The 1st AKT Doctoral Symposium will be held in conjunction with AKT workshop, June 14, 2005, at the Open University. It will last for one full day. Core participants of this symposium are AKT doctoral students. The symposium will be organised and run by AKT doctoral students.

• Increase visibility for doctoral student's work,
• Provide an informal discussion forum,
• Practice writing skills for an informatics paper,
• Obtain advice from those outside your own research group,
• Create a centralized and sharable web based information repository that is particularly tailored to the community,
• 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

All contributions are required to state explicitly in the abstract which topic they are addressing.

Paper submission:	Closed
Reviews back from reviewers:	May 30, 2005
Notification:	May 31, 2005
Publicise AKTDC program via email/web:	June 6, 2005
Recieve finalised paper from authors:	June 7, 2005
Publicise papers on conference web site:	June 8, 2005
Symposium date:	June 14, 2005

All AKT supported PhD students are required to submit at least one paper. There are two types of papers: full (up to 8 pages) or short papers(up to 4 pages). There are two types of short papers: position and demo papers. All papers should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines.

Each submission needs to nominate one reviewer (e.g. own supervisor) who will be responsible to review one or two AKT submitted papers.

All papers should include:

Position papers should place emphasis on the existing work in the field, the gaps left by current work, and the proposal of one's own work. Demo papers should emphasize the use of a built system based on typical or example user scenarios. A comparison with other existing systems is most desirable.

Authors are encouraged to sign up to the AKT postgraduate discussion forum at: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/akt-postgraduates/

Submission method: AKT DC WEB SERVER

All papers will be included in proceedings and may be made available
through a link from the symposium web site as given above

Chair: Duncan McRae-Spencer, Southampton University

Co-Chair: Dave Lambert, University of Edinburgh

Co-Chair: Li Guo, University of Edinburgh

Technical manager: Ajay Chakravarthy and Sam Chapman, Sheffield University

Programming and Database Management: Ajay Chakravarthy

Information officer: David Lambert, Edinburgh University

Communication officer: Li Guo, Edinburgh, Ian Millard, Southampton University

Local Chair: Tom Heath, Open University

Stuart Aitken, Edinburgh University

Jessica Chen-Burger, Edinburgh University

Fabio Ciravegna, Sheffield University

John Domingue, Open University

Hugh Glaser, Southampton University

Enrico Motta, Open University

Steve Potter, Edinburgh University

Alun Preece, Aberdeen University

Dave Robertson, Edinburgh University

monica schraefel, Southampton University

Nigel Shadbolt, Southampton University

Derek Sleeman, Aberdeen University

Austin Tate, Edinburgh University

Chris Walton, Edinburgh University

Yorick Wilks, Sheffield University

All are welcome to visit and sign up to the AKT Doctoral Forum :
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/akt-postgraduates/

For any enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact Dave Lambert at d.j.lambert@sms.ed.ac.uk and/or Guo Li at L.Guo@sms.ed.ac.uk (and/or
CC to Jessica Chen-Burger at jessicac@inf.ed.ac.uk) directly.