Call For Paper
                    The 1st AKT Doctoral Symposium

                        as part of AKT Workshop
                           June 14-16, 2005
                             Milton Keynes

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

Goals: 

- Increase visibility of doctoral students' work,
- Provide an informal discussion forum,
- Practice writing skills for an informatics paper,
- Obtain advice from those outside your own research group, 
- Create centralized and sharable web based information
  repository that is particularly tailored to the community,
- Build a research and social network between AKT doctoral
  candidates,
- Gain experience by organizing/participating the symposium. 

Example research topics included in the Doctoral Symposium are: 

- 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 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:     April 30, 2005. 
Notification:         May 15, 2005. 
Camera-ready version: May 30, 2005. 
Symposium date:       TBC. 

*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: TBA 

Reviewer's Form

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

Symposium Proceedings

All papers will be included in a proceedings and may be made available
through a link from the symposium 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, Sheffield University, Ajay Chakravarthy, Sheffield Univ. 
Information officer: David Lambert, Edinburgh University
Symposium coordinator: Duncan McRae-Spencer, Southampton 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 Symposium Web 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@sms.ed.ac.uk and/or Guo Li at L.Guo@sms.ed.ac.uk (and/or
CC to Jessica Chen-Burger at jessicac@inf.ed.ac.uk) directly.