Preface

RuleML+RR 2018 is the leading international joint conference in the field of rule-based
reasoning, and focuses on theoretical advances, novel technologies, as well as innovative
applications concerning knowledge representation and reasoning with rules, building bridges
between academia and industry.



These proceedings present the papers presented at the Doctoral Consortium and The Rule
Challenge hosted by RuleML+RR 2018.

The Doctoral Consortium is an initiative of the RuleML and RR communities to attract and
promote student research in rules and reasoning. It offers students a close contact with leading
experts on the field, as well as the opportunity to present and discuss their ideas in a dynamic
and friendly setting. The Doctoral Consortium topics range from theoretical aspects of rules
and reasoning, such as pragmatic inference and ontological reasoning through machine
learning, to practical applications, such as event detection and diagnosis for intelligent
transport systems, temporal reasoning in the legal domain and decision-making support for
Industry 4.0. Students will present their papers work through brief oral presentations during a
dedicated session of the RuleML+RR main track, but also in the form of posters and will have
the chance to discuss their research in detail with their assigned academic mentors during a
dedicated mentoring session.

The RuleML+RR 2018 Challenge is one of the highlights of the conference, and provides
competition among innovative rule-oriented applications, aimed at both the research and
industrial side. Accepted demos range from language transformations, legal rules
formalizations using PSOA-RuleML markup language, to goal-oriented decision systems and
rule mining and classification.



September 2018

Wolfgang Faber, Paul Fodor, Giovanni De Gasperis, Adrian Giurca, and Kia Teymourian