8th International Web Rule Symposium

We invite high-quality submissions related (but not limited) to the following topics: Rules and automated reasoning Rule-based policies, reputation, and trust Rule-based event processing and reaction rules Rules and the Web Rule discovery from data Fuzzy rules and uncertainty Logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning Non-classical logics and the Web (e.g modal, especially deontic and epistemic, logics) Hybrid methods for combining rules and statistical machine learning techniques (e.g., conditional random fields, Probabilistic Soft Logic) Rule transformation, extraction, and learning Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules Rule markup languages and rule interchange formats Rule-based distributed/multi-agent systems Rules, agents, and norms Rule-based communication, dialogue, and argumentation models Rule-based data integration Vocabularies and ontologies for pragmatic primitives (e.g. speech acts and deontic primitives) Pragmatic web reasoning and distributed rule inference / rule execution Rules in online market research and online marketing Applications of rule technologies in health care and life sciences Rules and Human Language Technology (special track) Learning (Business) Rules from Data (special track) Legal rules and Norms (special track) Industrial applications of rules Rules and business process compliance checking Standards activities related to rules Rules and social media General rule topics