Call for Doctoral Consortium

Doctoral Consortium Program June 11-12, 2007

The program for the doctoral consortium can be found here.

Important dates

Submission: March 12, 2007 (*Deadline extended*)
Notification of Acceptance : April 11, 2007
Camera-ready Copy: April 25, 2007
Doctoral Consortium: June 11-12, 2007
CAiSE'07: June 11-15, 2007

Goal

The CAiSE'07 Doctoral Consortium is intended to bring together PhD students working on foundations, techniques, tools and applications of information systems and give them the opportunity to present and discuss their research in a constructive and international atmosphere. The goals of the Doctoral Consortium event are:

To provide fruitful feedback and advice to the selected Ph.D. students on their research thesis.
To provide the opportunity to meet experts from different backgrounds working on topics related to the Information Systems Engineering field.
To interact with other PhD students and stimulate an exchange of ideas and suggestions among participants.

The CAiSE'07 Doctoral Consortium will be accompanied by prominent professors in the field of information systems who will actively participate in and contribute to the discussions.

This year, the workshop in Trondheim will be the 14th Doctoral Consortium of a series held in conjunction with the CAiSE conferences in Utrecht (1994), Jyväskylä (1995), Heraklion (1996), Barcelona (1997), Pisa (1998), Heidelberg (1999), Stockholm (2000), Interlaken (2001), Toronto (2002), Klagenfurt/Velden (2003) Riga/Latvia (2004), Porto (2005) and Luxembourg (2006).

The participants of the doctoral consortium are strongly encouraged to also register for and attend the main conference.

Doctoral Consortium topics

See the theme and topics of the CAISE'07 conference.

Submission process

To apply for participation at the Doctoral Consortium, please send a short paper describing your doctoral work to:

jonespi at idi.ntnu.no
with a copy to: renatek at idi.ntnu.no

Submissions must be electronically in PDF format by the deadline stated, and the paper must conform to the Springer's LNCS format. The short paper is restricted to 4000 words (approximately 8 pages).

Submission format and rules

The paper must

clearly formulate the research question,
identify the significant problems in the field of research,
outline the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the state of existing solutions,
present clearly any preliminary ideas,
the proposed approach and the results achieved so far,
sketch the research methodology that is being applied,
point out the contributions of the applicant to the solution of the problem, and state in what aspects the suggested solution is different, new or better as compared to existing approaches to the problem.

Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee based on originality, significance, technical soundness, accuracy, and clarity. Accepted papers will be published as workshop proceedings. Admission is limited to 10-15 Ph.D. students.