Opening Session

RuleML-2008Devoted to practical distributed rule technologies

and rule-based applications Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Event-

Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing Applications

Collocated with 11th International Business Rules Forum

2nd RuleML symposium (highly successful RuleML-2007)

Goal to bring together rule system providers, rule standardization efforts and open source rules communities, practitioners and technical experts, developers, users, and researchers.

The RuleML Initiative (http://www.ruleml.org)

Organized by representatives from academia, industry and government for promotion of the modern and future generations of rule technology, which provides enhanced usability, scalability and performance.

Goal: to be a general and open intermediary between various “specialized” rule vendors, applications, industrial and research working groups and standardization efforts.

Organizing CommitteeGeneral Chair Adrian Paschke, Free

University Berlin, GermanyProgram Co-Chairs Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle

University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia

Challenge Co-Chairs Yuh-Jong Hu, National

Chengchi University, Taiwan Costin Badica, University of

Craiova, Romania

Panel Co-Chairs John Hall, Model Systems, UK Axel Polleres, DERI Galway,

Ireland Liaison Co-Chairs Jan Vanthienen, Katholieke

Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Mark Proctor, JBoss Rules, UK Rainer von Ammon, CITT

GmbH, GermanyPublicity Co-Chairs Matthias Nickles, University

of Bath, UK Tracy Bost, Valocity, USAWeb Chair Suzanne Embury, University

of Manchester, UK

Program Committee Statistics79 researchers and practitioners

48 (60%) from Universities and Research Institutes31 (40%) from the Industry

IBM 5, HP 3, Oracle, SAP, Siemens, XSB, ILOG, ruleCore, Fair Isaac, TIBCO, Pega, DBmind

Geographical distributionEurope 43 (54.5%)

Germany 9, UK 6, Greece 5, Austria 4, Italy 3, Netherlands 3, Finland 2, France 2, Sweden 2, Belgium, Croatia, Portugal

America 24 (30.4%) USA 19, Canada 5

Asia 8 (10.1%) Israel 2, China 2, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand

Oceania 4 (5%) Australia 3, New Zealand

Submission StatisticsRuleML-2008 received 35 original submissions

Europe 16.66 (47.6%) Germany 4.33, Greece 3, Ireland 1.5, Spain 2, UK 2,

Italy 1, Poland 1, France 0.83, Denmark 0.5, Romania 0.5

America 12.83 (36.7%) USA 7.33, Canada 5.5

Asia 3.5 (10%) India 1, Japan 1, Taiwan 1, Iran 0.5

Oceania 2 (5,7%) Australia 2

Accepted Papers10 full papers (28,5%)10 short papers 2 demo/challenge papers (in the Springer

proceedings)6 more demos that participate in the

challenge

ProceedingsPublished by Springer10 full papers10 short papers2 demo papers3 abstracts of keynote talks

Nick Bassiliades, Guido Governatori, Adrian Paschke (Eds.), "Rule Representation, Interchange and Reasoning on the

Web", Proceedings of The 2008 International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008), Orlando,

Florida, USA, 30-31 Oct. 2008, Springer, LNCS, Vol. 5321, 2008, ISBN: 978-3-540-88807-9.

Program4 keynotes

First day: Paul Haley, David Luckham Second day: Michael Kifer (remote talk, broadcasted

from RR2008, Karlsruhe), Benjamin Grosof5 research paper sessions

2 first day, 3 second day4 presentations (2 full + 2 short)

Challenge sessionFirst day, 8 participating demos (1 remote)Boxed Lunch Panel Session "Rules on the Web“First day, Joint with BRF

Special Invited SessionsFirst day: Rule Standards (OMG PRR, RIF PRD, SBVR)Second day: Demos

Social EventsContinental Breakfasts, Lunches, Coffee

BreaksSymposium Dinner (today, 7:30)Closing Session

RuleML General Open Meeting, Snacks

Participant Statistics48 participants

27 (56.25%) from Universities and Research Institutes 21 (43.75%) from the Industry

Geographical distributionEurope 21 (43.75%)

UK 8, Germany 3, Greece 2, Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain

America 23 (48%) USA 18, Canada 5

Asia 3 (6.25%) China, Japan, Taiwan

Oceania 1 (2%) Australia 1

Special Issue (open to all)Title: Rule Representation, Interchange and

Reasoning in Distributed, Heterogeneous Environments

Journal: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Guest editors: N. Bassiliades, G. Governatori, A. Paschke, J. Dix

Deadline: March 1, 2009Publication date (tentative): July 2010 Topics: Rule Representation and Languages,

Reasoning and Rule Engines, Rule Interchange and Integration, Rule Engineering and Repositories, Web Rule Applications

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ThanksTo the Program Committee To the Symposium authors To the Keynote speakers and Invited speakersTo the Panelists of Boxed Lunch PanelTo the Business Rules Forum organizers

Gladys Lam and Ron Ross, Valentina Tang To our sponsors, collaboration partners, media

partnersTo all of you, the participants