Connectionists: [RuleML+RR 2025] Rule Challenge, Doctoral Consortium, Industry Track and Networking Session

[Kai Sauerwald]

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We wish you a happy new year and hope this call finds you well!
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   RuleML+RR 2025
   Rule Challenge, Doctoral Consortium, Industry Track and Networking 
Session
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***   RuleML+RR 2025         ***
***   22-24 September 2025   ***
***   İstanbul, Türkİye      ***

Call for contributions for events associated with RuleML+RR 2025:

      Rule Challenge: 
https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/rule-challenge
Doctoral Consortium: 
https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/doctoral-consortium
      Industry Track: 
https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/industry-track
  Networking Session: 
https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/networking-session

RuleML+RR 2025 (https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr) is part 
of Declarative AI 2025 (https://2025.declarativeai.net/)
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*** RuleML+RR 2025 ***
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The International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR) is 
the leading international joint conference in the field of rule-based 
reasoning. As in the last years, RuleML+RR 2025 features the following 
associated events in addition to the main track:

     Rule Challenge, Doctoral Consortium, Industry Track, Project 
Networking Session

Further below, you find more information on the respective events.

All associated events share the same paper submission deadline:

   July 10th, 2025 (AoE)

Submissions for each of these events are made via Easychair:

   https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2025

Please select the respective track when you make a submission.

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*** Rule Challenge ***
Chairs:
   Alessandro Margara, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
   Tomáš Kliegr, Prague University of Economics and Business, Czechia
   Ognjen Savkovic, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
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The 19th International Rule Challenge is a standout feature of the 
RuleML+RR conference, fostering friendly competition among innovative 
rule-oriented tools, prototypes, and applications tailored to research, 
industry, and government.

Participants are invited to showcase their solutions to self-defined 
challenges, but also propose open challenges for the community to tackle.

Accordingly, submissions are welcome in two main categories:

  * [Challenge Proposals] Papers outlining open challenges, interesting 
problems from academia or industry, or benchmarks relevant to the 
community. Submissions should include task descriptions, datasets, and 
evaluation criteria, highlighting opportunities for rule-based 
approaches to provide solutions.

  * [Challenge Solutions] Papers presenting benchmarking or comparative 
analyses of rule engines, rule-based machine learning techniques, or 
case studies. Submissions may also cover industrial experiences, rule- 
and model-driven engineering, or innovative applications such as 
deployment of rule-based reasoning in geographically distributed, 
edge-to-cloud scenarios.

Key themes of the Rule Challenge include, but are not limited to the 
following:

  * Rule-based machine learning tools and techniques
  * Large language models (LLMs) and rule learning
  * Rule-based approaches in artificial intelligence
  * Rule-based Complex Event Processing / Recognition (CEP/CER)
  * Stream reasoning
  * Business rules modelling
  * Rule standardization for research, industry and government
  * Graph-relational data and knowledge systems
  * Higher-order logic and modal logic systems
  * Rule and ontology combinations
  * Distributed rule systems Multi-agent systems
  * Ontology-Based Data Access (OBDA) systems
  * Answer Set Programming (ASP) systems
  * Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) systems
  * (Controlled) Natural language interfaces
  * Rules and model-driven engineering

The challenge seeks high quality, original papers, potentially 
referencing online material, and ranging between 8-15 pages. Accepted 
papers will be published as part of CEUR proceedings and should be in 
the CEUR-WS.org style template CEURART (1-column variant).

Please submit your paper via:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2025

to the Rule Challenge track.

Important Dates:

  * July 10th, 2025: Paper submission deadline
  * August 31st, 2025: Notification of acceptance

Further information can be found on the Rule Challenge website:
https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/rule-challenge

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*** Doctoral Consortium ***
Chairs:
   Shqiponja Ahmetaj, TU Wien, Austria
   Riccardo Tommasini, INSA Lyon, France
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The RuleML+RR 9th Doctoral Consortium 2025 (DC) is an initiative of the 
RuleML+RR community to attract and promote student research in 
Artificial Intelligence, especially research on rule-based formalisms 
and reasoning in such formalisms. It offers students a close contact 
with leading experts in the field, as well as the opportunity to present 
and discuss their ideas in a dynamic and friendly setting.

We invite PhD students at an early or intermediate stage of their PhD 
studies, as well as exceptional master’s students who are interested in 
pursuing a PhD, to submit papers describing their research on any of the 
topics of RuleML+RR 2025.

RuleML+RR DC papers range between 8 and 15 pages, are written in 
English, will be published as part of CEUR proceedings, and should 
follow the CEUR-WS.org style template CEURART (1-column variant). They 
are submitted electronically in PDF together with a maximum 2 page-long 
CV (the paper and the CV should be submitted together as one PDF file, 
but the CV is not counted within the 15 pages limit and is not published 
in the proceedings if the paper is accepted).

The submission should cover the following aspects:
  * The identification of a significant problem in a research field 
relevant to RuleML+RR 2025.
  * An outline of the current knowledge in the problem’s domain, as well 
as an overview of existing solutions.
  * A clear formulation of the research question and motivation.
  * A presentation of (possibly preliminary) ideas, the proposed 
approach, and the results achieved so far.
  * A sketch of the applied research methodology and its positioning in 
the field.
  * A description of the student’s contribution to the research.
  * A discussion of how the suggested solution is different, new, or 
better as compared to the state of the art.
  * A research plan and the potential achievements.

Please submit your paper via:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2025

to the Doctoral Consortium track.

Important Dates:

  * July 10th, 2025: Paper submission deadline
  * July 31st, 2025: Notification deadline

Further information can be found on the Doctoral Consortium website:
https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/doctoral-consortium

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*** Industry Track ***
Chairs:
   Luigi Bellomarini, Banca d’Italia, Italy
   Evgeny Kharlamov, Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
   Ioana Georgiana Ciuciu, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania
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The RuleML+RR industry track welcomes papers describing original 
industrial advances and application achievements in all areas of Rules 
and Reasoning-based technologies. We are interested in experiences from 
practitioners when applying rules to industries such as engineering, 
manufacturing, finance, agriculture, energy, media, telecommunications, 
healthcare, life sciences, government, smart cities, tourism, cultural 
heritage, retail, logistics, transportation, education, entertainment, 
legal services, real estate, environmental management, cybersecurity, 
autonomous systems, aerospace, defense, and other emerging fields. 
Submissions are invited on all facets of Rules and Reasoning, including 
efforts to bridge recent research innovations with practical 
applications and industrial challenges, with a strong focus on the 
interplay between reasoning techniques and machine learning.

We encourage submissions on the following topics:
  * Integration of Rules, Reasoning, and AI Technologies
  * Rules and Reasoning for Knowledge Graphs and Ontologies
  * Advanced Uses of Rules and Reasoning in Scalable Applications
  * Rules and Reasoning in Regulatory Technology (RegTech)
  * Responsible Use of AI and Rules Technologies

We welcome extended abstracts of minimum 5 and maximum 6 pages 
(including the references) to be submitted to the Industry Track.

Accepted papers will be published as part of CEUR proceedings and should 
be written in English following in the CEUR-WS.org style template 
CEURART (1-column variant). Reviews will be done by the committee of 
members from both industry and academia. Submitted papers must be 
original contributions written in English.

Please submit your paper via:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2025

to the Industry Track.

Important Dates:

  * July 10th, 2025: Paper submission deadline
  * July 31st, 2025: Notification deadline

Further information can be found on the Industry Track website:
https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/industry-track

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*** Networking Session ***
Chairs:
   Dumitru Roman, SINTEF AS, Norway
   George Konstantinidis, University of Southampton, UK
   Emanuel Sallinger, TU Wien, Austria
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The project networking session of RuleML+RR 2025 aims to bring together 
relevant projects working in the area of data and AI with particular 
focus on, but not limited to, the event topics: rules, reasoning, 
decisions, and explanations.

The session will provide an opportunity to:
  * Share knowledge between research and innovation projects operating 
in the area of data and AI.
  * Identify potential synergies between the projects, e.g., transfer 
data and AI technology between projects, joint publications, joint 
dissemination activities, etc.
  * Discuss funding opportunities such as Horizon Europe, Digital 
Europe, ERC, etc.

The session targets research and innovation projects operating at all 
stages:
  * Ending (or recently ended) projects, which have results to transfer 
and/or dissemination of results;
  * Ongoing projects, seeking collaboration and networking opportunities 
with external stakeholders and external projects;
  * Upcoming projects/initiative, searching for potential new ideas and 
partners for consortia.

Interested projects should submit abstracts of minimum 5 and maximum 6 
pages (including the references), describing the project’s objective, 
possible information to be shared with other projects and potential 
interests in other projects.

The papers will be included in the companion proceedings of the event 
published by CEUR and should be formatted in the CEUR-WS.org style 
template CEURART (1-column variant). Submitted papers must be original 
contributions written in English.

Please submit your paper  via:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2025

to the Networking Session track.

Important Dates:

  * July 10th, 2025: Paper submission deadline
  * July 31st, 2025: Notification deadline

Further information can be found on the Project Networking Session website:
https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/networking-session

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RuleML+RR 2025 (https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr) and its 
associated events are part of Declarative AI 2025 
(https://2025.declarativeai.net/). The following lists further chairs 
involved in making these events possible.

General Chairs of Declarative AI 2025

   Hasan Dağ, Kadir Has University, Türkiye
   Anni-Yasmin Turhan, Paderborn University, Germany
   Ahmet Soylu, Kristiania University of Applied Sciences, Norway

Local Chair

   Mehmet Nafiz Aydin, Kadir Has University, Türkiye

RuleML+RR Program Chairs

   Aidan Hogan, University of Chile, Chile
   Ken Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Proceedings Chairs

   Dumitru Roman, SINTEF AS, Norway
   Ahmet Soylu, Kristiania University College, Norway

Publicity Chairs

   Kai Sauerwald, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
   Tor-Morten Grønli, Kristiania University College, Norway
   Romuald Esdras Wandji, Umeå University, Sweeden