[PragmaticWeb] Call for Phd papers: 5th RuleML Doctoral Consortium

[Adrian Paschke]

Submission Deadline - May 10th, 2015


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Call for Phd Papers
5th RuleML Doctoral Consortium
at the 9th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML 2015)
Berlin, Germany, August 2-5, 2015
http://2015.ruleml.org/DoctoralConsortium.html
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co-located with:

- The 11th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2015), July 31 - August 4, 2015
  http://reasoningweb.org/2015
- 9th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2015),
August 4-6, 2015
  http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2015
- 9th International Rule Challenge 
  http://2015.ruleml.org/challenge.html
  with challenge track "Rule-based Recommender Systems for the Web of Data" 
  http://2015.ruleml.org/recsysrules-2015.html
  and RuleML Rulebase Competition http://2015.ruleml.org/challenge.html
- 25th International Conference on Automated Deduction (CADE-25), August
1-7, 2015
  http://www.cade-25.info/
- 7th Workshop on Formal Ontologies meet Industry (FOMI 2015), August 5th
  http://www.csw.inf.fu-berlin.de/fomi2015/


The RuleML 2015 Doctoral Consortium is an initiative of the International
Web Rule Symposium (RuleML), to attract and promote Ph.D. research.

The doctoral symposium offers to students a close contact with leading
experts on the field, as well as the opportunity to present and discuss
their ideas in a dynamic and friendly setting.

The accepted Phd thesis descriptions will be presented to an interested
audience and subject to discussion with a panel of senior researchers. This
year the accepted Phd papers will be discussed by the author with senior
researchers during the joint RuleML / RR Doctoral consortium mentoring
lunch. The author is also expected to present her/his theses in the form of
a poster, during the combined poster session.

Both the RuleML 2015 DC mentoring lunch and the poster session will take
place on August the 4th 2015, jointly with the RR 2015 Doctoral Consortium.

We expect submissions on any (but not limited to) of this year's RuleML2015
topics. Students are invited to submit an original description of their work
addressing the following aspects:

* A clear formulation of the research question.
* An identification of the significant problems in the field of research.
* An outline of the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the
state of existing solutions.
* A presentation of any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the
results achieved so far.
* A sketch of the applied research methodology.
* A description of the Ph.D. project's contribution to the problem solution.
* A discussion of how the suggested solution is different, new, or better as
compared to existing approaches to the problem.


Important Dates (synchronized with the collocated RR 2015 Doctoral
Consortium)
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2015-05-10 paper submission deadline
2015-05-27 end of review period
2015-06-01 notification
2015-06-14 camera ready

Submission guidelines
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Phd papers are limited to 8 pages in English using LNCS
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) format and submitted
electronically in PDF format jointly with a maximum 5 page CV.

Please submit to: Easychair submission site.
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2015dc)
If you have no EasyChair account, then you should sign up for an account at
http://www.easychair.org

Proceedings
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Accepted papers in the RuleML Doctoral Consortium 2015 will be published as
CEUR Proceedings, which are broadly indexed, e.g. by SCOPUS and listed, e.g.
in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/ruleml/).

RuleML 2015 Doctoral Consortium Chairs
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Grzegorz J. Nalepa (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland)
Monica Palmirani (Universita di Bologna, Italy)

Student Travel Support 
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http://2015.ruleml.org/student-travel-support.html


11th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2015)
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We would also like to invite Phd students to the collocated 11th Reasoning
Web Summer School (RW 2015), Berlin, Germany, July 31 - August 4, 2015:
http://reasoningweb.org/2015.