The RuleML+RR 2017 Challenge is one of the highlights of the conference, and seeks to provide competition among innovative rule-oriented applications, aimed at both the research and industrial side. Submissions may present demos related to the RuleML+RR 2017 track topics, supply benchmarks and comparison results for rule engines, illustrate rule- and model-driven engineering, report on industrial experience, present real cases and practical experiences, and realize mobile deployment of rule-based reasoning.
Submission
The challenge seeks high quality, original papers, potentially referencing online material, and ranging between 5-15 pages. Papers must be original contributions written in English and will be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrrchallenge2017.
To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on clarity and significance of objectives and demonstration of results.
Each paper shall address the following:
- Explain the objectives, outcomes, benefits as you are going beyond the state of the art in technology, the application domain, etc.
- Prove the results with a concrete example balancing conciseness and completeness
- Preferably (but not necessarily) embed the tool in a web-based or distributed environment or a mobile environment
- Present end-user interactions, providing an adequate and usable interface that favours a concrete usage of the application
- Mention the availability of the software and data, data interchange, and possible tool extensions
- If it is the case, provide a web-link to the project site, online demonstration, or download site
Please upload all submissions in LNCS format. Rule Challenge 2017 proceedings will be published as CEUR Proceedings and indexed by SCOPUS.
Rule Challenge Important Dates
Event | Date |
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Abstract | 1st May 2017 |
Paper submission | 8th May 2017 |
Notification | 15th May 2017 |
Camera-ready | 22nd May 2017 |
Invited demo
Concurrent Multi-tasking Robotic Agent Programming in TeleoR |
![]() Keith L. Clark, Imperial College London, UK TeleoR is a major extension of Nilsson’s Teleo-Reactive (TR) rule based robotic agent programming language. Programs comprise sequences of Guard ~> Action rules grouped into parameterised procedures. The guards are deductive queries to a set of rapidly changing percept facts in the agent’s Belief Store. The actions are either sets of primitive actions for external robotic resources, to be executed in parallel, or a single call to a procedure, which can be a recursive call. The primitive actions are usually durative and are stopped or modified only when another action is determined. In each invoked procedure the first rule with an inferable guard is fired. The guard of the first rule of a procedure is the procedure’s goal. The other guards form a sub-goal tree rooted at this guard. Their linked actions are such that when the rule is fired the action will normally eventually result in an earlier rule being fired. If there is always a rule that can be fired, the procedure is a universal action plan for achieving its goal. The goal of a task is the goal of the initially called procedure. A TR and TeleoR computation is also highly reactive in that on each Belief Store update rule firings are reconsidered, starting with the initially called procedure. If in some called procedure a higher rule can be fired, progress has been made towards the task goal perhaps due to outside help. If instead a lower rule is fired, exogenous events or action failure has resulted in a setback. The lower rule has been fired in order to try to climb back up the procedure’s, and hence the task’s, sub-goal tree. This operational semantics results in both robust and opportunistic behaviour, well suited to robot/robot and robot/human collaboration. TeleoR extends TR in being typed and higher order, with extra forms of rules that allow finer control over sub-goal achieving task behaviour. Its most important extension is the concept of task atomic procedures. These enable the high level programming of multi-tasking agents that interleave the use of one or more independent robotic resources, without interference, deadlock or task starvation. TeleoR multi-task programming is illustrated by a program that can be used by an agent controlling two robotic arms in multiple block tower assembly tasks, chosen as a representative of robotic assembly or packing tasks. Both arms need to be shared by the tasks, and the arms execute in parallel whenever possible. |
Sample domains
Rules in Retail
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Rules in Tourism
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Rules in Transportation
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Rules in Geography
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Rules in Location-Based Search
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Rules in Insurance Regulation
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Rules in Medicine
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Rules in Ecosystem Research
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?Your domain! |
Past Challenge editions
2016: Stony Brook New York (http://2016.ruleml.org/challenge, CEUR-WS Vol. 1620),
2015: Berlin, Germany (http://2015.ruleml.org/challenge.html, CEUR-WS Vol. 1417 ),
2014: Prague, Czeck Republic (http://2014.ruleml.org/challenge, CEUR-WS Vol. 1211 ),
2013: Seattle, USA (http://2013.ruleml.org/content/7th-international-rule-challenge.html, CEUR-WS Vol. 1004),
2012: Montpellier, France (http://2012.ruleml.org/rulechallenge.html, CEUR-WS Vol. 874 ),
2011: Ft Lauderdale, Florida (http://2011.ruleml.org/america/challenge, CEUR-WS Vol. 799),
2010: Washington, DC (http://2010.ruleml.org/ruleml-2010-challenge.html, CEUR-WS Vol. 649),
2009: Las Vegas, Nevada (http://2009.ruleml.org/challenge),
2008: Orlando, Florida (http://2008.ruleml.org/challenge.php),
2007: Orlando, Florida (http://2007.ruleml.org/index-Dateien/Page787.htm).