4 Nov 2010
York, U.K.
York Doctoral Symposium on Computing YDS 2010 http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/yds/ (DEADLINE: 20:07:2010) Call for Papers Best Artificial Intelligence paper: 40 GBP ---------------------------------------------------------- The 3rd International York Doctoral Symposium on Computing YDS 2010 ---------------------------------------------------------- 4th November 2010 York, United Kingdom http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/yds/ The Department of Computer Science at The University of York is to host the 3rd International Doctoral Symposium on Computing (YDS 2010) in November this year. The goal of the symposium is to bring together doctoral students from around the world to share and exchange their research and ideas with others. The hope is that by bringing students together from a wide range of areas, we can promote interdisciplinary research, as well as allow doctoral students to experience presenting their work to their colleagues. -------------------- Awards and Bursaries -------------------- * Best Paper Award: A prize of 100 for the best paper submitted to the conference. * Best Presentation Award: A prize of 70 for the best presentation given at the conference. * The Microsoft Award for Best Artificial Intelligence paper: A prize of 40 for the best paper in the field of Artificial Intelligence. * The Microsoft Award for Best Computer Vision paper: A prize of 40 for the best paper in the field of Computer Vision. In addition to these awards we also have 200, from Microsoft, with which to reimburse the cost of travel to anyone visiting the conference from outside of York. We will try to divide this as fairly as possible but money will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis with priority going to authors. ---------- Background ---------- The first two symposiums were very successful, attracting submissions from students spread around the world. Both symposiums included talks from distinguished speakers, including Prof. Brian Randell (http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/brian.randell) and Prof. Maria Petrou (http://www.commsp.ee.ic.ac.uk/~mcpetrou/); all of our speakers have been very enthusiastic about the YDS concept. Students who previously presented their work at YDS found it a useful rehearsal for the "main stage", or a great place to discuss work in progress. Furthermore, everyone who attended thoroughly enjoyed the evening banquet! Papers submitted to YDS 2010 are published as a technical paper in the Department of Computer Science's Yellow Report Series (see: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/library/onlinereports/ ), and authors are more than welcome to republish extended versions of their work in journals or other conference proceedings. ----- Scope ----- The scope of the symposium is intentionally very broad, in order that students from all areas of computer science may benefit from it. Welcome topics include (but are certainly not limited to) the following: - Artificial Intelligence - Computer Architectures - Computer Vision - Enterprise Systems - Formal Methods - Human-Computer Interaction - Model-Driven Engineering - Non-Standard Computation - Programming Languages and Systems - Real-Time Systems - Safety Analysis - Software Testing - Theoretical Computer Science Papers should be no longer than 8 pages. Information about the paper format can be found on the YDS website: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/yds/ --------------- Important Dates --------------- Paper Submission Deadline: 20th July, 2010 Notification of acceptance: 5th September, 2010 Camera-Ready Paper Submission: 5th October, 2010 Symposium: 4th November, 2010 More information can be found on the YDS website: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/yds/ ---------------- Closing Comments ---------------- YDS 2010 provides an excellent opportunity for any computer science research student to share their knowledge, network, and practice their publishing skills; all in a friendly, academic environment. YDS is a symposium run by research students for research students. On behalf of the YDS 2010 Organising Committee YDS 2010 General Chair; Malihe Tabatabaie.