[CFP] ISWC2018 Doctoral Consortium - Full papers due April 13, 2018

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Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers
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The ISWC 2018 Doctoral Consortium will take place as part of the 17th
International Semantic Web Conference in Monterey, California in the
USA. 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 -
submissions for presentation at the Doctoral Consortium.

Students with accepted submissions at the Doctoral Consortium will be
eligible to apply for travel fellowships to offset some of the travel
costs but they will be asked to attend the whole day of the Doctoral
Consortium.


**Submission information**

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://easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=64586062.iU8wQydYVSZ35YDW).
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 is the problem 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?
See Is This Really Science? The Semantic Webber’s Guide to Evaluating
Research Contributions
https://www.merlin.uzh.ch/contributionDocument/download/6915.
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, that your approach is likely to succeed.


**Additional submission requirements**

-All submissions must be single-author submissions, the author being an
actual PhD student. Please acknowledge your PhD advisor(s) and other
contributors and supports (e.g. funding agencies) in the
Acknowledgements section
-The students submitting a proposal will also have the opportunity to
participate to the blind review of two proposals of other students in
order to familiarize themselves with the review process.
-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 or in HTML and be formatted according to the
Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS). For details on the LNCS style, see Springer’s Author
Instructions http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.
-Accepted submissions will be published with http://ceur-ws.org/.


**Topics of Interest**

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the topics listed
below. Please note that these topics are the same as for the main ISWC
Research track:
-Database, information retrieval, information extraction, natural
language processing and artificial intelligence techniques for the
Semantic Web
-Knowledge representation and reasoning on the Web
-Knowledge graphs and deep semantics
-Machine learning and data mining methods for the Semantic Web
-Data mining and knowledge discovery in Linked data and ontologies
-Robust and scalable management of semantics and data on the Web and in
Linked Data
-Processing and storage of semantic data on the blockchain
-Methods to investigate and catalogue semantic primitives used in
ontology definitions
-Enabling access to ontologies and knowledge bases by rendering the
knowledge in  different modalities, e.g. as natural language text,
explanatory video, interactive elements, etc.
-Languages, tools, and methodologies for representing and managing
semantics and data on the Web
-Architectures and algorithms for extreme volume, heterogeneity,
dynamicity, and decentralization of Semantic Web data
-Cleaning, quality assurance, and provenance of Semantic Web data,
services, and processes
-Ontology-based data access and integration/exchange on the Web
-Ontology engineering and ontology patterns for the Web
-Ontology modularity, mapping, merging, and alignment for the Web
-Search, query, integration, and analysis on the Semantic Web
-Supporting multi-linguality in the Semantic Web
-Question answering over Linked Data and ontologies
-Information visualization and exploratory analysis methods for Semantic
Web data
-Semantic social network mining, analysis, representation, and management
-Crowdsourcing semantics; methods, dynamics, and challenges
-Geospatial semantics and data on the Web
-Data streams and the Internet of Things
-Semantic technologies for mobile platforms
-Trust, privacy, and security on the Semantic Web
-Semantic Web and Linked Data for cloud environments
-Access control and privacy in semantic data

**Important Dates**

Full papers due   April 13, 2018
Notifications    May 14, 2018
Camera-ready papers due  May 28, 2018

**Doctoral Consortium Chairs** 

Sabrina Kirrane, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Lalana Kagal, MIT CSAIL, USA

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Postdoctoral researcher,
Institute for Information Business
Vienna University of Economics and Business
Tel: +43-1-31336-4494
E-mail: sabrina.kirrane [at] wu.ac.at

Received on Friday, 26 January 2018 21:42:48 UTC