Rule-Based Reasoning, Programming, and Applications

N. Bassiliades, G. Governatori, A. Paschke, “Rule-Based Reasoning, Programming, and Applications”, Proceedings of 5th International Symposium, RuleML 2011 - Europe, Springer, LNCS, Vol. 6826, pp. 383, 2011.

Rules and Automated Reasoning, Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning, Rules, Agents and Norms, Rule-Based Distributed/Multi-Agent Systems, Rule-Based Policies, Reputation and Trust, Rule-based Event Processing and Reaction Rules, Fuzzy Rules and Uncertainty, Rule Transformation and Extraction, Vocabularies, Ontologies, and Business rules, Rule interchange and reasoning interoperation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Rules: Research Based and Industry Focused (RuleML-2011@IJCAI), collocated in Barcelona, Spain, with the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The technical program showed a carefully selected presentation of current rule research and development in 18 full papers, 8 short papers, 3 invited track papers, and 2 keynote talks (abstracts included) detailed in this book. Accepted papers covered several aspects of rules, such as rule-based distributed/multiagent systems, rules, agents and norms, rule-based event processing and reaction rules, fuzzy rules and uncertainty, rules and the Semantic Web, rule learning and extraction, rules and reasoning, and finally, rule-based applications. The papers were selected from 58 submissions received from 22 countries. Four of the submissions were selected from some worthy papers on topics related to RuleML originally submitted at IJCAI that marginally missed the acceptance cut-off. In order to increase the quality of the papers, this year a two-round reviewing scheme was adopted to assess the revised papers from IJCAI and revised papers originally submitted to RuleML but not immediately accepted in the first reviewing round.