RuleML Conference to feature RIF

The new W3C Rule Interchange Format (W3C RIF) standard will be featured at RuleML 2009 (see http://2009.ruleml.org), co-located with the Business Rules Forum in November 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. There will be a tutorial about RIF by Christian de Sainte Marie (ILOG/IBM, co-chair of the RIF WG) and a keynote by Sandro Hawke (W3C staff representative on the RIF WG) "Bringing Order to Chaos: RIF as the New Standard for Rule Interchange". RIF will also be a topic at the RuleML/Business Rules Forum lunch panel on Web rule standards, and in the Business Rules standards session and Open Source Day. Implementations of RIF will be demonstrated in the 3rd Int. Rule Challenge at RuleML-2009, which has an open call for demonstrations/case studies/benchmarks/best practice reports and is explicitly calling for demonstrations of W3C RIF implementations. First demos on RIF by IBM, Oracle, ILog, have been presented last year in the 2nd Rules Challenge at RuleML-2008 and are available on the growing demo pool of the RuleML Rule Challenge website.