First Call for Papers for the ISWC'06 Doctoral Consortium

VENUE: Athens, GA, USA.

DATES: Nov 5 - 9, 2006

This year, the 5th International Semantic Web Conference 2006 will take 
place in Athens, GA, USA. In addition to its plenary scientific 
sessions, the conference will include a doctoral consortium. Next to the 
great opportunity for the scientific exchange and presentation of high 
quality research in all aspects of Semantic Web, this forum will allow 
doctoral students to present their work and obtain guidance from mentors 
as well as to get in contact with other (post)graduate students.

The goal of the doctoral consortium is to create opportunity for 
doctoral students in early stage of their research to test their 
research ideas, present their current progress and future plan, and most 
of all to receive constructive criticism and insights related to their 
future work and career perspectives. Mentors (peer researchers and 
experts in the field) will be assigned to each student to provide 
individual feedback and advice on the paper, the focus of the work and 
further developments.

All papers submitted to the Doctoral Consortium stream will undergo a 
thorough reviewing process with a view to providing detailed and 
constructive feedback. The best submissions will be selected for 
presentation at the ISWC'06 Doctoral Consortium sessions. Full papers 
(5 pages) will be published in supplimentary proceedings and extended 
abstracts (2 pages) of papers will be included in the ISWC'06 
proceedings.

Topics:

The Doctoral Consortium track of ISWC2006 solicits submission of Ph.D. 
research papers dealing with foundational and core issues, application 
domains and practical aspects of Semantic Web research. Topics include, 
but are not limited to:

Languages, Tools & Methodologies:

   * Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing 
Semantic Web data
   * Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web
   * Ontology creation, extraction, and evolution
   * Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment
   * Database technologies for the Semantic Web
   * Semantic Web middleware
   * Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web
   * Semantic Web services
   * Agents on the Web
   * Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security
   * Searching, querying, visualizing and interpreting the Semantic Web

Applications of Semantic Web:

   * e-business
   * e-science
   * e-culture
   * e-government
   * e-health
   * e-learning
   * Digital TV
   * Tourism
   * Digital libraries
   * Mobile and ubiquitous Semantic Web applications
   * User-centred Semantic Web applications
   * User (group) modelling and profiling on the Semantic Web
   * Semantic Multimedia
   * Semantic Desktop
   * Social and Collaborative Communities software
   * P2P Semantic Web applications
   * Information filtering and retrieval

Evaluation:

   * Scalability of Semantic Web applications
   * Evaluation of Semantic Web techniques
   * Evaluation methodologies and deployment experiences
   * Empirical studies, user studies
   * Ontology evaluation


Submission Details:

Doctoral Consortium papers should include a clear presentation of the 
Ph.D. research direction, sound situation of the Ph.D. research in the 
context of Semantic Web and related fields, a report on the work done so 
far and a plan of further research. All submissions should be no longer 
than 5 pages in the  same format that is used for the main conference 
papers. Formatting instructions are provided on the main conference 
website (http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org/submissions/ ).

Important Dates for DC Submissions:

Paper submissions: May 22, 2006 (11:59pm Hawaii time)
Notification of acceptance: July 26, 2006
Final versions due: Aug 25, 2006
ISCW'06 conference: Nov 5 - 9, 2006