Paper submission deadline - ISWC06 Doctoral Consortium

*** To the attention of Doctoral Students ***

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CFP for Doctoral Consortium
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Fifth International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2006)
November 5-9, 2006. Athens, Georgia, USA
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Important Dates

* May 15, 2006: Paper submissions
* July 26, 2006: Notification of acceptance
* August 25, 2006: Final versions due
* November 5–9, 2006: ISWC 2006 Technical Program

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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 papers) of papers will be included in the
ISWC'06 proceedings, published by IEEE.

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Topics:
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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

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Submission Details:
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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 at
 http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org/submissions/.


Lora Aroyo
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Eindhoven University of Technology
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Information Systems Group

P.O. Box 513 MD Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Tel:     +31 40 247 2765/2733
Fax:     +31 40 246 2993
e-mail: l.m.aroyo@tue.nl
URL:     http://www.win.tue.nl/~laroyo/
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