[PlanetKR] [CFP] KR 2026 Doctoral Consortium

[Munyque Mittelmann]

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KR 2026 Doctoral Consortium - Lisbon, Portugal

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The 23rd International Conference on Principles of Knowledge 
Representation and Reasoning (KR 2026) invites PhD students to apply for 
the Doctoral Consortium program.


** Important Dates **


- Application deadline:  March 26th, 2026 (AoE)

- Acceptance notification: April 13th, 2026  (AoE)

- Conference: July 20-23, 2026


** Aims and Scope **


The Doctoral Consortium (DC) is a student mentoring program bringing 
together PhD students and senior researchers from the area of KR. The 
aims of the consortium are:


-to provide a forum for students to present their current research, and 
receive feedback from other students and senior researchers;

-to promote contacts among PhD students working in similar areas;

-to support students with information and advice on academic, research, 
and industrial careers.


The DC is intended for PhD students who have a specific research 
proposal and some preliminary results, but who have sufficient time 
prior to completing their dissertation to benefit from the consortium 
experience. Preference will be given to students satisfying these 
criteria, but we also encourage students to apply who are at an earlier 
or more advanced stage of completion of their thesis. Accepted students 
will participate in several dedicated DC events, which will likely 
consist of

  - a lightning talk session,

  - a poster session, where students present their posters, and

  - a mentoring session.

The precise format of the DC will be finalized closer to the conference. 
Each student will be given ample time to present their work and 
therefore be able to fully benefit from direct feedback from the 
assigned senior researcher mentor and the wider KR conference audience.


** Proceedings **


The proceedings of the DC will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings 
series.


** Application Submission **


Each application must contain the following elements combined into a 
single PDF document:


1. DC paper. A description of a problem being addressed, your motivation 
for addressing the problem, proposed plan of research, the progress to 
date (what you have already achieved and what remains to be done), and 
related work. It is up to the student which of these points is 
emphasised most. The maximum number of pages is seven (bibliography 
included), and the CEURART style should be used. For LaTeX users, an 
Overleaf page is available here: 
https://overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw 
<https://overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/wqyfdgftmcfw>. 
You can also download an offline version with the style files from 
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip 
<http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip>. It also contains DOCX template 
files.

2. Curriculum Vitae. A description of your background and relevant 
experience (research, education, employment), maximum two pages.

3. Brief letter of recommendation. A brief letter from your thesis 
advisor stating that they support your participation in the DC.

4. Optionally, a suggestion of some potential mentors with similar 
research interests, who could give good advice on technical aspects 
related to the work, and/or career opportunities. For inspiration on 
whom to name, you can refer to the program committee members of previous 
KR conferences.


Information about the submission procedure will be available on this 
page:https://kr.org/KR2026/submission.html 
<https://kr.org/KR2026/submission.html>


The selection process will consider the quality of the submitted 
proposal. By default, proposals of the selected students will be made 
available to the public. Every student may decide that their paper will 
not be made public by explicitly indicating this to the DC chairs. This 
is mainly to enable doctoral students to submit previously published or 
recently submitted works and to encourage them to submit papers to KR 
2026 and associated conferences and workshops.


Inquiries should be sent by email to the KR 2026 Doctoral Consortium Chairs:

kr26-dc-chairs at lirmm.fr <mailto:kr26-dc-chairs at lirmm.fr>.


** Doctoral Consortium Chairs **


- David Carral (INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France)

- Munyque Mittelmann (LIPN - CNRS, France)



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