The 1st AKT Doctoral Symposium

January 2005
Southampton University

The AKT Doctoral Symposium will be held in conjunction with AKT
workshop, January 2005, Southampton. It will last for one full day.
Core participants of this symposium are AKT doctoral students. The
symposium will be organised and run by AKT doctoral students.

Goals:
· Increase visibility for doctoral student's work,
· Provide an informal open discussion forum,
· Practice writing skills for an informatics paper,
· Obtain external and independent advises, in addition to own
supervisors,
· Create a centralized and sharable web based information
repository that is particularly tailored to the community,
· Build a research and social network among AKT doctoral
candidates,
· Earn experience by organizing/participating the symposium,
· Experience as a part of the process of becoming an
independent researcher !!

Example Research Topics Included in the Doctoral Symposium:
· Knowledge management
· Knowledge capturing
· Knowledge representation
· Knowledge reuse
· Knowledge dissemination
· Natural language processing
· Web services
· Constraint satisfaction
· Ontologies
· Multi-media annotation and replay
· Social network analysis and trust
· Knowledge based systems

The topics can be approached from different perspectives:
theoretical, systems engineering, application, case study, system
evaluation, etc. All contributions are required to state explicitly
in the abstract which topic they are addressing.

Important Dates

Paper submission: Oct 30, 2004
Notification: Nov 15, 2004
Camera-ready version: Dec 15, 2004
Symposium date: Jan, 2004

Submission

The participants can submit full (up to 6-8 pages) or short (up to 4
pages) position papers. The accepted papers will be published in the
web-based proceedings. All papers should be formatted according to
the Springer LNCS guidelines.

All papers should include: motivation, an introduction to background
technologies and related work, how the reported work is different
from other existing work, work progress so far, future work and
references.

Position papers should put emphasis on existing work in the field,
gap of such work and proposal of own work. Demo papers should
emphasize the use of a built system based on typical/example user
scenarios.

Authors are encouraged to sign up to the PG Open Discussion Forum
at: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/akt-doctoral-forum/.

Submit your papers in electronic format to Dave Lambert at
d.j.lambert@... (*.pdf) and Guo Li at L.Guo@...
(CC to Jessica Chen-Burger at jessicac@...).

All submissions should be entitled "Submit to AKT DS 2005".
Resubmission should be entitled "Re-submit to AKT DS 2005". Many
thanks for your cooperation on this.

Reviewer's Form

A copy of the reviewer's form is available below:
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/akt/pg-doc/reviewer-form.txt.
Symposium Proceedings

An on-line proceedings will be made available through a link from
the symposium web site: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/akt-
doctoral-forum/.

Program Committee

Chair: Duncan McRae-Spencer, Southampton University
Co-Chair: Dave Lambert, University of Edinburgh
Co-Chair: Li Guo, University of Edinburgh
Technical manager: Sam Chapman, Sheffield University
Information officer: David Lambert, Edinburgh University
Symposium coordinator: Duncan McRae-Spencer, Southampton University
Communication officer: Li Guo, Edinburgh; Y. Lei, Open University
Local Chair: Ian Millard, Southampton University; Suraj Ajit,
Aberdeen University

Steering Committee

Nigel Shadbolt, Southampton University
Dave Robertson, Edinburgh University
Austin Tate, Edinburgh University
Hugh Glaser, Southampton University
monica schraefel, Southampton University
Steve Potter, Edinburgh University
Jessica Chen-Burger, Edinburgh University

AKT Doctoral Symposium Web Site:

http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/akt-doctoral-forum/

Enquiries:
For any enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact Dave Lambert at
d.j.lambert@... and/or Guo Li at L.Guo@... (CC to
Jessica Chen-Burger at jessicac@...) directly.