AKT Doctoral Symposium Discussion Forum Planning and Updates

AKT Doctoral Symposium/ Discussion Forum Planning and Updates AKTors Group July 2004

A Draft List of Topics • • • Get to know you Form of the symposium/summer school Presentation/research subjects Who are the presenters ? Peer review Who are the participants ? Sign-up list. How many days ? Where/when will it be? Organisation Committees Legacy – Web site, Logo, research collaboration, discussion forum, attraction/visible to PGs internationally

Credential • • Jessica Chen-Burger Got a Ph. D in AI Did and am still doing research hopefully Supervise MSc/Ph. D projects Run KM/PM commercial workshops Organised a Pea. Pod workshop Organised SSP seminars in Edin. for 3 years Organised IRR/CISA seminars for 3 years: subscribers (188) to the mailing list extends beyond Edinburgh.

Get to Know You • • • Name, Univ. , Supervisor (when applicable) Your experiences: 1 st, final year, RF, etc. Research Area Interests and Research Topic Wish list/Ambition for the AKT Doctoral Symposium

Types of Forums • • Pea. Pod Workshop: http: //www. aiai. ed. ac. uk/project/plan/peapod/ CISA seminar: http: //groups. yahoo. com/group/ai -seminars/ Summer School: http: //babage. dia. fi. upm. es/summerschool/index. html Any others ?

Deciding the Form of the Symposium • • Tutorial/talk Presentation, Tool Demo Poster Open forum discussion Topic oriented discussion Exercises ? How many days ? Where/when will it be? Social events ?

Presentation Subjects • • 20 -30 Ph. D students Presentation by topics Peer review Review from supervisory board

What other subjects are interesting ? • • Knowledge management Natural language processing Web services Constraint satisfaction Ontologies Social network and trust Knowledge based systems

Who are the participants ? The sign up list • • Invitation to all AKT DTA Invitation to other IRC DTA Extended invitation ? Advertising: – Personal links – Univ. emailing lists, e. g. • ai-seminars@yahoogroups. com. – AKT and other IRC emailing lists – Professional emailing list: e. g. seweb-list ? – Flyers for professional conferences ?

Organisation • A dedicated DTA emailing list already existed • A “home” to store DTA related information – A tester: http: //uk. groups. yahoo. com/group/akt-doctoral-Forum/ – any others ? • Forming a program committee

Legacy of the Symposium • Web site (Logo ? ) • Future collaboration • A more permanent mailing list, discussion forum for PGs (inside and outwith AKT) • Build longer term network • Repository of resources for PGs • On-line publishing of paper/slides – this may be only references to other sites.

Useful References for Research Methodologies • Alan Bundy’s How-to Guides: http: //homepages. inf. ed. ac. uk/bundy/howtoss/how-toss. html • Jessica’s Informal Area: • http: //www. aiai. ed. ac. uk/~jessicac/project/st udent-study-note/ • Any other info?

Organisation Committee • Technical manager (web site): Sam Chapman, Sheffield • Information officer: David Lambert, Edinburgh • Symposium coordinator: Duncan Mc. Rae-Spencer, Soton • Communication officer: Li Guo, Edinburgh; Y. Lei, OU. • Local organiser: Suraj Ajit, Aberdeen. • Advisory board: Nigel Shadbolt, Dave Robertson, Austin Tate, Hugh Glaser, monica schraefel, Steve Potter, Jessica Chen-Burger, … • Ultimate Goal: PG to take ownership !!

Next Step • Set up a dedicated emailing list: coordinated by Duncan, assisted by David and Li, ideas from ALL • Set up a dedicated web site: coordinated by Sam – ideas contributed from ALL • Brain storming about the up-coming Doctoral Symposium in order to generate a draft “Call for Papers” – coordinated by Duncan and Li and participation from ALL • Sign up to the Doctoral Symposium for yourself and encourage others to do so. • Explain the Doctoral Symposium/Forum to your PIs and supervisors and invite them to be on the Advisory board – their first task is to help reviewing papers !! (put on smiles for this one) • Brain storming, discussion and contribution (face to face and emails) as to what material is relevant and therefore worth to add to the web site. • Use the mailing list to exchange ideas, get inspiration/references, and most importantly enjoy and make friends !!

When designing the web site • Consider where will be a good place to host this web site, points to consider: – Low maintenance, prominent/visible to the outside world, archives management, access for several persons in parallel from different sites, facilities to allow personalisation for members, access control, etc. • Consider what will be the appropriate name for this space • Consider what are the aims of this space and describe them in the web site • The doctoral symposium may be described in a separate web page but linked to the main page • Describe the included research areas and possibly information about its members and advisors.

Organisation for the Symposium • Info about advisorary board: name, univ. , as well as research areas • Info about PGs: name, univ. , research areas, as well as names of their supervisors • Info about submitted papers: author, univ. , research areas, and author’s supervisors (some info overlapped with the above) • All info will be kept private, but can be used to assist the process of matching papers and their reviewers. • Any other points ?

Initial Contact Information • Jessica Chen-Burger, Jessica. C@inf. ed. ac. uk • Informal planning and working area: – http: //www. aiai. ed. ac. uk/project/akt/pg-doc/informal/ – http: //www. aiai. ed. ac. uk/~jessicac/project/AKT-PGDS/ – Testing area: http: //uk. groups. yahoo. com/group/aktdoctoral-forum/ • Make use of the group emailing list, once it is set up. • Good luck and wish you have great research experience !!