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<p>
Rules in (and for) the Web have become a mainstream topic since
<i>inference rules</i> were <a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/rules/home.html">marked up for E-Commerce</a> and were identified as a
<a href="http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Rules.html">Design Issue</a> of the
<a href="http://www.semanticweb.org/">Semantic Web</a>, and since <i>transformation rules</i> were put to practice for <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javaxml/chapter/ch09.html">document generation from a central XML repository</a> (<a href="#Practice-Preach">as used here</a>).
Moreover, rules have continued to play an important role in
<a href="http://www.mailgate.org/comp/comp.ai.shells/">AI shells</a> for knowledge-based systems and
in <a href="http://agents.umbc.edu/">Intelligent Agents</a>, today both needing a Web interchange format,
and such XML/RDF-standardized rules are now also usable for the declarative specification of
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/">Web Services</a>.
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The Rule Markup Initiative has taken steps towards defining
a shared Rule Markup Language (RuleML),
permitting both forward (bottom-up) and backward (top-down) rules in XML
for deduction, rewriting, and further inferential-transformational tasks.
The initiative started during
<a href="http://www3.cm.deakin.edu.au/pricai/">PRICAI 2000</a>,
as described in the <a href="RuleML/sld001.htm">Original RuleML Slide</a>,
and was
<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.prolog/browse_thread/thread/41090fff5c9f08ca/1e45a73b28d5483f">launched</a>
in the Internet on 2000-11-10.
Besides the previous <a href="indtd.html">XML-only RuleML</a> and
the current <a href="inspec">XML/RDF-combining RuleML</a>,
there is also an approach towards an <a href="#RDF">RDF-only RuleML</a>.
<a href="#Engines">Complementary efforts</a>
consist of the development of (Java-based) rule engines such as <a href="http://www.jdrew.org/">jDREW</a> and
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mandarax">Mandarax</a> RuleML,
as well as XSB-RDF RuleML.
RuleML's earlier <a href="#Design">design</a>
evolved into <a href="#DTDs-Schemas">DTDs-Schemas</a>
for positional-slotted RuleML sublanguages including <a href="indoo">Object-Oriented RuleML (OO RuleML)</a>.
Efforts also went into defining <a href="http://www.omg.org/docs/br/03-10-02.pdf">MOF-RuleML: The Abstract Syntax of RuleML as a MOF Model</a>.
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This is the Archive for
the <a href="http://www.ruleml.org">RuleML</a>, including its earlier News-Events.
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<news>
<header>News-Events 2009-2001</header>
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  <item>On the first day of W3C's
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/02/allgroupoverview.html">Technical Plenary and WG Meeting Event, 26 February - 2 March 2001</a>,
RuleML participants organized a Birds Of a Feather session, using
<a href="http://ebusiness.mit.edu/bgrosof/ruleml-w3cf2f.html">this presentation material</a>;
in addition, at the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/02/rdfig-f2f/">RDF Interest Group: Face to face meeting 26/27 Feb 2001</a>
we presented
<a href="http://www.ruleml.org/RuleML-RDF/sld001.htm">RDF Relationships and DTD Modularization</a>.
  </item>
  <item>A talk at the <a href="http://www.ontoweb.org/">OntoWeb</a> Kick-off Workshop,
Heraklion, Greece, June 2001, was on <a href="http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~boley/RuleML-RDF-OntoWeb/">RuleML for the Semantic Web</a>.
  </item>
  <item><a href="http://ccsw.dfki.de">The Competence Center Semantic Web</a> started in July 2001
with coordinating DFKI's Semantic Web technologies such as XML, RDF, DAML+OIL, XSLT, and RuleML.
  </item>
  <item>We presented an <a href="http://www.semanticweb.org/SWWS/">SWWS</a> paper,
<a href="http://www.mynisus.com/members/stabet/ruleml/ratioruleml2.0.html">Design Rationale of RuleML: A Markup Language for Semantic Web Rules</a>
(<a href="http://www.mynisus.com/members/stabet/ruleml/ratioruleml.pdf">pdf</a>, <a href="http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~boley/RuleML_Presentation_for_SWWS">talk</a>),
at Stanford, CA, in July/August 2001.
  </item>
  <item>Two RuleML-related Tutorials
on <a href="http://www.boeing.com/nosearch/ijcai/tutorial_program.htm#MP3">Knowledge Markup and Resource Semantics</a> (<a href="http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/km/kmrs/">Slides</a>) and on
<a href="http://www.boeing.com/nosearch/ijcai/tutorial_program.htm#SP1">Agent Communication in Knowledge Based Electronic Markets</a>,
as well as an Invited Workshop Talk
<a href="http://ebusiness.mit.edu/bgrosof/#IJCAI01InvitedTalk">Standardizing XML Rules: Rules for E-Business on the Semantic Web</a> took place in conjunction with
<a href="http://www.boeing.com/nosearch/ijcai/index.html">IJCAI-01</a>,
in August 2001, in Seattle, Washington.
  </item>
  <item><a href="mailto:steve@enigmatec.net">Steve Ross-Talbot</a>
wrote a RuleML-related article on <a href="http://www.sys-con.com/java/article.cfm?id=1132">Java Rules in J2EE</a>
in the <a href="http://www.sys-con.com/java/">Java Developer's Journal</a>, September 2001 (Vol6 Issue 09).
  </item>
  <item><a href="mailto:steve@enigmatec.net">Steve Ross-Talbot</a>'s <a href="http://www.spirit-soft.com/news/events/2001/September/19_websrvcs_webinar.html">Online Webinar</a>
shows a pyramid Web architecture and the need for rules at various levels.
This will give readers a good overview of what to expect from this new Web architecture.
It also explains the challenges and the need for rules, in particular business rules, for Web Services.
  </item>
  <item>A first pair of <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/#Translators">translators exporting/importing RuleML markup to/fro another
XML-based rule language (RFML)</a> is provided.
  </item>
  <item>An alpha-stage <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/#Translators">cross-compiler (OntoJava) from Protégé and RuleML into a unified Java object database and rule engine</a> has been implemented.
  </item>
  <item>There was an Invited Talk (revised for Fredericton Talk: <a href="http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~boley/ruleml-mht-talk/">ruleml-mht-talk</a>) on
<a href="http://www.ifcomputer.com/inap/inap2001/program/home_en.html">The Rule Markup Language: RDF-XML Data Model, XML Schema Hierarchy, and XSL Transformations</a> (<a href="http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~boley/ruleml-mht.ps">ruleml-mht.ps</a>, <a href="http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~boley/ruleml-mht.pdf">ruleml-mht.pdf</a>) and a DDLP Talk on
<a href="http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/frodo/triple/TripleReport.ps">TRIPLE---An RDF Query, Inference, and Transformation Language</a>
at the 14th International Conference of Applications of Prolog,
<a href="http://www.ifcomputer.com/inap/inap2001/">INAP2001</a>,
in Tokyo, Japan, in October 2001.
  </item>
  <item>A RuleML <a href="http://www.mynisus.com/icec/ecrml.html">Workshop</a>
took place in conjunction with the third
International Conference on Electronic Commmerce,
<a href="http://info.tuwien.ac.at/icec2001/index.html">ICEC2001</a>, in Vienna, Austria,
in November 2001.
  </item>
  <item>Some RuleML extensions and demos,
including for capturing inference results,
were discussed in <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-rules/">W3C's RDF Rules list</a>, starting on
<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-rules/2001Nov/0025.html">20 November 2001</a>.
  </item>
  <item><a href="http://ebusiness.mit.edu/bgrosof/">Benjamin Grosof</a> presented the
talk
<a href="http://ebusiness.mit.edu/bgrosof/">Representing E-Business Rules for the Semantic Web: Situated Courteous Logic Programs in RuleML</a>
and the
research prototype
<a href="http://ebusiness.mit.edu/bgrosof/">Tools for Representing E-Business Rules on the Semantic Web: Situated Courteous Logic Programs in RuleML</a>
at <a href="http://www.busi.mun.ca/parsons/wits2001/">The 11th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2001)</a>
in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 15/16 December 2001.
  </item>
  <item>The presentation
"Flexibility is the Key: RuleML meets Web Services and the Semantic Web"
("La flexibilité est la clef: RuleML à la rencontre du Web Sémantique et des Services Web") 
was given by
<a href="http://home.comcast.net/~stabet/">Said Tabet</a>
as the
<a href="http://www.iit.nrc.ca/www/colloq/Season2001-2002/Said.html">first colloquium in a joint seminar series of UNB and NRC in Fredericton, NB</a>,
on 17 December 2001.
  </item>
  <item>The talk <a href="http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~boley/ruleml-mht-talk/">RuleML: Data Model, Language Hierarchy, and Transformations</a>
was presented as a Fredericton CS Seminar on 3 December 2001 and a
<a href="http://www.ida.liu.se:9080/divisions/sas/SaSSeminars">Linköping SaS Seminar</a>
on 17 January 2002.
  </item>
  <item>The PPT talk
<a href="http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~boley/ruleml-online-talk.ppt">RuleML: Markup von Regelwerken im Semantischen Web</a>
("RuleML: Markup of Rule Systems in the Semantic Web")
was given at
<a href="http://www.euro-online.de/o2002b6.htm">Online 2002</a>, in Düsseldorf, Germany, on 29 January 2002.
  </item>
  <item>We organized the <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/rmt/program/">Program</a> of
<a href="http://www.dagstuhl.de/DATA/Seminars/02/#02061">Dagstuhl Seminar 02061</a>
on <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/rmt/">Rule Markup Techniques</a>
in the week 3 - 8 February 2002.
  </item>
  <item>Two DFKI Colloquia on 6 February 2002 featured talks by
<a href="http://home.comcast.net/~stabet/">Said Tabet</a> on
<a href="http://www.mynisus.com/members/stabet/talks/DFKI02062002.pdf">RuleML meets Web Services and the Semantic Web: Challenges and Applications</a> and by <a href="http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bspencer">Bruce Spencer</a> on
<a href="http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bspencer/dagstuhl-jdrew.pdf">The Design of j-DREW, a Deductive Reasoning Engine for the Semantic Web</a>.
  </item>
  <item><a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Eric/">Eric Prud'hommeaux</a> is highlighting
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/11/13-RDF-Query-Rules/">concepts and issues related to querying semantic web data</a>,
using a common example for comparing various query languages, including RuleML.
  </item>
  <item><a href="mailto:steve@enigmatec.net">Steve Ross-Talbot</a>
wrote the following RuleML-related articles and has at least three more in the pipeline:
An article on <a href="http://www.sys-con.com/java/articlea.cfm?id=1301">Building to scale: JMS meets JCACHE</a>
is in the <a href="http://www.sys-con.com/java/">Java Developer's Journal</a>, February 2002 (Vol7 Issue 02).
Another article on <a href="http://www.middlewarespectra.com/abstracts/2002_02_04.htm">Network Computing and Middleware for the next generation</a>
is in <a href="http://www.middlewarespectra.com/">Middleware Spectra</a>, February 2002 (Volume 16, Report 1).
  </item>
  <item><a href="mailto:steve@enigmatec.net">Steve Ross-Talbot</a> and Martin West
presented
<a href="http://servlet.java.sun.com/javaone/sf2002/conf/sessions/display-1986.en.jsp">Implementing the IAA BOM Using Java(TM) Technology and an ECA Framework</a> -- the latter being part of RuleML -- at
<a href="http://servlet.java.sun.com/javaone/">JavaOne 2002</a> in San Francisco, March 2002.
  </item>
  <item>The talk
<a href="http://w4.siemens.de/ct/de/activities/inet_symp/downloads/boley_semweb.pdf">Regel-Markup und -Anwendungen</a>
("Rule Markup and Applications")
was given at the
<a href="http://w4.siemens.de/ct/de/activities/inet_symp/workshops.html">Semantic Web Workshop</a> of the Symposium Forschen für die Internetgesellschaft: Trends, Technologien, Anwendungen, in Berlin, Germany, on 22 April 2002.
  </item>
  <item>Workshop <a href="http://www.cs.unb.ca/ai2002/BASeWEB.html">Business Agents 
and the Semantic Web</a> (May 26, 2002) at 
<a href="http://www.cs.unb.ca/ai2002/">AI-2002</a> 
(Calgary, Alberta, Canada). Deadline for 
Submissions/Requests for Participation: March 28, 2002.
  </item>
  <item>We held a workshop on
<a href="http://tmitwww.tm.tue.nl/staff/gwagner/RuleML-BR-SW.html">Rule Markup Languages for Business Rules in the Semantic Web</a> 
emphasizing both
reaction rules (contact: <a href="http://tmitwww.tm.tue.nl/staff/gwagner/">Gerd Wagner</a>)
and
defeasible rules (contact: <a href="http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~msch/">Michael Schroeder</a>)
in conjunction with the <a href="http://iswc.semanticweb.org/">International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2002)</a>
and the <a href="http://www.ontoweb.org/workshop/ontoweb3/">OntoWeb3</a> meeting, June 13-15, 2002,
Sardinia, Italy.
Deadline for submissions: April 26, 2002. 
  </item>
  <item>RuleML <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/#Queries">Queries</a> have been realized as an extended DTD 0.8 version
(since this extension is purely additive, all queriless RuleML 0.8 rulebases should still validate). 
  </item>
  <item> <a href="http://www.enigmatec.net">Enigmatec Corporation</a> has published a <a href="http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~boley/ECORP-PR-STEVE-GARY-2002-05-16-FINAL.pdf">Press Release</a> building on RuleML.
  </item>
  <item>The <a href="http://www.program-transformation.org/twiki/bin/view/Transform/WorkshopOnRuleBasedProgramming">Third ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Rule-Based Programming</a> will be held on October 5, 2002 in
Pittsburgh, USA.
Deadline for submissions: June 3, 2002. 
  </item>
  <item><a href="mailto:jens.dietrich@unforgettable.com">Jens Dietrich</a> and others discuss RuleML in a
<a href="http://saloon.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi">discussion forum on real-world rule-based systems (Engineering | General Computing | rules engine decision table book or web page)</a>. 
  </item>
  <item>The <a href="ruleml-sardinia.pdf">RuleML Sardinia Slides</a> are available.
  </item>
  <item><a href="http://www.drools.org/">Drools</a>, an augmented implementation of Forgy's RETE algorithm
for the object-oriented Java, discusses RuleML in the <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/drools-interest%40lists.sourceforge.net/">drools-interest archived news</a>.
  </item>
<item>The rule-applying comparison-shopping agent/rulebase <a href="http://www.dfki.de/racsa">RACSA</a>
and a RuleML-to-Jess transformer/rulebase were added to our <a href="#Library">Rulebase Library</a>.
</item>
<item>RuleML has already been used in teaching, e.g. in <a href="http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~boley/rml/">Germany</a>
(leading to this <a href="http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~boley/rml/rml-exam.html">exam</a>),
in <a href="http://www.ida.liu.se/~janma/SemWeb/home.html">Sweden</a> (leading to this <a href="http://www.ida.liu.se/~janma/SemWeb/Slides/ruleml.ps.gz">introduction</a>),
and in <a href="http://www.cs.unb.ca/profs/bspencer/cs6999/">Canada</a> (leading to these <a href="http://www.cs.unb.ca/profs/bspencer/cs6999/notes.html">notes</a>).
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  <item>RuleML Participant Jens Dietrich's Oryx (version 2.1) has a graphical Knowledge Editor for business rules and a Repository that
contains the description of predicates, functions, and database connections.
"Oryx works with open XML based formats, support for the emerging RuleML standard and the open source Mandarax XKB 1.0 format is
included."  (<a href="http://www.jbdietrich.com/">http://www.jbdietrich.com</a>).
  </item>
  <item><a href="http://www.i-u.de/schools/eberhart/">Andreas Eberhart</a> wrote
a small tool that allows you to convert Prolog (currently, Datalog) rules to RuleML.
This <a href="http://www.i-u.de/schools/eberhart/prolog2ruleml/">Prolog2RuleML</a> tool
is available both online and as a command line version.
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  <item><a href="http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~mgandh1/">Mahesh Gandhe</a>, supervised by
<a href="http://ebusiness.mit.edu/bgrosof/">Benjamin Grosof</a>
and <a href="http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~finin/">Tim Finin</a>,
maintains <a href="http://userpages.umbc.edu/~mgandh1/">a site on SweetJess</a>,
for which there is now a prototype of 
RuleML in DAML+OIL syntax, and translation between this DamlRuleML (or 
RuleML in ordinary XML) to Jess.
The prototype includes using Jess to perform inference in DamlRuleML (or 
RuleML).
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  <item>A Luncheon Keynote, "The Semantic Web and Wall Street", was given by
Steve Ross-Talbot and Said Tabet as part of the Conference Program,
<a href="http://www.lighthouse-partners.com/wallstreettng/del_program.htm">2002 Focus: Web Services and Beyond for the Financial Markets</a>,
of
<a href="http://www.wallstreet-tng.com/">Wall Street IT -- The Next Generation</a>,
New York City, Sept 4-5th, 2002.
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  <item>A talk on the Semantic Web, RuleML and j-DREW was given by <a href="http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bspencer">Bruce Spencer</a> in the
<a href="http://www.softworld2002.com/theevent_softworld/programEndResult.cfm?ArticleID=4&amp;StoryID=67">e-Learning Technical Session</a>
of
<a href="http://www.softworld2002.com">SOFTWORLD2002</a>
in Charlottetown, PEI, Canada, Sept 8-11th, 2002.
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  <item><a href="http://www.cs.unb.ca/~bspencer">Bruce Spencer</a> gave
<a href="http://www.cs.unb.ca/research-groups/argroup/ppt/CologNET-jDREW.ppt">a talk</a> on
<a href="http://www.cs.unb.ca/research-groups/argroup/pdf/j-drew-CBD-ITCLS.pdf">The Design of j-Drew: A Deductive Reasoning Engine for the Web</a> in the
<a href="http://clip.dia.fi.upm.es/COLOGNET-WS/">Joint CoLogNet Workshop on Component-based Software Development and Implementation Technology for Computational Logic Systems</a>
of
<a href="http://clip.dia.fi.upm.es/SAS-LOPSTR-AGP/schedule-lopstr.html">LOPSTR '02</a>
at the Technical University of Madrid, Spain, 17 - 20 Sept 2002.
  </item>
  <item><a href="http://www.cs.unb.ca/~boley/">Harold Boley</a> discusses a knowledge- and metadata-derivation role of RuleML in a presentation for grad students on
<a href="http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~boley/sw10pass/">The Semantic Web in Ten Passages</a> at the 
<a href="http://www.cs.unb.ca/">Faculty of Computer Science</a>, University of New Brunswick, 
Fredericton, 2 Oct 2002.
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  <item>At the recent DAML PI Meeting <a href="http://ebusiness.mit.edu/bgrosof/">Benjamin Grosof</a> gave a
<a href="http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~horrocks/Private/DLP/DLP-v9-brief.pdf">presentation on DAML Rules</a>.
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  <item>In a series of telecon meetings the
<a href="http://www.daml.org/committee/">Joint US/EU ad hoc Agent Markup Language Committee</a> discussed RuleML
based on the following presentations by
<a href="http://ebusiness.mit.edu/bgrosof/">Benjamin Grosof</a> and
<a href="http://www.cs.unb.ca/~boley/">Harold Boley</a>:
<a href="http://ebusiness.mit.edu/bgrosof/paps/talk-ruleml-jc-ovw-102902-main.pdf">Introduction to RuleML</a>,
<a href="http://ebusiness.mit.edu/bgrosof/paps/talk-ruleml-jc-ovw-102902-examples+syntaxDetails.pdf">RuleML Intro Examples and More Syntax Details</a>, and
<a href="http://www.ruleml.org/rdf/ruleml-rdf.pdf">RuleML Meets RDF: Triples, Rules, and Taxonomies</a>,
gaining new insigths into
<a href="http://www.daml.org/listarchive/joint-committee/1228.html">RDF's bNodes and RuleML</a>,
<a href="http://www.daml.org/listarchive/joint-committee/1229.html">RuleML's XML-RDF-integrating data model</a>, and
<a href="http://www.daml.org/listarchive/joint-committee/1237.html">RDF and RuleML's Datalog and Hornlog sublanguages</a>.
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  <item><a href="http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/aeb/">Andreas Eberhart</a> proposes the
Web Service Description Framework (WSDF), using RuleML for method definitions, in the paper
<a href="http://www.i-u.de/schools/eberhart/wsdf">Towards Universal Web Service Clients</a>
at the W3C-endorsed
<a href="http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/Euroweb/">EuroWeb 2002 Conference - The Web and the GRID: from e-science to e-business</a>,
St Anne's College Oxford, UK, December 17 and 18th 2002.
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  <item><a href="http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~cd">Carlos Viegas Damásio</a> has prepared an initial Home Page of
<a href="http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~cd/projectos/w4/index.htm">The W4 Project</a> on
Well-founded semantics for the World Wide Web.
He has also finished the implementation of a RuleML parser for hornlog, and
successfully tested it with RuleML examples. It will appear soon in the W4 project page.
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  <item><a href="http://www.cs.unb.ca/baseweb/">Workshop on Business Agents and the Semantic Web (BASeWEB-03)</a>, June 14, 2003, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Deadline for Submissions/Requests for Participation: Mar. 28, 2003.
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  <item><a href="http://www.semanticwebrules.org">Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web (RuleML-2003)</a> Workshop,
in conjunction with the
<a href="http://iswc2003.semanticweb.org">International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003)</a>,
Sanibel Island, Florida, USA, 20 October 2003. Deadline for paper submissions: 15 June 2003.
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  <item><a href="#OO">Section</a> on <a href="indoo">Object-Oriented RuleML (OO RuleML)</a> extension has been created.
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  <item><a href="#Structure">Technical Group (TG)</a> on <a href="http://forum.semanticweb.org/">Frames, Objects, and RUle Markup (FORUM)</a> has been established.
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  <item>Further technical progress has been made in collaborations with the
  <a href="http://www.daml.org/committee/">Joint Committee</a> on the
  <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/submission/ruleml-shortation.html">PR Syntax, now called POSL</a> (<a href="#POSL">new section</a>),
  <a href="http://www.daml.org/listarchive/joint-committee/1490.html">RuleML Lite</a> (<a href="#Lite">new section</a>), and
  <a href="http://www.daml.org/2003/11/swrl/">SWRL</a>, including an attempt to provide
  an extensible, modular <a href="http://www.daml.org/rules/proposal/builtins">built-ins</a> infrastructure
  for Semantic Web Languages, Web Services, and Web applications.
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  <item>For specifying OO RuleML, the entire (OO) RuleML family of sublanguages has been re-modularized
  and transposed to XML Schema via content models by David Hirtle such that
  positional and slotted versions are always kept in the same sublanguage rather than
  duplicating each sublanguage (<a href="/inspec/">DTD and XML Schema specification of RuleML 0.85</a> ).
  </item>
  <item>The slotted and sorted sublanguages as described in a
  <a href="http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~boley/ruleml/ruleml-rgs.pdf">recent OO RuleML paper</a>
  have been implemented by Marcel Ball (<a href="/oojdrew/">Object-Oriented jDREW</a>).
  </item>
  <item>2003-12-03: The RuleML website is now being hosted by Canada's <a href="http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/">National Research Council (NRC)</a>.
  Thanks to all who have been involved in the move, in particular to
  <a href="http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/users/2003-November/012400.html">Justin Hickey</a>, NRC. Please, update your documents
  by replacing URLs of the form http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/ruleml/x/y/z with URLs of the form http://www.ruleml.org/x/y/z (Justin has a Perl script replaceText
  for performing such replacements througout directory hierarchies).
  </item>
  <item>2004-01-28: The <a href="indoo">Object-Oriented RuleML (OO RuleML)</a> revisions ('_r' became '_slot', 'n' has been expanded to 'name', and 'w' is now 'weight')
  have been approved by the RuleML SC and the <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/0.85">DTD and XML Schema specification of RuleML 0.85</a> version has been released.
  </item>
  <item>2004-02-27: The New Brunswick Business Knowledge Base, <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/usecases/nbbizkb/">NBBizKB</a>,
was created as a major use case for <a href="indoo">OO RuleML</a>.
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  <item>A new <a href="http://policy.ruleml.org">Policy RuleML Technical Group (TG)</a> has been prepared in collaboration
  with the Privacy, Security and Trust (PST) initiative (<a href="http://www.unb.ca/pstnet/pst2004/">PST'04</a>).
  </item>
  <item>The NRC Semantic Web Laboratory, with a focus on RuleML, now has bilingual home pages
  (<a href="http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/projects-projets/sem-web-lab-web-sem_e.html">SemWebLab</a>,
  <a href="http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/projects-projets/sem-web-lab-web-sem_f.html">LabWebSem</a>)</item>
  <item>WWW2004 finished with the traditional <a href="http://www2004.org/ded.htm">Developer's Day</a>,
  this time containing a <a href="http://trust.mindswap.org/DevDay/rules.shtml">Rules on the Web</a> track
  with strong RuleML participation (see report: <a href="events/www2004-devday-report.pdf">www2004-devday-report.pdf</a>,
  <a href="events/www2004-devday-report.ppt">www2004-devday-report.ppt</a>).
  </item>
  <item><a href="http://2004.ruleml.org/">Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web</a> Workshop,
in conjunction with the
<a href="http://iswc2004.semanticweb.org">International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2004)</a>,
Hiroshima Prince Hotel, Hiroshima, Japan, 8 November 2004. Deadline for paper submissions: 12 July 2004.
  </item>
  <item>2004-07-15: The XML Schema <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/0.86/">specification of RuleML 0.86</a> has
  been released,
  improving upon <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/0.85/">0.85</a> by incorporating the results of recent
  discussions about <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/modularization/">alternative modularizations of RuleML</a>
  and emphasizing <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/0.86/#Validation">validation stability</a>.
  </item>
  <item>Current work on the design of RuleML includes <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/fol/">First-Order-Logic (FOL) RuleML</a>,
  <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/swrl/">Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) RuleML</a> and
  <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/indoo/">OO RuleML</a> updates accommodating Frame Logic (F-logic) slot-name variables.
  </item>
  <item>2004-08-12: The <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/0.87/">specification of RuleML 0.87</a> has
  been released, incorporating design changes for systematic <a href="http://esw.w3.org/topic/StripeSkipping">StripeSkipping</a> as well as envisioned extensions, e.g. for the accommodation of F-Logic.
  </item>
  <item>The <a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/09/ws-cc-program.html">W3C Workshop on Constraints and Capabilities for Web Services</a>
  at the Oracle Conference Center, Redwood Shores, CA, October 12-13, 2004,
  includes a paper on <a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/08/ws-cc/srtst-20040903">A generalized RuleML-based Declarative Policy specification language for Web Services</a>.
  </item>
  <item>2004-11-02: <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/fol/">FOL RuleML 0.9</a> has been released
  with a <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/fol/#SynSem">monolithic DTD specification</a>
  incorporating First-Order-Logic quantifiers and disjunctions as well as equivalence and negation.
  FOL RuleML strives for a strict separation of declarative content from procedural (Assert, Query) performatives, as pioneered by KQML.
  This and further changes to the current <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/0.87/">RuleML 0.87</a>
  will also benefit other sublanguages towards RuleML 0.9, in particular the Horn logic subset.
  An <a href="#FOL">FOL RuleML section</a> has been created.
  </item>
  <item>2004-11-04: The <a href="http://www.daml.org/committee/">Joint Committee</a> has
  released the <a href="http://www.daml.org/2004/11/fol/">SWRL FOL package</a>,
  containing <a href="http://www.daml.org/2004/11/fol/proposal">A Proposal for a SWRL Extension to First-Order Logic</a>,
  <a href="http://www.daml.org/2004/11/fol/rules-all">SWRL 0.7</a>, and <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/fol/">FOL RuleML 0.9</a>.
  </item>
  <item><a href="http://www.cybersocial.ca/English/registration/">The Rising Star - MOST Workshop - Maritimes Open Source Technologies</a>
  at the Université de Moncton, NB, Nov 10, 2004,
  showcased Open Source Software related to <a href="http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/">NRC - IIT</a> projects,
  including <a href="events/RuleML-MOST.pdf">The Open RuleML Standard for Semantic Web Rule Interchange</a>
  (source: <a href="events/RuleML-MOST.ppt">RuleML-MOST.ppt</a>).
  </item>
  <item><a href="http://www.semwebcentral.org/">SemWebCentral</a>
  contains a number of tools for rules, including <a href="http://sweetrules.projects.semwebcentral.org/">SweetRules</a>.
  </item>
  <item>2005-02-10: The <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/0.88/">specification of RuleML 0.88</a> has been released,
  incorporating significant syntactical <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/0.88/#Changes">changes</a> motivated
by <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/fol/">First-Order Logic RuleML</a>,
with a few <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/0.88/#Revisions">revisions</a> on 2005-03-01.</item>
  <item>2005-04-03: The <a href="http://www.daml.org/services/swsf/">Semantic Web Services Framework (SWSF), Version 1.0</a>
  was announced, whose <a href="http://www.daml.org/services/swsf/1.0/swsl/">Semantic Web Services Language (SWSL)</a>
  has its sublanguages aligned to (an extended) RuleML and its XML serialization use RuleML.</item>
 <item>A <a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/12/rules-ws/cfp">W3C Workshop on Rule Languages for Interoperability</a>,
 chaired by <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Sandro/">Sandro Hawke</a> (W3C),
 <a href="mailto:csma@ilog.fr">Christian de Sainte Marie</a> (ILOG),
 and <a href="http://home.comcast.net/~stabet/">Said Tabet</a> (The RuleML Initiative),
 was held in Washington, D.C., on 27-28 April 2005. We presented the
 <a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/12/rules-ws/paper/96">RuleML Position Statement</a>
 (<a href="http://www.ruleml.org/events/ruleswsw3c/RuleML_Position_Presentation_Rules_WS.pdf">pdf</a>,
 <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/events/ruleswsw3c/RuleML_Position_Presentation_Rules_WS.ppt">ppt</a>),
  <a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/12/rules-ws/paper/93">RDF/RuleML Interoperability</a>
 (<a href="http://www.ruleml.org/events/ruleswsw3c/RDF_RuleML_Interoperability_Talk.pdf">pdf</a>,
 <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/events/ruleswsw3c/RDF_RuleML_Interoperability_Talk.ppt">ppt</a>),
 and <a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/12/rules-ws/program">more</a> (summary: <a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/12/rules-ws/panel">panel</a>).
  </item>
  <item>
<a href="http://www.ruleml.org/press/release-2005-04-22.html">Press Release</a>
(Boston, USA, Fredericton, Canada, Galway, Ireland, Innsbruck, Austria, April 22, 2005):
RuleML and DERI Collaborate on Rules and Services Technologies Based on
Their Standardization Initiatives.
  </item>
  <item>
A <a href="http://www.med.univ-rennes1.fr/~cgolb/Protege2005/ProtegeWithRulesCFP.htm">Workshop on Protégé with Rules</a>
will be held in conjunction with the <a href="http://protege.stanford.edu/conference/2005/">8th Intl. Protégé Conference</a>
in Madrid, Spain, on Monday, 18 July 2005. Deadline for paper or abstract submissions: 1 June 2005.
  </item>
  <item>
  <a href="http://2005.ruleml.org">RuleML-2005</a>, the International Conference on 
Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web, will be held in 
conjunction with <a href="http://iswc2005.semanticweb.org/">ISWC-2005</a> in Galway, Ireland, on 10-11 November 2005.
Deadline for paper submissions has been extended to: 11 July 2005.
  </item>
  <item>2005-05-06/09: A new <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/images/RuleMLlogo2005.jpg">RuleML Logo</a>
  and a preliminary <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/papers/tutorial-ruleml.html">RuleML Tutorial</a>
  have been added to the main site.</item> 
  <item><a href="http://home.comcast.net/~stabet/">Said Tabet</a>, co-chair of the RuleML Initiative, will be chairing a session on
regulatory compliance and standards during the <a href="http://www.eurobizrules.org/home.htm">European Business Rules Conference 2005</a>
in Amsterdam, on June 10th 2005. Details of the event are at
the following URL: <a href="http://www.eurobizrules.org/rc/rchome.htm">http://www.eurobizrules.org/rc/rchome.htm</a>.
The event is sponsored by ILOG and supported by OMG, the European Business Rules Conference, and RuleML.</item>
  <item>2005-05-27: The <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/0.89/">specification of RuleML 0.89</a> has been released,
  including long-envisaged new expressiveness (e.g. new sublanguages for <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/fol">FOL RuleML</a>)
  and new &lt;Data&gt; tag that may specify an XML Schema built-in datatype for checking during validation.
  The <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/modularization/#Model">official model of RuleML</a> has been updated accordingly.</item>
  <item>2005-06-21: The <a href="http://www.wsmo.org/wsml/wrl/">Web Rule Language - WRL v1.0</a>
  was announced, with sublanguages aligned to RuleML and the XML serialization using RuleML.</item>
  <item>2005-06-22: A <a href="http://mail.jdrew.org/pipermail/jdrew-all/2005-June/000001.html">Roadmap for Open Source OO jDREW Development</a>
  was published in the new <a href="http://mail.jdrew.org/pipermail/jdrew-all/">jdrew-all</a>
  mailing list.
  </item>
  <item>We are pleased to announce that <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/">Tim Berners-Lee</a> will be the keynote speaker at
  <a href="http://2005.ruleml.org">RuleML-2005</a>. Deadline for paper submissions has been extended to: 11 July 2005.
  </item>
  <item>2005-08-23: A new Technical Group on Fuzziness in RuleML (<a href="http://image.ntua.gr/FuzzyRuleML/">Fuzzy RuleML</a>) has been established.
  </item> 
  <item>2005-09-13: A new use case called <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/usecases/chemxelem/">ChemXelem</a> consisting of a RuleML knowledge base about the Periodic System of the Elements has been created.
  </item>   
  <item>The <a href="http://2005.ruleml.org">RuleML-2005 Call for Participation</a> has been published,
  featuring a fine <a href="http://2005.ruleml.org/Program.html">Program</a> and collocating the <a href="http://www.mindswap.org/2005/OWLWorkshop/">OWL Workshop</a>.
  </item>
  <item>2005-11-09: The <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/0.9/">specification of RuleML 0.9</a> has been released along with a new <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/0.9/glossary">glossary</a> of terms.</item>
  <item>2005-12-13: <a href="http://iskp.csd.auth.gr/systems/dr-device.html">VDR-Device (version 0.27)</a> has been released,
  contributing to both <a href="#Engines">Engines</a> and <a href="#Interfaces">User Interfaces</a>,
  where rules can be expressed in an extension of the OO RuleML syntax.
  </item>
  <item>BASeWEB’06: <a href="http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/mfasli/BASeWEB-06.htm">International Workshop on Business Agents and the Semantic Web</a>, May 8, 2006,
Hakodate, Japan. After being held four times in Canada,
the <a href="http://www.cs.unb.ca/baseweb/">BASeWEB Series of Workshops</a> is now crossing the Pacific.
BASeWEB’06 will be held in conjunction with AAMAS-06, the <a href="http://www.fun.ac.jp/aamas2006/main.html">Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems</a> at the Future University-Hakodate.
Topics of interest include Extended Horn logics and rule markup techniques (e.g., RuleML).
All authors will be invited to extend their papers for submission to a special issue of the journal <a href="http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~ci/">Computational Intelligence</a>.
Submissions/Requests for Participation deadline: Feb 1, 2006.
  </item>
  <item><a href="http://icec06.net">The Eighth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC’06)</a>
  is being held August 14-16, 2006 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Topics of interest include,
  but are not limited to: Semantic Web, Ontologies, Rules, Services, Multiagent Systems, Electronic Markets,
  Privacy, Security, Trust, E-government, Mobile and Pervasive Commerce, Business-to-Business E-Commerce and Business-to-Consumer E-Commerce.
  Of particular interest to RuleML is the Research Track on <a href="http://icec06.net/TrackSemantic.htm">Semantic Web Ontologies, Rules and Services</a>.
  Submission deadline: March 6, 2006. 
  </item>
  <item>The <a href="http://2006.ruleml.org">RuleML-2006 Conference</a>
  is aimed to be the premier scientific forum for exchanging ideas on all aspects of
  rules for the Semantic Web. Like its precursors, RuleML-2006 will be held in
  collaboration with the <a href="http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org">International Semantic Web Conference</a>,
  and will be co-located with it. The RuleML-2006 Conference will for the first time
  consist of both an academic track and an industry track.
  Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2006. Deadline for paper submissions: 22 May 2006.
  </item>
  <item>2006-04-06: <a href="http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/roman/">Roman Schindlauer</a>,
  <a href="http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/eiter/eiter.html">Thomas Eiter</a>, and
  <a href="http://www.mat.unical.it/~ianni/">Giovambattista Ianni</a> made
  <a href="http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/roman/ruleml/">ASP RuleML</a> available as a sublanguage of RuleML for answer-set programs:
  A brief description has been added to the RuleML website as an <a href="#ASP">ASP RuleML section</a>.
  </item>
  <item>A free tool called <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/translator">TRANSLATOR</a> has been developed to automatically translate natural language sentences written in <a href="http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/attempto/">Attempto Controlled English</a> into RuleML. The goal is to allow even non-experts to write facts and rules in formal representation for use on the Semantic Web.</item>
  <item>The <a
href="http://www.ift.ulaval.ca/~kone/SWIG06/">Canadian Semantic Web
Working Symposium (CSWWS 2006)</a> is the premier event on the Semantic Web in Canada.
It will be held on June 6th, 2006, and will be co-located with the <a
href="http://www.ift.ulaval.ca/ai06/">19th Canadian Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (AI 2006)</a> in beautiful Quebec City.
The <a
href="http://www.ift.ulaval.ca/~kone/SWIG06/CSWWS06-Programme.pdf">Technical Program</a> includes a SOA keynote,
several papers on rules and ontologies, and much more. <a
href="http://www.ift.ulaval.ca/~kone/SWIG06/CSWWS2006-registration.htm">Registration</a> is open!
  </item>
  <item>The <a href="http://2006.ruleml.org/workshop/">RuleML-06 Workshop on Ontology and Rule Integration</a>
  will explore the integration and interaction
  (<a href="http://www.w3.org/2003/Talks/0922-rsoc-tbl/slide30-0.html">homogeneous</a> and
  <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Talks/0511-keynote-tbl/#[17]">hybrid</a>) between the rule and ontology layers of
  the Semantic Web, and share best practices. Papers are welcome on all theoretical and practical aspects of
  ontology-rule integration as well as on the orchestration of inferencing across layers,
  adaptable policy enforcement using ontologies enhanced with rules, dynamic rule and ontology distribution,
  and rule annotation for discovery and reuse with ontologies. Final Submission Deadlines:
  <b>7 July 2006: Deadline for abstracts</b>.  <b>14 July 2006: Deadline for papers</b>.
  </item>
  <item>2006-08-12: <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/fun/">Functional RuleML</a> has been pre-released,
  which will be part of the upcoming RuleML 0.91 release.
  </item>
  <item>2006-08-18: The <a href="http://www.jdrew.org/oojdrew">OO jDREW</a> 0.9, 0.91, and 0.92 versions
  have been released over the last two months.
  These releases include the following new features: Test for stratification.
  Loop counter for BU iterations. Option to print only facts instead of facts and rules.
  Implementation of the RuleML Data element.
  </item>
  <item>2006-08-24: The <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/0.91/">specification of RuleML 0.91</a>, incorporating <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/fun">Functional RuleML</a>, has been released along with an updated <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/0.91/glossary">glossary</a> of terms.</item>
  <item>The <a href="http://2006.ruleml.org">RuleML-2006 Conference</a>,
  held with the <a href="http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org">Int'l Semantic Web Conference</a>,
  will take <a href="http://2006.ruleml.org/group3.html#2">place</a> in Athens, GA, Nov. 10-11, 2006,
  featuring a <a href="http://2006.ruleml.org/group3.html#3">Program</a> of
  exciting Keynotes, excellent (Research and Industry) Papers, a Fishbowl panel, Tutorials, and Posters.
  Early <a href="http://2006.ruleml.org/group3.html#1">registration</a> (before Sept. 30, 2006): US$275.
  Late <a href="http://2006.ruleml.org/group3.html#1">registration</a> (after Sept. 30, 2006): US$335.
  </item>
   <item>The First International Conference on
Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (<a href="http://www.wrrs.info/">RR2007</a>)
is devoted to all aspects of Semantic Web Reasoning, with an emphasis on rule-based approaches and languages.
RR2007 brings together three previously separate events:
International Workshop on Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning (<a href="http://www.dbis.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/PPSWR06/">PPSWR2006</a>),
the International Conference on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web (<a href="http://2006.ruleml.org/">RuleML2006</a>),
and the International Workshop on Reasoning on the Web (<a href="http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/phi/RoW06/">RoW2006</a>).
The conference is organized in Innsbruck (Austria) on 7-8 June 2007 by REWERSE and RuleML, and co-located with <a href="http://www.eswc2007.org/">ESWC2007</a>.
EXTENDED DEADLINE: 11 Feb 2007.
  </item>
   <item>The International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications
(<a href="http://2007.ruleml.org">RuleML-2007</a>) will take place, October 25-26, 2007, in Orlando, Florida,
co-located with The 10th International Business Rules Forum (<a href="http://www.businessrulesforum.com">BR Forum</a>).
RuleML-2007 is devoted to practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based
applications which need language standards for rules operating in the
context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Intelligent Multi-Agent Systems,
Event-Driven Architectures and Service-Oriented Computing Applications.
A RuleML-2007 Challenge with prizes will be organized to demonstrate
tools, use cases, and applications.
<xhtml><font color="red">Registration is OPEN. Early Registration Deadline: 15 Sept 2007. Please register NOW!</font></xhtml>
  </item>
  <item>
2007-08-17: Reaction RuleML 0.2 was released:
<br />
The <a href="http://ibis.in.tum.de/research/ReactionRuleML/">Reaction RuleML Technical Group</a>
(Chairs: Adrian Paschke and Alexander Kozlenkov)
has released <a href="http://ibis.in.tum.de/research/ReactionRuleML/0.2/">Reaction RuleML 0.2</a>:
<br />
- Generalizes the syntax of different rule subfamilies by introducing one 
general &lt;Rule&gt; construct which can be specialized to different types of 
rules.
<br />
- Metadata, scopes and qualification labels for rules and rule bases 
(modules)
<br />
- Enhanced update actions and complex event and action algebra
<br />
- Event messages for complex event processing and messaging reaction rules
<br />
- RuleML Interface Description Language (RuleML IDL)
<br />
- Generalized procedural attachments for external procedural calls to 
programming languages
<br />
- Language extensibility via integration of external language constructs 
and external manipulation and query languages
<br />
- Tool support for validation, translation and editing
  </item>
  <item> 
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2007)
<br />
The International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications
(RuleML-2007) will take place, October 25-26, 2007, in Orlando, Florida
&lt;<a href="http://2007.ruleml.org" class="external free" title="http://2007.ruleml.org" rel="nofollow">http://2007.ruleml.org</a>&gt;, co-located with The 10th International
Business Rules Forum &lt;<a href="http://www.businessrulesforum.com" class="external free" title="http://www.businessrulesforum.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.businessrulesforum.com</a>&gt;. RuleML-2007 is
devoted to practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based
applications which need language standards for rules operating in the
context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Web 2.0, Intelligent Multi-Agent
Systems, Event-Driven Architectures, and Service-Oriented Computing
Applications.
<br />
The new <b>RuleML-2007 Challenge</b> provides an excellent opportunity to
demonstrate rule-based tools, use cases, and applications (and to win a
prize). Late-breaking demos for the RuleML-2007 Challenge are welcome.
Please send title, author(s) and brief description by September, 30th to
ruleml2007 AT easychair.org &lt;<a href="http://2007.ruleml.org/index-Dateien/Page787.htm" class="external free" title="http://2007.ruleml.org/index-Dateien/Page787.htm" rel="nofollow">http://2007.ruleml.org/index-Dateien/Page787.htm</a>&gt;.
  </item>
  <item>2008-02-13: The <a href="http://defeasible.org/RuleML/">Defeasible RuleML</a> Technical Group now has a preliminary page.
  </item>
  <item>2008-07-31: <a href="http://www.jdrew.org/oojdrew">OO jDREW</a> version <a href="http://www.jdrew.org/oojdrew/download.html">0.96</a>
  has been released, implementing Naf Hornlog RuleML. Recent OO jDREW applications have been in Expert Finding (<a href="http://www.ruleml.org/usecases/foaf/findxprt/">FindXpRT</a>),
  eTourism (<a href="http://ruleml.org/usecases/etourplan/">eTourPlan</a>),
  Health Information Retrieval (<a href="http://gge.athost.net/">http://gge.athost.net</a>), and
  Personal Agents (<a href="http://responder.ruleml.org/">Rule Responder</a>).
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  <item>The International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications
(<a href="http://2008.ruleml.org">RuleML-2008</a>) 
will take place, October 30-31, 2008, in Orlando, Florida,
co-located with the 11th International Business Rules Forum (<a href="http://www.businessrulesforum.com">BR Forum</a>).
RuleML-2008, is the primary venue to discuss and exchange new ideas, practical developments and experiences
on issues pertinent to the interchange and applications of rules in open distributed environments such as the Web.
RuleML-2008 will enable delegates to better understand Web Rules and Rule-Based Event Processing technologies and their potential,
and how to exploit these technologies in their organizations. 
A RuleML-2008 Challenge with prizes will be organized to demonstrate tools, use cases, case studies and applications.
Make RuleML-2008 your Web Rules showcase!
<b><a href="http://2008.ruleml.org/lightning.php">Additional Calls for Contributions -- All Deadlines: August 22, 2008</a>:
Present your work at the Lightning Talks / Highlight Talks / Fast Abstracts.
Get an award at the Challenge/Showcase Demos</b>.
  </item>
  <item>2008-09-15: A page for <a href="http://ruleml-challenge.cs.nccu.edu.tw/?q=submitform">RuleML Challenge Demos</a>
  has has been created and is reachable at the right-hand side Resources sidebar.
  </item>
  <item>CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: The 2008 International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications
(<a href="http://2008.ruleml.org">RuleML-2008</a>) will take place, October 30-31, 2008, in Orlando, Florida,
co-located with The 11th International
Business Rules Forum (<a href="http://www.businessrulesforum.com">BR Forum</a>). RuleML-2008 is
devoted to practical distributed rule technologies and rule-based
applications which need language standards for rules operating in the
context of, e.g., the Semantic Web, Web 2.0, Intelligent Multi-Agent
Systems, Event-Driven Architectures, and Service-Oriented Computing
Applications.
The RuleML-2008 Challenge provides an excellent opportunity to
demonstrate rule-based tools, use cases, and applications (and to win a
prize). Late-breaking Challenge/Showcase Demos are still possible, 
along with Lightning/Highlight Talks &amp; Fast Abstracts. All the details for 
the still-open calls can be found at: <a href="http://2008.ruleml.org/lightning.php">http://2008.ruleml.org/lightning.php</a>
The submission deadline is October 1st.
  </item>
  <item>Senior Technical Reports are available: Gregory Sherman authored
  <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/papers/CriticalAnalysisXSLT.pdf">A Critical Analysis of XSLT Technology for XML Transformation</a>.
  Benjamin Craig authored
  <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/papers/EvalArchiRule.pdf">Evaluating Centralized, Hierarchical, and Networked
Architectures for Rule Systems</a>.
  </item>
  <item>2009-03-10: An introduction to <a href="http://www.ruleml.org/fun/">Functional RuleML</a>-style rules (based on first chapter of the lecture notes <a href="http://www.cs.unb.ca/~boley/FLP/cs6905FLP.pdf">Functional-Logic Programming</a>) was presented
  as a <a href="http://www.unb.ca/fredericton/science/math/">UNB Department of Mathematics and Statistics</a> Colloquium: <a href="http://www.math.unb.ca/Colloq/Boley.pdf">Some Principles of Programming with Functions and Relations</a>.
  </item>
  <item>Call for Chapters for TMRF e-Book <a href="http://www.tmrfindia.org/eseries/cfc-sc.html">Advances in Semantic Computing</a>
  solicits <a href="http://www.tmrfindia.org/eseries/cfc-sc4.html">topics</a> on Rule-based transformation of semantic representations,
  Ontology and rulebase browsers, Ontology and rulebase interchange languages and processors, and Semantic profiles in FOAF and ontology/rule extensions.
  1-2 page proposal deadline: <b>June 21, 2009</b>
  </item>
  <item>The International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications
  (<a href="http://2009.ruleml.org" title="RuleML-2009">RuleML-2009</a>) will take place,
  November 5-7, 2009, in Las Vegas, Nevada, co-located with the 12th International Business
  Rules Forum (<a href="http://www.businessrulesforum.com" title="BR Forum">BR Forum</a>).
  RuleML-2009, is the premier industrial-oriented meeting place to discuss and exchange new ideas,
  practical developments and experiences on all topics related to the engineering,
  management, integration, interoperation and interchange of rules in open
  distributed environments such as the Web. RuleML-2009 will enable delegates
  to better understand Web rules and rule-based event processing technologies
  and their potential, and how to exploit these technologies in their
  organizations. A RuleML-2009 Challenge with prizes will be organized to demonstrate tools,
  use cases, case studies and applications. Make RuleML-2009 your Web
  Rules showcase!
  </item>
  <item>Open Call for Submissions to the <b>3rd International Rules Challenge</b> at RuleML-2009,
  November 5-7 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: <a href="http://2009.ruleml.org/challenge">http://2009.ruleml.org/challenge</a>.
  The Rules Challenge is one of the highlights at RuleML-2009 with prestigious prizes and additional CEUR proceedings.
  MAKE RULEML-2009 YOUR SHOWCASE!
  </item>
  <item>2009-12-08: Thetida Zetta, Efstratios Kontopoulos, and Nick Bassiliades released a <b>tool totally 
dedicated to RuleML authoring</b>: <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/s2red/">S2REd</a> (more: <a href="#Interfaces">User Interfaces</a>)
  </item>
  <item>Call for Presentations/Participation: <b>Special Rules Track at <a
    href="http://semtech2010.semanticuniverse.com/">SemTech 2010</a>, co-organized by
    RuleML</b>. For schedule and registration see: <a
      href="http://semtech2010.semanticuniverse.com/rules">Semantic Rules</a>
  </item>
  <item><b>Press Release</b>, Fredericton, Canada, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 23, 2010: <a
    href="http://ruleml.org/press/EmeraldRuleMLResponderPressRelease-2010-04-23.pdf">RuleML
    and Aristotle University Collaborate on Rule-Based Multi-Agent System Emerald RuleML
    Responder</a>
  </item>
  <item>2010-06-22: With <a
    href="http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/RIF_FAQ#What_is_the_relationship_between_RuleML_and_RIF.3F"
    >input from RuleML</a>, the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/RIF_Working_Group"
      >W3C RIF Working Group</a> published <a href="http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8839">six
        recommendations and five related documents</a>. See also <a href="#RIF">RIF RuleML</a>
    developments. </item>
  <item>Recent <a href="http://responder.ruleml.org/">Rule Responder</a> instantiations include <itemize>
    <item>
      <a href="http://ruleml.org/SymposiumPlanner">SymposiumPlanner</a>-2009/2010, </item>
    <item>
      <a href="http://ruleml.org/WellnessRules">WellnessRules</a>/<a
        href="http://ruleml.org/WellnessRules2">WellnessRules2</a>, and </item>
    <item>
      <a href="http://ruleml.org/PatientSupporter">PatientSupporter</a>, </item>
  </itemize> using RuleML for (Prolog-N3) interchange. </item>
  <item><b>The 4th International Web Rule Symposium: Research Based and Industry Focused</b> (<a
    href="http://2010.ruleml.org" title="RuleML-2010">RuleML-2010</a>) will take place in
    Washington, DC, USA, October 21-23, 2010, co-located with the Business Rules Forum
    Conference 2010 (<a href="http://www.businessrulesforum.com" title="BR Forum">BR Forum</a>).
    RuleML-2010 is the premier industry-focused event to discuss and exchange new ideas,
    practical developments and experiences on all topics related to the engineering, management,
    integration, interoperation and interchange of rules in open distributed environments such
    as the Web or Enterprise Systems. RuleML-2010 will enable delegates to better understand
    Web/Enterprise rules and rule-based event processing technologies and their potential, and
    how to exploit these technologies in their own organizations. The proceedings will <a
      href="http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems+and+applications/book/978-3-642-04984-2"
      >again</a> be published as Springer LNCS. <a
        href="http://logic.stanford.edu/people/genesereth/">Michael Genesereth</a> and <a
          href="http://www.drrw.net/">David Webber</a> will give keynotes. Go to <a
            href="http://2010.ruleml.org/call-for-papers.html">RuleML-2010 Call for Papers</a> and
    then to <a href="http://www.csw.inf.fu-berlin.de/ruleml2010/ruleml-2010-challenge.html"
      >RuleML-2010 Challenge</a>: <itemize>
        <item> Extended Abstract submission deadline: June 6, 2010 </item>
        <item> Extended Paper Submission deadline: June 11, 2010 </item>
        <item> Challenge Paper Submission deadline (EXTENDED): Aug. 27, 2010 </item>
      </itemize>
  </item>
  <item>2010-10-21: <a href="http://2010.ruleml.org" title="RuleML-2010">RuleML-2010</a>
    presentations for the Washington DC Semantic Web Meetup Group (<a
      href="http://www.meetup.com/semweb-31/calendar/14349685/">Lotico Washington Semantic
      Web</a>) start with brief Introduction slides (<a
        href="http://files.meetup.com/987383/RuleML-SemWeb-Meetup-2010.pptx">RuleML - Where Web
        Rule Research Meets Industry</a>) </item>
  <item>2010-12-28: The well-known Wine Ontology is made available as a sizeable RuleML Use Case
    in Web rule conversion, upgrading, and normalization (<a
      href="http://ruleml.org/usecases/wineonto/">WineOnto</a>) </item>
  <item> 2011-01-18: <a href="http://responder.ruleml.org/">Rule Responder</a> and <a
    href="http://lpis.csd.auth.gr/systems/emerald/">EMERALD</a> are multi-agent systems
    assisting user communities based on Semantic Web and multi-agent standards. The <a
      href="http://ruleml.org/press/EmeraldRuleMLResponderPressRelease-2010-04-23.pdf"
      >Collaboration between RuleML and Aristotle University</a> made these multi-agent systems
    interoperable in order to automate collaboration across communities using a declarative,
    knowledge-based approach. Bidirectional RuleML gateways between EMERALD and Rule Responder
    were built, which could also be adapted for other interoperation needs. Multi-step
    interaction scenarios among agents based on the <a
      href="http://ruleml.org/SymposiumPlanner/">SymposiumPlanner</a> use case have been
    deployed through the <a href="http://ruleml.org/RuleML-2010/RuleResponder/RuleResponder.htm"
      >RuleML-2010 Symposium Q&amp;A web page</a>. Details are found on the <a
        href="http://lpis.csd.auth.gr/systems/EMERALDRR/">EMERALD Rule Responder website</a>. </item>
  <item><b>Call for Papers for the 5th International Symposium on Rules: Research Based,
    Industry Focused</b> (<a href="http://2011.ruleml.org" title="RuleML-2011"
      >RuleML-2011</a>). In 2011, two instalments of the RuleML Symposium will take place. The
    first one will be held in conjunction with the International Joint Conference on Artificial
    Intelligence (<a href="http://ijcai-11.iiia.csic.es/">IJCAI 2011</a>) in Barcelona, Spain,
    July 16th-22th, 2011. The second one will be co-located with the Business Rules Forum 2011
    (<a href="http://www.businessrulesforum.com/">BRF 2011</a>) to be held in Fort Lauderdale,
    Florida, USA, November 3rd-5th, 2011. The <a href="http://2011.ruleml.org/america/"
      >RuleML-2011@BRF</a> instalment will include the <a
        href="http://2011.ruleml.org/america/?page_id=126">RuleML Challenge Award</a>, which this
    year will be dedicated to Rules and Ontologies. For RuleML-2011@IJCAI a selection of best
    papers will be presented during a joint session with IJCAI, and the authors of these papers
    will be invited to submit a revised paper for inclusion into the IJCAI proceedings. </item>
  <item> 2011-03-17: <a href="http://www.athant.com">Athan Services</a> and RuleML have started
    a project on re-engineering and improving the RuleML XSDs in <a href="http://relaxng.org/"
      >Relax NG</a>. The first result of this project is a version of RuleML 0.91 in Relax NG,
    which implements bindatalog in the normal form. The modular design of the Relax NG schema
    will allow greater flexibility in customizing language features, increased ease of
    development, testing, and documentation. The design also prepares the way for the second
    phase of the project, the alignment of a subset of RuleML with <a
      href="http://common-logic.org/">Common Logic</a>. Items currently available for
    alpha-testing from the RuleML website include the <a href="http://ruleml.org/0.91/relaxng"
      >Relax NG schema</a>, <a href="http://code.google.com/p/jing-trang/">Trang</a>-generated
    <a href="http://ruleml.org/0.91/trang">XSD schema</a>, and <a
      href="http://www.oxygenxml.com/">oXygen</a>-generated <a
        href="http://ruleml.org/0.91/docng/bindatalog_normal/">documentation</a>. The principles
    of this approach are discussed on the <a href="http://wiki.ruleml.org/index.php/MYNG">MYNG -
      RuleML Wiki</a> Page. </item>
  <item><b>RuleML Challenge-2011 Demo Award:</b> Late-Breaking Demos can be submitted until
    October 7th, 2011 (<a href="http://2011.ruleml.org/america/?page_id=113"
      title="RuleML2011@BRF Challenge">RuleML2011@BRF Challenge</a>). </item>
  <item>2011-10-05: Harold Boley presented <a
    href="http://www.cs.unb.ca/~boley/talks/RuleMLGrailog.pdf">RuleML/Grailog: The Rule
    Metalogic Visualized with Generalized Graphs</a> at <a
      href="http://web-and-philosophy.org/philoweb2011_pt-ai_salonica/">PhiloWeb 2011</a>. </item>
  <item>2011-10-29: Harold Boley wrote <a href="http://ruleml.org/metalogic/">Specifying the
    Rule Metalogic on the Web</a>. </item>
  <item>2011-11-18: Tara Athan's GIS Dissertation <a
    href="http://ruleml.org/papers/AthanDissertation/AthanGISDissertation2011.pdf">XCLX: An
    XML-based Common Logic eXtension with Embedded Geography Markup Language</a> has been
    accepted. </item>
  <item>2011-12-08: Markus Zucker and Christian Fabbricatore have moved the reference
    implementation of (Naf Hornlog) RuleML, the Object-Oriented Java Deductive Reasoning Engine
    for the Web (<a href="http://ruleml.org/oojdrew/">OO jDREW</a>), to <a
      href="https://github.com/OOjDREW">OO jDREW GitHub Social Coding</a>, where it is being
    further developed. </item>
  <item>2011-12-15: Reuben Peter-Paul and Gen Zou, supported by Sadnan Al-Manir, are
    implementing the <a href="#PSOA">PSOA RuleML</a> specification -- as part of the <a
      href="http://reubenpeterpaul.github.com/PSOA-to-TPTP/">PSOA2TPTP</a> project co-led by
    Alexandre Riazanov and Harold Boley -- via a translator to the <a
      href="http://www.cs.miami.edu/~tptp/TPTP/QuickGuide/">TPTP</a> format so it can be run in
    <a href="http://riazanov.webs.com/software.htm">VampirePrime</a>. </item>
  <item>2012-01-19: The first meeting of the OASIS <a
    href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=legalruleml"
    >LegalRuleML</a> Technical Committee was held. </item>
  <item><b>Call for Papers for the 6th International Symposium on Rules: Research Based,
    Industry Focused</b> (<a href="http://2012.ruleml.org" title="RuleML-2012"
      >RuleML-2012</a>). This year, the RuleML Symposium will be held in conjunction with <a
        href="http://www2.lirmm.fr/ecai2012/">ECAI 2012</a>, the 20th biennial European Conference
    on Artificial Intelligence, in Montpellier, France, August 27-29, 2012. Abstract submission:
    March 25, 2012. Paper submission: April 1, 2012. RuleML-2012 will be the host of the 7th AIS
    SigPrag International Conference on Pragmatic Web (<a
      href="http://www.csw.inf.fu-berlin.de/pragweb/index.php">ICPW 2012</a>). The RuleML-2012
    Symposium is also holding the <a href="http://2012.ruleml.org/phdconsortium">RuleML-2012
      Doctoral Consortium</a> and the <a href="http://2012.ruleml.org/rulechallenge">6th
        International Rule Challenge</a>. </item>
  <item>2012-01-28: <b>Deliberation RuleML Version 1.0 Release</b>: The specification of <a
    href="http://ruleml.org/1.0/">Deliberation RuleML Version 1.0</a> has been released for
    review. Please check out this major 'Rosetta' release with 'parallel' schema definitions in
    XSD and Relax NG. Free-form reviews should be sent to <a
      href="http://mail.ruleml.org/mailman/listinfo/ruleml-all">ruleml-all</a> by February 29,
    2012. For your review, you can give your overall impression, visit the Schema Specification
    page, and then select from the following, or put everything into the context of your own
    work. Perhaps start with a look at the <a href="http://ruleml.org/papers/Primer">RuleML
      Primer</a>, and amongst the <a href="http://ruleml.org/1.0/#quicklinks">Quick links</a> of
    the Schema Specification: <itemize>
      <item> Learn about the Relax NG schemas (<a href="http://ruleml.org/1.0/relaxng/"
        >http://ruleml.org/1.0/relaxng</a>) and MYNG-based schema customization (<a
          href="http://ruleml.org/1.0/myng/">http://ruleml.org/1.0/myng</a>) </item>
      <item> Find out about the re-organized and new examples, and give validation a try
        according to either or both of the schema languages (<a
          href="http://ruleml.org/1.0/exa/">http://ruleml.org/1.0/exa</a>) </item>
      <item> See the listed tools and post to <a
        href="http://mail.ruleml.org/mailman/listinfo/ruleml-all">ruleml-all</a> if your own
        tools are not yet included (<a
          href="http://wiki.ruleml.org/index.php/RuleML_Implementations"
          >http://wiki.ruleml.org/index.php/RuleML_Implementations</a>) </item>
      <item> Test the <a href="https://github.com/OOjDREW/OOjDREW/downloads"
        >GitHub</a>-downloadable OO jDREW Version 1.0 to run examples up to Naf Hornlog RuleML
        expressiveness (<a href="http://www.jdrew.org/oojdrew/"
          >http://www.jdrew.org/oojdrew</a>) </item>
    </itemize>
  </item>
  <item>2012-03-12: <a href="http://rohaninezhad.wikispaces.com/">Mehdi Rohaninezhad</a> from
    the National University of Malaysia (<a href="http://www.ukm.my/v3/">UKM</a>), Faculty of
    Information Science And Technology (<a href="http://www.ftsm.ukm.my/">FTSM</a>), <a
      href="http://www.ftsm.ukm.my/samn/">Knowledge Technology Research Group</a>, created <a
        href="http://ruleml.org/talks/PeopleFriendAdvisor-talk.pdf">People Friend Advisor</a> (<a
          href="http://ruleml.org/talks/PeopleFriendAdvisor-talk.pptx">pptx</a>) using RuleML/POSL
    and OO jDREW. </item>
  <item> We are pleased to announce that <a href="http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rak/"
    title="Robert Kowalski">Robert Kowalski</a>, <a href="http://www.lirmm.fr/~mugnier/"
      >Marie-Laure Mugnier</a>, and <a
        href="http://fr.linkedin.com/pub/francois-briant/1/43/395">Francois Briant</a> will be <a
          href="http://dbis.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/ruleml2012/keynotes.html">keynote speakers</a>
    at <a href="http://2012.ruleml.org" title="RuleML-2012">RuleML-2012</a>. The submission date
    for papers has been extended to April 15, 2012. </item>
  <item> 2012-07-22: <b>Defeasible RuleML Version 1.0 Release</b>: The specification of <a
    href="http://ruleml.org/1.0/defeasible/defeasible.html">Defeasible RuleML Version 1.0</a>
    has been released for review. </item>
  <item><b>Call for Papers for the 7th International Web Rule Symposium</b> (<a
    href="http://2013.ruleml.org" title="RuleML-2013">RuleML-2013</a>). The symposium will be 
    held on July 11-13, 2013 at the University of Washington, Seattle, just prior to the 
    <a
      href="http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai13.php">AAAI-13</a>
    conference in Bellevue, Seattle Metropolitan Area, WA, USA.<itemize>
      <item>Abstract submission: February 21, 2013.</item>
      <item>Paper submission: February 28, 2013.</item>
    </itemize> The RuleML-2013 Conference is also hosting <itemize>
      <item>The 7th Int'l Rule Challenge. Submission deadline extended to May the 24th, 2013. </item>
      <item>The 3rd Doctoral Consortium on Rules. Submission deadline May the 24th, 2013. </item>
      <item>An OASIS Legal RuleML TC Meeting and Tutorial.</item>
    </itemize>
  </item>
  <item><b>Announcing the Human-Rules Special Track of RuleML 2013:</b> Over the last decade
    there has been enormous growth in unstructured and semi-structured textual material
    distributed on the web, for instance legal sources. Yet a substantial knowledge-acquisition
    bottleneck remains in using Human Language Technologies (HLT) to translate from this
    material to machine-readable, knowledge-based semantic representations. The 'Human-Rules'
    Special Track of RuleML 2013 has its focus on these issues, providing a forum for current
    work and a venue for the exchange of ideas. For details, important dates, and submission
    information please go to <a href="http://wiki.ruleml.org/index.php/Human-Rules"
      >http://wiki.ruleml.org/index.php/Human-Rules</a>.</item>
  <item><b>Information about <a href="http://2013.ruleml.org">RuleML 2013</a> Content</b> is now available:
    <itemize>
      <item><a href="http://2013.ruleml.org/content/keynotes-and-tutorials">RuleML Keynotes,
        Invited Talks and Tutorials</a></item>
      <item><a href="http://2013.ruleml.org/content/program-and-accepted-papers">RuleML Program
        and Accepted Paers</a></item>
    </itemize>
  </item>
  <item>A wiki page on <a
    href="http://wiki.ruleml.org/index.php/RuleML_Implementations">RuleML
    Implementations</a>  has been created for implementers of RuleML
    tools. This wiki page will replace the below  <a
      href="#Translators">Translators section</a> and <a
        href="#Engines">Engines section</a>. 
    If you do not yet have edit privileges for the wiki directly, 
    please send wiki snippets about your tools to the webmaster
    {A T} ruleml.org.
  </item>
  <item>The <b>Grailog Initiative</b>, an Affiliate of RuleML, has
    created a wiki page on Graph inscribed logic (<a
      href="http://wiki.ruleml.org/index.php/Grailog">Grailog</a>)
    containing, e.g., links to initial implementations and use cases. This
    wiki page will replace the below <a href="#Grailog">Grailog
      section</a>. If you want to contribute, please contact <a
        href="http://www.cs.unb.ca/~boley/">Harold Boley</a>.
  </item>
  <item><b>Call for Participation in the 7th International Web Rule Symposium</b> (<a
    href="http://2013.ruleml.org" title="RuleML 2013">RuleML 2013</a>).  
    <b><a href="http://ruleml2013.eventbrite.com/#">Online Registration</a></b> ends Jul 11, 2013.
    (Walk-in Registration still possible during event)
  </item>
  <item>2013-07-11: <b><a href="http://wiki.ruleml.org/index.php/Introducing_RuleML">Introducing RuleML</a></b> 
    released and presented at RuleML 2013 (<a href="http://2013.ruleml.org">RuleML 2013</a>)
  </item>
</itemize>
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