7th ReasoningWeb Summer School 2011 (RW2011) - Call for Applications/Participation

[Axel Polleres]

(apologies for multiple posts)

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Call for Applications/Participation

The 7th REASONING WEB Summer School (RW 2011)
http://www.reasoningweb.org/2011/

23 - 27 August 2011

co-located with the 
5th Int'l Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR2011)
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Galway, Ireland

The Reasoning Web Summer School 2011 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://www.reasoningweb.org/2011/

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.

This year's summer school will be co-located with the 5th
International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR2011),
29-30 Aug, cf. http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2011/) which is a great
opportunity to attend a major conference in the area directly
subsequent  to the school.


CONFIRMED LECTURES 

1. Ontologies and Rules 
  Pascal Hitzler (Wright State University)
2. Using SPARQL with RDFS and OWL entailment 
  Birte Glimm (Oxford University)
3. Introduction to Linked Data, 
  Sören Auer (University of Leibzig)
4. Scalable OWL2 Reasoning for Linked Data 
  Jeff Pan (University of Aberdeen), 
  Aidan Hogan (National Unviersity of Ireland, Galway)
5. Trust Management Methodologies for the Web 
  Denis Trcek (University of Ljubljana)
6. Models for the Web of Data 
  Claudio Gutierrez (Universidad de Chile)
7. Database foundations for scalable RDF processing 
  Katja Hose, Martin Theobald, Ralf Schenkel, 
  Gerhard Weikum (Max Planck Institut) 
8. Probabilistic Reasoning for Semantic Web Applications.
  Heiner Stuckenschmidt,  Mathias Niepert (Universität Mannheim)
9. Foundations of Description Logics 
  Sebastian Rudolph (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
10. Rules and Logic Programming for the Web 
   Adrian Paschke (Freie Universität Berlin)
11. Scalabe non-standard reasoning on the Semantic Web 
   Abraham Bernstein (University of Zurich)
12. An Introduction to Constraint Programming and 
   Combinatorial Optimisation
   Barry O'Sullivan (University College Cork, Ireland)

APPLICATIONS

The number of attendees will be limited, applications for
participation have to be made via Easychair using the following URL:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rw2011

The programme of the school will include a poster session where
students can present and discuss their ongoing research with 
lecturers and colleagues. Applications shall include a remark on 
whether a poster will be presented along with a short abstract. 

Applications should 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? 
 (yes/no, if yes, include a short poster abstract) 
- Supervisor (if applicable)
- Publications (if applicable)


*** Application Deadline:  30 April 2011 ***
*** Notifications:         15 May   2011 ***

REGISTRATION

Details of the registration process will be announced on the Web site,
after the application deadline. As in previous years we will keep the
registration fee moderate (between 400 and 500 EUR) and provide
reasonable accomodation packages  (less than 50 EUR per night).

LECTURE NOTES

As in previous years, 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.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Claudia d'Amato,  Universit· degli Studi di Bari, Italy 
Marcelo Arenas, PUC Chile, Santiago, Chile 
Siefried Handschuh DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway 
Paula Lavinia Kroner SKYTEC AG, Germany 
Sascha Ossowski Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain 
Peter Patel-Schneider Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs, USA 
Axel Polleres DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway

CONTACT

For further information including sponsorship opportunities, please contact 
the local organisers:
Axel Polleres (http://www.polleres.net)
Siegfried Handschuh (http://www.siegfried-handschuh.net/)