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          <h2>Additional Calls for Contributions</h2>

          <p><ul>

            <li><a href="#soft">RuleML 2008 Challenge/Showcase
            Demos</a></li>

            <li><a href="#lightning">Lightning Talks</a></li>

            <li><a href="#highlight">Highlight Talks</a></li>

            <li><a href="#fast">Fast Abstracts</a></li>

          </ul></p>

          <hr style="margin-top: 40px;">

          <a name="soft"><h3>RuleML-2008 Challenge/Showcase
          Demos</h3></a>

          <p>The RuleML-2008 Challenge addresses system demonstrations
          showcasing 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.</p>

          <p>A submission to the RuleML-2008 Challenge has to meet the
          requirement that explicit (declarative) rules play a central
          role in the application. For the 2008 Challenge this means
          that:</p>

          <ul>

            <li>Rules are available in the explicit representation of
            a declarative format and are decoupled from the
            application (rather than only existing in a form that is
            compiled or hard-coded into the application logic).</li>

            <li>Rules are used in interesting and practically relevant
            ways, e.g. to derive new information, transform knowledge,
            provide decision support; or, to enable automated
            monitoring, enforcement, validation, or management of the
            logic of an application.</li>

          </ul>

          <p>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 <a
          href="topics.php">RuleML symposium topics</a>.

          <p>Submissions to the RuleML Challenge 2008 consist of (1) a
          link to information about the demo/showcase, e.g. a project
          site, an (embedded link to an) online demonstration, a
          presentation, or a download site and (2) demo description
          material (up to 3 pages), which can be either in the form of
          a paper (e.g., in LNCS format) and/or contain other
          descriptive material. The demo description material will be
          distributed at the Symposium as part of the official
          Symposium handouts and it will be published at the
          Symposium's Web site. The demo description material will be
          subject to evaluation, so the material should contain a
          substantial presentation of the system to enable a proper
          evaluation of the techniques used.</p>

          <p>The demo link should be submitted through the <a
          href="http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw/">Challenge
          Website</a>, while the demo paper should be submitted as a
          pdf file by email to: <a
          href="mailto:ruleml2008@easychair.org">ruleml2008@easychair.org</a>
          with the text 'Submission to RuleML-2008 Challenge' in the
          subject by October 1, 2008.  After the submission of the
          demo link, it will be immediately available on the Web,
          which can provide instant visibility to information about
          demos/showcases. If the (embedded) link to your
          demo/showcase 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.</p>

          <p>Decisions will be notified by October 6th. The
          demos/showcases themselves will be evaluated during
          RuleML-2008, and prizes will be awarded to the first two
          best applications.</p>


          <hr style="margin-top: 40px;">

          <a name="lightning"><h3>Lightning Talks</h3></a>

          <p>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.</p>

          <p>People interested at giving a lightning talk during
          RuleML-2008 should show their their interest by sending an
          email to <a
          href="mailto:ruleml2008@easychair.org">ruleml2008@easychair.org</a>
          by October 1, 2008, including a title and a 250-word
          abstract of their intended talk.</p>

          <p>Decisions will be notified by October 6th.</p>

          <hr style="margin-top: 40px;">

          <a name="highlight"><h3>Highlight Talks</h3></a>

          <p>We invite the submission of outstanding full papers that
          have been published between 2007 and the submission deadline
          (October 1, 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.</p>

          <p>Submissions should be sent directly to the RuleML-2008
          chairs at <a
          href="mailto:ruleml2008@easychair.org">ruleml2008@easychair.org</a>
          by October 1, 2008, and must include the following:</p>

          <ul>

            <li>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).</li>

            <li>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).

            <li>Additional contact information (for presenter).</li>

            <li>A 250-word abstract-like argument that explains how
            the submitted paper(s) suit the goal of presenting
            highlights that impacted the field.</li>

            <li>Sources of original publication(s) (Year, Journal,
            Vol., pages).</li>

            <li>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).</li>

            <li>Optional: link to Google Video demonstrating
            presentation skills of presenter.</li>

            <li>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).</li>

            <li>Each presenter can submit a maximum of one application
            to present a highlight. The maximal number of submissions
            per author/co-author is 5.</li>

          </ul>

          <p>All submissions will be evaluated by a group of
          reviewers.  Reviewers will consider the following
          criteria:</p>

          <ul>

            <li>Relevance, interest, and value of the topic to
            RuleML-2008 attendees,</li>

            <li>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),</li>

            <li>"Presentability" of the work to a large, diverse
            audience,</li>

            <li>Quality of oral presentations by the submitter (if
            none).</li>

          </ul>

          <p>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.</p>

          <p>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.</p>

          <p>Decisions will be notified by October 6th.</p>

          <hr style="margin-top: 40px;">

          <a name="fast"><h3>Fast Abstracts</h3></a>

          <p>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.</p>

          <p>Fast Abstracts should be 4-pages long, and must be
          formatted in <a
          href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html">LNCS
          format</a>.  The submission deadline is October 1, 2008.
          Submissions should be sent directly by email to <a
          href="mailto:ruleml2008@easychair.org">ruleml2008@easychair.org</a>,
          and they will be refereed on the relevance to RuleML 2008,
          but also on their novelty of idea and/or 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 October 6th.  Authors of accepted fast
          abstracts must provide the camera ready version by October 10th. At least one author of each accepted Fast Abstract is
          expected to register to the conference.</p>

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