[Om-announce] Call for papers RR 2009

[Terrance Swift]

                     PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS!!!
 		    (Apologies for multiple posts)

                 The Third International Conference on
                Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2009)

                http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2009

                        Chantilly, Virginia, USA
 			 October 25-26, 2009

     Co-located with the International Semantic Web Conference '09

The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) is
a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results
concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2009 builds on the
success of The first two International Conferences on Web Reasoning
and Rule Systems, which received enthusiastic support from the Web
Rules community. In 2009, RR will continue the excellence of the new
series and aim to attract the best Web Reasoning and Rules researchers
from all over the world.

Suggested topics include the following, which is not to be considered
as an exhaustive list:

    * Representation techniques for web-based knowledge
    * Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction
    * Combining open and closed-world reasoning
    * Combining rules and ontologies
    * Design and analysis of reasoning languages
    * Efficiency and benchmarking
    * Implemented tools and systems
    * Standardization
    * Ontology usability
    * Ontology languages and their relationships
    * Querying and optimization
    * Rules and ontology management (such as inconsistency handling and
      evolution)
    * Reasoning with uncertainty and under inconsistency
    * Reasoning with constraints
    * Rule languages and systems
    * Rule interchange formats and Rule markup languages
    * Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the web
    * Approximate reasoning techniques for the Web
    * Integration of statistical methods and symbolic reasoning
    * Semantic Web Services modeling and applications
    * Web and Semantic Web applications and experience papers

SUBMISSION DETAILS

   Papers for past conferences were published in the Springer LNCS series
   (acceptance pending for this year).  Papers may be accepted as:

   *  full papers (15 pages in the proceedings)
   *  short papers (8 pages in the proceedings)
   *  posters (2 pages in the proceedings).

   The stated lengths include title, abstract and list of references.
   All papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style
   (see http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/Authors.html), and must be in
   PDF format.  Submission is via EasyChair, at
   http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2009

TENTATIVE DATES

   Abstract submission: June 14, 2009
   Paper submission: June 28, 2009

   Acceptance decisions: July 21, 2009

   Camera-ready papers due: August 25, 2009

   RR 2009 conference: Oct 25-26, 2009

CONTACTS

   For information about papers and submissions, please contact a Program Chair:

     Axel Polleres, axel.polleres at deri.org, National University of Ireland, Galway (IE)
     Terrance Swift, tswift at cs.sunysb.edu, CENTRIA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (PT)

   For other information about the conference, please contact the General Chair:

     Michael Kifer kifer at cs.sunysb.edu, SUNY Stony Brook, (USA)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

   To be announced