AKT Doctoral Symposium/ Discussion Forum Planning and Updates

1. AKT Doctoral Symposium/Discussion ForumPlanning and Updates AKTors Group July 2004

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 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

5. Types of Forums • PeaPod 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 ?

6. 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 ?

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

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

9. 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 ?

10. 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

11. 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.

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

13. 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 !!

14. 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 !!

15. 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.

16. 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 ?

17. Initial Contact Information • Jessica Chen-Burger, JessicaC@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-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 !!