RR 2008

The Second International Conference on
Web Reasoning and Rule Systems

(www.rr-conference.org/RR2008)

Karlsruhe, Germany, October 31 - November 1, 2008

Call for Papers - DEADLINE EXTENDED


The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) aims to be the major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2008 builds on the success of The First International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems RR 2007, which received enthusiastic support from the Web Rules community. In 2008, RR will continue the excellence of the new series and aim to attract the best Web Reasoning and Rules researchers from all over the world.

The reasoning landscape features theoretical areas such as knowledge representation (KR) and algorithms; design aspects of rule markup; design of ontology languages; engineering of engines, translators, and other tools; efficiency considerations and benchmarking; standardization efforts, such as the Rules Interchange Format activity at W3C; and applications. Of particular interest is also the use of rules to facilitate ontology modeling, and the relationships and possible interactions between rules and ontology languages like RDF and OWL, as well as ontology reasoning related to RDF and OWL, or querying with SPARQL. Suggested topics include the following, which is not to be considered as an exhaustive list:


Location:   The conference is co-located with ISWC 2008 (http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org), the International Semantic Web Conference.

Submission Details: RR 2008 welcomes original research and application papers dealing with web reasoning and rule systems, with particular attention to the topics listed above. Submitted papers are limited in length to fifteen (15) pages, including title, abstract, and list of references, and should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style (see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html). Submitted papers must be in PDF format. The full paper submission must be preceded by the submission of an abstract. Submission is via EasyChair, at

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2008

Papers may be accepted as:

Accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. The best papers may also be considered for publication in a prestigious international journal.

Important Dates: Abstract submission: June 14 June 21, 2008
Paper submission: June 21 June 28, 2008
Acceptance decisions: July 21, 2008
Camera-ready papers due: August 25 August 11, 2008
RR 2008 conference: October 31 - November 2, 2008

General Chair: Thomas Eiter eiter@kr.tuwien.ac.at, TU Vienna (AT)
Programm Co-chairs: Diego Calvanese calvanese@inf.unibz.it, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT)
Georg Lausen lausen@informatik.uni-freiburg.de, University of Freiburg (DE)

Programm Committee: Jose Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (PT)
Jürgen Angele, Ontoprise GmbH, Karlsruhe (DE)
Gregoris Antoniou, University of Crete (GR)
Marcelo Arenas, Pontificia Universidad Catolico de Chile (CL)
Uwe Assmann, Technische Universität Dresden (DE)
Chitta Baral, Arizona State University (US)
Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University, Ottawa (CA)
Jos de Bruijn, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT)
Christoph Bussler, BEA Systems, Inc. (US)
Andrea Cali, University of Oxford (UK)
Mike Dean, BBN Technologies (US)
Hendrik Decker, Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación, Valencia (ES)
Jürgen Dix, Universität Clausthal (DE)
Christine Golbreich, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin (FR)
John Goodwin, Ordnance Survey (UK)
Gianluigi Greco, Università della Calabria (IT)
Claudio Gutierrez, University of Chile, Santiago (CL)
Giovambattista Ianni, Università della Calabria (IT)
Manolis Koubarakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR)
Domenico Lembo, Sapienza Università di Roma (IT)
Francesca A. Lisi, Università di Bari (IT)
Bertram Ludaescher, University of California, Davis (US)
Thomas Lukasiewicz, Sapienza University of Rome (IT)
Carsten Lutz, Technische Universität Dresden (DE)
Jan Maluszynski, University of Linköping (SE)
Wolfgang May, University of Göttingen (DE)
Ralf Möller, Technische Universität Hamburg (DE)
Boris Motik, University of Oxford (UK)
Wolfgang Nejdl, LS3 and University of Hannover (DE)
Daniel Oberle, SAP AG (DE)
P.F. Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs (US)
Axel Polleres, National University of Ireland, Galway (IE)
Guilin Qi, University of Karlsruhe (DE)
Dave Reynolds, HP Labs (UK)
Marie-Christine Rousset, University of Grenoble (FR)
Ulrike Sattler, University of Manchestor (UK)
Sebastian Schaffert, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft (AT)
Roman Schindlauer, TU Wien (AT)
Michael Sintek, DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern (DE)
Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens (GR)
Umberto Straccia, ISTI - C.N.R Pisa (IT)
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim (DE)
York Sure, SAP AG (DE)
Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (IT)
Rodney Topor, University of Griffith (AUS)
Dirk Vermeir, University of Brussels (BE)
David Warren, SUNY at Stony Brook (US)
P.T. Wood, University of London (UK)
Guizhen Yang, SRI (US)
Local Organisation: Sebastian Rudolph rudolph@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de, University of Karlsruhe (DE)