Call for Applications: The 13th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2017)

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
The 13th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2017)
London, U.K., July 7-11, 2017
http://reasoningweb.org/2017
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co-located with:

- RuleML+RR: International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning
  London, U.K., July 12-15, 2017
  http://2017.ruleml-rr.org
- RuleML+RR Doctoral Consortium
  http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/doctoral-consortium/
- DecisionCAMP 2017
  London, U.K., July 13-14, 2017
  http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/decisioncamp-2017
- 11th International Rule Challenge
  London, U.K., July 12-15, 2017
  http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/calls/international-rule-challenge/


The purpose of the Reasoning Web Summer School is to disseminate
recent advances on reasoning techniques which are of particular
interest to Semantic Web and Linked Data applications. The school
is primarily intended for postgraduate (PhD or MSc) students,
postdocs, young researchers, and senior researchers wishing to
learn about Reasoning on the Semantic Web and related issues. In
2017, the theme of the school is:

        "Semantic Interoperability on the Web"

As in the previous years, lectures in the summer school will be
given by a distinguished group of expert lecturers. Most lecturers
will also be present for the duration of the school to interact and
establish contacts with the students.

The summer school is co-located with RuleML+RR, a conference that
joins the well-known RuleML and RR event series, DecisionCAMP 2017,
and the 11th International Rule Challenge, hence, there will be a
great opportunity for students to also attend some major events in
the area. In addition, RuleML+RR will also include a Doctoral
Consortium and students of RW are particularly encouraged to also
apply to the Doctoral consortium of RuleML+RR.


Participants to the school will be delivered on request a certificate
of attendance indicating the number of hours of lectures. With this
certificate, some institutions may assign official credits for the
PhD program.


== IMPORTANT DATES ==

Application deadline: May 20, 2017 (extended)
Notifications: May 25, 2017
Registration deadline: May 31, 2017


== LECTURES  ==

- Andrea Calì (Birkbeck University of London, U.K.)
  "Ontology querying: Datalog strikes back"

- Thomas Eiter (Technical University of Wien, Austria)
  "Answer Set Programming with External Source Access"

- Thomas Lukasiewicz (University of Oxford, U.K.)
  "Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web"

- Marco Montali (Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy)
  "Ontology-based Data Access for Log Extraction in Process Mining"

- Axel Polleres (Vienna University of Economics & Business, Austria)
  "Challenges for Semantic Data Integration on the Web of Open Data"

- Marie-Christine Rousset (University Grenoble-Alpes,
                           Institut Universitaire de France)
 "Datalog revisited for reasoning in Linked Data"

- Torsten Schaub (University of Potsdam, Germany and
                  Inria, Bretagne Atlantique, Rennes, France)
  "A Tutorial on Hybrid Answer Set Solving"

- Juan Sequeda (Capsenta, USA)
  "Integrating Relational Databases with the Semantic Web"

- Giorgos Stamou (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
 "Ontological query answering over semantic data"


== LECTURE NOTES ==

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


== APPLICATIONS ==

The number of attendees will be limited and participation will depend
on submitting an application which will undergo a reviewing process.

Applications have to be submitted via Easychair using the following
URL:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rw2017


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
- Supervisor (if applicable)
- Publications (if applicable)


== SCHOOL FEES ==

The fee for attending the school is 370 GBPs.

The fee covers school registration, coffee breaks, and a copy of the
school volume published as Springer LNCS proceedings.

Joint Registration to RW and RuleML+RR is also possible, with a fee
of 485 GBPs. Students that plan to participate to both RW and
RuleML+RR have to indicate it in their application.

Registrations will open after notifications are sent out and will be
possible until May 31, 2017.


== STUDENT GRANTS ==

There is a limited number of student grants available for the summer
school. Each grant will cover the school registration fee. Further
grants are available for students participating in the RuleML+RR
Doctoral Consortium who would like to extend their stay to also
attend the summer school.

Students that are interested in applying for this grant, besides
submitting their application to the school, must write an email to
the school chairs (lembo@diag.uniroma1.it and ianni@mat.unical.it)
declaring their interest in the student grant, and providing a proof
of full-time student status (copy of valid student ID card or letter
from their institution or program director) and a short
justification confirming that the attendance to RW 2017 could not be
financed by other means such as project funds.

The deadline for applying to the student grants is May 20, 2017 (the
same as the school application deadline).


== SCHOOL VENUE ==

Birkbeck, University of London, Malet St, London WC1E 7HX, UK


== STUDENT ACCOMMODATIONS ==

University of London offers accommodations in its student residences.
Prices start from 47 GPBs per night. For details visit

http://staycentral.london.ac.uk/accommodation/

All listed locations are within a walking distance of 15-20 minutes
from the school venue.


== COMMITTEE ==

*Chairs

Giovambattista Ianni, Università della Calabria
Domenico Lembo, Sapienza Università di Roma

*Scientific Advisory Board

Leopoldo Bertossi, Carleton University
Wolfgang Faber, University of Huddersfield
Birte Glimm, Universität Ulm
Georg Gottlob, Oxford University
Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau


== CONTACT ==

For further information including sponsorship opportunities, contact
the school chairs (lembo@diag.uniroma1.it, ianni@mat.unical.it)