Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

[Tristan Behrens]

*Call for Papers*---/Rule Representation, Interchange and Reasoning in 
Distributed, Heterogeneous Environments/

Guest Editors: Nick Bassiliades, Guido Governatori, Adrian Paschke, 
Jürgen Dix

In recent years rule based technologies have enjoyed remarkable adoption 
in two areas: (1) Business Rule Processing and (2) Web-Centered 
Reasoning. The first trend is caused by the software development life 
cycle, which needs to be accelerated at reduced cost. The second trend 
is related to the Semantic Web and Service-oriented technologies, which 
aim to turn the Web into a huge repository of cross-referenced, 
machine-understandable data and processes. For both trends, rules can be 
used to extract, derive, transform, and integrate information in a 
platform-independent manner. While early rule engines and environments 
were complex, expensive to maintain, and not very user friendly, the 
current generation of rule technology provides enhanced usability, 
scalability and performance, and is less costly. A general advantage of 
using rules is that they are usually represented in a platform 
independent manner, often using XML. This fits well into today's 
distributed, heterogeneous Web-based system environments. Rules 
represented in standardized Web formats can be discovered, interchanged 
and invoked at runtime within and across Web systems, and can be 
interpreted and executed on any platform.
This special issue solicits state-of-the-art approaches, solutions and 
applications in the area of Rule Representation, Reasoning and 
Interchange in the context of distributed, (partially) open, 
heterogeneous environments, such as the Semantic Web, Intelligent 
Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented 
Computing. We strongly advise that solicited contributions should 
clearly identify the target class of applications they enable.

Download the CfP (PDF) here:
http://www.computer.org/portal/cms_docs_transactions/transactions/tkde/CFP/cfp_rule-representation.pdf