Guest Editors´ Introduction: Rule Representation, Interchange, and Reasoning in Distributed, Heterogeneous Environments

The eight papers in this special section focus on the state-of-the-art approaches, solutions, and applications in the area of rule representation, reasoning, and interchange in the context of distributed, (partially) open, heterogeneous environments, such as the semantic Web, intelligent multiagent systems, event-driven architectures. and service-oriented computing.