Student Travel Fellowships: 2013 Web Reasoning and Rule Systems Conference

语义技术、关联开放数据和知识表示形式（如OWL）开始在广泛的应用中发挥越来越重要的作用。RDF、OWL和RIF支持从知识库中显式编码的知识推断隐式知识。Web Reasoning和相关领域专注于本体语言的设计，分析和开发，研究其理论特性，以及设计和实现有效的推理算法。 迫切需要高级培训研究生在这一领域进行研究，并为学术或工业生涯做好准备。参加该领域的主要研究会议是这种培训的一个基本要素。Web Reasoning and Rule Systems会议系列成立于2007年，吸引了Web Reasoning领域的领先研究人员，并提供了一个展示该领域最新进展的场所。会议与推理网络暑期学校的共同地点也使其成为培训研究生的绝佳场所。该项目为美国的研究生提供旅行赠款，以参加定于7月27日至29日在曼海姆，德国举行的2013年Web推理和规则系统会议。 该会议与2013年推理网络暑期学校以及第26届描述逻辑国际研讨会位于同一地点。除了参加会议邀请和贡献的会谈，和暑期学校，学生将受益于建立研究人员的个性化指导。该项目的更广泛的影响包括在新兴的Web推理领域培训新一代研究人员和技术人员，目前正在看到大量的工业兴趣和吸收，并扩大目前在计算机科学中代表性不足的群体的参与机会，特别是语义技术，Web推理和相关领域。

Semantic technologies, Linked Open Data, and knowledge representation formalisms such as OWL are beginning to play increasingly important roles across a broad range of applications.Ontology modeling languages, e.g., RDF, OWL, and RIF, enable the inference of implicit knowledge from knowledge that is explicitly encoded in the knowledge base. Web Reasoning and allied fields focus on the design, analysis, and development of ontology languages, study of their theoretical properties, and the design and implementation of effective inference algorithms. There is an urgent need for advanced training graduate students to conduct research in this area and prepare for academic or industrial careers. Participation in premier research conferences in the area is an essential element of such training. The Web Reasoning and Rule Systems conference series, established in 2007, attracts the leading researchers in the field of Web Reasoning, and offers a venue for presentation of the latest advances in the field. The co-location of the conference with the Reasoning Web Summer School makes it also an excellent venue for training graduate students. This project provides travel grants for U.S. based graduate students to attend the 2013 Web Reasoning and Rule Systems Conference scheduled to take place during July 27-29, in Mannheim, Germany. The conference is co-located with the 2013 Reasoning Web Summer School, and also with the 26th International Workshop on Description Logics. In addition to attending the invited and contributed talks at the conference, and the Summer School, the students will benefit from individualized mentoring by established researchers. Broader impacts of the project include the training of a new generation of researchers and technologists in the emerging area of Web Reasoning which is currently seeing substantial industrial interest and uptake, and enhanced opportunties for broadening the participation of groups that are currently under-represented in Computer Science in general, and Semantic Technologies, Web Reasoning, and related areas in particular.