RuleML+RR 2022: 6th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning - deadline extended

Part of DeclarativeAI and co-located with DecisionCAMP and the 18th Reasoning Web Summer School

26th-28th September, Virtual

The RuleML+RR 2022 conference is part of the event “Declarative AI: Rules, Reasoning, Decisions, and Explanations” and is co-located with DecisionCAMP 2022 and the Reasoning Web Summer School. It features the RuleChallenge and a Doctoral Consortium as associated events.

The 6th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR 2022) is the leading international joint conference in the field of rule-based reasoning. One of the main goals of RuleML+RR is to build bridges between academia and industry in the area of semantic reasoning. See https://2022.declarativeai.net/.

RuleML+RR 2022 aims to bring together rigorous researchers and inventive practitioners, interested in the foundations and applications of rules and reasoning. It provides a forum for stimulating cooperation and cross-fertilization between different communities focused on the research, development, and applications of rule-based systems. We are looking for high-quality papers related to theoretical advances, novel technologies, and artificial intelligence applications that involve rule-based representation and reasoning.

RuleML+RR 2022 Program Chairs

Guido Governatori, Brisbane, Australia

Anni-Yasmin Turhan, Dresden University of Technology, Germany

Topics

RuleML+RR welcomes research from all areas of Rules and Reasoning.

The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to:

Ontology/Semantic Web

• Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules

• Ontology-based mediated query answering

• Rules for knowledge graphs and ontology learning

• Rule-based data integration

• Data management and data interoperability for web data

• Distributed agent-based systems for the web

Rules for AI and AI for Rules

• Rule-based approaches to natural language processing

• Applications of rule technologies with explainable AI (xAI) elements

• Machine learning approaches involving rules

• Explainable AI approaches based on rules,

• Rule-based approaches for intelligent systems and intelligent information access

Rules and Reasoning / Logics

• Non-classical logics and the web

• Description Logics, existential rules

• Higher-order and modal rules

• Constraint programming

• Logic programming, ASP and datalog

• Rule based argumentation

• Rule-based approaches to agents and multi-agent systems

• Reasoning with incomplete, inconsistent and uncertain data

• Non-monotonic, common-sense, and closed-world reasoning

• Inconsistency-tolerant rule reasoning

Technical Aspects of Rule Systems / Rule Technology

• Streaming data and complex event processing

• Web reasoning and distributed rule inference and execution

• Scalability and expressive power of logics for the Semantic Web

• Scalability and expressive power of logics for rules

Rules and Interoperability

• Rule markup languages, rule interchange formats, and rule standards

• Rule-based policies, reputation, and trust

• Rules and human language technology

System descriptions, applications and experiences of ontologies and rules in:

• Climate change monitoring, mitigation & adaptation

• Environmental protection

• Healthcare and life sciences

• Equity and social welfare

• Law, regulation, and finance

• Digital Twins

• Industrial contexts

• Production & business rule systems

Main conference track

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.

We accept the following submission formats for papers:

• Long papers (up to 15 pages in LNCS style including references)

• Short papers (up to 8 pages in LNCS style including references)

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. All submissions must be prepared in Springer's LNCS style (http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/authors.html).

Submissions to the RuleML+RR conference

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. Papers put on arXiv are also allowed as long as they are not refereed (i.e., formally reviewed by peers). Submissions to the RuleML+RR conference

• have the page limit of 15 (/8) pages including references

• are not anonymous

• additional material can be included as an external report. Appendices to the submission are not permitted.

The paper should be self-contained. Papers can be submitted using EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=declarativeai22

In addition to regular submissions, RuleML+RR 2022 will include the

16th International Rule Challenge,

Industry track, and

Doctoral Consortium

which will have their own proceedings published in CEUR. RuleML+RR 2022 is co-located with DecisionCAMP 2022 and the 18th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2022).

Publication

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS) after the conference. A selection of the accepted papers of RuleML+RR 2021 will be invited for submission to the Journal of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP) published by Cambridge University Press.

Important dates

• May 24th June 19th: Title and abstract submission

• June 2nd June 23: Paper submission deadline – strict!

• August 1st: Notification of acceptance

• September 26th-28th: Conference

For each of these deadlines, a cut-off point of 23:59 AOE applies.

Check out further details materializing at https://2022.declarativeai.net/.