<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font size="2" color="#222222" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><font style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><b>Call for Papers:</b></font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font size="2" color="#222222" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><b><br></b></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font size="2" color="#222222" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><font color="black" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="background-color:transparent">*******************************************************************************</span></font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font size="2" color="#222222" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><font color="black" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="background-color:transparent">***   Doctoral Consortium @ RuleML+RR 2026 ***</span></font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font size="2" color="#222222" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><font color="black" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="background-color:transparent">***   24-26 August 2026   ***</span></font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font size="2" color="#222222" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><font color="black" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="background-color:transparent">***   Vilnius, Lithuania   ***</span></font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font size="2" color="#222222" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><font color="black" style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="background-color:transparent">*******************************************************************************</span></font></font></div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:15px"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:15px"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><b>The RuleML+RR 10th Doctoral Consortium 2026 (DC)</b> is an initiative of the RuleML+RR community to attract and promote student research in Artificial Intelligence, especially research on rule-based formalisms and reasoning in such formalisms. It offers students a close contact with leading experts in the field, as well as the opportunity to present and discuss their ideas in a dynamic and friendly setting. We invite PhD students at an early or intermediate stage of their PhD studies, as well as exceptional master’s students who are interested in pursuing a PhD, to submit papers describing their research on any of the topics of <a href="https://2026.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr" target="_blank">RuleML+RR 2026</a>.</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:15px"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><b>Link:</b>  <a href="https://2026.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/doctoral-consortium" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://2026.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/doctoral-consortium</a></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";min-height:15px"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><b>Venue:</b> The RuleML+RR 10th Doctoral Consortium 2026 will be held as a part of the <a href="https://2026.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr" target="_blank">RuleML+RR 2026</a> in Vilnius, Lithuania from August 24th to 26th. It will be co-located with several events as part of <a href="https://2026.declarativeai.net/" target="_blank">Declarative AI 2026</a>, including <a href="https://2026.declarativeai.net/events/decisioncamp" target="_blank">DecisionCamp</a>, the <a href="https://2026.declarativeai.net/events/reasoning-web" target="_blank">Reasoning Web Summer School</a>, and multiple other satellite events of RuleML+RR 2026<span st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