RuleML+RR 2024

Call Summary

The 8th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR 2024) is the leading international joint conference in the field of rule-based reasoning. One of the main goals of RuleML+RR is to build bridges between academia and industry in the area of semantic reasoning. 

RuleML+RR 2024 aims to bring together rigorous researchers and inventive practitioners, interested in the foundations and applications of rules and reasoning.  It provides a forum for stimulating cooperation and cross-fertilization between different communities focused on the research, development, and applications of rule-based systems. We are looking for high-quality papers related to theoretical advances, novel technologies, and artificial intelligence applications that involve rule-based representation and reasoning. 

The RuleML+RR 2024 conference is part of the event “Declarative AI: Rules, Reasoning, Decisions, and Explanations” and is co-located with DecisionCAMP 2024 and the Reasoning Web Summer School. Apart from the main track, it features the Rule Challenge, a Doctoral Consortium, an Industry Track, and a Project Networking Session as associated events.

Topics

RuleML+RR welcomes research from all areas of Rules and Reasoning. The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to:

Ontology/Semantic Web

• Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules

• Ontology-based mediated query answering

• Rules for knowledge graphs creation and interoperation

• Rules for knowledge graph embeddings and ontology learning

• Rule-based data integration

• Data management and data interoperability for web data

• Distributed agent-based systems for the web

Rules for AI and AI for Rules

• Rule-based approaches to natural language processing

• Applications of rule technologies with explainable AI (xAI) elements

• Machine learning approaches involving rules

• Explainable AI approaches based on rules

• FAIRness approaches based on rules

• Rule-based approaches for intelligent systems and intelligent information access

Rules and Reasoning / Logics

• Non-classical logics and the web

• Description Logics, existential rules

• Higher-order and modal rules

• Constraint programming

• Logic programming, ASP, and datalog

• Rule based argumentation

• Rule-based approaches to agents and multi-agent systems

• Reasoning with incomplete, inconsistent and uncertain data

• Non-monotonic, common-sense, and closed-world reasoning

• Inconsistency-tolerant rule reasoning

Technical Aspects of Rule Systems / Rule Technology

• Streaming data and complex event processing

• Web reasoning and distributed rule inference and execution

• Scalability and expressive power of logics for the Semantic Web

• Scalability and expressive power of logics for rules

• Data quality and benchmarks

Rules and Interoperability

• Rule markup languages, rule interchange formats, and rule standards

• Rule-based policies, reputation, and trust

• Rules and human language technology

System Descriptions, Applications and Experiences of Ontologies and Rules in

• Climate change monitoring, mitigation & adaptation

• Environmental protection

• Agriculture and agri-food

• Healthcare and life sciences

• Equity and social welfare

• Law, regulation, and finance

• Digital Twins

• Industrial contexts

• Production & business rule systems

Submission and Publication

High-quality papers related to theoretical advances, novel technologies, and artificial intelligence applications concerning explainable algorithmic decision-making that involve rule-based representation and reasoning are solicited.

We accept the following submission formats for papers:

• Long papers (up to 15 pages in LNCS style including references)

• Short papers (up to 8 pages in LNCS style including references)

Long papers should present original and significant research and/or development results. Short papers should concisely describe general results or specific applications, systems, or position statements. All submissions must be prepared in Springer's LNCS style (http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/authors.html).

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference/workshop with formal proceedings. Double submission to a workshop with informal proceedings is allowed. Papers put on arXiv are also allowed as long as they are not refereed (i.e., formally reviewed by peers). 

Submissions to the RuleML+RR conference

• have the page limit of 15 (/8) pages including references 

• are not anonymous 

• can have additional material included as an external report (appendices to the submission are not permitted and a paper should be self-contained)

Papers should be written in English can be submitted using EasyChair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2024 

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS) after the conference. The best papers will be considered for special issues of the Theory and Practice of Logic Programming or the Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge journals.

The best paper will be awarded the the RuleML+RR Harold Boley Distinguished Paper Award 2024 and best student paper will be awarded the RuleML+RR Best Student Paper Award 2024.

Important Dates

• June 1st, 2024, June 15th, 2024: Title and abstract submission

• June 7th, 2024, June 15th, 2024: Paper submission deadline

• July 19th, 2024: Notification of acceptance

• September 16th-18th, 2024: Conference

For each of these deadlines, a cut-off point of 23:59 AOE applies.