[iaoa-general] FOIS 2016 Early Career Symposium Call for Applications

[João Paulo Almeida]

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Early Career Symposium (FOIS 2016)
9th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems

Application deadline: March 4th, 2016 *extended*

website: http://www.iaoa.org/fois2016/index.php?n=Main.RelatedEvents#ecs
contact: ecsfois16 at gmail.com


Scope

This event is designed to provide an opportunity for graduate students to
present their work at one of the leading conferences in formal ontology
and to
get first-hand feedback and mentorship from senior researchers in their
field.
It will also allow participants to network with other early career
scientists
in the broad field of ontology. Topics of interest include all topics
relevant
to the interdisciplinary field of ontology as outlined in the topics of
interest for FOIS 2016.


Format

The ECS will be held as a poster session within the main FOIS conference.
The
poster session will be opened by a lightning talks session, during which
each
participant has the opportunity to advertise his/her work in a 3 minutes
speech to the general audience of the FOIS conference. Each participant
will
be assigned a senior researcher as a mentor, who will provide substantial
feedback to his/her work. Moreover, a PhD Lounge will allow early career
scientists to meet and discuss their work with each other.


Application Instructions

The ECS is open to students at the Masters and Doctoral Level who have not
defended their thesis before the ECS Submission deadline.

Candidates can apply by submitting a description of their research project
(see the template at the web site) and a current CV by March 4th, 2016.
Submissions will be reviewed by selected members of the FOIS Program
Committee. 

Submission should be made via
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fois2016
(select the track 'Early Career Symposium')

Accepted submissions will be published in a FOIS DBLP indexed proceedings
(CEUR, ISSN 1613-0073) together with papers from the FOIS Demo Track and
the
FOIS Ontology Competition.

All participants must register for the main conference. Applicants can
apply
for the scholarships made available by the IAOA.


Contact

For all queries about the Early Career Symposium, please contact the
organizers at ecsfois16 at gmail.com.


Important Dates

ECS Submission deadline : March 4th, 2016
ECS Notification of acceptance : April 15th, 2016
Early Career Symposium : July 8th, 2016


ECS Organizers

Adrien Barton (University de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada)
Stefano Borgo (ISTC CNR, Italy)
Jean-Remi Bourguet (Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil)