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).

Special Issues of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming and Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge are 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.