[DL] Call for Workshops and Tutorials - International Conference on Knowledge Capture 2013

[Matthew Rowe]

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Call for Workshops and Tutorials: Seventh International Conference on 
Knowledge Capture (KCAP) 2013
23-26 June 2013. Banff, Canada

Web site: http://kcap2013.org/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/KCap2013
Twitter: http://twitter.com/kcap2013
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The International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP) provides a 
forum that brings together members of diverse research communities who 
are interested in efficiently capturing knowledge from a vast range of 
sources, including human experts, and in creating representations that 
can be useful for building knowledge-intensive services in a variety of 
fields, such as the semantic web, knowledge management, e-business, 
natural language processing, intelligent information integration, and so 
on. The focus of the 7th edition of K-CAP will be on “Knowledge Capture 
in the Age of Massive Web Data”. Besides a research and an application 
track, K-CAP will host a number of workshops and tutorials on topics 
related to the theme of the conference. K-CAP workshops provide an 
informal setting where the participants have the opportunity to discuss 
specific technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active 
exchange of ideas. Our aim for the workshop program is to promote and 
collect multidisciplinary research directions that contribute to 
knowledge capture from a variety of sources. K-CAP Tutorials enable 
attendees to fully appreciate current issues, main schools of thought, 
and possible application areas.


***Topics of Interest***

We encourage the submission of workshops and tutorial proposals on all 
topics that falls in the general scope of K-CAP 2013, from traditional 
knowledge acquisition techniques to more computational approaches. In 
particular, we encourage the submission of workshop and tutorial 
proposals related to the special focus “Knowledge Capture in the Age of 
Massive Web Data”


*** Submission Guidelines for Workshops***

Workshop proposals should be submitted via EasyChair at 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kcap2013workshopstut as a 
single PDF file of no more than 5 pages, specifying “Workshop Proposal” 
in the title of the PDF and selecting the “workshop” category in EasyChair.

Proposals should contain the following information:
-Title.
-Abstract (200 words).
-Motivation on why the topic is of particular interest at this time.
-Relation to the main conference topics.
-Workshop format, discussing the mix of events such as paper 
presentations, invited talks, panels, and general discussion. Intended 
audience and expected number of participants.
-List of (potential) members of the program committee (at least 50% have 
to be confirmed at the time of the proposal).
-Indication of whether the workshop should be considered for a half-day 
or full-day.
-Past versions of the workshop, including URLs as well as submission and 
acceptance counts.
-Data of the organizers (name, affiliation, email address, homepage) and 
short CV.

Additionally:
-we strongly advise having more than one organizer, preferably from 
different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop 
topic.
-we welcome workshops with creative structures and organizations that 
attract various types of contributions and ensure rich interactions.


***Submission Guidelines for Tutorials***

Tutorial proposals should be submitted via EasyChair at 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kcap2013workshopstut as a 
single PDF file of no more than 5 pages, specifying “Tutorial Proposal” 
in the title of the PDF and selecting the “tutorial” category in EasyChair.

Proposals should contain the following information:
-Title.
-Abstract (200 words)
-Motivation on why the topic is of particular interest at this time.
-Relation to the conference topics.
-If the tutorial, or a very similar tutorial, has been given elsewhere, 
explanation of the benefit of presenting it again to the K-CAP community.
-Overview of content, description of the aims, presentation style, 
potential/preferred prerequisite knowledge.
-Indication on whether the tutorial should be considered for a half-day 
or full-day.
-Intended audience and expected number of participants.
-Audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room 
requirements (for hands-on sessions, any software needed and download 
sites must be provided by the tutorial presenters).
-Data of the presenters (name, affiliation, email address, homepage) and 
short CV including also their expertise, experiences in teaching and in 
tutorial presentation.

Additionally, tutorials should satisfy the following criteria:
-there is a clear focus on a specific technology, problem or 
application, and;
-there is a sufficiently large community interested in the topic.

Tutorials can include practical parts in terms of examples or exercises 
to be carried out by the participants.


***Workshop Organizers Responsibilities***

The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to:
-prepare a workshop webpage (linked to the official K-CAP website) 
containing the call for papers and detailed information about the 
workshop organization and timelines
-be responsible for the workshop publicity
-be responsible for their own reviewing process, decide upon the final 
program content and report the number of submissions and accepted papers 
to the workshop chair
-be responsible for publishing electronic proceedings (e.g., on the 
CEUR-WS website) and make them available to participants
-assure workshop participants are informed they have to register to the 
main conference and the workshop schedule, attend and coordinate their 
entire workshop

K-CAP will be responsible for the following:
-Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole
-Providing logistics support and a meeting place for the workshop


***Tutorial Organizers Responsibilities***

The proposers of accepted tutorials are expected to prepare a tutorial 
webpage (linked to the official K-CAP website) containing detailed 
information about the tutorial, and to distribute material to participants.

K-CAP will be responsible for the following:
-Providing publicity for the tutorials as a whole
-Providing logistics support and a meeting place for the tutorial


***Submission Dates and Details***

Event: June 23, 2013 (Provisional)
Proposal due: February 1, 2013
Notifications: February 28, 2013


***Suggested Timeline for Workshops***

Workshop website up: March 15, 2013
Workshop Call for Papers out (suggested): March 15, 2013
Deadline to submit Papers to Workshops: Individual deadline
Acceptance of Papers for Workshops: April 30, 2013
Publication of Workshop programme: May 15, 2013
Deadline for camera-ready workshop notes: May 15, 2013
Workshop day: June 23, 2013


***Suggested Timeline for Tutorials***

Tutorial website up: April 30, 2013
Deadline for tutorial material: May 15, 2013
Tutorial day: June 23, 2013