SWSA Distinguished Dissertation Award

The Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) invites applications for the 2024 SWSA Distinguished Dissertation Award. The award will be presented during the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), taking place in Baltimore, USA on November 11-15, 2024.

Eligibility:  Eligible doctoral dissertations are those which present innovative research results related to the combination of semantics, data and the Web, which have been awarded a PhD strictly between January 01, 2023 and June 30, 2024, and which have not previously been nominated for this award. The selection of the dissertation will be based on the originality, significance, and impact of the work. Evidence of such impact includes (but is not limited to) publications at highly selective conferences and journals in the field.

Award committee: The award committee, which will comprise two members of SWSA and a number of external experts, will be the final arbiter in the decision process. The award committee may decide to consult additional external assessors and reserves the right to not award the prize if the applications do not meet the expected quality level.

The award: The award includes a certificate and a 1000 euros payment. A free registration to ISWC 2024 will also be covered.

In addition, IOS Press will invite the winner to publish the dissertation as a book in the "Studies on the Semantic Web" series.

HOW TO APPLY

Submissions must include the following documents, which must be submitted via easychair on or before July 5, 2024:

• A pdf file of the dissertation.

• A short (no more than 5 pages in total) paper summarizing the key contributions of the dissertation. The paper should be in PDF, should be edited according to the Springer publication guideline for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), and should cover the following elements:

  • Motivation and objectives of the research.

  • Description of the approach, highlighting its key aspects and the novelty with respect to the state of the art.

  • Major results.

  • Description of the evaluation methods used to validate the results.

  • Significance of the work, open issues, and future directions of work.

• A document that lists your publications that are associated with the dissertation, with links to the corresponding pdf files.

• A letter from the student’s supervisor or institution that confirms that the student was awarded his/her PhD between January 01, 2023 and June 30, 2024.

The winner of the SWSA Distinguished Dissertation Award will be notified in mid August, 2024.

For any questions, contact the Chairs at swsaaward2024@easychair.org

AWARD COMMITTEE FOR 2024:

• Harith Alani (Co-Chair)
• Lalana Kagal (Co-Chair)
• Abraham Bernstein
• Christian Bizer
• Eva Blomqvist
• Li Ding
• Paul Groth
• Jeff Heflin
• Katja Hose
• Natasha Noy
• Dimitris Plexousakis
• Sebastian Rudolph
• Marta Sabou
• Vojtěch Svátek
• Valentina Tamma
• Raphaël Troncy
• Maria-Esther Vidal