Rule Representation, Interchange and Reasoning on the Web

N. Bassiliades, G. Governatori, A. Paschke, “Rule Representation, Interchange and Reasoning on the Web”, Proceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008), Springer, LNCS, Vol. 5321, ISBN: 978-3-540-88807-9, pp. 243, Orlando, Florida, USA, 30-31 Oct., 2008.

RuleML, Web rules, semantic Web, rule interchange, business rules, integration of rules and ontologies, rule-based environments, hybrid rule systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications, RuleML 2008, held in Orlando, FL, USA, in October 2008 – collocated with the 11th International Business Rules Forum. The 10 revised full papers and 10 revised short papers presented together with 2 demo papers and the abstracts of 3 keynote lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on rule engineering, rule-based methodologies and applications in policies, electronic contracts and security, rule representation languages and reasoning engines, rule-based methodologies and applications in distributed and heterogeneous environments, natural-language and graphical rule representation and processing, as well as exemplary contributions to the RuleML-2008 challenge.