Call for Applications: The 9th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2013)

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         RW 2013 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS/PARTICIPATION

Deadline for Applications: March 25, 2013!
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                 REASONING WEB 2013
    The 9th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2013)
     Mannheim, Germany, July 30 - August 2, 2013
          http://reasoningweb.org/2013/


co-located with the

- 7th Internationall Conference on Web Reasoning and
  Rule Systems (RR 2013),
  Mannheim, Germany, July 27-29, 2013
  http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2013

- 26th International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2013)
  Ulm, Germany, July 23-26, 2013
  http://www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/dl2013.html

- 2nd OWL Reasoner Evaluation Workshop (ORE 2013)
  Ulm, Germany, July 22nd, 2013
  http://ore2013.cs.manchester.ac.uk/

The Reasoning Web Summer School 2013 is primarily intended for
postgraduate (PhD or MSc) students, postdocs, and other young
researchers investigating aspects related to Reasoning on the Semantic
Web and related issues.  The Summer School will also be open to senior
researchers wishing to learn about Semantic Web issues related to their
own fields of research.

For further details please visit http://rw2013.uni-mannheim.de

As in the previous years, we managed again to attract a distinguished
group of expert lecturers, the majority of which will - apart from their
lectures - also be present for the duration of the school to interact
with students.

Interaction with senior researchers and establishing contacts within
young researchers is a main focus of the school, which will be supported
through social activities and an interactive, amicable atmosphere.

The summer school will be co-located with related events. This will be a
great opportunity to attend major events in the area ahead of the school.

As a further highlight, we want to point out the opportunity of PhD
students to present their research at the RR 2013 Doctoral Consortium.
Joint applications for the Reasoning Web Summer School 2013 and the RR
2013 Doctoral Consortium are explicitly encouraged.  More details will be
announced soon on the RR 2013 website.


== IMPORTANT DATES ==

Application deadline: March 25, 2013
Notifications: April  1, 2013
Summer School Registration:  May 15, 2013


== CONFIRMED LECTURES ==

* Anni-Yasmin Turhan (Technische Universität Dresden)
  Description Logic Ontologies

* Ulrike Sattler (University of Manchester)
  Complexity and DL Reasoning

* Chris Bizer (University of Mannheim)
   Linked Data on the Web

* Krzysztof Janowicz (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  Geospatial Data on the Web

* Axel Polleres (Siemens AG Corporate Technology)
  Aidan Hogan (DERI Galway)
  Reasoning with Linked Data

* Wolfgang Faber (University of Calabria)
  Answer Set Programming

* Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
  Ontology-based Data Access

* Mathias Niepert (University of Washington, Seattle)
  Large-scale Reasoning for Information Extraction and Integration


== APPLICATIONS ==

The number of attendees will be limited, applications for participation
have to be submitted via Easychair using the "student application"
category:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rw2013

The program of the school will include a poster session, where students
can present and discuss their ongoing research with lecturers and
colleagues.  Applicants who wish to participate in the poster session
shall tick the "participation in poster session" group and include a
poster title and abstract with their application submission.

Applications must be submitted in PDF format not exceeding 2 pages
(min. font size 11pt) and contain the following information:

- Name, contact details
- Affiliation
- Motivation for participation
- Summary of profile
- Willing to present a poster? (if yes, add a poster title and abstract)
- Supervisor (if applicable)
- Publications (if applicable)


== GRANTS ==

The organizing committee is considering to offer scholarships to summer
school participants to partially cover registration and/or accommodation
fees, depending on available sponsorships.  There are further grants for
students participating in the RR 2013 Doctoral Consortium who would like
to extend their stay to also attend the summer school.


== REGISTRATION ==

If your application has been accepted, you will be notified by
email.  Registration will be possible until May 15, 2013.

The Summer School registration fee covers teaching, coffee breaks,
social event, and a volume of the lecture notes.


== LECTURE NOTES ==

The course material used during the summer school will be published with
Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.  A copy of
the proceedings will be included in the registration fees.

== ORGANIZATION ==

* Program Chair
   Sebastian Rudolph (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

* Scientific Advisory Board
   Georg Gottlob (University of Oxford)
   Ian Horrocks (University of Oxford)
   Frank van Harmelen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

* Local Chair
   Heiner Stuckenschmidt (University of Mannheim)

* Sponsorship Chair
   Marco Maratea (University of Genoa)

== CONTACT ==

For further information including sponsorship opportunities, please
contact the local organizer Heiner Stuckenschmidt
<heiner@informatik.uni-mannheim.de> or the sponsor chair
Marco Maratea <marco@dist.unige.it>.