RuleML+RR 2024

General Information

The 18th International Rule Challenge is one of the highlights of the RuleML+RR conference and creates friendly competition among innovative rule-oriented tools, prototypes and applications, aimed at research, industry, and government.

In the 2024 edition of the challenge we give the opportunity to not only present results on self-introduced challenges but also to describe open challenges to be addressed by the community. Particularly, we welcome two kinds of submissions:

• Challenge proposals: Papers describing open challenges, interesting problems from academia or industry, and benchmarks which are of interest for the community and can be solved by rule-based approaches, including task description, datasets, and evaluation criteria. 

• Challenge solutions: Papers supplying benchmarking or comparison results for rule engines, rule-based machine learning techniques, illustrating rule- and model-driven engineering, reporting on case studies and industrial experiences, and realizing mobile deployment of rule-based reasoning.

Key themes of the Rule Challenge include, but are not limited to the following:

• Rule-based machine learning tools and techniques

• Rule-based approaches for intelligent systems

• Rule-based Event Processing and Stream Reasoning

• Business Rules Modelling

• Rule standardization for research, industry and government

• Graph-Relational Data and Knowledge systems

• Higher-Order-Logic and Modal-Logic systems

• Rule and Ontology combinations

• Modular Rule systems

• Distributed Rule systems / multi-agent systems

• Ontology-Based Data Access (OBDA) systems

• Answer Set Programming (ASP) systems

• Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) systems

• Blockchain Rule systems

• Defeasible, Argumentation, and Legal systems

• (Controlled) Natural language interfaces

• Distributed rule bases and rule services

• Rules and model-driven engineering

• Reports on industrial experience about rule systems

• Combining rules with knowledge extraction and information retrieval

• Rules and social media

• LLMs for Natural Language Rule Interfaces

• LLMs for Knowledge Extraction and Rule Induction

• LLMs for Rule-driven Content Generation

• Rule-based Systems Incorporating LLMs

Submission and Publication

The challenge seeks high quality, original papers, potentially referencing online material, and ranging between 8-15 pages. Accepted papers will be published as part of CEUR proceedings and should be in 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. 

Submitted papers must be original contributions written in English. Please submit your paper  via:

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

to the Rule Challenge track.

To ensure high quality, submissions will be carefully peer-reviewed by at least 3 PC members and external reviewers. Submissions should address the following, where possible:

• Provide a clear task description, all the relevant datasets, and the evaluation criteria at least in one dimension such as performance, correctness, and completeness (for challenge descriptions).

• Explain the objectives, outcomes, benefits as you are going beyond the state of the art in technology, the application domain, etc.

• Demonstrate the results with a concrete example balancing conciseness and completeness.

• Preferably (but not necessarily) embed the tool in a web-based or distributed environment or a mobile environment.

• Present end-user interactions, providing an adequate and usable interface that favors a concrete usage of the application.

• Mention the availability of the software and data, data interchange, and possible tool extensions.

• Provide a web-link to the project site, online demonstration, or download site.

The best challenge paper will be awarded the RuleML+RR Best Rule Challenge Paper Award 2024. The assessment criteria include originality, creativity together with feasibility.

Important Dates

• July 21st, 2024: Paper submission deadline 

• August 4th, 2024: Notification of acceptance 

• September 16th-18th (exact date TBA): Rule Challenge

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

Organization

Chairs

Anisa Rula, University of Brescia, Italy

Emanuel Sallinger, TU Wien, Austria

Program Committee 

Bettina Finzel, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany

Doerthe Arndt, TU Dresden, Germany

Dominik Tomaszuk, University of Bialystok, Poland

Gong Cheng, Nanjing University, China

Juliana Küster Filipe Bowles, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

Roman Bauer, University of Surrey, United Kingdom

Shashishekar Ramakrishna, EY - AI Labs / Free University of Berlin, Germany

William Van-Woensel, University of Ottawa, Canada

Yuheng Wang, Stony Brook University, United States