RuleML-2008 Final Call for Participation

[Nick Bassiliades]

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FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

2008 International RuleML Symposium
on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008)

Co-located with the 11th International Business Rules Forum

October 30-31, 2008, Orlando, Florida
http://2008.ruleml.org

Register for RuleML-2008 and book you room now!
The discounted hotel rooms are almost sold out.
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The RuleML-2008 symposium features a strong technical program
consisting of:

* Keynote speakers:

  o Paul Haley (Haley Systems, Inc) on "Event and Process Semantics
    will Rule".

  o David Luckham (Stanford University, USA) on "The Power of Events:
    An Introduction to Complex Event Processing in Distributed
    Enterprise Systems".

  o Michael Kifer (State University of New York at Stony Brook), on
    "Rule Interchange Format: The Framework".
     Joint keynote between RuleML-2008 and RR2008.

  o Benjamin Grosof (Vulcan, Inc.) on "Hyper Logic Programs in SILK:
    Redefining the KR Playing Field for Business and VLKB".

* Joint Lunch Panel held in conjunction with the co-located Business
  Rules Forum on "Rules on the Web".

* A RuleML-2008 Challenge with prizes to demonstrate tools, use cases,
  and applications.

* Special Invited Sessions on Rule Standards and rule-based software
  demonstrations.

* Industry, demo and scientific research & development papers and
  presentations advancing and assessing the state of the art in event
  and rule-based systems selected in a peer-reviewed fashion by an
  international program committee.

* Papers will be published as a Springer LNCS proceedings. A related
  journal special issue (IEEE TKDE) on "Rule Representation, Interchange
  and Reasoning in Distributed, Heterogeneous Environments", open to
  all, has been scheduled.

* Social events to promote networking among the symposium delegates in
  an informal setting.

You will be offered an exciting venue to exchange new ideas, practical
developments and experiences on issues related to the engineering,
management, integration, interoperation and interchange of rules and
events in open distributed environments such as Enterprise
Architectures, the Web, Event-Driven and Service Oriented
Architectures etc.

The full symposium program is available at:
http://2008.ruleml.org/program.php

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Registration
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The registration page is available at:
http://2008.ruleml.org/registration.php

Special discounts are available for our collaboration
partners and sponsors, as well as a group discount.

The symposium will be held at the Buena Vista Palace in Orlando,
Florida, near the Walt Disney World Resort. Information about
the symposium venue are available here:

http://2008.ruleml.org/venue.php

Reserved discounted hotel rooms for BRF and RuleML will soon be
released. Register for RuleML-2008 now and book you room as soon as
possible to get a discounted price.

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Co-located with:

The 11th International Business Rules Forum
http://www.businessrulesforum.com
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Sponsored by:

Gold level : Vulcan Inc
Silver level: Model Systems
Bronze level: STI Innsbruck, ruleCore, JBoss

Sponsoring opportunities: http://2008.ruleml.org/sponsoring/
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In Co-operation with:

CSW Corporate Semantic Web, AAAI, W3C, BPM-Forum, Business Rules Forum,
ECCAI, OASIS, OMG, Dallas Rules Group, Belgium Business Rules Forum,
MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, Event Processing Technical Society, ACM,
ACM SIGART, ACM SIGMIS, ACM SIGWEB, Open Research Society,
IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society,
IEEE SMCS TC on Intelligent Internet Systems, IEEE SMCS TC on
Distributed Intelligent Systems, IEEE Computer Society TC on Autonomous and
Autonomic Systems

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Media Partners:
Springer LNCS, MoDo Marketing
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