Rule Workshop Proposal

Workshop on Rule Based Programming (RULE)

Associated with PPDP

The goals of the workshop

• System demonstrations

Names and addresses of organizers

• Bernd Fischer
  Automated Software Engineering Group, USRA/RIACS, NASA Ames Research Center, M/S 269-2
  Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
  Phone: +1(650)604-2977
  mail:fisch@email.arc.nasa.gov
  http://ase.arc.nasa.gov/people/fischer

• Eelco Visser
  Institute of Information and Computing Sciences, Universiteit Utrecht
  P.O. Box 80089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
  Phone: +31-30-253 4592
  Fax: +31-30-251 3791
  mail:visser@acm.org
  http://www.cs.uu.nl/~visser/

Names of potential participants, such as program committee members

• Mark van den Brand
• Bernd Fischer
• Claude Kirchner
• Mark Minas
• Eelco Visser

Plans for call for participation (e.g., call for papers)

• Preliminary call for papers: December 2001
• Call for papers: February 2002
• Call for participation: June 2002 (this one should coincide with the final call for papers and still leave enough time to write/finish a paper, i.e, two weeks before deadline -bf)
• Submission deadline: (2+ weeks after ICFP deadline, 4 weeks before Notification? -bf)
• Notification of acceptance: (6 weeks before WS? -bf)

Important related dates

ICFP:

• Submission deadline: 21 March 2002
• Notification of acceptance or rejection: 14 May 2002
• Conference: October 4-6, 2002

PPDP:

• Submission deadline: 21 March 2002
• Notification of acceptance or rejection: 30 May 2002
• Conference: October 6-8, 2002

Invited Speaker

• Paul Haley

Workshop-Schedule

Expected number of attendees

• 20

Plans for publicity

mailinglists

• amast
• eapls
• seworld
• list of former RULE participiants / PC-members
• list of former RCoRP^? participiants / PC-members

newsgroups

• comp.ai
• comp.compilers
• comp.lang.functional
• comp.lang.prolog (doesn't harm -bf)
• comp.software-eng

Plans for a proceedings

• Printed participants proceedings (Utrecht University Technical Report)
• Post-conference publication in ENTCS

Past Events

RULE'01

• Date: September 4, 2001
• Site: Florence, Italy (affiliated with PLI 2001)
• Organizers: Mark van den Brand, Rakesh Verma
• Submissions/accepts: 11 / 11
• Attendance: 20
• Registration fees: $65
• Budget: $150 for the proceedings
• URL: http://www.cwi.nl/~markvdb/RULE2001/

RULE'00

• Date: Sep. 19, 2000
• Site: Montreal
• Organizers: Nachum Dershowitz and Claude Kirchner
• Submissions/accepts: 13/11
• Attendance: 21
• Registration fees: see http://www.cs.yorku.ca/pli00/
• Budget: just the proceedings
• URL: http://www.loria.fr/~ckirchne/=rule2000/

URL address of the workshop description

• http://www.program-transformation.org/rule02