Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Production rules systems

• Logic programming engines and applications

• Business rules engines and management systems

• Logic-based reasoning for rules

• Inductive and abductive logic programming

• Rule markup languages and rule interchange formats

• Rule-based policies, reputation, and trust

• Pragmatic web reasoning and distributed rule inference / rule execution

• Reaction and ECA rules

• Constraint programming

• Rule-based languages for intelligent information access and the Semantic Web

• Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules

• Bridge rules in multi-context systems

• Rule discovery, extraction and transformation

• Rule-based data management, data integration, and data interoperability

• Scalability and expressive power of logics for rules

• Mapping rules for ontology-based data access

• Rule-based dynamic data, stream, and complex event processing

• Reasoning with incomplete, inconsistent and uncertain data

• Non-monotonic, common-sense, and closed-world reasoning

• Non-classical logics and the Web

• Combining rules with knowledge extraction and information retrieval

• Rules, agents, and norms

• Rule-based distributed / multi-agent systems

• Rule-based communication/dialogue

• Argumentation models

• Rules and human language technology

• Rules in online market research and online marketing

• Applications of rule technologies in healthcare and life sciences

• Industrial applications of rules

• Rules and business process compliance checking

• Standards activities related to rules

• Rules and social media