{"id":150,"date":"2018-01-23T15:13:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T14:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/ekaw2018\/?page_id=150"},"modified":"2018-09-07T14:00:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T12:00:25","slug":"call-for-doctoral-consortium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/project.inria.fr\/ekaw2018\/call-for-doctoral-consortium\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Doctoral Consortium papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The EKAW 2018 Doctoral Consortium is an opportunity for PhD students to discuss and obtain feedback on their ongoing work, plans and research directions with\/from experienced researchers in the field. The objective is to share best practices of research methods and approaches, as well as to exchange on what it means to engage in an academic and research career on the topics relevant to the EKAW conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All proposals submitted to the EKAW 2018 Doctoral Consortium will undergo a reviewing process with a view of providing detailed and constructive feedback. All the papers will be reviewed by three experienced researchers. In addition, \u00a0the authors of accepted papers will be asked to review one of the other Doctoral Consortium papers. The objective is to make students experience the reviewing process and to provide for each paper different views regarding the research they describe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Submissions will be divided into two different categories depending on the advancement into the PhD:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Early Stage PhD:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students who may have identified the main research problem they want to address as well as the relevant literature, and who are building their research methodology, but who might not yet have obtained significant results, or only preliminary ones.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Late Stage PhD:<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Students who have already defined their approach (even if incompletely) and obtained significant results (e.g., that might already have been published).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These categories do not affect the chances of being selected. They will, however, be taken into account by the reviewers in their feedback, and in the length and format of the presentation. The organisers might decide to move a submission from one category to the other, if they think it is justified.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Submission guidelines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All submissions must be single-author submissions. Please acknowledge your PhD advisor(s) and other contributors in the Acknowledgements section. Submissions should clearly indicate the category of the submission (Early Stage PhD or Late Stage PhD) and should be structured around the following items which are the key methodological components required for a sound research narrative:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Problem:<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> describe the core problem that you work on, motivate its relevance for the knowledge management, knowledge acquisition and knowledge representation areas, and formulate the research question(s) and\/or hypotheses that you will answer;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>State of the art:<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> describe relevant related work and point out areas that need to be improved or investigated;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Proposed Approach:<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> present the approach taken and motivate how this is novel with respect to existing work;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Methodology: <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sketch the methodology that is (or will be) adopted, including the evaluation protocol, i.e. the way in which the results will be validated and\/or the hypotheses will be tested. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Results:<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">describe the current status of the work and any results that have been reached so far;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Discussion:<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reflect on why you think your approach will work (or not), difficulties you have run into, and recommendations for future work.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Topics<\/strong><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Doctoral Consortium focuses on the same topics as the main conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Submission information and requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All submissions for the Doctoral Consortium must be in English, and between 5 and 8 pages. Papers and abstracts can be submitted electronically via <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/easychair.org\/conferences\/?conf=ekaw2018doctoralcons\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EasyChair<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Submissions must be either in HTML or in PDF, formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For details on the LNCS style, see <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/computer\/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Springer&#8217;s Author Instructions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HTML submissions should be submitted to EasyChair as a ZIP archive that contains the complete content of the paper. Authors can use any HTML-based format for the submission, but a mandatory LNCS-like layout should be provided and the submission still needs to comply with the established page limit. Authors who are new to HTML submissions may consider to use either <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dokie.li\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dokieli<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/essepuntato\/rash\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RASH<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that can help produce well formatted academic papers using HTML and are capable of rendering papers in the LNCS layout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students accepted to present at the Doctoral Consortium must attend the Doctoral Consortium for the whole day in order to gain as much value as possible from the experience. Each submitter should also be aware that they will be asked to review one other paper submitted to the Doctoral Consortium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Accepted papers will be published online via <a href=\"http:\/\/ceur-ws.org\/\">CEUR Workshop Proceedings<\/a> (or equivalent).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Important Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abstract submission: 14 September 2018 (extended)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Full paper submission: 21 September 2018 (extended)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Notification: 12 October 2018 (extended)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Camera-ready: 26 October 2018 (extended)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Doctoral Consortium: 13 November 2018<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chairs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Francesco Osborne ( KMi, The Open University, UK)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Laura Hollink (CWI, Netherlands)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Committee Members<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Aldo Gangemi, Universit\u00e0 di Bologna &#038; CNR-ISTC<br \/>\nAnna Lisa Gentile, IBM<br \/>\nCarole Goble, The University of Manchester<br \/>\nDavide Ceolin, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam<br \/>\nEnrico Motta, The Open University, UK<br \/>\nFrank Van Harmele, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam<br \/>\nHala Skaf-Molli, Nantes University<br \/>\nJ\u00e9r\u00f4me Euzenat, INRIA &#038; Univ. Grenoble Alpes<br \/>\nJun Zhao, University of Oxford<br \/>\nLyndon Nixon, MODUL Technology GmbH<br \/>\nMarta Sabou, University of Technology, Vienna<br \/>\nMathieu D&#8217;Aquin, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland Galway<br \/>\nMiriam Fernandez, The Open University, UK<br \/>\nOscar Corcho, Universidad Polit\u00e9cnica de Madrid<br \/>\nPaul Groth, Elsevier Labs<br \/>\nStefan Dietze, GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences<br \/>\nValentina Tamma, University of Liverpool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EKAW 2018 Doctoral Consortium is an opportunity for PhD students to discuss and obtain feedback on their ongoing work, plans and research directions with\/from experienced researchers in the field. 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