Martin O’Connor received the First Place Award at the RuleML 2007 Challenge at the RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications, held in Orlando last week. This meeting, which is sponsored by ACM, AAAI, and W3C, is the premier venue for presenting work on rule-based technologies. Here is a description of the Challenge (2007.ruleml.org):

To place emphasis on the practical use of rule technologies in distributed Web-based environments there will be a RuleML-2007 Challenge with a focus on rule interoperation and interchange. The challenge offers participants the chance to demonstrate their commercial and open source tools, use cases, and applications.

Martin received the award for a paper and demonstration of SWRLTab, which he developed as a Protege plugin and tested for the BioSTORM and Epoch projects.

The paper can be found here: Querying the Semantic Web with SWRL.