RuleML Symposium

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RuleML Symposium: A short, simple overview

The RuleML Symposium is an international, annual conference about rule technologies used in artificial intelligence, the Semantic Web, and business rules. Since 2017 it has been held as RuleML+RR, the International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning, together with the Web Reasoning and Rule Systems conference.

What the conference covers
- Rule-based programming and systems, including production rules, logic programming, and business rules engines (DMN, SBVR).
- Semantic Web rule languages and standards (RuleML, SWRL, RIF, Common Logic, PRR, SBVR, DMN).
- Rule-based event processing and research on inference, constraint handling, transformation rules, decision rules, production rules, and ECA rules.
- The conference aims to connect academic research with industry applications in Web rules and semantic technologies.

History in brief
- The RuleML series started in 2002 as workshops and grew into a major conference by 2007.
- Since 2017, RuleML has been jointly organized as RuleML+RR with the Web Reasoning and Rule Systems conference.

Special events
- International Rule Challenge: held since 2007, invites benchmarks, demos, case studies, best practices, tools, and industry problems; it also hosts a rule base competition.
- RuleML Doctoral Consortium: since 2011, a venue for PhD students; since 2017, Reasoning Web Summer Schools are co-located with RuleML+RR.

editions and origins
- Notable editions include RuleML+RR 2023, 2022, and 2021; RuleML-2015 (Ninth International Web Rule Symposium); earlier events in 2010, 2005, and 2002.

In short, RuleML Symposium is a key gathering for researchers and practitioners working on rule-based technologies, bridging theory and real-world applications in AI and the Semantic Web.