Opening Session

RuleML-2008 Devoted to practical distributed rule technologies and rule- based applications Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Event- Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing Applications Collocated with 11 th International Business Rules Forum 2 nd RuleML symposium (highly successful RuleML-2007) Goal to bring together rule system providers, rule standardization efforts and open source rules communities, practitioners and technical experts, developers, users, and researchers.

The RuleML Initiative ( Organized by representatives from academia, industry and government for promotion of the modern and future generations of rule technology, which provides enhanced usability, scalability and performance. Goal: to be a general and open intermediary between various “specialized” rule vendors, applications, industrial and research working groups and standardization efforts.

Organizing Committee General Chair Adrian Paschke, Free University Berlin, Germany Program Co-Chairs Nick Bassiliades, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Guido Governatori, NICTA, Australia Challenge Co-Chairs Yuh-Jong Hu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania Panel Co-Chairs John Hall, Model Systems, UK Axel Polleres, DERI Galway, Ireland Liaison Co-Chairs Jan Vanthienen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Mark Proctor, JBoss Rules, UK Rainer von Ammon, CITT GmbH, Germany Publicity Co-Chairs Matthias Nickles, University of Bath, UK Tracy Bost, Valocity, USA Web Chair Suzanne Embury, University of Manchester, UK

Program Committee Statistics 79 researchers and practitioners 48 (60%) from Universities and Research Institutes 31 (40%) from the Industry IBM 5, HP 3, Oracle, SAP, Siemens, XSB, ILOG, ruleCore, Fair Isaac, TIBCO, Pega, DBmind Geographical distribution Europe 43 (54.5%) Germany 9, UK 6, Greece 5, Austria 4, Italy 3, Netherlands 3, Finland 2, France 2, Sweden 2, Belgium, Croatia, Portugal America 24 (30.4%) USA 19, Canada 5 Asia 8 (10.1%) Israel 2, China 2, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand Oceania 4 (5%) Australia 3, New Zealand

Submission Statistics RuleML-2008 received 35 original submissions Europe (47.6%) Germany 4.33, Greece 3, Ireland 1.5, Spain 2, UK 2, Italy 1, Poland 1, France 0.83, Denmark 0.5, Romania 0.5 America (36.7%) USA 7.33, Canada 5.5 Asia 3.5 (10%) India 1, Japan 1, Taiwan 1, Iran 0.5 Oceania 2 (5,7%) Australia 2

Accepted Papers 10 full papers (28,5%) 10 short papers 2 demo/challenge papers (in the Springer proceedings) 6 more demos that participate in the challenge

Proceedings Published by Springer 10 full papers 10 short papers 2 demo papers 3 abstracts of keynote talks Nick Bassiliades, Guido Governatori, Adrian Paschke (Eds.), "Rule Representation, Interchange and Reasoning on the Web", Proceedings of The 2008 International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008), Orlando, Florida, USA, Oct. 2008, Springer, LNCS, Vol. 5321, 2008, ISBN:

Program 4 keynotes First day: Paul Haley, David Luckham Second day: Michael Kifer (remote talk, broadcasted from RR2008, Karlsruhe), Benjamin Grosof 5 research paper sessions 2 first day, 3 second day 4 presentations (2 full + 2 short) Challenge session First day, 8 participating demos (1 remote) Boxed Lunch Panel Session "Rules on the Web“ First day, Joint with BRF Special Invited Sessions First day: Rule Standards (OMG PRR, RIF PRD, SBVR) Second day: Demos

Social Events Continental Breakfasts, Lunches, Coffee Breaks Symposium Dinner (today, 7:30) Closing Session RuleML General Open Meeting, Snacks

Participant Statistics 48 participants 27 (56.25%) from Universities and Research Institutes 21 (43.75%) from the Industry Geographical distribution Europe 21 (43.75%) UK 8, Germany 3, Greece 2, Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Spain America 23 (48%) USA 18, Canada 5 Asia 3 (6.25%) China, Japan, Taiwan Oceania 1 (2%) Australia 1

Special Issue (open to all) Title: Rule Representation, Interchange and Reasoning in Distributed, Heterogeneous Environments Journal: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering Guest editors: N. Bassiliades, G. Governatori, A. Paschke, J. Dix Deadline: March 1, 2009 Publication date (tentative): July 2010 Topics: Rule Representation and Languages, Reasoning and Rule Engines, Rule Interchange and Integration, Rule Engineering and Repositories, Web Rule Applications

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Thanks To the Program Committee To the Symposium authors To the Keynote speakers and Invited speakers To the Panelists of Boxed Lunch Panel To the Business Rules Forum organizers Gladys Lam and Ron Ross, Valentina Tang To our sponsors, collaboration partners, media partners To all of you, the participants