RR-DC 2012: New Application Deadline

[Francesco Calimeri]

                        [Apologies for cross-postings]

                        Doctoral Consortium, RR2012
                  September 10 - 12 2012, Vienna, Austria
                    http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2012/

The RR Doctoral Consortium (DC) is the first doctoral consortium to be
offered as part of The 5th International Conference on Web Reasoning
and Rule Systems.

The RR2012 Doctoral Consortium will provide doctoral students in Web
Reasoning and related areas with the unique opportunity to present and
discuss their research directions, being involved into
state-of-the-art research discussion and being supported in
establishing fruitful collaborations with prominent researchers and
pioneers the field.

The Consortium is designed for students currently enrolled in a Ph.D.
program, though we are also open to exceptions (e.g., students
currently in a Masters program and interested in doctoral studies).
Students at any stage in their doctoral studies are encouraged to
apply. Applicants are expected to be conducting research in the field
of Web Reasoning and Rules and related areas. The co-location of
RR2012 with the Reasoning Web Summer School and with other relevant
related events will provide multiple opportunities for participating
students to enhance their education.

The Consortium will allow participants to interact with established
researchers through the following initiatives:

The poster presentation session will give the students the opportunity
to present their dissertation plan, including their already
established results as well as their work plan for completion of the
thesis. The poster will be accompanied by a written research summary,
which will be distributed at the conference. The poster presentation
session will be preceded by a spotlight presentations session where
poster presenters give 5-minute teaser talks as advertisement for
their posters.

The mentoring lunch will consist of a lunch break where a senior
researcher shares a lunch table with 3-4 students. The researcher will
be charged with initiating and driving a discussion on general topics
concerning research, career, and Web Reasoning as a discipline. He
will also be available for answering questions by the students.


== Submission information ==

To apply for participation to the RR2012 Doctoral Consortium students
are asked to submit

1. A statement of interest in participating to the Doctoral Consortium
  (less than 1 page)

2. A research summary of their PhD research addressing the following
   aspects:
  - Applicant's complete name, address and affiliation as well as the
    title of the research
  - The main problem you are trying to tackle and why it is relevant
  - What is the state-of-the-art in relation to existing solutions to
    the problem
  - Advances beyond the state-of-the-art in terms of your specific
    contribution and research plan
  - Current status of the research plan
  - Expected achievements and possible evaluation metrics to establish
    the level of success of your results
  - References

Submissions must be in PDF and be formatted according to the Springer
Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
Research summary must be no longer than 6 pages.


== Submission Process ==

To apply for participation to the RR2012 Doctoral Consortium students
are asked to submit

1. A research summary (max 6 pages) of their PhD research addressing
   the following aspects:
   - Applicant's complete name, address and affiliation, title of
     the research
   - The main problem you are trying to tackle and why it is
     relevant
   - What's the state-of-the-art in relation to existing solutions
     to the problem
   - Advances beyond the state-of-the-art in terms of your
     specific contribution and research plan
   - Current status of the research plan
   - Expected achievements and possible evaluation metrics to
     establish the level of success of your results
   - References

2. A statement of interest in participating to the Doctoral
   Consortium (less than 1 page, uploaded as an attachment)

Both the research summary and the attachment must be in PDF format and
be formatted according to the Springer Publications format for Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

Submission will be managed via Easychair
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcrr2012)

All proposals submitted to the Doctoral Consortium will undergo a
reviewing process. All the accepted contributions have to be
presented.

The best submissions will present their work as regular (15 min)
presentation, and they will be given the option to have their research
summaries included in the conference proceedings (Springer LNCS). All
the other accepted submissions will be presented at the poster
presentation session, preceded by the 5-min talk.

Students whose work has been accepted at the poster presentation
session should prepare a poster as well in A0 format.

Students presenting a poster to the Reasoning Web Summer School can
use the same poster for the DC if accepted as short presentations.


== Important Dates ==

Application Deadline:  Extended to May 14th, 2012
Notification:          May 25th, 2012


== Grants & Awards ==

Applications for Grants will be managed via Easychair
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=grantdcrr2012)

Two types of sponsorship will be available.

Type 1 sponsorships will be in the amounts of $500 per student. Such
sponsorships will be given to students who participate in the
Reasoning Web Summer School sponsored by their own funding, such that
they can extend their stay to include RR2012.

Type 2 sponsorships will be in the amounts of $1,500 per student. They
will cover travel and other expenses for attending RR2012. Sponsored
students may choose to seek additional funding from other sources such
that they can also attend the Reasoning Web Summer School. All
students at U.S. universities are eligible to apply for the
sponsorships.

In order to apply for a grant, students need to submit a single PDF
form containing, the following information:
 - Section A: Applicant details, included name and affiliation, title
   of the PhD Thesis, year of PhD, title and authors (in the correct
   order) of paper accepted to RR2012 (if any), if the applicant is
   attending the Reasoning Web Summer School as well, and the type of
   grant the applicant applies to
 - Section B: Short motivation statement (max 250 words) for applying,
   including eventual evidence for the need for sponsorship

Students will be selected by a committee consisting of the PIs and the
chairs of RR2012. In their decisions, the committee members will
adhere to the following criteria:
1. Students who have submd a dissertation plan for review, and
   the reviews found the dissertation plan to be of high quality and
   on an important topic.
2. Students who are first authors of research papers at the
   conference, and who provide convincing evidence that they would not
   be able to attend all or part of the event without sponsorship.
3. Students who are co-authors of research papers at the conference,
   and who provide convincing evidence that they would not be able to
   attend all or part of the event without sponsorship.
4. Students who have submitted a dissertation plan for review, but
   the reviews found the dissertation plan of lesser quality.
5. All other students, taking into account the stage of their PhD
   studies (early-stage PhD are favored), quality of the dissertation
   plan as assessed by the reviews, quality of the (co-)authored
   RR2012 research paper as assessed by the reviews.

All students being awarded a grant, will present a poster and a
spotlight talk based on their dissertation plan.


== Chair ==

Alessandra Mileo, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, NUIG


== List of Mentors ==

The list of mentors will be communicated along with their area of
expertise once the review process has been completed.


== Program Committee ==

Alessandra Mileo, DERI Galway (Ireland)
Axel Polleres, Siemens AG (Österreich)
Claudio Gutierrez, Computer Science Department, Universidad de Chile
Diego Calvanese, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy)
Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom)
Hans Tompits, Technische Universitat Wien (Austria)
Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, Dayton OH (US)
Pedro Cabalar, Department of Computer Science, Corunna University,
  Galicia (Spain)
Terrance Swift, Stony Brook University, New York (U.S.A.)
Thomas Eiter, Technische Universitat Wien (Austria)
Tommie Meyer, Knowledge Systems Group · Meraka Institute, Pretoria
  (South Africa)
Wolfgang Faber, Department of Mathematics of the University of
  Calabria (Italy)