The 2nd AKT Doctoral Symposium will be held in conjunction with an AKT workshop on Monday January 23, 2006, at Aberdeen University, UK. It will comprise a number of reviewed papers and a poster and demo session. Core participants of this symposium are AKT doctoral students. The symposium will be organised, reviewed and run by AKT doctoral students.

• Increase visibility for doctoral student's work,
• Provide an informal discussion forum,
• Practice presentation skills for demo and/or posters,
• Practice critical assessment of others research,
• Obtain advice from those outside your own research group,
• Build a research and social network among AKT doctoral candidates,
• Gain experience by organising/participating in the symposium.

• Knowledge management
• Knowledge capturing
• Knowledge representation
• Knowledge reuse
• Knowledge dissemination
• (Semantic) Interfaces, Interaction and Visualization
• Natural Language Processing
• Web services
• Constraint satisfaction
• Agent Systems
• Ontologies
• Multi-media annotation and replay
• Social network analysis and trust
• Knowledge based systems

• Theoretical,
• Systems engineering,
• Application,
• Case study,
• System evaluation,
• etc

The University of Aberdeen is Scotland's third oldest and the fifth oldest in the UK. Aberdeen is an international university built on serving one of the most dynamic regions of Europe. Picturesque and historic Old Aberdeen is now the main university site, only one mile from the city centre. The 15th century remains very much alive in King's College, offering a sense of history in the daily life of a university now focused on the needs of the new millennium.

Nestling on the coast at the confluence of the rivers Dee and Don, Aberdeen is a compact city, renowned for its splendid granite architecture. Aberdeen is a vibrant and cosmopolitan city, recently becoming the hub of the world's offshore energy network and is the off-shore oil capital of Europe, complimenting its existing diverse range of commercial activities including trading, tourism, farming and fishing. Aberdeen has something for everyone, including His Majesty's Theatre, exceptional museums and an art gallery, the popular Lemon Tree entertainment venue, cinemas, excellent sporting facilities, and miles of golden beaches, dunes and cliffs. The city centre has several busy shopping malls as well as a wide choice of nightclubs, wine bars, traditional pubs and restaurants which provide a thriving nightlife.

***Submission is now closed***
All AKT supported PhD students are required to state a preference of presentation type (paper, demo&poster or poster) as well as submitting a 2-8 page paper for the proceedings. The best rated papers will then be presented, demo's and posters will be presented in a separate poster and demo session in the evening.

Regarding submission all papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines, with no page numbers, and submitted as a pdf file.

The review process will be via peer review. For every submission it is required that each submitting author perform two to three reviews of other submitted works. Only the top rated papers will be accepted for presentation.

All papers should include:

• Motivation
• An introduction to background technologies and related work
• How the reported work is different from other existing work
• Work progress so far
• Future work and references.