[CFA] The 12th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2016)

[Jeff Pan]

Application Deadline - June 24th, 2016

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
The 12th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2016)
Aberdeen, UK, September 5-9, 2016
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/events/rr-2016/rw-summer-school-2016/
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co-located with:

- 10th International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR 2016),
  Aberdeen, UK, September 9-11, 2016



The purpose of the Reasoning Web Summer School is to disseminate recent advances on reasoning techniques which are of particular interest to Semantic Web, Linked Data and Knowledge Graph applications. It is primarily intended for postgraduate (PhD or MSc) students, postdocs, young researchers, and senior researchers wishing to learn about Reasoning on the Semantic Web and related issues. In 2016, the theme of the school is:

        "Query Rules"

As in the previous years, lectures in the summer school will be given by a distinguished group of expert lecturers. Apart from their lectures, most lecturers will also be present for the duration of the school to interact and establish contacts with the students.

The summer school is co-located with RR2016, hence, there will be a great opportunity for students to also attend a major event in the area after the school. In addition, RR will also include a Doctoral Consortium and students of RW are particularly encouraged to also apply to the Doctoral consortium of RR - joint applications are explicitly encouraged.

== IMPORTANT DATES ==

Application deadline: June 24th, 2016
Notifications: July 8, 2016

== LECTURES ==

see webiste for the list of lectures

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/events/rr-2016/rw-summer-school-2016/rw-tutorials/

and program

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/events/rr-2016/rw-summer-school-2016/programme/


== APPLICATIONS ==

The number of attendees will be limited and participation will depend on submitting an application which will undergo a reviewing process. Applications have to be submitted by email to Martin J Kollingbaum  (http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/profiles/m.j.kollingbaum/) and Jeff Z. Pan (http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/jeff.z.pan/pages/). 

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 indicate this and include a poster title and abstract with their application submission.

A selection of students attending RW will have the possibility to also attend the RR Doctoral Consortium with the opportunity to present their poster in a regular session of RR 2016. Students interested to be considered in this selection process should indicate it in their application.

Students applying to RW are encouraged to submit also to the RR Doctoral Consortium (http://www.abdn.ac.uk/events/rr-2016/doctoral-consortium/), which will have proceedings and a mentoring lunch.

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)
- Willing to be considered for RR/RuleML 2015 Doctoral Consortium?
- Supervisor (if applicable)
- Publications (if applicable)

== SCHOOL FEES ==

The fee for attending the school alone is £385. The fee for attending both the school and the RR2016 confernece is £485.

== 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.

== GRANTS ==

There will be a limited number of student grants available for the summer school and for the co-located RR2016 conference.

== ORGANISATION ==

* Organising Chairs

Jeff Z. Pan (University of Aberdeen, UK)

* Scientific Advisory Board

Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Thomas Eiter (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Ian Horrocks (Oxford University, UK)
Michael Kifer (Stony Brook University, USA)
Fangzhen Lin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)

* Application Coordinator

Martin J Kollingbaum  (University of Aberdeen, UK)

== CONTACT ==

For further information including sponsorship opportunities, please contact the organising chairs.

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/events/rr-2016/rw-summer-school-2016/


Doctoral Consortium
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We would also like to invite PhD students to submit PhD papers to the collocated two Doctoral Consortium:

RR 2016 Doctoral Consortium
  http://www.abdn.ac.uk/events/rr-2016/doctoral-consortium/


Submission deadline for PhD papers: June 15th 2016