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PhD students
and PostDoc fellows are invited to apply to the research school
on the "Foundations and Challenges of Change in Ontologies and
Databases", to be held on 29-31 January 2014 in Bozen-Bolzano,
Italy. This is the follow-up of a successful Dagstuhl seminar
held last year <http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=12441>. This year
the event will be oriented towards students and postdocs. There
will be five half-day sessions (listed below). The
students/postdocs will be split in small groups, and each group
will be responsible to organise a survey talk within a specific
session; each group will be given appropriate reading material
in advance. In the rest of each session there will be
survey/tutorial/advanced presentations by some of the seniors
and many discussions.
The
five sessions are:
- Ontology revisions, versioning, diffs, and non-monotonic
aspects;
- The logic of updates, active rules, and triggers in
databases;
- Foundations and challenges in temporal and stream data;
- Modelling and reasoning with business processes and
workflows;
- Actions representation and reasoning in ontology
languages.
Please apply
by submitting a short statement (as an abstract with a title),
your CV (in PDF), and the chosen topic(s) via EasyChair at <https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fccod2013> by 24
December 2013; late applications may be considered subject
to the availability of space. The acceptance to the research
school will be notified shortly after, together with the
composition of the groups and the preparation material
(consisting of few papers).
Before
the beginning of the school, each group is required to develop a
presentation using the preparation material. During the
preparation phase, groups will be supported by high-quality
mentors from the committee of the school: each mentor will
advise the groups she/he is assigned to about the quality of
their presentation while they prepare it before coming to the
school.
The
list of mentors is growing; by now we have:
- Carlo
Zaniolo, zaniolo@cs.ucla.edu
- Laura
Giordano, laura.giordano@mfn.unipmn.it
- Misha
Zakharyaschev, michael@dcs.bbk.ac.uk
- Bernardo
Cuenca Grau, Bernardo.Cuenca.Grau@comlab.ox.ac.uk
- Bijan
Parsia, bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk
- Emanuele
Della Valle, emanuele.dellavalle@polimi.it
- Diego
Calvanese, calvanese@inf.unibz.it
- Michael
Kifer, michael.kifer@stonybrook.edu
- Katia
Sycara, katia@cs.cmu.edu
- Ivan
Varzinczak, ijv@acm.org
- Renata
Wassermann, renata@ime.usp.br
- Stefano
Ceri, ceri@elet.polimi.it
There will be
no registration fee to the research school; coffee breaks
and lunches are included.
Information about the school location in Bolzano and how to book
online the accommodation is available at <http://www.inf.unibz.it/krdb/location.php>.
cheers by the organisers
— Jim
Delgrande, Enrico Franconi, Tommie Meyer, Uli Sattler