ISWC 2014 - Doctoral Consortium DEADLINE APPROACHING !!!

DEADLINE APPROACHING !!!

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The 13th International Semantic Web Conference

http://iswc2014.semanticweb.org/

19-23 October 2014, Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy

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The ISWC 2014 Doctoral Consortium will take place as part of the 13th
International Semantic Web Conference in Riva del Garda, Italy. This forum
will provide PhD students an opportunity to share and develop their
research ideas in a critical but supportive environment, to get feedback
from mentors who are senior members of the Semantic Web research community,
to explore issues related to academic and research careers, and to build
relationships with other Semantic Web PhD students from around the world.

The Consortium aims to broaden the perspectives and to improve the research
and communication skills of these students.

The Doctoral Consortium is intended for students who have a specific
research proposal and some preliminary results, but who have sufficient
time prior to completing their dissertation to benefit from the consortium
experience. Generally, students in their second or third year of PhD will
benefit the most from the Doctoral Consortium. In the Consortium, the
students will present their proposals and get specific feedback and advice
on how to improve their research plan.

All proposals submitted to the Doctoral Consortium will undergo a thorough
reviewing process with a view to providing detailed and constructive
feedback. The international program committee will select the best
submissions for presentation at the Doctoral Consortium and the best
proposal will be published in the conference proceedings.

We anticipate that students with accepted submissions at the Doctoral
Consortium will receive travel fellowships to offset some of the travel
costs.



TOPICS OF INTEREST
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The Consortium has the same scope of technical topics as the main ISWC
conference.

  * Management of Semantic Web data and Linked Data
  * Languages, tools, and methodologies for representing and managing
Semantic Web data
  * Database, IR, NLP and AI technologies for the Semantic Web
  * Search, query, integration, and analysis on the Semantic Web
  * Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web
  * Cleaning, assurance, and provenance of Semantic Web data, services, and
processes
  * Information Extraction from unstructured data
  * Supporting multi-linguality in the Semantic Web
  * User Interfaces and interacting with Semantic Web data and Linked Data
  * Geospatial Semantic Web
  * Semantic Sensor networks
  * Query and inference over data streams
  * Ontology-based data access
  * Semantic technologies for mobile platforms
  * Ontology engineering and ontology patterns for the Semantic Web
  * Ontology modularity, mapping, merging, and alignment
  * Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web
  * Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security
  * Information visualization of Semantic Web data and Linked Data
  * Personalized access to Semantic Web data and applications Semantic Web
technologies
  * Semantic Web and Linked Data for Cloud environments



SUBMISSION
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We ask the PhD students to submit an 8 page description of their PhD
research proposal. All proposal have to be submitted electronically via the
EasyChair conference submission System
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iswc2014dc. The proposal text
must have at least 8 sections (some can be very short), addressing each of
the following questions:

  1. Problem Statement: What is the problem that you are addressing?
  2. Relevancy: Why the problem is important? Who will benefit if you
succeed? Who should care?
  3. Related Work: How have others attempted to address this problem? Why
is the problem difficult?
  4. Research Question(s): What are the research questions that you plan to
address?
  5. Hypotheses: What hypotheses are related to your research questions?
  6. Preliminary results: Do you have any preliminary results that
demonstrate that your approach is promising?
  7. Approach: How are you planning to address your research questions and
test your hypotheses? What is the main idea behind your approach? The key
innovation?
  8. Evaluation plan: How will you measure your success - faster/more
accurate/less failures/etc.? How do you plan to test your hypothesis? What
will you measure? What will you compare to?
  9. Reflections: Why do you think you will succeed where others failed?
Provide an argument, based either on common knowledge or on evidence that
you have accumulated,
     the your approach is likely to succeed.

Additional submission requirements:

  * All submissions must be single-author submissions. Please acknowledge
your PhD advisor(s) and other contributors in the Acknowledgements section
  * Students accepted to present at the Doctoral Consortium must plan to
attend the DC for the whole day in order to gain as much value as possible
from the experience.
  * Please remember that the DC submission is not the same as a research
paper.
  * Submissions must be in pdf and be formatted according to the Springer
Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).



IMPORTANT DATES
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  * Paper Submission: May 30, 2014
  * Notifications: July 8, 2014
  * Camera-Ready Versions: August 1, 2014
  * Doctoral Consortium: October 20, 2014
  * Conference: October 19-23, 2014


All deadlines are Hawaii time.

The program committee list can be found:
http://iswc2014.fbk.eu/program-committee-doctoral-consortium-papers