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This is the chronological RuleML News-Events Archive for the anti-chronological RuleML News-Events.

Contents

• 2001 - 2006

2001 - 2006

• 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.
• A talk at the OntoWeb Kick-off Workshop, Heraklion, Greece, June 2001, was on RuleML for the Semantic Web.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Steve Ross-Talbot wrote a RuleML-related article on Java Rules in J2EE in the Java Developer's Journal, September 2001 (Vol6 Issue 09).
• 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.
• A first pair of translators exporting/importing RuleML markup to/fro another XML-based rule language (RFML) is provided.
• An alpha-stage cross-compiler (OntoJava) from Protégé and RuleML into a unified Java object database and rule engine has been implemented.
• 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.
• A RuleML Workshop took place in conjunction with the third International Conference on Electronic Commmerce, ICEC2001, in Vienna, Austria, in November 2001.
• Some RuleML extensions and demos, including for capturing inference results, were discussed in W3C's RDF Rules list, starting on 20 November 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.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• We organized the Program of Dagstuhl Seminar 02061 on Rule Markup Techniques in the week 3 - 8 February 2002.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• Enigmatec Corporation has published a Press Release building on RuleML.
• 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.
• 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 RuleML Sardinia Slides are available.
• Drools, an augmented implementation of Forgy's RETE algorithm for the object-oriented Java, discusses RuleML in the drools-interest archived news.
• The rule-applying comparison-shopping agent/rulebase RACSA and a RuleML-to-Jess transformer/rulebase were added to our Rulebase Library.
• 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).
• 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).
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• At the recent DAML PI Meeting Benjamin Grosof gave a presentation on DAML Rules.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Section on Object-Oriented RuleML (OO RuleML) extension has been created.
• Technical Group (TG) on Frames, Objects, and RUle Markup (FORUM) has been established.
• 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.
• 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 ).
• The slotted and sorted sublanguages as described in a recent OO RuleML paper have been implemented by Marcel Ball (Object-Oriented jDREW).
• 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).
• 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.
• 2004-02-27: The New Brunswick Business Knowledge Base, NBBizKB, was created as a major use case for OO RuleML.
• A new Policy RuleML Technical Group (TG) has been prepared in collaboration with the Privacy, Security and Trust (PST) initiative (PST'04).
• The NRC Semantic Web Laboratory, with a focus on RuleML, now has bilingual home pages (SemWebLab, LabWebSem)
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2004-08-12: 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.
• 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.
• 2004-11-02: 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• SemWebCentral contains a number of tools for rules, including SweetRules.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 2005-05-06/09: A new RuleML Logo and a preliminary RuleML Tutorial have been added to the main site.
• 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.
• 2005-05-27: 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.
• 2005-06-21: The Web Rule Language - WRL v1.0 was announced, with sublanguages aligned to RuleML and the XML serialization using RuleML.
• 2005-06-22: A Roadmap for Open Source OO jDREW Development was published in the new jdrew-all mailing list.
• 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.
• 2005-08-23: A new Technical Group on Fuzziness in RuleML (Fuzzy RuleML) has been established.
• 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.
• The RuleML-2005 Call for Participation has been published, featuring a fine Program and collocating the OWL Workshop.
• 2005-11-09: The specification of RuleML 0.9 has been released along with a new glossary of terms.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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!
• 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.
• 2006-08-12: Functional RuleML has been pre-released, which will be part of the upcoming RuleML 0.91 release.

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