RuleML 2009 Program

Day 1: Thursday, November 5 2009

RuleML 2009 Delegates are free to attend the Open Source Day sessions.

8:00 Breakfast
Room: Gauguin 2
8:30 RuleML Chairs Opening Address
8:40 Keynote: Bringing Order to Chaos: RIF as the New Standard for Rule Interchange
Sandro Hawke, World Wide Web Consortium
9:40 RIF Tutorial
Christian de Sainte Marie, IBM/ILOG
11:05 Break
11:20 Standards for Business Rules (joint with Open Source Day)
John Hall, Model Systems
12:20 Boxed Lunch & Panel Discussion: "Rules on the Web" (joint with BR Forum)
Moderator: John Hall, Model Systems
RuleML Challenge Session 1 (joint with Open Source Day)
13:40 A Rule Management and Elicitation Tool for SWRL Rule Base
Saeed Hassanpour, Martin J. O’Connor and Amar K. Das
13:55 The SILK System: Scalable Higher-Order Defeasible Rules
Benjamin Grosof, Mike Dean, and Michael Kifer
14:10 K-Site Rules at the RuleML Challenge 2009
José L. Martínez-Fernández, José C. González-Cristóbal and Paloma Martínez
14:25 WellnessRules: The Activity Rule Responder
Taylor Michael Osmun, Benjamin Larry Craig, and Harold Boley
Invited demos and presentations
14:40 A User Friendly Rule Language for non PhD's
Jans Aasmann, Franz Inc
15:00 Scalable OWL Reasoning Based on Rule Entailment
Atanas Kiryakov, Ontotext AD
15:20 Break
RuleML Challenge Session 2
15:45 On the creation of structural FaceBook using rule-based methods to build and exchange ontology for drug design
Talapady N. Bhat
16:00 Using Rule Technology for Fraud Prevention in Government Insurance
Ching-Long Yeh, Kuo-Chung Lin, and Meng-Jong Kuan
16:15 A model to Coordinate UAVs in urban environments using defeasible logic
Ho-Pun Lam, Subhasis Thakur, Guido Governatori and Abdul Sattar
16:30 An Editor for Micro-Concept Rules Design
Lyazid Sabri, Abdelghani Chibani, Jerome Beck, Gian Piero Zarri, Yacine Amirat, Jean-Sebastien Brunner, Patrick Gatellier
16:45 LDSR: Materialized Reason-able View to the Web of Linked Data
Atanas Kiryakov, Damyan Ognyanoff, Ruslan Velkov, Zdravko Tashev and Ivan Peikov
Rule Systems on the Web
17:00 Challenges for Rule Systems on the Web
Yuh-Jong Hu, Ching-Long Yeh and Wolfgang Laun
17:15 A modest proposal to enable RIF dialects with limited forward compatibility
Christiane de Sainte Marie
17:30 RIF RuleML Rosetta Ring: Round-Tripping the Dlex Subset of Datalog RuleML and RIF-Core
Harold Boley
17:45 WellnessRules: A Web 3.0 Case Study in RuleML-Based Prolog-N3 Profile Interoperation
Harold Boley, Taylor Osmun, and Benjamin Craig
18:00 End of Day 1 technical program
 
20:00 RuleML 2009 Conference Dinner
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Day 2: Friday, November 6 2009

7:45 Breakfast
Room: Gauguin 1
8:30 Keynote: Why Rules Matter in Complex Event Processing... and vice versa
Paul Vincent, TIBCO
Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules
9:30 Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules
Adrian Paschke and Alexander Kozlenkov
9:45 Correlating Business Events for Event-Triggered Rules
Josef Schiefer, Hannes Obweger and Martin Suntinger
10:00 Semantic Rule-Based Complex Event Processing
Kia Teymourian and Adrian Paschke
10:15 Break
General Rule Topics
10:45 Generation of Rules from Ontologies for High-Level Scene Interpretation
Wilfried Bohlken and Bernd Neumann
11:15 Exploration of SWRL Rule Bases through Visualization, Paraphrasing, and Categorization of Rules
Saeed Hassanpour, Martin J. O’Connor and Amar K. Das
11:45 Process Materialization using Templates and Rules to Design Flexible Process Models
Akhil Kumar and Wen Yao
12:15 Lunch
14:00 Keynote: Terminology: the Semantic Foundation for an Organization’s Executable Rules
Donald Chapin, Business Semantics
Rule Transformation and Extraction
15:00 Introduction to ``Rule Transformation and Extraction'' Track
Mark H. Linehan and Eric Putrycz
15:15 An SBVR Framework for RESTful Web Applications
Alexandros Marinos and Paul Krause
15:45 Towards an improvement of Software Development Processes through Standard Business Rules
José L. Martínez-Fernández, Paloma Martínez and José C. González-Cristóbal
16:00 Break
16:30 A Rule-Based System Implementing a Method for Translating FOL Formulas into NL Sentences
Aikaterini Mpagouli and Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis
17:00 An Empirical Study of Unsupervised Rule Set Extraction of Clustered Categorical Data using a Simulated Bee Colony Algorithm
James D. McCaffrey and Howard Dierking
17:30 Transformation of Graphical ECA Policies into Executable PonderTalk Code
Raphael Romeikat, Markus Sinsel and Bernhard Bauer
18:00 End of day 2 technical program
 
RuleML Steering Committee (closed)
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Day 3: Saturday, November 7 2009

7:45 Breakfast
Tutorials
  Room: Gauguin 1 Room: Gauguin 2
8:30 Drools Tutorial
Mark Proctor, Red Hat 		The Decision Model
Larry Goldberg, KPI
10:30 Break
Process and Data
Room: Gauguin 1
11:00 Usage of the Jess engine, rules and ontology to query a relational database
Jaroslaw Bak, Czeslaw Jedrzejek and Maciej Falkowski
11:30 A Rule-Based Approach to Match Structural Patterns with Business Process Models
Jens Müller
11:45 TomML: A Rule Language For Structured Data
Horatiu Cirstea, Pierre-Etienne Moreau and Antoine Reilles
Invited demo
12:00 XBRL Demo
Said Tabet
12:15 Best Paper Award, RuleML-2009 Challenge Winner Award, RuleML-2009 Challenge Runner-up Award
12:30 Lunch
Rules and Norms
14:00 Rules and Norms: Requirements for Rule Interchange Languages in the Legal Domain
Thomas F. Gordon, Guido Governatori and Antonino Rotolo
14:15 A Java Implementation of Temporal Defeasible Logic
Rossella Rubino and Antonino Rotolo
14:30 Fill the Gap in the Legal Knowledge Modelling
Monica Palmirani, Giuseppe Contissa and Rossella Rubino
14:45 The Making of SPINdle
Ho-Pun Lam and Guido Governatori
15:00 Break
Rules and Uncertainty
15:30 Approaches to Uncertain or Imprecise Rules - A Survey
Matthias Nickles and Davide Sottara
15:45 Fuzzy Reasoning with a Rete-OO Rule Engine
Nikolaus Wulff and Davide Sottara
16:00 Towards Modelling Defeasible Reasoning with Imperfection in Production Rule Systems
Davide Sottara, Paola Mello and Mark Proctor
 
16:15 Close