The annual International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML) is an international conference on research, applications, languages and standards for rule technologies. RuleML is a leading conference to build bridges between academe and industry in the field of rules and its applications, especially as part of the semantic technology stack. It is devoted to rule-based programming and rule-based systems including production rules systems, logic programming rule engines, and business rule engines/business rule management systems; semantic web rule languages and rule standards; rule-based event processing languages (EPLs) and technologies; and research on inference rules, transformation rules, decision rules, production rules, and ECA rules. The 9th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML 2015) was held in Berlin, Germany, August 2-5.

The dinner speech at the Fischerhuette was given by Jörg Siekmann (University of Saarbrücken). The poster session, consisting of 18 posters and demos, was jointly organized as a get-together with the Berlin Semantic Web Meetup. At the session, wine, beer, and finger food were provided in the greenhouses of the Computer Science Department at The Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence the Freie Universität Berlin. The organizers also used (AAAI-17) and the Twenty-Ninth Conference on Innovative this unique opportunity to hold a joint public Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-17), will be RuleML and RR business meeting as well as an invited held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, during the mid-January dinner with all chairs, and invited keynote speakers to mid-February timeframe. AAAI-17 August 1, a boat sightseeing tour from lake Wannsee will arrive in New Orleans just prior to Mardi Gras and festivities to the Reichstag on Sunday, August 2, the CADE exhibitions will already be underway.