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RR 2012: Web Reasoning and Rule Systems, Vienna (Austria), 10-12 Sep 2012 (abstract deadline today!)

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                             RR 2012
The 6th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems
             Vienna, Austria, 10-12 September 2012
              http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2012/


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.


== Highlights in 2012 ==

In addition to regular papers, RR 2012 solicits the submission of
TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS (TCs) that report about some interesting
recent work, preliminary result, or inspiring viewpoint. Selected
TCs will be invited for a full presentation like regular papers.

RR 2012 is co-located with a number of interesting events:

- 8th Reasoning Web Summer School
     4-8 September, http://reasoningweb.org/2012/
- COMMA 2012: 4th Int. Conf. on Computational Models of Argument
     10-12 September, http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/events/comma2012/
- DEXA 2012: 23rd Int. Conf. on Database and Expert Systems
     Applications 03-07 September, http://www.dexa.org/
- 2nd Workshop "Datalog 2.0"
     11-13 September, http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/event/datalog-2.0/

The Reasoning Web Summer School is a great opportunity particularly
for young researchers to combine with attendance of the conference.
Submissions by summer school participants are particularly encouraged.


== Topics ==

RR welcomes original research from all areas of Web Reasoning.
Topics of particular interest are:

- Semantic Web, Rule and Ontology Languages, and related logics
- Reasoning, Querying, Searching and Optimization
- Incompleteness, Inconsistency and Uncertainty
- Non-monotonic, Commonsense, and Closed-World Reasoning for the Web
- Dynamic information, Stream Reasoning and Complex Event Processing
- Decision Making, Planning, and Intelligent Agents
- Reasoning, Machine Learning, Knowledge Extraction and
   IR Technologies
- Large-scale data management and reasoning on the Web of Data
- Data Integration, Dataspaces and Ontology-Based Data Access
- Non-Standard Reasoning
- Algorithms for distributed, parallelized, and scalable reasoning
- System Descriptions and Experimentation
- Applications and Experience Papers


== Submissions ==

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer within the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Submissions must
be prepared in Springer's LaTeX style llncs (http://bit.ly/oPRW8y).
There are two submission formats:

- Full papers (up to 15 pages)
   Original research works in the above areas

- Technical Communications (up to 4 pages)
   Results and ideas with interest to the RR audience,
   including reports about recent own publications, position papers,
   and presentations of preliminary results

All accepted works will be included in the proceedings, with
Technical Communications clearly marked as such. All full papers and
selected Technical Communications will be invited to give a talk at
the conference. All accepted works will have the opportunity to
present a poster.

Submissions can be made in EasyChair:

       http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rr2012


== Important Dates ==

Abstract submission:         May 14, 2012, before 23:59 UTC
Full papers submission:      May 23, 2012, before 23:59 UTC
Notification of acceptance: June 22, 2012


== Invited Speakers ==

- Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig
- Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari
   * additional invited speakers will be announced soon


== Program Committee ==

- Darko Anicic, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Jean-Franois Baget, LIRMM Montpellier
- Chitta Baral, Arizona State University
- Salem Benferhat, University of Artois
- Fernando Bobillo, University of Zaragoza
- Gerhard Brewka, University of Leipzig
- Franois Bry, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
- Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
- Vinay Chaudhri, SRI International U.S.A.
- Kendall Clark, Clark & Parsia LLC Washington DC
- Tommaso Di Noia, Technical University of Bari
- Francesco M Donini, University of Tuscia
- Thomas Eiter, TU Vienna
- Michael Fink, TU Vienna
- Birte Glimm, Ulm University
- Claudio Gutierrez, Universidad of Chile
- Andreas Harth, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Aidan Hogan, National University of Ireland Galway
- Giovambattista Ianni, University of Calabria
- Yevgeny Kazakov, University of Oxford
- Michael Kifer, Stony Brook University
- Clemens Kupke, University of Oxford
- Georg Lausen, University of Freiburg
- Domenico Lembo, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
- Francesca Alessandra Lisi, University of Bari
- Thomas Lukasiewicz, University of Oxford
- Wolfgang May, University of Gttingen
- Alessandra Mileo, National University of Ireland Galway
- Ralf Moeller, Hamburg University of Technology
- Marie-Laure Mugnier, University of Montpellier II
- Magdalena Ortiz, TU Vienna
- Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen
- Rafael Pealoza, TU Dresden
- Axel Polleres, Siemens AG sterreich
- Andrea Pugliese, University of Calabria
- Guilin Qi, Nanjing University China
- Riccardo Rosati, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
- Sebastian Rudolph, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University
- Mantas Simkus, TU Vienna
- Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen
- Andrei Voronkov, University of Manchester

== Organization ==

General chair:
- Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University

Program chairs:
- Markus Krtzsch, University of Oxford
- Umberto Straccia, ISTI-CNR

Local Chair:
- Thomas Eiter, TU Vienna

Doctoral Consortium Chair:
- Alessandra Mileo, National University of Ireland Galway

Sponsorship Chair:
- Marco Maratea, University of Genova

Publicity Chair:
- Francesco Calimeri, University of Calabria