Papers are wanted for The Second International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2008), being held in Germany from 31 October to 2 November.

RR aims to be the major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results in the field. 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; efficiency considerations and benchmarking; standardisation 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, the relationships and possible interactions between rules and ontology languages like RDF and OWL, and ontology reasoning related to RDF and OWL, or querying with SPARQL.

Suggested topics include:

* Acquisition of rules and ontologies by knowledge extraction
* Combining open and closed-world reasoning
* Efficiency and benchmarking
* Implemented tools and systems
* Standardisation
* Ontology usability
* Querying and optimization
* Reasoning with constraints
* Rule languages and systems
* Scalability vs. expressivity of reasoning on the web
* Web and semantic web applications

RR 2008 welcomes original research and application papers but they are limited to 15 pages in length, including title, abstract, and list of references. They should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS style in PDF format and be preceded by the submission of an abstract. Accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series with the possibility of appearing in a prestigious international journal as well.

The abstract submission deadline is 14 June 2008. The deadline for paper submissions is 21 June 2008. Submissions can be made here.