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Call For Papers: RuleML+RR Doctoral Consortium 2018<br>
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==Summary==<br>
The RuleML+RR Doctoral Consortium 2018 is an initiative of the RuleML and RR communities to attract and promote student research in rules and reasoning. It offers students a close contact with leading experts on the field, as well as the opportunity to present
and discuss their ideas in a dynamic and friendly setting.<br>
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We invite PhD students at an early or intermediate stage of their PhD studies as well as exceptional Master’s students who are interested in pursuing a PhD to submit papers describing their research on any of the topics of interest of RuleML+RR 2018, available
at <a href="http://2018.ruleml-rr.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk236491" previewremoved="true">
http://2018.ruleml-rr.org/</a>.<br>
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==Instructions==<br>
The submissions should cover the following aspects:<br>
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- A clear formulation of the research question and the motivation.<br>
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- An identification of the significant problems in the field of research.<br>
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- An outline of the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the state of existing solutions.<br>
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- A presentation of any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the results achieved so far.<br>
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- A sketch of the applied research methodology and its positioning in the field.<br>
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- A description of the student project’s contribution to the problem solution.<br>
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- A discussion of how the suggested solution is different, new, or better as compared to existing approaches to the problem.<br>
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- A research plan and the potential achievements.<br>
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The accepted DC papers will be presented to an interested audience and will be discussed with a panel of senior researchers from academia and the industry. Students will present their work through brief oral presentations during a dedicated session of the RuleML+RR
main track, but also in the form of posters.<br>
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==Proceedings==<br>
Accepted papers will be published online as part of <a href="http://ceur-ws.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk728243" previewremoved="true">
http://ceur-ws.org</a> Proceedings, which are broadly indexed, e.g., by SCOPUS and listed in standard bibliographic databases such as DBLP. This year, a selection of the best Doctoral Consortium papers will also be included as short papers in the main track
Springer LNCS proceedings.<br>
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==Important Dates==<br>
Paper submission: 1 June 2018<br>
Author notification: 20 June 2018<br>
Camera-ready submission: 10 July 2018<br>
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==Submission Guidelines==<br>
DC papers are limited to 8 pages written in English following the LNCS <a href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk306663" previewremoved="true">
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html</a> format and submitted electronically in PDF format jointly with a maximum 2 pages CV.<br>
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Please submit your paper and CV to Easychair <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2018" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk556602" previewremoved="true">
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2018</a> under the <br>
Doctoral Consortium track.<br>
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If you do not have an EasyChair account, please sign up at <a href="http://www.easychair.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk596659" previewremoved="true">
http://www.easychair.org</a>.<br>
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==Registration & Student Travel Support==<br>
Registration information will soon become available at the main conference web site
<a href="http://2018.ruleml-rr.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk788299" previewremoved="true">
http://2018.ruleml-rr.org/</a>. Reduced registration fees will be offered to all student participants of the conference.<br>
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==Program Committee==<br>
Chairs<br>
Kia Teymourian (Boston University)<br>
Paul Fodor (Stony Brook University)<br>
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Members<br>
Paul Fodor<br>
Jean-Paul Calbimonte<br>
Alexandru Todor<br>
Kia Teymourian<br>
Eugene Pinsky<br>
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==Other Collocated Events==<br>
The event is part of the Luxembourg Logic for AI Summit. Visit <a href="https://luxlogai.uni.lu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk468756" previewremoved="true">
https://luxlogai.uni.lu/</a> for information about the summit and all its events.<br>
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Students participating in the Doctoral Consortium will also have access to all sessions of the main RuleML+RR track as well as its collocated events. More information about the conference is available at
<a href="http://2018.ruleml-rr.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk782129" previewremoved="true">
http://2018.ruleml-rr.org/</a>.<br>
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We would also like to invite students to the collocated 14th Reasoning Web Summer School (RW 2018), which will take place at the same venue. For more information visit
<a href="http://2018.ruleml-rr.org/rw.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="x_x_x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk571463" previewremoved="true">
http://2018.ruleml-rr.org/rw.html</a>. Students registered for the Doctoral Consortium will be offered a discount for RW 2018 registration, and vice versa.</div>
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