RuleML+RR 2024

General Information

The RuleML+RR 8th Doctoral Consortium 2024 (DC) is an initiative of the RuleML+RR community to attract and promote student research in Artificial Intelligence, especially research on rule-based formalisms and reasoning in such formalisms. It offers students a close contact with leading experts in the field, as well as the opportunity to present and discuss their ideas in a dynamic and friendly setting. This year's DC is organized as part of Declarative AI 2024: Rules, Reasoning, Decisions, and Explanations (Bucharest, 16-18 September 2024). 

We invite PhD students at an early or intermediate stage of their PhD studies, as well as exceptional master’s students who are interested in pursuing a PhD, to submit papers describing their research on any of the topics of RuleML+RR 2024.

Submission and Publication

RuleML+RR DC papers range between 8 and 15 pages, are written in English, will be published as part of CEUR proceedings, and should follow the CEUR-WS.org style template CEURART (1-column variant) available at 

http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip 

and 

https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt. 

They are submitted electronically in PDF together  with a maximum 2 page-long CV (the paper and the CV should be submitted together as one PDF file, but the CV is not counted within the 15 pages limit and is not published in the proceedings if the paper is accepted).

The submission should cover the following aspects: 

• The identification of a significant problem in a research field relevant to RuleML+RR 2024. 

• An outline of the current knowledge in the problem’s domain, as well as an overview of existing solutions. 

• A clear formulation of the research question and motivation. 

• A presentation of (possibly preliminary) ideas, the proposed approach, and the results achieved so far. 

• A sketch of the applied research methodology and its positioning in the field. 

• A description of the student’s contribution to the research. 

• A discussion of how the suggested solution is different, new, or better as compared to the state of the art. 

• A research plan and the potential achievements. 

The accepted DC papers will be presented to an interested audience and will be discussed with a panel of senior researchers from academia and the industry. Students will present their work through brief oral presentations during a dedicated session of RuleML+RR 2024. 

Please submit your paper  via:

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

to the Doctoral Consortium track.

The best paper will be awarded the RuleML+RR Best Doctoral Consortium Paper award 2024.

Important Dates

• July 21st, 2024: Paper submission deadline

• August 4th, 2024: Notification of acceptance

• September 16th-18th (exact date TBA): Doctoral Consortium

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

Organization

Chairs

Ognjen Savkovic, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Ioana Georgiana Ciuciu, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania

Program Committee 

Adrian Paschke, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Cosmin Lazar, Robert Bosch, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Romania

Davide Lanti, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Gabriela Czibula, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania

Guohui Xiao, University of Bergen, Norway

Iuliana Bocicor, Babes Bolyai University, Romania

Julien Corman, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

Shqiponja Ahmetaj, Vienna University of Technology, Austria