The seminar is targeted at PhD students whose research interests cover areas related to the Semantic Web, Semantic Web Services and Web-scale reasoning. It will help the students concretize their research intentions and receive feedback on the soundness and completeness of their achieved work. The seminar is open to everyone who's interested. In particular, it is not restricted to PhD students and their supervisors.

Introduction

This year the seminar will be a joint event between STI Innsbruck, STI Berlin and the LarKC project.
The seminar will take place in Berlin, 21.09.2009 - 22.09.2009 on the premises of STI Berlin at the Free University of Berlin in Berlin, Germany.

The seminar will contain full and short presentations. PhD students who are in an early stage of their doctoral research (for STI Innsbruck students, phase 0 or at the beginning of phase 1) will be asked to give a short presentation of 10 minutes talk and 5 minutes discussion. PhD students who are in a more advanced stage (for STI Innsbruck students at the end of phase 1 or in phase 2) will be asked to give a full presentation (20 minutes talk + 10 minutes discussion). PhD students who are about to finish their thesis (for STI Innsbruck students: phase 3) may choose to give a presentation as well - please inform the organizers at your earliest convenience if this should be the case.

Important Dates

All PhD students who will be attending should send an abstract of at most 400 words in PDF format per email to elena.simperl@sti2.at no later than August, 17.

For STI Innsbruck staff only: the annual PhD progress reports (cf. research plan) are not due to August, 17. However, they still need to be written/updated and submitted per email to elena.simperl@sti2.at no later than October, 15.

Venue

The seminar will take place in Berlin, on the premises of the Free University of Berlin on September 21-22, 2009. The address of the venue is Takustr. 9, 14195 Berlin Room SR005. Coffee and lunch will be provided in room SR046 in the same building.

The map of the area is available at http://www.mi.fu-berlin.de/contact/mathinf-lageplan-72dpi.jpg (The building in which the seminar takes place is number 9 "Informatik"). Information about how to get to the venue is available at http://www.mi.fu-berlin.de/en/contact/location.html.

Traveling and accommodation in Berlin should be organized individually. Information about hotels can be found here.

Proceedings

The proceedings of the PhD Seminar 2009 can be found on the CEUR workshop proceedings website: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-500

Detailed Schedule

Workshop Organization

This event is organized by STI Innsbruck, STI Berlin, Semsphere and the LarKC project.

Local arrangements by is-research GmbH.

If you have questions about the seminar please contact Elena Simperl at elena.simperl@sti2.at.

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