Theory, Practice, and Applications of Rules on the Web [electronic resource] : 7th International Symposium, RuleML 2013, Seattle, WA, USA, July 11-13, 2013. Proceedings / edited by Leora Morgenstern, Petros Stefaneas, François Lévy, Adam Wyner, Adrian Paschke.

Invited Talks -- Probabilistic Soft Logic: A Scalable Approach for Markov Random Fields over Continuous-Valued Variables (Keynote) -- Rapid Text-based Authoring of Defeasible Higher-Order Logic Formulas, via Textual Logic and Rulelog (Summary of Invited Talk) -- Ontology Repositories Make a World of Difference (Keynote) -- Tutorials -- LegalRuleML: from Metamodel to Use Cases - A Tutorial -- Formalization of Natural Language Regulations through SBVR Structured English (Tutorial) -- Multi-Agent Activity Modeling with the Brahms Environment (Tutorial) -- Rules and Policy based handling of XML in Government Contexts including NIEM (Tutorial) -- Technical Papers, Main Track -- Reasoning over 2D and 3D Directional Relations in OWL: A Rule-Based Approach -- Grailog 1.0: Graph-Logic Visualization of Ontologies and Rules -- Modeling Stable Matching Problems with Answer Set Programming -- A Fuzzy, Utility-based Approach for Proactive Policy-based Management -- Picking Up The Best Goal: An Analytical Study in Defeasible Logic -- Computing Temporal Defeasible Logics -- Efficient Persistency Management in Complex Event Processing: A Hybrid Approach for Gamification Systems -- Ontology Patterns for Complex Activity Modelling -- A Rule-based Contextual Reasoning Platform for Ambient Intelligence Environments -- Extending an Object-Oriented Rete Network with fine-grained Reactivity to Property Modifications -- Computing the Stratified Well-Founded Semantics over Big Data through Mass Parallelization -- Distributed ECA Rules for Data Management Policies -- Technical Papers, Human Language Technology Track: Translating Between Human-Created Regulations and Formal Rules -- Semantic Relation Extraction from Legislative Text using Syntactic Dependencies and Support Vector Machines -- Interpreting Spatiotemporal Expressions from English to Fuzzy Logic -- Combining acquisition and debugging of business rule models.