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• 2009-12-08: Thetida Zetta, Efstratios Kontopoulos, and Nick Bassiliades released a tool totally dedicated to RuleML authoring: S2REd (more: User Interfaces)
• Open Call for Submissions to the 3rd International Rules Challenge at RuleML-2009, November 5-7 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: http://2009.ruleml.org/challenge. The Rules Challenge is one of the highlights at RuleML-2009 with prestigious prizes and additional CEUR proceedings. MAKE RULEML-2009 YOUR SHOWCASE!
• The International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2009) will take place, November 5-7, 2009, in Las Vegas, Nevada, co-located with the 12th International Business Rules Forum (BR Forum). RuleML-2009, is the premier industrial-oriented meeting place to discuss and exchange new ideas, practical developments and experiences on all topics related to the engineering, management, integration, interoperation and interchange of rules in open distributed environments such as the Web. RuleML-2009 will enable delegates to better understand Web rules and rule-based event processing technologies and their potential, and how to exploit these technologies in their organizations. A RuleML-2009 Challenge with prizes will be organized to demonstrate tools, use cases, case studies and applications. Make RuleML-2009 your Web Rules showcase!
• Call for Chapters for TMRF e-Book Advances in Semantic Computing solicits topics on Rule-based transformation of semantic representations, Ontology and rulebase browsers, Ontology and rulebase interchange languages and processors, and Semantic profiles in FOAF and ontology/rule extensions. 1-2 page proposal deadline: June 21, 2009
• 2009-03-10: An introduction to Functional RuleML-style rules (based on first chapter of the lecture notes Functional-Logic Programming) was presented as a UNB Department of Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium: Some Principles of Programming with Functions and Relations.
• Senior Technical Reports are available: Gregory Sherman authored A Critical Analysis of XSLT Technology for XML Transformation. Benjamin Craig authored Evaluating Centralized, Hierarchical, and Networked Architectures for Rule Systems.
• CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: The 2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) will take place, October 30-31, 2008, in Orlando, Florida, co-located with The 11th International Business Rules Forum (BR Forum). RuleML-2008 is devoted to practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Web 2.0, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures, and Service-Oriented Computing Applications. The RuleML-2008 Challenge provides an excellent opportunity to demonstrate rule-based tools, use cases, and applications (and to win a prize). Late-breaking Challenge/Showcase Demos are still possible, along with Lightning/Highlight Talks & Fast Abstracts. All the details for the still-open calls can be found at: http://2008.ruleml.org/lightning.php The submission deadline is October 1st.
• 2008-09-15: A page for RuleML Challenge Demos has has been created and is reachable at the right-hand side Resources sidebar.
• The International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2008) will take place, October 30-31, 2008, in Orlando, Florida, co-located with the 11th International Business Rules Forum (BR Forum). RuleML-2008, is the primary venue to discuss and exchange new ideas, practical developments and experiences on issues pertinent to the interchange and applications of rules in open distributed environments such as the Web. RuleML-2008 will enable delegates to better understand Web Rules and Rule-Based Event Processing technologies and their potential, and how to exploit these technologies in their organizations. A RuleML-2008 Challenge with prizes will be organized to demonstrate tools, use cases, case studies and applications. Make RuleML-2008 your Web Rules showcase! Additional Calls for Contributions -- All Deadlines: August 22, 2008: Present your work at the Lightning Talks / Highlight Talks / Fast Abstracts. Get an award at the Challenge/Showcase Demos.
• 2008-07-31: OO jDREW version 0.96 has been released, implementing Naf Hornlog RuleML. Recent OO jDREW applications have been in Expert Finding (FindXpRT), eTourism (eTourPlan), Health Information Retrieval (http://gge.athost.net), and Personal Agents (Rule Responder).
• 2008-02-13: The Defeasible RuleML Technical Group now has a preliminary page.
• CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2007)
  The International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2007) will take place, October 25-26, 2007, in Orlando, Florida <http://2007.ruleml.org>, co-located with The 10th International Business Rules Forum <http://www.businessrulesforum.com>. RuleML-2007 is devoted to practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Web 2.0, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures, and Service-Oriented Computing Applications.
  The new RuleML-2007 Challenge provides an excellent opportunity to demonstrate rule-based tools, use cases, and applications (and to win a prize). Late-breaking demos for the RuleML-2007 Challenge are welcome. Please send title, author(s) and brief description by September, 30th to ruleml2007 AT easychair.org <http://2007.ruleml.org/index-Dateien/Page787.htm>.
• 2007-08-17: Reaction RuleML 0.2 was released:
  The Reaction RuleML Technical Group (Chairs: Adrian Paschke and Alexander Kozlenkov) has released Reaction RuleML 0.2:
  - Generalizes the syntax of different rule subfamilies by introducing one general <Rule> construct which can be specialized to different types of rules.
  - Metadata, scopes and qualification labels for rules and rule bases (modules)
  - Enhanced update actions and complex event and action algebra
  - Event messages for complex event processing and messaging reaction rules
  - RuleML Interface Description Language (RuleML IDL)
  - Generalized procedural attachments for external procedural calls to programming languages
  - Language extensibility via integration of external language constructs and external manipulation and query languages
  - Tool support for validation, translation and editing
• The International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2007) will take place, October 25-26, 2007, in Orlando, Florida, co-located with The 10th International Business Rules Forum (BR Forum). RuleML-2007 is devoted to practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules operating in the context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems, Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing Applications. A RuleML-2007 Challenge with prizes will be organized to demonstrate tools, use cases, and applications. Registration is OPEN. Early Registration Deadline: 15 Sept 2007. Please register NOW!
• The First International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR2007) is devoted to all aspects of Semantic Web Reasoning, with an emphasis on rule-based approaches and languages. RR2007 brings together three previously separate events: International Workshop on Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning (PPSWR2006), the International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web (RuleML2006), and the International Workshop on Reasoning on the Web (RoW2006). The conference is organized in Innsbruck (Austria) on 7-8 June 2007 by REWERSE and RuleML, and co-located with ESWC2007. EXTENDED DEADLINE: 11 Feb 2007.
• The RuleML-2006 Conference, held with the Int'l Semantic Web Conference, will take place in Athens, GA, Nov. 10-11, 2006, featuring a Program of exciting Keynotes, excellent (Research and Industry) Papers, a Fishbowl panel, Tutorials, and Posters. Early registration (before Sept. 30, 2006): US$275. Late registration (after Sept. 30, 2006): US$335.
• 2006-08-24: The specification of RuleML 0.91, incorporating Functional RuleML, has been released along with an updated glossary of terms.
• 2006-08-18: The OO jDREW 0.9, 0.91, and 0.92 versions have been released over the last two months. These releases include the following new features: Test for stratification. Loop counter for BU iterations. Option to print only facts instead of facts and rules. Implementation of the RuleML Data element.
• 2006-08-12: Functional RuleML has been pre-released, which will be part of the upcoming RuleML 0.91 release.
• The RuleML-06 Workshop on Ontology and Rule Integration will explore the integration and interaction (homogeneous and hybrid) between the rule and ontology layers of the Semantic Web, and share best practices. Papers are welcome on all theoretical and practical aspects of ontology-rule integration as well as on the orchestration of inferencing across layers, adaptable policy enforcement using ontologies enhanced with rules, dynamic rule and ontology distribution, and rule annotation for discovery and reuse with ontologies. Final Submission Deadlines: 7 July 2006: Deadline for abstracts. 14 July 2006: Deadline for papers.
• The Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium (CSWWS 2006) is the premier event on the Semantic Web in Canada. It will be held on June 6th, 2006, and will be co-located with the 19th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2006) in beautiful Quebec City. The Technical Program includes a SOA keynote, several papers on rules and ontologies, and much more. Registration is open!
• A free tool called TRANSLATOR has been developed to automatically translate natural language sentences written in Attempto Controlled English into RuleML. The goal is to allow even non-experts to write facts and rules in formal representation for use on the Semantic Web.
• 2006-04-06: Roman Schindlauer, Thomas Eiter, and Giovambattista Ianni made ASP RuleML available as a sublanguage of RuleML for answer-set programs: A brief description has been added to the RuleML website as an ASP RuleML section.
• The RuleML-2006 Conference is aimed to be the premier scientific forum for exchanging ideas on all aspects of rules for the Semantic Web. Like its precursors, RuleML-2006 will be held in collaboration with the International Semantic Web Conference, and will be co-located with it. The RuleML-2006 Conference will for the first time consist of both an academic track and an industry track. Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2006. Deadline for paper submissions: 22 May 2006.
• The Eighth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC’06) is being held August 14-16, 2006 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Semantic Web, Ontologies, Rules, Services, Multiagent Systems, Electronic Markets, Privacy, Security, Trust, E-government, Mobile and Pervasive Commerce, Business-to-Business E-Commerce and Business-to-Consumer E-Commerce. Of particular interest to RuleML is the Research Track on Semantic Web Ontologies, Rules and Services. Submission deadline: March 6, 2006.
• BASeWEB’06: International Workshop on Business Agents and the Semantic Web, May 8, 2006, Hakodate, Japan. After being held four times in Canada, the BASeWEB Series of Workshops is now crossing the Pacific. BASeWEB’06 will be held in conjunction with AAMAS-06, the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems at the Future University-Hakodate. Topics of interest include Extended Horn logics and rule markup techniques (e.g., RuleML). All authors will be invited to extend their papers for submission to a special issue of the journal Computational Intelligence. Submissions/Requests for Participation deadline: Feb 1, 2006.
• 2005-12-13: VDR-Device (version 0.27) has been released, contributing to both Engines and User Interfaces, where rules can be expressed in an extension of the OO RuleML syntax.
• 2005-11-09: The specification of RuleML 0.9 has been released along with a new glossary of terms.
• The RuleML-2005 Call for Participation has been published, featuring a fine Program and collocating the OWL Workshop.
• 2005-09-13: A new use case called ChemXelem consisting of a RuleML knowledge base about the Periodic System of the Elements has been created.
• 2005-08-23: A new Technical Group on Fuzziness in RuleML (Fuzzy RuleML) has been established.
• We are pleased to announce that Tim Berners-Lee will be the keynote speaker at RuleML-2005. Deadline for paper submissions has been extended to: 11 July 2005.
• 2005-06-22: A Roadmap for Open Source OO jDREW Development was published in the new jdrew-all mailing list.
• 2005-06-21: The Web Rule Language - WRL v1.0 was announced, with sublanguages aligned to RuleML and the XML serialization using RuleML.
• 2005-05-27: The specification of RuleML 0.89 has been released, including long-envisaged new expressiveness (e.g. new sublanguages for FOL RuleML) and new <Data> tag that may specify an XML Schema built-in datatype for checking during validation. The official model of RuleML has been updated accordingly.
• Said Tabet, co-chair of the RuleML Initiative, will be chairing a session on regulatory compliance and standards during the European Business Rules Conference 2005 in Amsterdam, on June 10th 2005. Details of the event are at the following URL: http://www.eurobizrules.org/rc/rchome.htm. The event is sponsored by ILOG and supported by OMG, the European Business Rules Conference, and RuleML.
• 2005-05-06/09: A new RuleML Logo and a preliminary RuleML Tutorial have been added to the main site.
• RuleML-2005, the International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web, will be held in conjunction with ISWC-2005 in Galway, Ireland, on 10-11 November 2005. Deadline for paper submissions has been extended to: 11 July 2005.
• A Workshop on Protégé with Rules will be held in conjunction with the 8th Intl. Protégé Conference in Madrid, Spain, on Monday, 18 July 2005. Deadline for paper or abstract submissions: 1 June 2005.
• Press Release (Boston, USA, Fredericton, Canada, Galway, Ireland, Innsbruck, Austria, April 22, 2005): RuleML and DERI Collaborate on Rules and Services Technologies Based on Their Standardization Initiatives.
• A W3C Workshop on Rule Languages for Interoperability, chaired by Sandro Hawke (W3C), Christian de Sainte Marie (ILOG), and Said Tabet (The RuleML Initiative), was held in Washington, D.C., on 27-28 April 2005. We presented the RuleML Position Statement (pdf, ppt), RDF/RuleML Interoperability (pdf, ppt), and more (summary: panel).
• 2005-04-03: The Semantic Web Services Framework (SWSF), Version 1.0 was announced, whose Semantic Web Services Language (SWSL) has its sublanguages aligned to (an extended) RuleML and its XML serialization use RuleML.
• 2005-02-10: The specification of RuleML 0.88 has been released, incorporating significant syntactical changes motivated by First-Order Logic RuleML, with a few revisions on 2005-03-01.
• SemWebCentral contains a number of tools for rules, including SweetRules.
• The Rising Star - MOST Workshop - Maritimes Open Source Technologies at the Université de Moncton, NB, Nov 10, 2004, showcased Open Source Software related to NRC - IIT projects, including The Open RuleML Standard for Semantic Web Rule Interchange (source: RuleML-MOST.ppt).
• 2004-11-04: The Joint Committee has released the SWRL FOL package, containing A Proposal for a SWRL Extension to First-Order Logic, SWRL 0.7, and FOL RuleML 0.9.
• 2004-11-02: FOL RuleML 0.9 has been released with a monolithic DTD specification incorporating First-Order-Logic quantifiers and disjunctions as well as equivalence and negation. FOL RuleML strives for a strict separation of declarative content from procedural (Assert, Query) performatives, as pioneered by KQML. This and further changes to the current RuleML 0.87 will also benefit other sublanguages towards RuleML 0.9, in particular the Horn logic subset. An FOL RuleML section has been created.
• The W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services at the Oracle Conference Center, Redwood Shores, CA, October 12-13, 2004, includes a paper on A generalized RuleML-based Declarative Policy specification language for Web Services.
• 2004-08-12: The specification of RuleML 0.87 has been released, incorporating design changes for systematic StripeSkipping as well as envisioned extensions, e.g. for the accommodation of F-Logic.
• Current work on the design of RuleML includes First-Order-Logic (FOL) RuleML, Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) RuleML and OO RuleML updates accommodating Frame Logic (F-logic) slot-name variables.
• 2004-07-15: The XML Schema specification of RuleML 0.86 has been released, improving upon 0.85 by incorporating the results of recent discussions about alternative modularizations of RuleML and emphasizing validation stability.
• Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web Workshop, in conjunction with the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004), Hiroshima Prince Hotel, Hiroshima, Japan, 8 November 2004. Deadline for paper submissions: 12 July 2004.
• WWW2004 finished with the traditional Developer's Day, this time containing a Rules on the Web track with strong RuleML participation (see report: www2004-devday-report.pdf, www2004-devday-report.ppt).
• The NRC Semantic Web Laboratory, with a focus on RuleML, now has bilingual home pages (SemWebLab, LabWebSem)
• A new Policy RuleML Technical Group (TG) has been prepared in collaboration with the Privacy, Security and Trust (PST) initiative (PST'04).
• 2004-02-27: The New Brunswick Business Knowledge Base, NBBizKB, was created as a major use case for OO RuleML.
• 2004-01-28: The Object-Oriented RuleML (OO RuleML) revisions ('_r' became '_slot', 'n' has been expanded to 'name', and 'w' is now 'weight') have been approved by the RuleML SC and the DTD and XML Schema specification of RuleML 0.85 version has been released.
• 2003-12-03: The RuleML website is now being hosted by Canada's National Research Council (NRC). Thanks to all who have been involved in the move, in particular to Justin Hickey, NRC. Please, update your documents by replacing URLs of the form http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/ruleml/x/y/z with URLs of the form http://www.ruleml.org/x/y/z (Justin has a Perl script replaceText for performing such replacements througout directory hierarchies).
• The slotted and sorted sublanguages as described in a recent OO RuleML paper have been implemented by Marcel Ball (Object-Oriented jDREW).
• For specifying OO RuleML, the entire (OO) RuleML family of sublanguages has been re-modularized and transposed to XML Schema via content models by David Hirtle such that positional and slotted versions are always kept in the same sublanguage rather than duplicating each sublanguage (DTD and XML Schema specification of RuleML 0.85 ).
• Further technical progress has been made in collaborations with the Joint Committee on the PR Syntax, now called POSL (new section), RuleML Lite (new section), and SWRL, including an attempt to provide an extensible, modular built-ins infrastructure for Semantic Web Languages, Web Services, and Web applications.
• Technical Group (TG) on Frames, Objects, and RUle Markup (FORUM) has been established.
• Section on Object-Oriented RuleML (OO RuleML) extension has been created.
• Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web (RuleML-2003) Workshop, in conjunction with the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003), Sanibel Island, Florida, USA, 20 October 2003. Deadline for paper submissions: 15 June 2003.
• Workshop on Business Agents and the Semantic Web (BASeWEB-03), June 14, 2003, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Deadline for Submissions/Requests for Participation: Mar. 28, 2003.
• Carlos Viegas Damásio has prepared an initial Home Page of The W4 Project on Well-founded semantics for the World Wide Web. He has also finished the implementation of a RuleML parser for hornlog, and successfully tested it with RuleML examples. It will appear soon in the W4 project page.
• Andreas Eberhart proposes the Web Service Description Framework (WSDF), using RuleML for method definitions, in the paper Towards Universal Web Service Clients at the W3C-endorsed EuroWeb 2002 Conference - The Web and the GRID: from e-science to e-business, St Anne's College Oxford, UK, December 17 and 18th 2002.
• In a series of telecon meetings the Joint US/EU ad hoc Agent Markup Language Committee discussed RuleML based on the following presentations by Benjamin Grosof and Harold Boley: Introduction to RuleML, RuleML Intro Examples and More Syntax Details, and RuleML Meets RDF: Triples, Rules, and Taxonomies, gaining new insigths into RDF's bNodes and RuleML, RuleML's XML-RDF-integrating data model, and RDF and RuleML's Datalog and Hornlog sublanguages.
• At the recent DAML PI Meeting Benjamin Grosof gave a presentation on DAML Rules.
• Harold Boley discusses a knowledge- and metadata-derivation role of RuleML in a presentation for grad students on The Semantic Web in Ten Passages at the Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, 2 Oct 2002.
• Bruce Spencer gave a talk on The Design of j-Drew: A Deductive Reasoning Engine for the Web in the Joint CoLogNet Workshop on Component-based Software Development and Implementation Technology for Computational Logic Systems of LOPSTR '02 at the Technical University of Madrid, Spain, 17 - 20 Sept 2002.
• A talk on the Semantic Web, RuleML and j-DREW was given by Bruce Spencer in the e-Learning Technical Session of SOFTWORLD2002 in Charlottetown, PEI, Canada, Sept 8-11th, 2002.
• A Luncheon Keynote, "The Semantic Web and Wall Street", was given by Steve Ross-Talbot and Said Tabet as part of the Conference Program, 2002 Focus: Web Services and Beyond for the Financial Markets, of Wall Street IT -- The Next Generation, New York City, Sept 4-5th, 2002.
• Mahesh Gandhe, supervised by Benjamin Grosof and Tim Finin, maintains a site on SweetJess, for which there is now a prototype of RuleML in DAML+OIL syntax, and translation between this DamlRuleML (or RuleML in ordinary XML) to Jess. The prototype includes using Jess to perform inference in DamlRuleML (or RuleML).
• Andreas Eberhart wrote a small tool that allows you to convert Prolog (currently, Datalog) rules to RuleML. This Prolog2RuleML tool is available both online and as a command line version.
• RuleML Participant Jens Dietrich's Oryx (version 2.1) has a graphical Knowledge Editor for business rules and a Repository that contains the description of predicates, functions, and database connections. "Oryx works with open XML based formats, support for the emerging RuleML standard and the open source Mandarax XKB 1.0 format is included." (http://www.jbdietrich.com).
• RuleML has already been used in teaching, e.g. in Germany (leading to this exam), in Sweden (leading to this introduction), and in Canada (leading to these notes).
• The rule-applying comparison-shopping agent/rulebase RACSA and a RuleML-to-Jess transformer/rulebase were added to our Rulebase Library.
• Drools, an augmented implementation of Forgy's RETE algorithm for the object-oriented Java, discusses RuleML in the drools-interest archived news.
• The RuleML Sardinia Slides are available.
• Jens Dietrich and others discuss RuleML in a discussion forum on real-world rule-based systems (Engineering | General Computing | rules engine decision table book or web page).
• The Third ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Rule-Based Programming will be held on October 5, 2002 in Pittsburgh, USA. Deadline for submissions: June 3, 2002.
• Enigmatec Corporation has published a Press Release building on RuleML.
• RuleML Queries have been realized as an extended DTD 0.8 version (since this extension is purely additive, all queriless RuleML 0.8 rulebases should still validate).
• We held a workshop on Rule Markup Languages for Business Rules in the Semantic Web emphasizing both reaction rules (contact: Gerd Wagner) and defeasible rules (contact: Michael Schroeder) in conjunction with the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2002) and the OntoWeb3 meeting, June 13-15, 2002, Sardinia, Italy. Deadline for submissions: April 26, 2002.
• Workshop Business Agents and the Semantic Web (May 26, 2002) at AI-2002 (Calgary, Alberta, Canada). Deadline for Submissions/Requests for Participation: March 28, 2002.
• The talk Regel-Markup und -Anwendungen ("Rule Markup and Applications") was given at the Semantic Web Workshop of the Symposium Forschen für die Internetgesellschaft: Trends, Technologien, Anwendungen, in Berlin, Germany, on 22 April 2002.
• Steve Ross-Talbot and Martin West presented Implementing the IAA BOM Using Java(TM) Technology and an ECA Framework -- the latter being part of RuleML -- at JavaOne 2002 in San Francisco, March 2002.
• Steve Ross-Talbot wrote the following RuleML-related articles and has at least three more in the pipeline: An article on Building to scale: JMS meets JCACHE is in the Java Developer's Journal, February 2002 (Vol7 Issue 02). Another article on Network Computing and Middleware for the next generation is in Middleware Spectra, February 2002 (Volume 16, Report 1).
• Eric Prud'hommeaux is highlighting concepts and issues related to querying semantic web data, using a common example for comparing various query languages, including RuleML.
• Two DFKI Colloquia on 6 February 2002 featured talks by Said Tabet on RuleML meets Web Services and the Semantic Web: Challenges and Applications and by Bruce Spencer on The Design of j-DREW, a Deductive Reasoning Engine for the Semantic Web.
• We organized the Program of Dagstuhl Seminar 02061 on Rule Markup Techniques in the week 3 - 8 February 2002.
• The PPT talk RuleML: Markup von Regelwerken im Semantischen Web ("RuleML: Markup of Rule Systems in the Semantic Web") was given at Online 2002, in Düsseldorf, Germany, on 29 January 2002.
• The talk RuleML: Data Model, Language Hierarchy, and Transformations was presented as a Fredericton CS Seminar on 3 December 2001 and a Linköping SaS Seminar on 17 January 2002.
• The presentation "Flexibility is the Key: RuleML meets Web Services and the Semantic Web" ("La flexibilité est la clef: RuleML à la rencontre du Web Sémantique et des Services Web") was given by Said Tabet as the first colloquium in a joint seminar series of UNB and NRC in Fredericton, NB, on 17 December 2001.
• Benjamin Grosof presented the talk Representing E-Business Rules for the Semantic Web: Situated Courteous Logic Programs in RuleML and the research prototype Tools for Representing E-Business Rules on the Semantic Web: Situated Courteous Logic Programs in RuleML at The 11th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2001) in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 15/16 December 2001.
• Some RuleML extensions and demos, including for capturing inference results, were discussed in W3C's RDF Rules list, starting on 20 November 2001.
• A RuleML Workshop took place in conjunction with the third International Conference on Electronic Commmerce, ICEC2001, in Vienna, Austria, in November 2001.
• There was an Invited Talk (revised for Fredericton Talk: ruleml-mht-talk) on The Rule Markup Language: RDF-XML Data Model, XML Schema Hierarchy, and XSL Transformations (ruleml-mht.ps, ruleml-mht.pdf) and a DDLP Talk on TRIPLE---An RDF Query, Inference, and Transformation Language at the 14th International Conference of Applications of Prolog, INAP2001, in Tokyo, Japan, in October 2001.
• An alpha-stage cross-compiler (OntoJava) from Protégé and RuleML into a unified Java object database and rule engine has been implemented.
• A first pair of translators exporting/importing RuleML markup to/fro another XML-based rule language (RFML) is provided.
• Steve Ross-Talbot's Online Webinar shows a pyramid Web architecture and the need for rules at various levels. This will give readers a good overview of what to expect from this new Web architecture. It also explains the challenges and the need for rules, in particular business rules, for Web Services.
• Steve Ross-Talbot wrote a RuleML-related article on Java Rules in J2EE in the Java Developer's Journal, September 2001 (Vol6 Issue 09).
• Two RuleML-related Tutorials on Knowledge Markup and Resource Semantics (Slides) and on Agent Communication in Knowledge Based Electronic Markets, as well as an Invited Workshop Talk Standardizing XML Rules: Rules for E-Business on the Semantic Web took place in conjunction with IJCAI-01, in August 2001, in Seattle, Washington.
• We presented an SWWS paper, Design Rationale of RuleML: A Markup Language for Semantic Web Rules (pdf, talk), at Stanford, CA, in July/August 2001.
• The Competence Center Semantic Web started in July 2001 with coordinating DFKI's Semantic Web technologies such as XML, RDF, DAML+OIL, XSLT, and RuleML.
• A talk at the OntoWeb Kick-off Workshop, Heraklion, Greece, June 2001, was on RuleML for the Semantic Web.
• On the first day of W3C's Technical Plenary and WG Meeting Event, 26 February - 2 March 2001, RuleML participants organized a Birds Of a Feather session, using this presentation material; in addition, at the RDF Interest Group: Face to face meeting 26/27 Feb 2001 we presented RDF Relationships and DTD Modularization.

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