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            <article class="item-page item-page"><header><h1>8th International Rule Challenge</h1></header><table>
<tr><td style="width:100px;">Date:</td><td>August 19, 2014</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:</td><td>Prague, Czech Republic</td></tr>
<tr><td>WWW:</td><td><a href="challenge" rel="nofollow">RuleML 2014 International Rule Challenge</a></td></tr>
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<h3>Proceedings: <a href="http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1211">http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1211</a>.</h3>

<p>The RuleML 2014 Challenge is one of the highlights at <a href="">RuleML 2014 Conference</a> which seeks to provide a competition among innovative rule-oriented applications, aimed at both the research and industrial side. The RuleML 2014 Challenge is a forum where new ways of the use of rule-based systems are presented and practical experiences about implementing these systems are reported. In particular, submissions of benchmarks/evaluations, demos, case studies, use cases, experience reports, best practice solutions (e.g. design patterns, reference architectures, models), rule-based implementations/tools/applications, demonstrations of engineering methods, implementations of rule standards (e.g. RuleML, W3C RIF, SBVR, PRR, rule-based Event Processing languages, BPMN+rules, BPEL+rules, etc), rules + industrial standards (e.g. XBRL, MISMO, Accord, etc), and industrial problem statements are particularly encouraged. A selection of the best systems will be invited for demonstration to PAIS'14.



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<h2>Key Themes</h2>
<p>Key themes of the RuleML 2014 Challenge include, but are not limited to the following:</p>
<ul>
  <li>Demos related to the <a href="call-for-papers">RuleML 2014 Track Topics</a></li>
  <li>Extensions and implementations of rule-related standards, e.g. W3C RIF, RuleML, SBVR, BPMN, BPEL, etc. </li>
  <li>Rule-based Event Processing and Stream Reasoning </li>
  <li>Editing environments and IDEs for Web rules </li>
  <li>Benchmarks and comparison results for rule engines </li>
  <li>Distributed rule bases and rule services </li>
  <li>Reports on industrial experience about rule systems </li>
  <li>Real cases and practical experiences </li>
</ul>

<h2>RuleML 2014 Rulebase Competition</h2>
<p>RuleML Inc announces a US$1000 Award for the best RuleML Rulebase of 2014. This year's rulebases are solicited in Deliberation RuleML 1.01 (<a href="http://deliberation.ruleml.org/1.01/timeline">overview</a>). Submitted rulebases must contain at least 20 (Assert/Query) rules in RuleML 1.01/XML, and can be about any domain of knowledge (<a href="http://deliberation.ruleml.org/1.01/exa/DatalogPlus/datalogplus_min.ruleml">example</a>). They may be translated from other languages (which must be mentioned in submissions) but need to be cleared for possible publication on the RuleML website in the source language as well as in RuleML 1.01/XML</p>
<p>Evaluation criteria for rulebase submissions in Deliberation RuleML 1.01:
</p>
<ol>
<li>Generally, the criteria of the main <a href="http://2014.ruleml.org/challenge">RuleML 2014 Challenge</a> apply.</li>
<li>Each rulebase must syntactically validate w.r.t. a <a href="http://wiki.ruleml.org/index.php/Specification_of_Deliberation_RuleML_1.01">Deliberation RuleML 1.01</a>  schema for the most specific sublanguage (cf. <a href="http://deliberation.ruleml.org/1.01/myng/">MYNG 1.01</a>) covering it (in <a href="http://deliberation.ruleml.org/1.01/relaxng/">Relax NG</a> or <a href="http://deliberation.ruleml.org/1.01/xsd/">XSD</a>).</li>
<li>The semantics of rulebases should be demonstrated through test queries or translation to the input format of a rule engine.</li>
<li>Their usefulness, efficiency, readability, and documentation should be shown in appropriate ways.</li>
</ol>

<h2>Submission</h2>
<p>The length of the submissions may vary between 2-15 pages in PDF format following the <a href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html">LNCS format</a>. Shorter submissions (but not shorter than 2 pages) should ensure that they reference online materials where reviewers can find more details about the system to be demonstrated. Irrespective of the length of the submission (but not exceeding 15 pages) it is recommended that the following points are addressed in the submissions:</p>
<ul>
  <li>clearly explain the objectives, outcomes, benefits as you are going beyond the state of the art in technology, the application domain, etc.</li>
  <li>demonstrate a good level of effectiveness in managing/processing rule sets of increasing complexity according to (statistical/analytical/benchmarking) evaluations</li>
  <li>demonstrate the results with a concrete example balancing conciseness and completeness</li>
  <li>preferably (but not necessarily) embed the tool in a web-based or distributed environment</li>
  <li>present end-user interactions, providing an adequate and usable interface that favours a concrete usage of the application</li>
  <li>mention the availability of the software and data, data interchange, and possible tool extensions</li>
  <li>provide a web-link to the project site, online demonstration, or download site</li>
</ul>
<p>Easychair submission Web site: <a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2014challenge">Easychair submission website</a>.</p>

<h2>Proceedings and Post-proceedings</h2>
<p>Rule Challenge 2014 proceedings will be published as CEUR Proceedings and indexed by SCOPUS, and a selection of the best systems will be invited for demonstration at PAIS 2014 (part of ECAI 2014). Moreover, a complimentary 1-year online membership is offered by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) to RuleML Symposium participants who are new to AAAI.
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<h2>Important Dates</h2>
<p>Submission deadline - RuleML 2014 Challenge</p>
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Paper submission:</td><td><strong>June 6, 2014</strong>
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Extended Paper submission:</td><td><strong>
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June 18, 2014
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<tr><td>Notification:</td><td><strong>June 28, 2014</strong></td></tr>
<tr><td>Camera ready:</td><td><strong>July 10, 2014</strong></td></tr>
    
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<h2>RuleML 2014 Challenge Chairs</h2>
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<h2>RuleML 2014 Challenge Program Committee</h2>
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<li><span class="a">Costin Badica</span> <span class="more">(University of Craiova, Romania)</span></li>
<li><span class="a">Nick Bassiliades</span> <span class="more">(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)</span></li>
<li><span class="a">Yuh-Jong Hu</span> <span class="more">(The National Chengchi University, Taiwan)</span></li>
<li><span class="a">Peter Haase</span> <span class="more">(fluid Operations, Germany)</span></li>
<li><span class="a">Ioan Toma</span> <span class="more">(STI Innsbruck, Austria)</span></li>
<li><span class="a">Oscar Corcho</span> <span class="more">(Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)</span></li>
<li><span class="a">Alejandro Llaves</span> <span class="more">(Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)</span></li>
<li><span class="a">Michael Pantazoglou</span> <span class="more">(NKUA, Greece)</span></li>
<li><span class="a">Ahmet Soylu</span> <span class="more">(University of Oslo, Norway)</span></li>

<li><span class="a">Mike Dean</span> <span class="more">(Raytheon BBN Technologies, USA)</span></li>
<li><span class="a">Miron Dia</span> <span class="more">(Recognos, Romania)</span></li>
<li><span class="a">Sven Schade</span> <span class="more">(European Commission, Italy)</span></li>
<li><span class="a">Tony Lee</span> <span class="more">(Saltlux, South Korea)</span></li>
<li><span class="a">Darko Anicic</span> <span class="more">(Siemens, Germany)</span></li>
<li><span class="a">Emanuele Della Valle</span> <span class="more">(Politecnico di Milano, Italy)</span></li>
<li><span class="a">Federico Michele Facca</span> <span class="more">(Create-Net, Italy)</span></li>
<li><span class="a">Davide Sottara</span> <span class="more">(Arizona State University, USA)</span></li>
<li><span class="a">Guido Governatori</span> <span class="more">(the NICTA Queensland Research Laboratory, Australia)</span></li>
<li><span class="a">Grzegorz Nalepa</span> <span class="more">(Institute of Automatics (AGH UST, Poland)</span></li>

<li><span class="a">Monica Palmirani</span> <span class="more">(Università di Bologna, Italy)</span></li>
<li><span class="a">Paul Fodor</span> <span class="more">(Stony Brook University, USA)</span></li>
<li><span class="a">Adrian Giurca</span> <span class="more">(Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus–Senftenberg, Germany)</span></li>

<li><span class="a">Adam Wyner</span> <span class="more">(University of Aberdeen, UK)</span></li>
<li><span class="a">Theodore Patkos</span> <span class="more">(FORTH-ICS, Greece)</span></li>

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<h2>Collocated Events</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://ecai2014.org/">ECAI 2014</a></li></ul>
<h2>The RuleML2014 Conference is also hosting</h2>
<ul>
  <li>Learning (Business) Rules from Data (<a href="learning-business-rules-from-data">special track</a>)</li>
  <li>Legal rules and Norms (<a href="legal-rules-and-norms">special track</a>)</li>
  <li>Rules and Human Language Technology (<a href="rules-and-human-language-technology">special track</a>)</li>
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