Submission Data for 2020-2021 CORE Conference Ranking Process International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning Domenico

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Submission Data for 2020-2021 CORE conference Ranking process International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning

Domenico Lembo

Conference Details

Conference

Title: International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning Acronym : RuleML+RR

Requested Rank

Rank: A

Primarily CS

Is this conference primarily a CS venue: True

Location

Not commonly held within a single country, set of countries, or region.

DBLP Link

DBLP url: https://dblp.org/db/conf/rulemlrr/index.html

FoR Codes

For1: 4602 For2: 4613 For3: 4601

Recent Years

Proceedings Publishing Style

Proceedings Publishing: series Link to most recent proceedings: https://rd.springer.com/conference/rulemlrr Further details: Proceedings of the RuleML+RR conference are published as a volume in the LNCS series, by Springer. This volume contains research papers accepted for presentation at the conference and Invited papers, associated to keynote talks (when invited speakers are willing to send a contribution). Research papers can be either full papers or technical communication papers (shorter papers describing general results or speciﬁc applications, systems, or position statements). These are included in two distinct sections of the proceedings. For every edition, a companion volume is published in the CEUR Workshop proceeding series. It includes the proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium, the Rule Challenge (a competition among innovative rule-oriented applications, which reached the 14th edition in 2020), the RuleML+RR Industry Track, Tutorials and Posters.

Most Recent Years

Most Recent Year

Year: 2019 URL: https://rulemlrr19.inf.unibz.it/ Location: Bolzano/Bozen (Italy) Papers submitted: 26 Papers published: 10 Acceptance rate: 38 Source for numbers: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm%3A978-3-030-31095-0%2F1%2F1.pdf

1 General Chairs Name: Diego Calvanese Aﬃliation: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Gender: M H Index: 72 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=We0kRfEAAAAJ DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/c/DiegoCalvanese.html

Program Chairs

Name: Marco Montali Aﬃliation: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Gender: M H Index: 36 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=FjHRgWsAAAAJ DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/85/1455.html Name: Paul Fodor Aﬃliation: Stony Brook University, USA Gender: M H Index: 13 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=84-hNncAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/70/1143.html

Second Most Recent Year

Year: 2018 URL: http://2018.ruleml-rr.org/ Location: Luxembourg City (Luxembourg) Papers submitted: 33 Papers published: 10 Acceptance rate: 30 Source for numbers: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm%3A978-3-319-99906-7%2F1%2F1.pdf

General Chairs Name: Xavier Parent Aﬃliation: University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Gender: M H Index: 16 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=UA7cm6wAAAAJ DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/33/4590.html

Program Chairs

Name: Christoph BenzmÃĳller Aﬃliation: University of Luxembourg and Freie UniversitÃďt Berlin, Germany Gender: M H Index: 33 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=zD0vtfwAAAAJ DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/b/CBenzmueller.html Name: Francesco Ricca Aﬃliation: University of Calabria, Italy Gender: M H Index: 32 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=prvOThsAAAAJ DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/r/FrancescoRicca.html

Third Most Recent Year

Year: 2017 URL: http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/ Location: London (UK) Papers submitted: 38 Papers published: 14 Acceptance rate: 37 Source for numbers: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm%3A978-3-319-61252-2%2F1.pdf

General Chairs

2 Name: Roman Kontchakov Aﬃliation: Birkbeck, University of London, UK Gender: M H Index: 31 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=i9GOeLUAAAAJ DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/09/3547.html Name: Fariba Sadri Aﬃliation: Imperial College, London, UK Gender: F H Index: 30 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1CN_q7kAAAAJ DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/s/FaribaSadri.html

Program Chairs

Name: Stefania Costantini Affiliation: University of LâĂŹAquila, Italy Gender: F H Index: 20 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=-cqgz-oAAAAJ DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/c/StefaniaCostantini.html Name: Enrico Franconi Affiliation: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Gender: M H Index: 39 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=QI5asAEAAAAJ DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/f/EnricoFranconi.html Name: William Van Woensel Affiliation: Dalhousie University, Canada Gender: M H Index: 10 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=VUOYp2UAAAAJ DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/94/2734.html

Policies

Chair Selection: Program Chairs and General Chairs are selected among renowned researchers in the area of knowledge representation, with important contributions in the ﬁeld of rule reasoning. They are typically researchers that publish at and/or attend regularly the conference and/or the satellite conference events (e.g., they have been involved as lecturers or organizers of the associated Reasoning Web summer school). Chairs are appointed the year before the conference is held. Since the conference is organized by both the Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR) steering committee and the RuleML steering committee (previously organizing two distinct annual events, which joined in 2017 in the RuleML+RR conference), each such committee typically nominate one Program Chair. General chairs are often required to be also part of the local organization, and thus they are preferably from the institution organizing the event, or belong to an organization that is settled in the same area where the event is hosted. Typically one general chair is appointed, but there can be even two general chairs (as happened in 2017) No Policies.

(Senior) Program Committee

Link to (s)pc: https://rulemlrr19.inf.unibz.it/?p=organization File: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conf_submissions_spc_file/2019-Program-Committee_rD1CHiQ.txt H-index plot: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conf_submissions_hindex_plots/hindex_buckets_1503.png Information Contained within this graph is derived using the Elsevier Scopus Database 2021.

3 Data and Metrics

Google Scholar Metrics

Sub-category url: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=eng_artificialintelligence Position in sub-category: 20+ Image of top 20: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/changes_h5/addrank1503_gscholar_minh5.png

4 No Google Scholar h5 index available for this conference Potential reason for no h5 index: According to Google Scholar, currently h5 index is deﬁned as âĂĲthe largest number h such that h articles published in 2015-2019 have at least h citations eachâĂİ. We assume that there is no h5 index for our conference since the ﬁrst edition of RuleML+RR was in 2017, and thus in 2019 only three editions of the conference were held, which does not allow to compute a meaningful h5-index.

ACM Metrics

Not Sponsored by ACM

Aminer Rank

Not Listed in Aminer

Other Rankings

Not aware of any other Rankings Conferences in area: IJCAI, AAAI KR, ISWC ECAI, CIKM ESWC, ICLP, RuleML+RR LPNMR, LPAR, TARK, ER JELIA, TABLEAUX, FOIS, AiML DL, EKAW

Top People Publishing Here name: Diego Calvanese justification: More than 30.000 citations and h-index=72 on Google Scholar. EurAI Fellow, ACM Fellow. Associate Editor of Artificial Intelligence (AIJ). Program chair of PODS 2015 (A* conference on CORE) and KR 2020 (A* conference on CORE). Area chair of the AAAI 2020 (A* conference on CORE). Leading researcher on Description Logics (#1 on Google scholar for this tag), Verification (#3 on Google scholar for this tag), Data Management and Knowledge Representation (#7 on Google scholar for these tags). The mentioned fifth most recent paper appeared in the proceedings of RR 2016. Besides the papers published in the last five years, he also previously published 3 papers at RR. He is currently the president of the RR steering committee. Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 0 1 0 2 1 Attendance: ALWAYS name: Georg Gottlob

5 justification: Almost 25.000 citations and h-index=77 on Google Scholar. Royal Society member. EurAI fellow, ACM fellow. He received honorary doctorates from the University of Klagenfurt (2016) and the University of Vienna (2020). Leading world expert on database theory (#2 on Google scholar for this tag), complexity theory (#2 on Google scholar for this tag) and Logic in computer Science (#4 on Google scholar for this tag). The mentioned fifth most recent paper appeared in the proceedings of RR. Besides the papers published in the last five years, he also previously published three papers at RR, 1 at RuleML, and 5 papers at Reasoning Web (RuleML and RR merged in 2017 into RuleML+RR, whereas Reasoning Web is a renowned satellite event of RuleML+RR). Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 0 0 1 0 1 Attendance: OCCASIONALLY name: Jan Vanthienen justification: More than 10.000 citations and h-idex=49 on Google Scholar. Leading world expert on decision modeling (#1 on Google scholar for this tag) and decision analytics (#2 on Google scholar for this tag). Full professor at one of the best European research universities (KU Leuven, Institute for Artificial Intelligence) according to rankings. The mentioned fifth most recent paper appeared in the supplement to the proceedings of RuleML. Besides the papers published in the last five years, he also previously published 2 papers at RuleML, and 1 paper at Reasoning Web (RuleML and RR merged in 2017 into RuleML+RR, whereas Reasoning Web is a renowned satellite event of RuleML+RR). Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 1 0 1 0 1 Attendance: ALWAYS name: Guido Governatori justification: More than 10.000 citations and h-index=50 on Google Scholar. Leading researcher on legal informatics, defeasible logic, deontic logic (#1 on Google scholar for these tags), and on modal logic (#2 on Google scholar for this tag). The mentioned fifth most recent paper appeared in the proceedings of RuleML. Besides the papers published in the last five years, he also previously published 23 papers at RuleML, 1 at RR and 2 at Reasoning Web. Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 1 1 2 0 1 Attendance: ALWAYS name: Thomas Eiter justification: More than 20.000 citations and h-index=71 on Google Scholar. Leading world expert on knowledge representation and reasoning (#2 on Google Scholar for this tag) and Computational Logic (#2 on Google scholar for this tag). EurAI Fellow. Conference Chair of IJCAI 2019, and currently among the IJCAI Trustees. Program chair of KR 2014 and co-Chair of KR 2012 (A* conference on CORE). Program co-chair of ICDT 2005 (A conference on CORE). The mentioned fifth most recent paper appeared in the proceedings of RR, one of the paper of the fourth most recent year appeared in the proceedings of Reasoning Web. Besides the papers published in the last five years, he also previously published 2 RuleML papers, 6 RR papers and 9 Reasoning Web contributions. Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 0 1 0 2 1 Attendance: OFTEN name: Pascal Hitzler justification: More than 12.000 citations and h-index=53 on Google Scholar. Editor in Chief of the Semantic Web journal, which is one of the top journals in the field according to rankings. Besides the papers published in the last five years, he also previously published 1 RuleML paper, 12 RR papers and 1 Reasoning Web contribution. He is a founding member of the RR association and has been vice-president of the RR steering committee between 2007 and 2011. Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 0 1 0 0 0 Attendance: SOMETIMES name: Grigorios Antoniou justification: More than 12.000 citations and h-index=44 on Google Scholar. Leading world expert on nonmonotonic reasoning (#1 on Google Scholar for this tag). EurAI Fellow. The mentioned fifth most recent paper appeared in the proceedings of RuleML. Besides the papers published in the last five years, he also previously published 13 RuleML papers, and 2 Reasoning Web contributions. Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 0 0 0 0 1 Attendance: SOMETIMES name: Sebastian Rudolph justification: More than 7.000 citations and h-index=39 on Google Scholar. He is recipient of an European Research Council (ERC) consolidator grant (with a project in the area of Knowledge Representation). Leading world expert on Database Theory (#7 on Google Scholar for this tag) and Formal Concept Analysis (#5 on Google Scholar for this tag). The mentioned fifth most recent year paper appeared in the proceedings of RR. Besides the papers published in the last five years, he also previously published 2 RuleML papers, 8 RR papers and 3 Reasoning Web contributions. He is has been vice-president of the RR steering committee between 2012 and 2018. Paper counts:

6 Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 0 0 1 1 1 Attendance: ALWAYS name: Riccardo Rosati justification: More than 13.000 citations and h-index=56 on Google Scholar. Leading world expert on Database Theory (#4 on Google Scholar for this tag). EurAI Fellow. The mentioned fifth most recent year paper appeared in the proceedings of RR. Besides the papers published in the last five years, he also previously published 6 RR papers. He is a founding member of the RR association and has been president of the RR steering committee between 2007 and 2011. Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 0 0 0 0 1 Attendance: OCCASIONALLY name: Michael Kifer justification: More than 12.000 citations and h-index=52 on Google Scholar. Leading world expert on Logic Programming (#4 on Google Scholar for this tag). Twice, in 1999 and 2002, he was a recipient of the prestigious ACM-SIGMOD ”Test of Time” . He is also a recipient of the 20-year ”Test of Time” award from the Association for Logic Programming for his work on Transaction Logic. The mentioned fourth most recent year paper appeared in the companion volume of RuleML+RR. Besides the papers published in the last five years, he also previously published 7 RR papers, 5 RuleML papers and 4 Reasoning Web contributions. He is a founding member of the RR association and has been president of the RR steering committee between 2012 and 2018. Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 0 0 0 1 0 Attendance: ALWAYS

Where People Publish

Top (Senior) Program Committee Members

Generated Report Name: conf submissions top spc/addrank1503 top spc.csv WPP Report: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conf_rank_report/addrank1503_spc_report.txt Graphs: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conf_rank_graphs/addrank1503_spc_graph.png

Reference item: \\ 6. International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML) ______

This conference was published at 12 times by 9 of 23 experts in the last 5 years.

The experts that publish at this conference are: Rafael Pealoza(1), Iliano Cervesato(1), Marc Denecker(1), Leopoldo E. Bertossi(1), Grzegorz J. Nalepa(1), Giorgos Stamou(2), Thomas Lukasiewicz(1), Marco Maratea(1), Sebastian Rudolph(3)

7 In 2015, there were 3 publications by 3 experts: Thomas Lukasiewicz, Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Grzegorz J. Nalepa In 2016, there were 2 publications by 2 experts: Marc Denecker, Iliano Cervesato In 2017, there were 3 publications by 3 experts: Rafael Pealoza, Giorgos Stamou, Sebastian Rudolph In 2018, there were 3 publications by 2 experts: Giorgos Stamou, Sebastian Rudolph In 2019, there were 1 publications by 1 experts: Marco Maratea

9 out of the 23 experts published at this conference in 1 or more years 2 out of the 23 experts published at this conference in 2 or more years

Top People Report

Method of selection: Top People have been selected by issuing a number of queries to Google Scholar, by specifying for each query an area of research (label) among those used in Scholar and more close to the topics of RuleML+RR. We selected only labels with at least 100 researchers in Scholar, and chosen only people with h-index greater than 64. Google Scholar labels considered are: knowledge representation, description logics, computational logic, database theory, ontologies, semantic web, logic programming Keyword: Knowledge Representation, description logics, Computational Logic, Database Theory, Ontologies, Semantic Web, Logic name h-index gscholar url Tim Finin 98 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=p5oWQ0AAAAAJ Michael J. Wooldridge 96 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JD8v9fkAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao Ian Horrocks 96 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0ypdmcYAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao Jim Hendler 94 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=JNPbTdIAAAAJ David Karger 93 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=2vQRGrYAAAAJ Katia Sycara 92 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VWv6a9kAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao Mark Musen 89 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=FmMT4CcAAAAJ Maurizio Lenzerini 82 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=EYxaICEAAAAJ Georg Gottlob 77 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=i72_SkUAAAAJ Programming Deborah L. McGuinness 76 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=PLJ0L4QAAAAJ Ronald Fagin 75 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=ohL-Y50AAAAJ Stephen Muggleton 74 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=WxJXT2MAAAAJ Diego Calvanese 72 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=We0kRfEAAAAJ Thomas Eiter 71 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=X1L03cIAAAAJ Frank van Harmelen 67 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=LCyfDi8AAAAJ Luc De Raedt 66 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=dgobB6AAAAAJ Natasha Noy 66 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=FE08ALAAAAAJ Christian Stoeckert 65 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=Ay7qAI4AAAAJ Peter F. Patel-Schneider 64 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=9WivH3kAAAAJ Peter F. Patel-Schneider 64 https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=9WivH3kAAAAJ

Reference item: \\ 9. International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML) ______

This conference was published at 6 times by 5 of 20 experts in the last 5 years.

The experts that publish at this conference are: Stephen Muggleton(1), Diego Calvanese(1), Mark A. Musen(1), Georg Gottlob(2), Thomas Eiter(1)

In 2015, there were 2 publications by 2 experts: Mark A. Musen, Georg Gottlob In 2017, there were 2 publications by 2 experts: Stephen Muggleton, Diego Calvanese In 2018, there were 1 publications by 1 experts: Georg Gottlob In 2019, there were 1 publications by 1 experts: Thomas Eiter

5 out of the 20 experts published at this conference in 1 or more years 1 out of the 20 experts published at this conference in 2 or more years WPP Report: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conf_rank_report/addrank1503_top_people_report.txt Graphs: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conf_rank_graphs/addrank1503_top_people_graph.png

8 Other Information

Comparator Comparison

Comparator

International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning

Explanation as to why conference is superior to comparator: RuleML is the 9th most preferred venue in WPP for top people in the area, RR is the 21st most preferred venue for top people, whereas LPNRM is the 54th most preferred venue. Notice that in the WPP report, the RuleML row includes also data referring to RuleML+RR (indeed, after 2016, RuleML became RuleML+RR, after its merging with the RR conference). At the same time, data for RR refers only to the 2016 and 2017 editions. The acceptance rate of LPNMR in the last three editions is 56%, %57% 67%, whereas for RuleML+RR the acceptance rate is 38%, 30%, 37%, which testiﬁes that RuleML+RR is more selective (which should guarantee a higher quality of published papers). Link to comparator report: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conference_submission_2020/Data_Comparator_for_1503_653.pdf

Comparator

International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems

Explanation as to why conference is superior to comparator: RuleML is the 9th most preferred venue in WPP for top people in the area, RR is the 21st most preferred venue for top people, whereas FOIS does not appear in the list of 133 venues returned by the WPP tool. Notice that in the WPP report, the RuleML row includes also data referring to RuleML+RR (indeed, after 2016, RuleML became RuleML+RR, after its merging with the RR conference). At the same time, data for RR refers only to the 2016 and 2017 editions. Link to comparator report: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conference_submission_2020/Data_Comparator_for_1503_980.pdf

Other Relvant Info

Other relevant information: RuleML+RR stems from the merge of the two most important international conferences on rule applications and reasoning, i.e., RuleML and RR (the International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems). Whereas RuleML has been characterized by several application-based contributions, RR has been an important venue for theoretical contributions. Thus, RuleML+RR now combines together in a balanced way both practical and theoretical research. NOTE THAT THE WPP TOOL PUT DATA RELATIVE TO RULEML+RR TOGETHER WITH THOSE RELATIVE TO RULEML (ALWAYS USING THE NAME RULEML). FOR THIS REASON, IN SECTION D BOTH THE SCREENSHOT FROM THE TOOL AND THE REFERENCE ITEM WE PROVIDE REFERS TO RULEML.

9 Both RuleML and RR have been recognized by the community as two major events. RuleML has a history of 13 editions (the first three in the form of workshop), from 2002 to 2016, whereas RR has been held for ten editions, from 2007 to 2016. Thus, despite the fact that RuleML+RR is a young conference, it is in fact an event with a consolidated tradition. RuleML+RR selects the best papers for publications in a major journal in AI and KR. So far, these papers have been published in the TPLP journal (Cambridge University Press). This is a tradition inherited from both RuleML and RR. In particular selected papers from RR have been also collected in special issues of the IOS press Semantic Web Journal. . RuleML+RR is now a quite large conference, that besides the main research track, includes also an industry track, a Doctoral Consortium, the Rule Challenge (a competition among innovative rule-oriented applications, which reached the 14th edition in 2020), and attracts also other events, which are usually co-located with it. The most important ones are: - the Decision Camp ( https://dmcommunity.org/decisioncamp/), one of the major annual Business Rules and Decision Management events oriented to digital decisioning practitioners who are usually Business Analysts or Business Experts. It reached the 12th edition in 2020. Many of Decision Camp participants come from the U.S. - the Reasoning Web Summer School ( http://reasoningweb.org/), a worldwide renowned school in AI and KR, focused on reasoning techniques and related issues that are of particular interest to Semantic Web and Linked Data applications. The school attracts several students every year, and hosts lectures by the top researchers in the area. We finally mention that RuleML has a linkedIn Group with almost 800 members ( https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2190838/). Also, RuleML has been included in the CORE ranking and classified as a B conference, until the last CORE database revision. Both RuleML and RR are also ranked in the GII-GRIN-SCIE (GGS) Conference Rating ( http://gii-grin-scie-rating.scie.es/ratingSearch.jsf).

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First name: Domenico Last name: Lembo Aﬃliation: Sapienza UniversitÃă di Roma, Italy Email: [email protected]

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