Doctoral Consortium Call for Submissions

The ISWC 2010 Doctoral Consortium will take place as part of the 9th International Semantic Web Conference at the Shanghai International Convention Centre, Shanghai, China. This forum will allow doctoral students to present their high quality research work and to obtain guidance from mentors as well as to meet other postgraduate students working in different aspects of Semantic Web.

The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to create an opportunity for PhD students to test their research ideas, present their current progress and future plans, and receive constructive criticism and insights related to their future work and career perspectives. A mentor (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.

Students who are submitting papers on specific portions of their work to the main conference are also invited to apply to the Doctoral Consortium. In this case, the paper for the Doctoral Consortium should give an overview of the student’s dissertation research, and the paper for the main conference should focus on a specific piece of this work.

All papers submitted to the Doctoral Consortium stream will undergo a thorough reviewing process with a view to providing detailed and constructive feedback. Students submitting accepted papers must register for the conference and present the paper there.

The best submissions will be selected for full presentation at the ISWC 2010 Doctoral Consortium Track, which is one of the tracks during the main conference, and published in the ISWC 2010 printed conference proceedings. Other submissions will be accepted as short papers or posters. All accepted submissions will be distributed to conference attendees and made available on the conference web site.

Authors of accepted submissions will be required to provide semantic annotations for the abstract of their submission for the Semantic Web (help will be provided for this task). Details will be provided on the conference Web page at the time of acceptance.

Important Dates

Submissions due: July 5, 2010 (11:59pm Hawaii time, GMT-10)
Notification: August 16, 2010

Topics

The Doctoral Consortium track of ISWC 2010 solicits submission of PhD research papers dealing with foundational and core issues, application domains and practical aspects of Semantic Web research. Topics include, but are not limited to:

Applications of the Semantic Web
Applications with clear lessons learned
Evaluations of Semantic Web technologies
Semantic Web for e-business, e-science, e-government, and other application domains
Semantic Web technologies for multimedia content
Personal Information Management
Management of Semantic Web Data
Languages, tools and methodologies for representing and managing Semantic Web data
Database technologies for the Semantic Web
Search, query, and visualization of the Semantic Web
Robust and scalable knowledge management and reasoning on the Web
Machine learning and human language technologies for the Semantic Web
Semantic Web content creation, annotation, and extraction
Ontologies and Reasoning
Ontology creation, extraction, and evolution
Ontology mapping, merging, and alignment
Ontology reasoning and query answering
Approximate reasoning techniques for the Web
Evaluation and ranking of ontologies
Ontology search
Semantic Web Architecture
Semantic Web middleware
Semantic Web services
Agents on the Semantic Web
Semantics in peer-to-peer systems and grids
Social Semantic Web
Social networks and processes on the Semantic Web
Semantic web technology for collaboration and cooperation
Representing and reasoning about trust, privacy, and security

Submission Information

Doctoral Consortium papers should include a clear presentation of the PhD research direction, sound situation of the PhD research in the context of Semantic Web and related fields, a report on the work done so far and a plan of further research.

Submissions must be made via EasyChair to the Doctoral Consortium track of ISWC 2010 at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iswc2010

Submissions must be in PDF. Submissions must be formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Submissions must be no longer than 8 pages.

For details on the LNCS style, see Springer’s Author Instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

Organization

Program Chair

Jeff Z. Pan, University of Aberdeen

Program Committee

Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich
Meghyn Bienvenu, University of Bremen
Huajun Chen, Zhejiang University
Ying Ding, Indiana University Bloomington
Jianfeng Du, the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jerome Euzenat, INRIA & LIG
Giorgos Flouris, FORTH
Zhiqiang Gao, Southeast Universit
Marko Grobelnik, Jozef Stefan Institute
Siegfried Handschuh, DERI
Andreas Harth, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Stijn Heymans, Vienna University of Technology
Wei Hu, Nanjing University
Zhisheng Huang, Vrije University Amsterdam
Roman Kontchakov, Birkbeck University of London
Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield
Enrico Motta, The Open University
Lyndon Nixon, STI Innsbruck
Guilin Qi, Southeast University
Manuel Salvadores, University of Southampton
Guus Schreiber, Vrije University Amsterdam
Pavel Shvaiko, Informatica Trentina
Yi-Dong Shen, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Amit Sheth, Wright State University
Elena Simperl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Giorgos Stamou, National Technical University of Athens
Giorgos Stoilos, Oxford University
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, University of Mannheim
Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague
Anni-Yasmin Turhan, Dresden University of Technology
Denny Vrandecic, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Holger Wache, University of Applied Science Northweastern Switzerland
Haofen Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Shenghui Wang, Vrije University Amsterdam
Ming Zhang, Beijing University
Yuting Zhao, University of Aberdeen
Hai-Tao Zheng, Tsinghua University