[ecoop-info] RuleML+RR 2017 Doctoral Consortium Call for Papers

[Antonis Bikakis]

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Call for Papers
RuleML+RR 2017 Doctoral Consortium
at the International Joint Conference on Rules and Reasoning RuleML+RR 2017
London, UK, 12-15 July 2017
http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/doctoral-consortium/
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The RuleML+RR Doctoral Consortium is an initiative of the RuleML and RR
communities to attract and promote student research in rules and reasoning.
It offers students a close contact with leading experts on the field, as
well as the opportunity to present and discuss their ideas in a dynamic and
friendly setting.

We invite PhD students at an early or intermediate stage of their PhD
studies as well as exceptional Master’s students who are interested in
pursuing a PhD to submit papers describing their research on any of the
topics of interest of RuleML+RR 2017, available at the conference website:
http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/

The submissions should cover the following aspects:

* A clear formulation of the research question and the motivation.
* An identification of the significant problems in the field of research.
* An outline of the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the
state of existing solutions.
* A presentation of any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the
results achieved so far.
* A sketch of the applied research methodology and its positioning in the
field.
* A description of the student project's contribution to the problem
solution.
* A discussion of how the suggested solution is different, new, or better
as compared to existing approaches to the problem.
* A research plan and the potential achievements.

The accepted DC papers will be presented to an interested audience and will
be discussed with a panel of senior researchers from academia and the
industry. Students will present their work through brief oral presentations
during a dedicated session of the RuleML+RR main track, but also in the
form of posters.

Proceedings
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Accepted papers will be published online as part of CEUR-WS Proceedings,
which are broadly indexed, e.g., by SCOPUS and listed in standard
bibliographic databases such as DBLP.

* This year, a selection of the best Doctoral Consortium papers will also
be included as short papers in the main track Springer LNCS proceedings. *

Important Dates
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Paper submission: 1 March 2017
Author notification: 10 April 2017
Camera-ready submission: 24 April 2017

Submission guidelines
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DC papers are limited to 8 pages written in English following the LNCS (
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) format and submitted
electronically in PDF format jointly with a maximum 2 page CV.

Please submit your paper and CV to:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2017dc
If you do not have an EasyChair account, please sign up at:
http://www.easychair.org

Mentoring
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Each student with an accepted DC paper will be assigned a mentor with
similar research interests from the RuleML+RR community, with whom they
will discuss the student’s research during a mentoring session of the
conference. Indicative lists of people involved in this community are the
Programme Committees of the main RuleML+RR track and the Doctoral
Consortium.


Registration & Student Travel Support
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Registration information will soon become available at the main conference
web site (http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/). Reduced registration fees will be
offered to all student participants of the conference.

Financial support is available to enable student authors to travel to the
Symposium. These are awarded on a case-by-case basis. Proof of studentship
will be required at time of registration.


Other collocated events
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Students participating in the Doctoral Consortium will also have access to
all the sessions of the main RuleML+RR track as well as to its collocated
events:

* The 11th International Rule Challenge
* The RuleML+RR 2017 Industry Track
* Decision Camp 2017

More information about the conference and the collocated events are
available at: http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/

We would also like to invite students to the collocated 13th Reasoning Web
Summer School (RW 2017), which will take place at the same venue prior to
RuleML+RR 2017: 7-11 July, 2017 (
http://2017.ruleml-rr.org/13th-reasoning-web-summer-school-rw-2017/).
Students registered for the Doctoral Consortium will be offered a discount
for the registration to RW 2017, and vice versa.

With kind regards,

RuleML+RR 2017 Doctoral Consortium Chairs
Antonis Bikakis, University College London, UK
Theodore Patkos,  Institute of Computer Science, FO.R.T.H., Greece