[PlanetKR] CFP: Rule Challenge 2014

[Theodore Patkos]

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Call for Papers
8th International Rule Challenge 2014
part of the RuleML'14 symposium held in conjunction with ECAI 2014, the 
21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Prague, Czech Republic, August 18, 2014
http://ruleml2014.vse.cz/challenge

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RuleChallenge'14 proceedings will be indexed by SCOPUS and a selection 
of the best systems will be invited for demonstration to PAIS'14.

About Rule Challenge 2014
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The RuleML 2014 Challenge is one of the highlights at RuleML 2014 
Conference which seeks to provide a competition among innovative 
rule-oriented applications, aimed at both the research and industrial side.

Topics
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Key themes of the RuleML 2014 Challenge include, but are not limited to 
the following:
- Demos related to the RuleML 2014 Track Topics
- Extensions and implementations of rule-related standards, e.g. W3C 
RIF, RuleML, SBVR, BPMN, BPEL, etc.
- Rule-based Event Processing and Stream Reasoning
- Editing environments and IDEs for Web rules
- Benchmarks and comparison results for rule engines
- Distributed rule bases and rule services
- Reports on industrial experience about rule systems
- Real cases and practical experiences

RuleML 2014 Challenge Chairs
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Theodore Patkos (FORTH-ICS, Greece)
Adam Wyner (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Adrian Giurca (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus–Senftenberg, 
Germany)

Important Dates
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Paper submission: 23 May 2014
Notification: 6 June 2014
Camera ready: 20 June 2014
Rule Challenge 2014 dates: 18 August 2014

Submission Guidelines
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High quality, original papers, potentially referencing online material, 
and ranging between 2-15 pages can be submitted at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2014challenge

Please upload all submissions 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 clarity and significance of objectives and demonstration of results.

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Website: http://2014.ruleml.org
Twitter hashtag: #ruleml2014
Blog: http://blog.ruleml.org