• Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
• Unified Modeling Language (UML)
• Model-Driven Architecture (MDA)

This workshop wants to be a common space where researchers, in general, and young researchers specifically, can show their innovative rule-based applications.

Program Committee

Workshop Co-Chairs

• Anastasia Analyti, FORTH, Greece
• Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany
• Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany

Program Committee

• Anastasia Analyti, FORTH, Greece
• Grigoris Antoniou, FORTH, Greece
• Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
• Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Phillipe Bonnard, ILOG, France
• Carlos Viegas Damasio, Universidade de Nova Lisboa, Portugal
• Vladan Devedzic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
• Jens Dietrich, Massey University, New Zealand
• Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada
• Adrian Giurca, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany
• Antoni Ligeza, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
• Grzegorz J. Nalepa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
• Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania
• Paula Lavinia Patranjan, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Muenchen, Germany
• Mark Proctor, JBoss Rules, Redhat
• Dave Reynolds, Hewlett-Packard Semantic Web Research, England
• Silvie Spreeuwenberg, LibRT, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Kuldar Taveter, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Laurentiu Alexandru Vasiliu, DERI Galway, Ireland
• Sanja Vranes, Mihailo Pupin Institute, Belgrade, Serbia
• Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany

Submission Requirements

RuleApps2008 looks for three categories of submissions: regular papers, poster submissions and applications.

• The submission web site is http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleapp2008.
• Authors have to use the ECAI'2008 style to prepare their submissions. A description of the style is available.
• Regular papers submissions must not exceed 5 pages. The same style has to be used for poster submissions which cannot exceed 2 pages.
• Applications have to be described in a 2 pages short paper (part of the proceedings too). They must be available for demo either in a download or online form during the review process.

Additional questions regarding the submission of papers have to be sent by email (please put [RuleApps'2008] in the subject) to Adrian Giurca.

Registration and Accommodation

Registration

• The early registration deadline is 16 June 2008.
• All workshop participants should register to the main conference.
• For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to register by the early registration date and to present the paper at the workshop.
• Additional important information is available on ECAI2008 Registration Page.

Venue and Accommodation

Please check the ECAI2008 Local Information page. Additional questions regarding registration, venue and accommodation have to be sent to Dr. Pavlos Peppas email pavlos a t upatras.gr.

Publication

• Each workshop participant will receive a hardcopy of the proceedings (ISBN: 978-960-6843-02-0) of the workshop (s)he participates, as well as a CD with the proceedings of all ECAI'08 workshops. The workshops CD will be produced by ECAI2008 and will be separate from the CD with the proceedings of the main conference.
• Workshop authors will have to sign a permission allowing the local organizers to include their paper in the workshop's proceedings.

The copyright for the individual items (subsuming any type of computer-represented files containing articles, software demos, videos, etc.) within a proceedings volume is owned by default by their respective authors. Copying of items, in particular papers, and proceedings volumes is permitted only for private and academic purposes. Copying or use for commercial purposes is forbidden unless an explicit permission is acquired from the copyright owners (i.e. authors).

• Extended versions of the best technical papers of the workshop will be invited to Handbook of Research on Emerging Rule-Based Languages and Technologies

Accepted Papers

From 11 received submissions the following papers were accepted:

• David Mosén, Arantza Illarramendi and Mohand-Said Hacid. Using Rules for the Integration of Heterogeneous and Autonomous Context-Aware Systems.
• Sergey Lukichev. Defining a subset of OCL for expressing SWRL rules.
• Grzegorz Nalepa and Antoni Ligeza. XTT+ Rule Design Using the ALSV(FD).
• Mihai Gabroveanu and Ion-Mircea Diaconescu. Extracting Semantic Annotations from Moodle Data.
• Emilian Pascalau and Adrian Giurca. Can URML model successfully Drools rules?.

Past events

• 1^st East European Workshop on Rule-Based Applications - RuleApps'2007 , Collocated with the 9^th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, SYNASC'2007 September 26-29, 2007, Timisoara, Romania