UMAP 2016 Doctoral Consortium Posters Preface Maria Bielikova maria.bielikova@stuba.sk 1 Vania Dimitrova V.G.Dimitrova@leeds.ac.uk 4 UMAP2016 DC Program Committee 2 Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong 0 UMAP2016 DC Chairs 3 David Chin, University of Hawaii, USA , Alexandra Cristea , University of Warwick, UK , Marco De Gemmis , University of Bari, Italy, Pasquale De Meo, VU University , Amsterdam, Netherlands, Fabio Gasparetti , ROMA TRE University , Italy, Cristina Gena , University of Torino, Italy , Panagiotis Germanakos , University of Cyprus , Cyprus, Eelco Herder, L3S Research Center, Germany, Geert-Jan Houben, TU Delft, Netherlands, Tsvi Kuflik , The University of Haifa, Israel , Roger Nkambou , Université du Québec À Montréal, Canada , Francesco Ricci , Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy , Olga C. Santos , aDeNu Research Group (UNED) , Spain, Ben Steichen , Santa Clara University, USA , Marko Tkalcic , Free University of Bolzano, Italy , Christoph Trattner, KMI, TU-Graz, Austria, Massimo Zancanaro, FBK-cit, Italy, Ingrid Zukerman , Monash University , Australia Faculty if Informatics and Information Technologies, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Liliana Ardissono, University of Torino, Italy , Ryan Baker , Teachers College, Columbia University, USA , Shlomo Berkovsky, CSIRO , Australia , Peter Brusilovsky , University of Pittsburgh, USA , Robin Burke , DePaul University, USA , Federica Cena , University of Torino , Italy Maria Bielikova, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia , Vania Dimitrova , University of Leeds , United Kingdom School of Computing, University of Leeds , United Kingdom

The UMAP 2016 Conference, following a tradition started in 1994, included a Doctoral Consortium (DC) Session. Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for doctoral students to explore and develop their research interests under the guidance of a panel of distinguished research faculty. Doctoral students have been invited to apply to present their research to scholars and researchers in the field who provide constructive feedback and advice.

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The doctoral consortium is implemented as a student mentoring program that introduces students to senior researchers in the relevant fields.

Doctoral students have been asked to document in a brief submission their research project. Each DC submission was encouraged to consider the following: identification of related (state of the art) work, indication of potential innovation, application or contribution for which the work is aimed. In addition, as appropriate for the PhD project, the submissions could consider: indication of data to be used for experimentation, indication of implementation approach, indication of evaluation criteria and experimental design.

The UMAP 2016 Doctoral Consortium attracted 18 submissions. Each submission was reviewed by three members of the UMAP 2016 DC program committee.   9 good quality submissions were selected to be presented at a Doctoral Consortium Session as part of the conference. These submissions, which were included in the main conference proceedings. 7 promising, but less well-developed submissions have been selected for presentation at a poster session. These DC submissions are included in these UMAP2016 Extended proceedings.

To facilitate cross-fertilization of research ideas and encourage cross-disciplinary connections, the two collocated conferences UMAP2016 and Hypertext 2016 had a joint Doctoral Consortium session. The participants presented their work with substantial time allowed for feedback and discussion.       LIST OF UMAP 2016 DC POSTER PAPERS