Advances in Rule Interchange and Applications: International Symposium, RuleML 2007, Orlando, Florida, October 25-26, 2007. Proceedings

Thomas Syldatke, Willy Chen, Jürgen Angele, Andreas Nierlich, Mike Ullrich (auth.), Adrian Paschke, Yevgen Biletskiy (eds.)3540759743, 9783540759744

The International Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2007), collocated in Orlando, Florida, with the Tenth International Business Rules Forum, was the first symposium devoted to work on practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based applications which need language standards for rules operating in the context of modern infrastructures, including the Semantic Web, intelligent multi-agent systems, event-driven architectures, and service-oriented computing applications. The symposium was organized by the RuleML Initiative, financially and technically supported by industrial companies (Top Logic, VIStology, and Inferware) and in cooperation with professional societies (ECCAI, AAAI, ACM, ACM SIGAPP, ACM SIGMIS, ACM SIGART, ACM SIGMOD, IEEE, IEEE Computer TCAAS, IEEE SMCS, BPM-Forum, W3C, OMG, and OASIS). The RuleML Initiative is organized by representatives from academia, industry and government for the advancement of rule technology, providing enhanced usability, scalability and performance. The goal of RuleML (www. ruleml. org) is to develop an open, general, XML-based family of rule languages as intermediaries between various ‘specialized’ rule vendors, applications, industrial and academic research groups, as well as standardization efforts such as OMG’s PRR or W3C’s RIF. A general advantage of using declarative rules is that they can be easily represented in a machine-readable and platform-independent manner, often governed by an XML schema. This fits well into today’s distributed, heterogeneous Web-based system environments. Rules represented in standardized Web formats can be discovered, interchanged and invoked at runtime within and across Web systems, and can be interpreted and executed on any platform.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
How Ontologies and Rules Help to Advance Automobile Development….Pages 1-6
Are Your Rules Online? Four Web Rule Essentials….Pages 7-24
KISS – Knowledge-Intensive Service Support: An Approach for Agile Process Management….Pages 25-38
Specifying Process-Aware Access Control Rules in SBVR….Pages 39-52
A Rule-Based Approach to Prioritization of IT Work Requests Maximizing Net Benefit to the Business….Pages 53-62
A Generic Module System for Web Rule Languages: Divide and Rule….Pages 63-77
Towards Semantically Grounded Decision Rules Using ORM  +  ….Pages 78-91
Towards Ontological Commitments with Ω -RIDL Markup Language….Pages 92-106
Recovering Business Rules from Legacy Source Code for System Modernization….Pages 107-118
An Approach for Bridging the Gap Between Business Rules and the Semantic Web….Pages 119-133
Take – A Rule Compiler for Derivation Rules….Pages 134-148
The OO jDREW Engine of Rule Responder: Naf Hornlog RuleML Query Answering….Pages 149-154
Querying the Semantic Web with SWRL….Pages 155-159
Implementation of Production Rules for a RIF Dialect: A MISMO Proof-of-Concept for Loan Rates….Pages 160-165
Adapting the Rete-Algorithm to Evaluate F-Logic Rules….Pages 166-173
Rule Definition for Managing Ontology Development….Pages 174-181
Integrating Rules and Description Logics with Circumscription for the Semantic Web….Pages 182-189
XML Data Compatibility from the Ground Up….Pages 190-198
Exploiting E-C-A Rules for Defining and Processing Context-Aware Push Messages….Pages 199-206
The Use of Ontologies and Rules to Assist in Academic Advising….Pages 207-214
Towards Knowledge Extraction from Weblogs and Rule-Based Semantic Querying….Pages 215-223
Complex Information Management Using a Framework Supported by ECA Rules in XML….Pages 224-231
AIM: An XML-Based ECA Rule Language for Supporting a Framework for Managing Complex Information….Pages 232-241
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