[DL] DL 2012 - deadline for early registrations and student grant applications: May 11, 2012

[domenico lembo]

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25th International Workshop on Description Logics

http://dl.kr.org/dl2012/
Rome, Italy, June 7th to June 10th, 2012

Co-located with: KR2012, NMR2012, AI*IA2012, CILC2012 and KiBP2012

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Important dates for registration

Discounted Early Registration ends:  May 11
Late Registration ends:              May 31
on site registration:                7-10 June

Previous registration at KR 2012 allows for a reduced fee (for early
registrations only).

A special fee for joint registration with NMR 2012 is also available.

Details on DL-12 fees are available at
http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~dl2012/registration.html

Information on accommodations can be found at
http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~dl2012/venue.html

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Student Grants

A limited number of student grants are available for participation in
DL 2012. Each grant will cover the workshop registration fee and
(subject to availability of resources) will provide a contribution to
travel costs. The students who are interested in applying for this
grant must write an email to the workshop organizers at
dl2012 at dis.uniroma1.it declaring their interest in the student grant
and providing: (i) a proof of full-time student status (copy of valid
student ID card or letter from their institution or program director);
(ii) a short justification confirming that the attendance to DL 2012
could not be financed by other means such as project funds.

The deadline for applying to the student grants is May 11, 2012.
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Overview

The DL workshop is the major annual event of the description logic
research community. It is the forum at which those interested in
description logics, both from academia and industry, meet to discuss
ideas, share information and compare experiences.

DL-12 workshop will share a joint session together with the
International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning (NMR 2012).

Keynote speakers:
* Alan Rector, University of Manchester, U.K.
   title: What's missing? DLs, OWL and the Ecology of Semantic Systems
   date: June 7, 2012

* Serge Abiteboul, Collège de France, INRIA & ENS Cachan, France
   title: Viewing the Web as a Distributed Knowledge Base
   date: June 8, 2012

* Piero Bonatti (joint with NMR 2012), Università degli Studi di Napoli
   Federico II, Italy
   title: Defaults in description logics: so simple, so difficult
   date: June 9, 2012

Program:
The list of accepted papers is available at
http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~dl2012/program.html
A detailed program is going to be posted in few days.
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Contacts for DL 2012

General and Local Chair:
* Domenico Lembo, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy

Program Chairs:
* Yevgeny Kazakov, University of Ulm, Germany
* Frank Wolter, University of Liverpool, U.K.