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Call for Extended Abstracts
Though organized under the umbrella of KnowledgeWeb, the symposium is
open to all PhD students carrying out research on topics related to
the Semantic Web. The applicants are required to send an extended
abstract (maximally 5 pages, minimal font size: 12-point) of their
doctoral work, which should adhere to the following structure:
- Briefly describe the research problem the PhD is addressing and its relevance to the Semantic Web area.
- Explain why this is a significant problem.
- Outline current approaches to the problem, and describe their strengths and weaknesses.
- Describe your proposed approach, clearly differentiating between the results achieved so far and the remaining work.
- Compare and contrast your approach with other existing approaches, in particular highlighting the shortcomings of other approaches, which your approach is planning to tackle.
- Present the expected contributions of your work and highlight the novelty and benefits of the suggested solutions.
- Sketch the research methodology that you have adopted (or you are planning to adopt), in particular your approach to evaluating/validating the results.
Applicants should also specify how long they have worked on their doctoral work.
The submissions will be reviewed against the following criteria:
- Novelty and originality of the research work
- Relevance of the work with respect to the Semantic Web field
- Conformance of the submitted abstract to the given template
- Rigorousness and scientific soundness of the overall approach and of the results so far
- Clarity of the presentation
The selected participants will be given the opportunity to open
their work up to discussion in front of other students and an expert
audience (either in a regular presentation session or in a poster
session). Each accepted contribution will be assigned to a scientific
advisor who will provide extended feedback to the presented research
achievements and to the accuracy of the applied methodology.
An award will be given to the best PhD Symposium
contributions. Special travel grants to support the participation of
female PhD students are also available. Please take a look at the Hoppers@Kweb
web site for more details.
Important Dates (GMT)
| Submission of extended abstracts: |
DEADLINE EXTENDED: 7. April 2006 |
| Notification to authors: |
21 April 2006 |
| Final version of extended abstracts: | 28 April 2006 |
Topics
Topics of interest to the symposium include (but are not restricted to):
- Ontology Management (e.g. creation, evolution, evaluation)
- Ontology Alignment (e.g. mapping, matching, merging, alignment, mediation and reconciliation)
- Ontology Learning
- Semantic Web-based Multimedia
- Semantic Annotation of Data
- Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights
- Semantic Web Rules and Query Languages
- Reasoning on the Web (e.g. scalability, fuzziness, distribution)
- Semantic Web Representation Languages
- Searching, Querying, Visualizing, Navigating and Browsing the Semantic Web
- Personalization and User Modelling
- User Interfaces and Semantic Web
- Semantic Grid and Middleware
- Semantic Web Services (e.g. description, discovery, invocation, composition)
- Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management (e.g. Semantic Desktop, Knowledge Portals)
- Semantic Web Applications for eBusiness, eCulture, eGovernment, eHealth, eLearning, eScience etc.
- Database Technologies for the Semantic Web
- Semantic Interoperability
- Semantic Data Integration
- Semantic Web Mining
- Semantic Web Middleware
Organisation
Joerg Diederich (L3S Hannover, Germany)
Enrico Motta (The Open University, UK)
Elena Paslaru-Bontas (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
Scientific Advisors
Alain Leger (France Telecom, France)
Axel Polleres (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Christoph Tempich (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Daniel Olmedilla (L3S Hannover, Germany)
Diana Maynard (University of Sheffield, UK)
Elena Paslaru Bontas (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
Enrico Motta (The Open University, UK)
Fausto Giunchiglia (University of Trento, Italy)
Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Guus Schreiber (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Holger Wache (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Ilya Zaihrayeu (University of Trento, Italy)
Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Jerome Euzenat (INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France)
Joerg Diederich (L3S Hannover, Germany)
John Breslin (NUIG Galway, Irland)
John Davies (British Telecom, UK)
Lora Aroyo (University of Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Lyndon Nixon (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
Marco Ronchetti (University of Trento, Italy)
Martin Dzbor (The Open University, UK)
Michal Zaremba (NUIG Galway, Irland)
Pavel Shvaiko (University of Trento, Italy)
Richard Benjamins (Isoco, Spain)
Robert Tolksdorf (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
Rudi Studer (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Sergio Tessaris (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Steven Willmots (Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Tomas Vitvar (NUIG Galway, Irland)
Valentina Tamma (University of Liverpool, UK)
Walter Binder (EPFL, CH)
Wolfgang Nejdl (L3S Hannover, Germany)
Yiannis Kompatsiaris (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece)
York Sure (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
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