International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems 2011

The Fifth International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems will take place in Galway, Ireland at the Digital Research Enterprise Institute (DERI) from August 29-30, 2011.

Co-located event:
7th Reasoning Web Summer School from August 23-27, 2011.

Onsite Registration

Onsite Registration (i.e. collection of your conference bag etc.) will be possible in the Westwood Hotel, on Sunday 28th August from 17:00 to 19:00 where we will also provide a small welcome reception. Alternatively, you can register on the morning of 29th, from 8:00 onwards at the conference venue.

Call for Papers

The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) is a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. RR 2011 builds on the success of the four previous International Conferences on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (see http://www.rr-conference.org), held in Innsbruck, Austria (2007), Karlsruhe, Germany (2008), and Chantilly, Virginia, USA(2009), Bressanone/Brixen, Italy (2010), and which received enthusiastic support from the Web Reasoning community. In 2011, RR will continue the excellence of the new series and aim to attract the best WebReasoning and Rules researchers from all over the world.

Important Dates

• Abstract submission: April 27, 2011
• Full paper submission: May 4, 2011
• Notification: June 3, 2011

Topics

• Representation techniques for Web-based knowledge
• Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction
• Combining open and closed-world reasoning
• Combining rules and ontologies
• Design and analysis of reasoning languages
• Efficiency and benchmarking
• Implemented tools and systems
• Foundations and applications related to relevant standardization bodies
• Ontology usability
• Ontology languages and their relationships
• Querying and optimization
• Rules and ontology management (such as inconsistency handling and evolution)
• Reasoning with uncertainty and under inconsistency
• Reasoning with constraints
• Rule languages and systems
• Rule interchange formats and Rule markup languages
• Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the Web
• Approximate reasoning techniques for the Web
• Integration of statistical methods and symbolic reasoning
• Stream reasoning
• Semantic Web Services modeling and applications
• Web and Semantic Web applications and experience papers

Publication

As in previous years, we will publish proceedings with Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. After the conference, selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit extended versions to a special issue of the (IOS Press) journal "Semantic Web - Interoperability, Usability, Applicability".