KWEPSY2006

event in series::KWEPSY2006 is the title:=KnowledgeWeb PhD Symposium 2006, located in has location city::Budva, has location country::Montenegro.

For more information, see web site:=http://www.l3s.de/kweb/kwepsy2006.

The programme including papers and presentations is available at, a semantic version of the programme can be found at Accepted_Papers_at_KWEPSY2006.

Important Dates

 * Deadline for paper submissions: paper deadline:=April 7, 2006
 * Notification of acceptance: notification:=April 21, 2006
 * Camera-ready versions: camera ready due:=April 28, 2006
 * Workshop: June 17, 2006

General Information
The Knowledge Web PhD Symposium aims at bringing together doctoral students within the Semantic Web community to open their work up to discussion in a European forum, and to obtain valuable feedback from leading scientists in the field. However, in contrast with other similar initiatives, participants to the Symposium will not only receive constructive comments with respect to topic-specific research issues; they will also be assisted in formulating a coherent research narrative for their doctoral work. In particular, students will be asked to submit an extended abstract (max. 5 pages), structured in accordance to a pre-defined template, which has been designed to highlight the key methodological components required for a sound research narrative. Generally speaking, priority will be given to 1st/2nd year PhD students (because they are still in the process of defining their research narrative), however all PhD students are welcome and encouraged to apply.

The first Symposium will be co-located with the Knowledge Web general assembly meeting, and is scheduled for the 17th of June in Budva, Montenegro.

Submission Details
Though organized under the umbrella of KnowledgeWeb, the symposium is open to all PhD students carrying out research on topics related to the Semantic Web. The applicants are required to send an extended abstract (maximally 5 pages, minimal font size: 12-point) of their doctoral work, which should adhere to the following structure: Briefly describe the research problem the PhD is addressing and its relevance to the Semantic Web area.
 * Explain why this is a significant problem.
 * Outline current approaches to the problem, and describe their strengths and weaknesses.
 * Describe your proposed approach, clearly differentiating between the results achieved so far and the remaining work.
 * Compare and contrast your approach with other existing approaches, in particular highlighting the shortcomings of other approaches, which your approach is planning to tackle.
 * Present the expected contributions of your work and highlight the novelty and benefits of the suggested solutions.
 * Sketch the research methodology that you have adopted (or you are planning to adopt), in particular your approach to evaluating/validating the results.

Applicants should also specify how long they have worked on their doctoral work.

The submissions will be reviewed against the following criteria:
 * Novelty and originality of the research work
 * Relevance of the work with respect to the Semantic Web field
 * Conformance of the submitted abstract to the given template
 * Rigorousness and scientific soundness of the overall approach and of the results so far
 * Clarity of the presentation

The selected participants will be given the opportunity to open their work up to discussion in front of other students and an expert audience (either in a regular presentation session or in a poster session). Each accepted contribution will be assigned to a scientific advisor who will provide extended feedback to the presented research achievements and to the accuracy of the applied methodology.

An award will be given to the best PhD Symposium contributions. Special travel grants to support the participation of female PhD students are also available. Please take a look at the Hoppers@Kweb web site for more details.

Topics of Interest
Topics of interest to the symposium include (but are not restricted to):
 * Ontology Management (e.g. creation, evolution, evaluation)
 * Ontology Alignment (e.g. mapping, matching, merging, alignment, mediation and reconciliation)
 * Ontology Learning
 * Semantic Web-based Multimedia
 * Semantic Annotation of Data
 * Semantic Web Trust, Privacy, Security and Intellectual Property Rights
 * Semantic Web Rules and Query Languages
 * Reasoning on the Web (e.g. scalability, fuzziness, distribution)
 * Semantic Web Representation Languages
 * Searching, Querying, Visualizing, Navigating and Browsing the Semantic Web
 * Personalization and User Modelling
 * User Interfaces and Semantic Web
 * Semantic Grid and Middleware
 * Semantic Web Services (e.g. description, discovery, invocation, composition)
 * Semantic Web-based Knowledge Management (e.g. Semantic Desktop, Knowledge Portals)
 * Semantic Web Applications for eBusiness, eCulture, eGovernment, eHealth, eLearning, eScience etc.
 * Database Technologies for the Semantic Web
 * Semantic Interoperability
 * Semantic Data Integration
 * Semantic Web Mining
 * Semantic Web Middleware

Organising Committee

 * has OC member::Joerg Diederich, L3S Hannover, Germany
 * has OC member::Enrico Motta, The Open University, UK
 * has OC member::Elena Simperl, Free University of Berlin, Germany

Scientific Advisors

 * has PC member::Alain Leger, France Telecom, France
 * has PC member::Axel Polleres, University of Innsbruck, Austria
 * has PC member::Christoph Tempich, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
 * has PC member::Daniel Olmedilla, L3S Hannover, Germany
 * has PC member::Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK
 * has PC member::Elena Paslaru Bontas, Free University of Berlin, Germany
 * has PC member::Enrico Motta, The Open University, UK
 * has PC member::Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy
 * has PC member::Frank van Harmelen, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
 * has PC member::Guus Schreiber, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
 * has PC member::Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim, Germany
 * has PC member::Holger Wache, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
 * has PC member::Ilya Zaihrayeu, University of Trento, Italy
 * has PC member::Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen, UK
 * has PC member::Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France
 * has PC member::Joerg Diederich, L3S Hannover, Germany
 * has PC member::John Breslin, NUI Galway, Ireland
 * has PC member::John Davies, British Telecom, UK
 * has PC member::Lora Aroyo, University of Eindhoven, Netherlands
 * has PC member::Lyndon Nixon, Free University of Berlin, Germany
 * has PC member::Marco Ronchetti, University of Trento, Italy
 * has PC member::Martin Dzbor, The Open University, UK
 * has PC member::Michal Zaremba, NUI Galway, Ireland
 * has PC member::Pavel Shvaiko, University of Trento, Italy
 * has PC member::Richard Benjamins, Isoco, Spain
 * has PC member::Robert Tolksdorf, Free University of Berlin, Germany
 * has PC member::Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
 * has PC member::Sergio Tessaris, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
 * has PC member::Steven Willmots, Universitat Polytecnica de Catalunya, Spain
 * has PC member::Tomas Vitvar, NUI Galway, Ireland
 * has PC member::Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK
 * has PC member::Walter Binder, EPFL, CH
 * has PC member::Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S Hannover, Germany
 * has PC member::Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
 * has PC member::York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany