Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web: First International Conference, RuleML 2005, Galway, Ireland, November 10-12, 2005, Proceedings

RuleML 2005 was the first international conference on rules and rule markup languages for the Semantic Web, held in conjunction with the International Semantic Web C— ference (ISWC) at Galway, Ireland. With the success of the RuleML workshop series came the need for extended research and applications topics organized in a conference format. RuleML 2005 also accommodated the first Workshop on OWL: Experiences and Directions. Rules are widely recognized to be a major part of the frontier of t...