-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [WI] RR-DC 2012: New Application Deadline Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:39:02 +0200 From: Francesco Calimeri calimeri@mat.unical.it Reply-To: Francesco Calimeri calimeri@mat.unical.it To: Francesco Calimeri fcalimeri@gmail.com
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Doctoral Consortium, RR2012 September 10 - 12 2012, Vienna, Austria http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2012/
The RR Doctoral Consortium (DC) is the first doctoral consortium to be offered as part of The 5th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems.
The RR2012 Doctoral Consortium will provide doctoral students in Web Reasoning and related areas with the unique opportunity to present and discuss their research directions, being involved into state-of-the-art research discussion and being supported in establishing fruitful collaborations with prominent researchers and pioneers the field.
The Consortium is designed for students currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program, though we are also open to exceptions (e.g., students currently in a Masters program and interested in doctoral studies). Students at any stage in their doctoral studies are encouraged to apply. Applicants are expected to be conducting research in the field of Web Reasoning and Rules and related areas. The co-location of RR2012 with the Reasoning Web Summer School and with other relevant related events will provide multiple opportunities for participating students to enhance their education.
The Consortium will allow participants to interact with established researchers through the following initiatives:
The poster presentation session will give the students the opportunity to present their dissertation plan, including their already established results as well as their work plan for completion of the thesis. The poster will be accompanied by a written research summary, which will be distributed at the conference. The poster presentation session will be preceded by a spotlight presentations session where poster presenters give 5-minute teaser talks as advertisement for their posters.
The mentoring lunch will consist of a lunch break where a senior researcher shares a lunch table with 3-4 students. The researcher will be charged with initiating and driving a discussion on general topics concerning research, career, and Web Reasoning as a discipline. He will also be available for answering questions by the students.
== Submission information ==
To apply for participation to the RR2012 Doctoral Consortium students are asked to submit
1. A statement of interest in participating to the Doctoral Consortium (less than 1 page)
2. A research summary of their PhD research addressing the following aspects: - Applicant's complete name, address and affiliation as well as the title of the research - The main problem you are trying to tackle and why it is relevant - What is the state-of-the-art in relation to existing solutions to the problem - Advances beyond the state-of-the-art in terms of your specific contribution and research plan - Current status of the research plan - Expected achievements and possible evaluation metrics to establish the level of success of your results - References
Submissions must be in PDF and be formatted according to the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Research summary must be no longer than 6 pages.
== Submission Process ==
To apply for participation to the RR2012 Doctoral Consortium students are asked to submit
1. A research summary (max 6 pages) of their PhD research addressing the following aspects: - Applicant's complete name, address and affiliation, title of the research - The main problem you are trying to tackle and why it is relevant - What's the state-of-the-art in relation to existing solutions to the problem - Advances beyond the state-of-the-art in terms of your specific contribution and research plan - Current status of the research plan - Expected achievements and possible evaluation metrics to establish the level of success of your results - References
2. A statement of interest in participating to the Doctoral Consortium (less than 1 page, uploaded as an attachment)
Both the research summary and the attachment must be in PDF format and be formatted according to the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
Submission will be managed via Easychair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcrr2012)
All proposals submitted to the Doctoral Consortium will undergo a reviewing process. All the accepted contributions have to be presented.
The best submissions will present their work as regular (15 min) presentation, and they will be given the option to have their research summaries included in the conference proceedings (Springer LNCS). All the other accepted submissions will be presented at the poster presentation session, preceded by the 5-min talk.
Students whose work has been accepted at the poster presentation session should prepare a poster as well in A0 format.
Students presenting a poster to the Reasoning Web Summer School can use the same poster for the DC if accepted as short presentations.
== Important Dates ==
Application Deadline: Extended to May 14th, 2012 Notification: May 25th, 2012
== Grants& Awards ==
Applications for Grants will be managed via Easychair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=grantdcrr2012)
Two types of sponsorship will be available.
Type 1 sponsorships will be in the amounts of $500 per student. Such sponsorships will be given to students who participate in the Reasoning Web Summer School sponsored by their own funding, such that they can extend their stay to include RR2012.
Type 2 sponsorships will be in the amounts of $1,500 per student. They will cover travel and other expenses for attending RR2012. Sponsored students may choose to seek additional funding from other sources such that they can also attend the Reasoning Web Summer School. All students at U.S. universities are eligible to apply for the sponsorships.
In order to apply for a grant, students need to submit a single PDF form containing, the following information: - Section A: Applicant details, included name and affiliation, title of the PhD Thesis, year of PhD, title and authors (in the correct order) of paper accepted to RR2012 (if any), if the applicant is attending the Reasoning Web Summer School as well, and the type of grant the applicant applies to - Section B: Short motivation statement (max 250 words) for applying, including eventual evidence for the need for sponsorship
Students will be selected by a committee consisting of the PIs and the chairs of RR2012. In their decisions, the committee members will adhere to the following criteria: 1. Students who have submd a dissertation plan for review, and the reviews found the dissertation plan to be of high quality and on an important topic. 2. Students who are first authors of research papers at the conference, and who provide convincing evidence that they would not be able to attend all or part of the event without sponsorship. 3. Students who are co-authors of research papers at the conference, and who provide convincing evidence that they would not be able to attend all or part of the event without sponsorship. 4. Students who have submitted a dissertation plan for review, but the reviews found the dissertation plan of lesser quality. 5. All other students, taking into account the stage of their PhD studies (early-stage PhD are favored), quality of the dissertation plan as assessed by the reviews, quality of the (co-)authored RR2012 research paper as assessed by the reviews.
All students being awarded a grant, will present a poster and a spotlight talk based on their dissertation plan.
== Chair ==
Alessandra Mileo, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, NUIG
== List of Mentors ==
The list of mentors will be communicated along with their area of expertise once the review process has been completed.
== Program Committee ==
Alessandra Mileo, DERI Galway (Ireland) Axel Polleres, Siemens AG (Österreich) Claudio Gutierrez, Computer Science Department, Universidad de Chile Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom) Hans Tompits, Technische Universitat Wien (Austria) Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, Dayton OH (US) Pedro Cabalar, Department of Computer Science, Corunna University, Galicia (Spain) Terrance Swift, Stony Brook University, New York (U.S.A.) Thomas Eiter, Technische Universitat Wien (Austria) Tommie Meyer, Knowledge Systems Group · Meraka Institute, Pretoria (South Africa) Wolfgang Faber, Department of Mathematics of the University of Calabria (Italy)
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