*********************************************** * Extended application deadline: May 25, 2012 * *********************************************** CALL FOR APPLICATIONS/PARTICIPATION REASONING WEB 2012 The 8th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2012) Vienna, Austria, September 03-08, 2012 http://www.reasoningweb.org/2012/ co-located with the - 6th Int'l Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2012), September 10-12, 2012 http://www.rr-conference.org/RR2012/ - 4th Int'l Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2012), September 10-12, 2012 http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/events/comma2012/ - 2nd Datalog 2.0 Workshop, September 11-13, 2012 http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/event/datalog-2.0/ - 23rd Int'l Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2012), September 03-07, 2012 http://www.dexa.org/ The Reasoning Web Summer School 2012 is primarily intended for postgraduate (PhD or MSc) students, postdocs, and other young researchers investigating aspects related to Reasoning on the Semantic Web and related issues. The Summer School will also be open to senior researchers wishing to learn about Semantic Web issues related to their own fields of research. For further details please visit http://www.reasoningweb.org/2012/ As in the previous years, we managed again to attract a distinguished group of expert lecturers, the majority of which will - apart from their lectures - also be present for the duration of the school to interact with students. Interaction with senior researchers and establishing contacts within young researchers is a main focus of the school, which will be supported through social activities and an interactive, amicable atmosphere. This year's summer school will be co-located with a number of related conferences and workshop, viz. Int'l Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems 2012, the Int'l Conference on Computational Models of Argument 2012, the Int'l Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications 2012, and the 2nd Datalog 2.0 Workshop 2012 (dates and links are given above). This will be a great opportunity to attend major conferences and workshops in the area directly subsequent to the school. Reasoning Web 2012 is part of the Vienna Logic Weeks 2012: http://www.vcla.at/events/vienna-logic-weeks_2012/ As a further highlight, we want to point out the opportunity of PhD students to present their research at the RR 2012 Doctoral Consortium. Joint applications for the Reasoning Web Summer School 2012 and the RR 2012 Doctoral Consortium are explicitly encouraged. More details are given on the RR-DC 2012 website: http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/events/rr2012/DoctoralConsortium.html == IMPORTANT DATES (EXTENDED!) == Application deadline (NEW): May 25, 2012 Notifications (NEW): June 1, 2012 Summer School Registration (NEW): June 15, 2012 == CONFIRMED LECTURES == - Federation and Navigation in SPARQL 1.1 Marcelo Arenas (PUC Chile) and Jorge Pérez (U Chile) - Semantic Wikis: Approaches, Applications, and Perspectives François Bry (U Munich), Sebastian Schaffert (Salzburg Research), Denny Vrandečić (KIT), and Klara Weiand (U Munich) - Reasoning and Ontologies in Data Extraction Sergio Flesca (U Calabria), Tim Furche (U Oxford), and Linda Oro (U Calabria) - Linked Data Stream Processing Manfred Hauswirth, Danh Le Phuoc, and Josiane Xavier Parreira (DERI, NUI Galway) - Data Models and Query Languages for Linked Geospatial Data Manolis Koubarakis, Manos Karpathiotakis, Kostis Kyzirakos, Babis Nikolaou, Michael Sioutis (U Athens) - OWL 2 Profiles: An Introduction to Lightweight Ontology Languages Markus Krötzsch (U Oxford) - Reasoning and Query Answering in Description Logics Magdalena Ortiz and Mantas Simkus (TU Vienna) - Reasoning with Uncertain and Inconsistent Ontologies for the Semantic Web Guilin Qi (South Eastern U) and Jianfeng Du (Guangdong U Foreign Studies) - Argumentation and the Web Francesca Toni (Imperial College London) - Datalog and Its Extensions for the Semantic Web Georg Gottlob, Giorgio Orsi, Andreas Pieris (U Oxford) and Mantas Simkus (TU Vienna) == APPLICATIONS == The number of attendees will be limited, applications for participation have to be submitted via Easychair using the "Application" category: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=reasoningweb2012 The program of the school will include a poster session, where students can present and discuss their ongoing research with lecturers and colleagues. Applicants who wish to participate in the poster session shall tick the "Participation in poster session" group and include a poster title and abstract with their application submission. Applications must be submitted in PDF format not exceeding 2 pages (min. font size 11pt) and contain the following information: - Name, contact details - Affiliation - Motivation for participation - Summary of profile - Willing to present a poster? (if yes, add a poster title and abstract) - Supervisor (if applicable) - Publications (if applicable) == GRANTS == The organizing committee is considering to offer scholarships to summer school participants to partially cover registration and/or accommodation fees, depending on available sponsorships. There are further grants for students participating in the RR 2012 Doctoral Consortium who would like to extend their stay to also attend the summer school, see http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/events/rr2012/DoctoralConsortium.html#grants == REGISTRATION == If your application has been accepted, you will be notified by email. Registration will be possible until Friday, June 15 2012. The Summer School registration fee is 450 EUR and covers teaching, coffee breaks, social event, and a volume of the proceedings. == LECTURE NOTES == The course material used during the summer school will be published with Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. A copy of the proceedings will be included in the registration fees. == PROGRAM COMMITTEE == - Grigoris Antoniou (FORTH Crete) - Abraham Bernstein (U Zuerich) - François Bry (U Munich) - Thomas Eiter (TU Vienna, chair) - Birte Glimm (U Ulm) - Claudio Gutierrez (UC Santiago) - Axel Polleres (Siemens) == CONTACT == For further information including sponsorship opportunities, please contact the local organizers: - Thomas Eiter - Thomas Krennwallner