RuleML2012@ECAI Challenge and Doctoral Consortium 6th International Rule Challenge

This volume collects the four selected contributions of the RuleML2012 Doctoral Consortium and the twelve demo papers accepted for presentation at the RuleML2012 Challenge. The RuleML Doctoral Consortium is part of the RuleML International Symposium on Rules, and is intended to attract Ph.D. researchers in the area of Rules and Markup Languages, from different backgrounds (e.g. theoretical, application, vertical domain-specific), to encourage a constructive and fruitful interdisciplinary approach. The doctoral symposium provides two benefits to students. Firstly, the students can interact with academics and commercial experts in the field, who can evaluate their research projects from both theoretical and application points of view. Secondly, they have the opportunity to present and discuss their ideas in a dynamic and friendly setting. The first RuleML Doctoral Consortium was included in the first part of the RuleML 5th International Symposium on Rules (RuleML 2011@IJCAI) held on July 19th, 2011 in Barcelona. We have organized this second Doctoral Consortium as part of the RuleML 6th International Symposium on Rules, held jointly with ECAI2012, the biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. We include here the four papers of the doctoral consortium, selected from two different backgrounds: Computer Science, for the first two papers, and Law, for the other two. All contributions stressed their attention to temporal reasoning and complex event modelling; application is mostly in the legal domain.