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RuleML+RR 2020 CALL FOR PAPERS
RuleML+RR 2020: 4th
International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning
29 June - 1 July 2020
Virtual
Part of "Declarative AI 2020:
Rules, Reasoning, Decisions and Explanations"
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== SUMMARY ==
High-quality papers related to
theoretical advances, novel technologies,
and artificial intelligence
applications concerning explainable algorithmic
decision-making that involve
rule-based representation and reasoning are
solicited.
Theme for 2020 edition:
Explainable algorithmic decision-making
Important paper submission
dates:
****EXTENDED DEADLINE -
SUBMISSIONS DUE MAY 1st****
- Full paper: 1st May 2020
== THE CONFERENCE ==
The 4th International Joint
Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR 2020)
is the leading international
joint conference in the field of rule-based reasoning.
Stemming from the synergy with
the DecisionCAMP summit, which brings together
leading decision management
authorities, vendors, and practitioners, one of the
main goals of RuleML+RR is to
build bridges between academia and industry in the
area of rule-based reasoning and
applications. RuleML+RR 2020 is part of the event
"Declarative AI: Rules,
Reasoning, Decisions, and Explanations" to be held
between
29 June - 1 July 2020.
RuleML+RR 2020 aims to bring
together rigorous researchers and inventive
practitioners,
interested in the foundations
and applications of rules and reasoning in academia,
industry, engineering, business,
finance, healthcare, environment, and other
application areas. It provides a
forum for stimulating cooperation and
cross-fertilization between the
many different communities focused on the research,
development, and applications
of rule-based systems.
== TOPICS ==
RuleML+RR welcomes research from
all areas of Rules and Reasoning, including topics
from our 2020 theme: explainable
algorithmic decision-making. The topics of the
conference include:
* Machine learning approaches
involving rules (e.g, extracting rules from Deep
Neural Networks or rule-based
classification)
* Rules for knowledge graphs and
ontology learning
* Rule-based approaches to
natural language processing
* Explainable AI approaches
based on rules, psychological aspects of rule learning
* Rules of ethics, biases, laws,
policies, and regulations
* Production & business rule
systems
* Communicating rule models with
Decision Model and Notation (DMN)
* Applications of rule
technologies with explainable AI (xAI) elements
* Foundations of declarative AI
architectures and languages
* Rule-based approaches for
intelligent systems and intelligent information access
* Vocabularies, ontologies, and
business rules
* Ontology-based data access
* Rule-based data integration
* Data management and data
interoperability for web data
* Distributed agent-based
systems for the web
* Rule-based approaches to
agents
* Scalability and expressive
power of logics for the semantic web
* Reasoning with incomplete,
inconsistent and uncertain data
* Non-monotonic, common-sense,
and closed-world reasoning for web data
* Non-classical logics and the
Web
* Constraint programming
* Logic programming
* Streaming data and complex
event processing
* Higher-order and modal rules
* Web reasoning and distributed
rule inference and execution
* Rule markup languages and rule
interchange formats
* Rule-based policies,
reputation, and trust
* Rules, blockchain, and smart
contracts
* Scalability and expressive
power of logics for rules
* System descriptions,
applications and experiences
* Rules and human language
technology
* Rules in online market
research and online marketing
* Applications of ontologies and
rules in environmental protection
* Applications in climate change
monitoring, mitigation & adaptation
* Applications in healthcare and
life sciences
* Applications in peace and
conflict studies
* Applications in equity and
social welfare
* Applications in law,
regulation, and finance
* Applications in Digital Twins
* Industrial applications of
rules
== SUBMISSIONS ==
We accept the following
submission formats for papers:
* Long papers (up to 15 pages in
LNCS style)
* Short papers (up to 8 pages in
LNCS style)
Long papers should present
original and significant research
and/or development results.
Short papers should concisely
describe general results or specific
applications, systems, or
position statements.
Submitted papers must not
substantially overlap with papers that have been
published or that are
simultaneously submitted to a journal or a
conference/workshop with formal
proceedings. Double submission to a
workshop with informal
proceedings is allowed.
Submissions: via EasyChair
In addition to regular
submissions, RuleML+RR 2020 will include the 14th
International Rule Challenge, a
Doctoral Consortium, an Industry Track, and
a Posters and Interactions
session.
RuleML+RR 2020 is co-located
with DecisionCAMP 2020 and the 16th Reasoning
Web Summer School (RW 2020), as
part of the Declarative AI 2020 event.
== PUBLICATION ==
The conference proceedings will
be published by Springer in the Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series
(LNCS). The proceedings will be published
after the conference.
All submissions must be prepared
in Springer's LaTeX style LNCS
== JOURNAL PARTNERSHIP AND BEST
PAPER AWARD ==
A selection of the best accepted
papers of RuleML+RR 2020 (2-6 papers) will
be invited for submission to the
Journal of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming
(TPLP)
published by Cambridge
University Press. All accepted papers will also be
considered
for the best paper award
sponsored by Spring
== INDEXING AND HISTORY ==
The RuleML+RR conference is part
of umbrella event DeclarativeAI.
The conference is indexed in
bibliographic databases such as Scopus or Web of science
under
the acronym RuleML+RR, and in
the widely recognized CORE Rank under the acronym
RuleML,
used before its merger with the
RR conference in 2016. The Web Reasoning and Rule
Systems conference
series was held independently
between 2007-2016 and the RuleML series between
2002-2016.
== IMPORTANT DATES ==
***DEADLINE EXTENSION ***
Full papers submission: 1st May
2020
Notification of acceptance: 29
May 2020
Camera-ready submission: 7 June
2020
Conference: 29 June - 1 July
2020
== REGISTRATION ==
This year, the registration fee
has been dropped. The original fee was up to 550 Euro.
== KEYNOTES ==
* Prof. Eyke Hullermeier, Univ.
Padeborn, Germany: Multilabel rule learning
* Prof. Dieter Fensel, STI
Innsbruck, Austria: Knowledge Graphs: Methodologies,
Tools, and Selected Use Cases
* Derek Miers, Sr Director at
Gartner, United Kingdom: What The Real World Needs From
Decision Management, Reasoning and AI
* Prof. Arild Waaler, Sirius
Centre for Scalable Data Access, Norway: title TBA
== ORGANISATION ==
- General Chairs:
* Dumitru Roman (SINTEF AS /
University of Oslo, Norway)
* Martin Giese (University of
Oslo, Norway)
* Ahmet Soylu (NTNU / SINTEF AS,
Norway)
- Program Chairs:
* Victor Gutierrez Basulto
(Cardiff University, UK)
* Tomas Kliegr (University of
Economics, Prague, Czech Republic)
- Doctoral Consortium Chairs
* Paul Fodor (Stony Brook
University, USA)
* Daniela Inclezan (Miami
University, USA)
- Rule Challenge Chairs
* Sotiris Moschoyiannis
(University of Surrey, U.K.)
* Jan Vanthienen (KU Leuven,
Belgium)
- Industry Track Chairs
* Francisco Martin-Recuerda
(DNVGL, Norway)
* Nicolay Nikolov (SINTEF AS,
Norway)
* Ioan Toma (Onlim, Austria)
- Posters & Interactions
Chairs
* Carlos A. Iglesias
(Universidad Polit�cnica de Madrid, Spain)
* Dia Trambitas-Miron (UMFST,
Romania / John Snow Labs, USA)
- Publicity chair
* Jean Christoph Jung (Bremen
University, Germany)
- Program Committee