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CALL FOR PAPERS
RuleML2012 Doctoral Consortium at
The 6th International Symposium on Rules:
Research Based and Industry Focused
Montpellier, France,
August 27-28,2012.
http://2012.ruleml.org/
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AWARD for the BEST DC PAPER
Reduction of the fee for the Ph.D students
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Description
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The RuleML 2012 Doctoral Consortium is an initiative of the International
Symposium on Rules, RuleML, to attract and promote Ph.D. research in the area
of Rules and Markup Languages. The doctoral symposium offers to students a
close contact with leading experts on the field,as well as the opportunity to
present and discuss their ideas in a dynamic and friendly setting. The accepted
thesis descriptions will be presented to an interested audience and subject to
discussion with a panel of senior researchers, and we expect submissions on any
(but not limited to) of this year's RuleML2012@ECAI topics.

Students are invited to submit an original description of their work addressing
the following aspects:

* A clear formulation of the research question.
* An identification of the significant problems in the field of research.
* An outline of the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the
state of existing solutions.
* A presentation of any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the
results achieved so far.
* A sketch of the applied research methodology.
* A description of the Ph.D. project's contribution to the problem
solution.
* A discussion of how the suggested solution is different, new, or better
as compared
to existing approaches to the problem.

Accepted submissions will be published in internal proceedings and later on
published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings
(http://www.ceur-ws.org) volume of RuleML.
The best paper will receive the RuleML2012-DC Award.

Would you have interest please check important dates and submission guidelines.

Important Dates
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Paper submission: June 25, 2012
Notification of acceptance/rejection: July 16, 2012
Camera-ready copy due: July 30, 2012
Doctoral Consortium date: August 27-28, 2012

Registration fee
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Participants registered for RuleML-2012 have access to ECAI Main Conference as
well.
Early registration: until 05/07/2012, regular 500 EUR, student 150 EUR.
Late registration: until 05/08/2012, regular 600 EUR, student 200 EUR
On-site: regular 700 EUR, student 250 EUR.
Check the web site for more information
http://2012.ruleml.org/registration.html


Submission guidelines
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Thesis descriptions are limited to 8 pages in English using LNCS format
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html)
and submitted electronically in PDF format jointly with a maximum 5 page CV.

Please submit to:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2012consortium
If you have no EasyChair account, then you should sign up for an account at
https://www.easychair.org/account/signup.cgi?conf=ruleml2012consortium

Chairs
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Grzegorz J. Nalepa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland
Monica Palmirani, CIRSFID-University of Bologna, Italy

Program Committee
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The program committee of RuleML 2012 doctoral consortium coincides with the one
of RuleML2012 to promote reviewing and feedback from the leading experts on
rules and semantic technology.