Hello,

This is the 2nd call for papers - AKT Doctoral Colloquium. We
have now a web site set up with uploading facility available. A big
thank you for Ajay and Sam's help !!

This information will also be advertised via to the AKT project
mailing list very soon... Let me know if you have any comments.

Best wishes,
Jessica
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The First AKT Doctoral Colloquium
as part of the AKT Workshop

June, 2005
Open University
Milton Keynes
http://wit.shef.ac.uk:8080/aktds/index.html

The AKT Doctoral colloquium will be held in conjunction with AKT
workshop, June 14-16, 2005 at the Open University. It will last for
one full day (or two half-days). Core participants of this
colloquium are AKT doctoral students. The colloquium will be
organised and run by AKT doctoral students.

Goals:

* Increase visibility for doctoral student's work,
* Provide an informal discussion forum,
* Practice writing skills for an informatics paper,
* Obtain advice from those outside your own research group,
* 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,
* Gain experience by organising/participating the colloquium.

Example Research Topics Included in the Doctoral colloquium:

* Knowledge management
* Knowledge capturing
* Knowledge representation
* Knowledge reuse
* Knowledge dissemination
* (Semantic) Interfaces, Interaction and Visualization
* Natural Language Processing
* Web services
* Constraint satisfaction
* Agent Systems
* Ontologies
* Multi-media annotation and replay
* Social network analysis and trust
* Knowledge based systems

The topics can be approached from several different perspectives:
e.g.

* Theoretical,
* Systems engineering,
* Application,
* Case study,
* System evaluation.

All contributions are required to state explicitly in the abstract
which topic they are addressing.

Important Dates:

Paper submission: April 30, 2005
Notification: May 15, 2005
Camera-ready version: May 30, 2005
Colloquium date: TBC: it will last for one full day or two
half-days during the AKT Workshop.

Submission:

All AKT supported PhD students are required to submit at least one
paper. There are two types of papers: full (up to 8 pages) or short
papers (up to 4 pages). There are two types of short papers:
position and demo papers. All papers should be formatted according
to the Springer LNCS guidelines.

Each submission needs to nominate one reviewer (e.g. own supervisor)
who will be responsible to review one or two AKT submitted papers.

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 place emphasis on the existing work in the
field, the gaps left by current work, and the proposal of one's own
work. Demo papers should emphasize the use of a built system based
on typical or example user scenarios. A comparison with other
existing systems is most desirable.

Authors are encouraged to sign up to the AKT postgraduate discussion
forum at: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/akt-postgraduates/

Submission method:

Electronic submission via
http://wit.shef.ac.uk:8080/aktds/index.jsp.

Colloquium Proceedings:

All papers will be included in proceedings and may be made available
through a link from the colloquium web site as given above

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 and Ajay Chakravarthy, Sheffield
University
Information officer: David Lambert, Edinburgh University
Communication officer: Li Guo, Edinburgh, Ian Millard, Southampton
University
Local Chair: Tom Heath, Open University

Steering Committee:

Fabio Ciravegna, Sheffield University
John Domingue, Open University
Hugh Glaser, Southampton University
Enrico Motta, Open University
Steve Potter, Edinburgh University
Alun Preece, Aberdeen University
Dave Robertson, Edinburgh University
monica schraefel, Southampton University
Nigel Shadbolt, Southampton University
Derek Sleeman, Aberdeen University
Austin Tate, Edinburgh University
Chris Walton, Edinburgh University
Yorick Wilks, Sheffield University
Jessica Chen-Burger, Edinburgh University

AKT Doctoral colloquium Discussion Site:

All are welcome to visit and sign up to the AKT Doctoral Forum:
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/akt-postgraduates/

Enquiries:

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