RuleML+RR 2025

Call Summary

The 9th International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning (RuleML+RR 2025) is the leading international joint conference in the field of rule-based reasoning. A main goal of RuleML+RR is to build bridges between academia and industry in the area of semantic reasoning. 

RuleML+RR 2025 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the foundations and applications of rules and reasoning.  It provides a forum for stimulating cooperation between different communities focused on the research, development, and applications of rule-based systems. We solicit high-quality papers related to theoretical advances, novel technologies, and applications that involve rule-based representation and reasoning or other declarative forms of artificial intelligence. 

The RuleML+RR 2025 conference is part of the event “Declarative AI: Rules, Reasoning, Decisions, and Explanations” and is co-located with DecisionCAMP 2025 and the Reasoning Web Summer School 2025. 

Topics

RuleML+RR welcomes research from all areas of Rules and Reasoning. The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to:

Ontology/Semantic Web

• Vocabularies, ontologies, and business rules

• Ontology-based data access

• Rules for knowledge graph creation

• Rules for knowledge graph embeddings and ontology learning

• Rule-based data integration

• Data management and data interoperability for web data

• Distributed agent-based systems for the web

Rules for AI and AI for Rules

• Rule-based approaches to natural language processing

• Machine learning approaches involving rules

• Explainable AI approaches based on rules

• FAIRness approaches based on rules

• Rule-based approaches for intelligent systems and intelligent information access

Rules and Reasoning / Logics

• Non-classical logics

• Description Logics, existential rules

• Higher-order and modal rules

• Constraint programming

• Logic programming, ASP, and Datalog

• Rule-based argumentation

• Rule-based approaches to agents and multi-agent systems

• Reasoning with incomplete, inconsistent and uncertain data

• Non-monotonic, common-sense, and closed-world reasoning

• Inconsistency-tolerant rule reasoning

Rules-Based Systems

• Streaming data and complex event processing

• Web reasoning and distributed rule inference and execution

• Scalability and expressive power of logics for rules

• Rule-based data quality and benchmarks

Rules and Interoperability

• Rule markup languages, rule interchange formats, and rule standards

• Rule-based policies, reputation, and trust

• Rules and human language technology

• Rule-based mapping languages

Constraints and Schema

• Shapes for knowledge graphs

• Validating schema languages

• Mining constraints and schemata

• Repair strategies

• Closed-world reasoning

• Certain answers under constraint violations

System Descriptions, Applications and Experiences of Ontologies and Rules in

• Climate change monitoring, mitigation & adaptation

• Environmental protection

• Agriculture and agri-food

• Healthcare and life sciences

• Equity and social welfare

• Law, regulation, and finance

• Digital Twins

• Industrial contexts

• Production & business rule systems

Submission and Publication

High-quality papers related to theoretical advances, novel technologies, and artificial intelligence applications concerning explainable algorithmic decision-making that involve rule-based representation and reasoning are solicited.

We accept the following submission formats for papers:

• Long papers (up to 15 pages in LNCS style excluding references, plus 2 additional pages for references)

• Short papers (up to 8 pages in LNCS style excluding references, plus 1 additional page for references)

Long papers should present original and significant research and/or development results. Short papers should concisely describe general results or specific applications, systems, or position statements. All submissions must be prepared in Springer's LNCS style (http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/authors.html).

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference/workshop with formal proceedings. Double submission to a workshop with informal proceedings is allowed. Papers put on arXiv are also allowed as long as they are not refereed (i.e., formally reviewed by peers).

A Special Issue of Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge is planned with extended versions of selected papers.

Submissions to the RuleML+RR conference:

• abide by the page limits (see above)

• are not anonymous 

• can have additional material included as an external report (appendices to the submission are not permitted and a paper should be self-contained)

Papers should be written in English can be submitted using EasyChair:

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

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS) after the conference.

The best paper will be awarded the RuleML+RR Harold Boley Distinguished Paper Award 2025 and best student paper will be awarded the RuleML+RR Best Student Paper Award 2025.

Important Dates

• June 2nd, 2025: Title and abstract submission

• June 9th, 2025: Paper submission deadline

• July 28th, 2025: Notification of acceptance

• September 22nd–24th, 2025: Conference

For each of these deadlines, a cut-off point of 23:59 AOE applies.