The International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) aims to be the major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results on all topics concerning Web Reasoning and Rule Systems. This joint conference is devoted to all aspects of Semantic Web Reasoning, with an emphasis on rule-based approaches and languages. It welcomes both theoretical and practical works on this wide subject.
The reasoning landscape features theoretical areas such as knowledge representation (KR) and algorithms; design aspects of rule markup; design of ontology languages; engineering of engines, translators, and other tools; standardization efforts, such as the Rules Interchange Format activity at W3C; and applications. Of particular interest is also the use of rules to facilitate ontology modeling, and the relationships and possible interactions between rules and ontology languages like RDF and OWL, as well as ontology reasoning related to RDF and OWL.
RR2010, September 23-24, 2010 in Bressanone, Italy
RR2009, Chantilly, Virginia, USA, 25-26 October, 2009
RR2008, Karlsruhe, Germany, 31 October - 1 November 2008
RR2007, Innsbruck, Austria, 7-8 June 2007
The conference is organised by the Web Reasoning and Rule Systems Association (RRA) e.V. (founded 2009)
Official charter (in German)
English translation of the charter
Old version of the charter (kept for reference)
Riccardo Rosati (president, elected 2007-2012)
Pascal Hitzler (vice president, elected 2007-2012)
Georg Lausen (treasurer, elected 2009-2012)
Francois Bry, University of Munich (Germany) (founding member since 2007; term ends 2011)
Michael Kifer, Stony Brook University, New York (U.S.A.) (founding member since 2007; term ends 2011)
Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom) (founding member since 2007; term ends 2011)
Holger Wache, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (Switzerland) (founding member since 2007; term ends 2011)
Thomas Eiter, Technische Universitat Wien (Austria) (founding member since 2007; reelected 2008-2012)
Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) (elected 2008-2012)
Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, Dayton OH (U.S.A.) (founding member since 2007; term ends 2010; extended until 2012)
Georg Lausen, University of Freiburg (Germany) (elected 2008-2012)
Riccardo Rosati, Universita di Roma La Sapienza (Italy) (founding member since 2007; term ends 2010; extended until 2012)
Additional members of the RRA:
Jose Alferes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)
Harold Boley, University of New Brunswick (Canada)
Thomas Lukasiewicz, Oxford University Computing Laboratory (UK)
Axel Polleres, DERI Galway (Ireland)
Guilin Qi, University of Karlsruhe (Germany)
Sebastian Rudolph, University of Karlsruhe (Germany)
Terrance Swift, Stony Brook University, New York, U.S.A.
Past members of the RR Steering Committee:
Massimo Marchiori, UNIPD (Italy) (founding member, 2007-2008)
Harold Boley, University of New Brunswick (Canada) (founding member, 2007-2009)
Christian de Sainte Marie, ILOG (France) (founding member 2007-2009)
Bruce Spencer, University of New Brunswick (Canada) (founding member 2007-2009)