AKT Doctoral Symposium/ Discussion Forum Planning and Updates

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AKT Doctoral Symposium/Discussion ForumPlanning
and Updates

• AKTors Group
• July 2004

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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

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Credential

• Jessica Chen-Burger
• Got a PhD in AI
• Did and am still doing research hopefully ?
• Supervise MSc/PhD projects
• Run KM/PM commercial workshops
• Organised a PeaPod 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.

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Get to Know You ?

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

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Types of Forums

• PeaPod Workshop http//www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/
  plan/peapod/
• CISA seminar http//groups.yahoo.com/group/ai-sem
  inars/
• Summer School http//babage.dia.fi.upm.es/summers
  chool/index.html
• Any others ?

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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 ?

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Presentation Subjects

• 20-30 PhD students
• Presentation by topics
• Peer review
• Review from supervisory board

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What other subjects are interesting ?

• Knowledge management
• Natural language processing
• Web services
• Constraint satisfaction
• Ontologies
• Social network and trust
• Knowledge based systems

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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_at_yahoogroups.com.
• AKT and other IRC emailing lists
• Professional emailing list e.g. seweb-list ?
• Flyers for professional conferences ?

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Organisation

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

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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.

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Useful References for Research Methodologies

• Alan Bundys How-to Guides http//homepages.inf.e
  d.ac.uk/bundy/how-toss/how-toss.html
• Jessicas Informal Area
• http//www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/jessicac/project/student
  -study-note/
• Any other info?

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Organisation Committee

• Technical manager (web site) Sam Chapman,
  Sheffield
• Information officer David Lambert, Edinburgh
• Symposium coordinator Duncan McRae-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 !!

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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 !!

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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.

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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 authors 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 ?

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Initial Contact Information

• Jessica Chen-Burger, JessicaC_at_inf.ed.ac.uk
• Informal planning and working area
• http//www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/akt/pg-doc/inform
  al/
• http//www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/jessicac/project/AKT-PG-
  DS/
• Testing area http//uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/akt
  -doctoral-forum/
• Make use of the group emailing list, once it is
  set up.
• Good luck and wish you have great research
  experience !!