[AISWorld] Call for Papers - Doctoral Consortium on Open Source Systems

[Yeliz Eseryel]

Dear Colleagues,

Please share this  CFP for doctoral consortium  with  doctoral students and
your colleagues whose students may be interested in open initiatives of all
kinds: open access, open documents, open science, open education, open
government, open cloud, open hardware, open artworks and museum exhibits,
open innovation and more....

Apologies for cross posting.
-- 
Dr. U. Yeliz Eseryel
Assistant Professor, University of Groningen
Faculty of Economics and Business
http://yeliz.eseryel.com

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             CALL FOR PAPERS

                 FOR THE

            DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

  at the 8th International Conference on
        Open Source Systems OSS2012

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Goal and Scope
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The goal of the doctoral consortium (DC) is to provide PhD students with an
environment in which they can share and discuss their goals, methods and
results of their research. During the doctoral consortium students will
give a presentation of their current progress. The doctoral consortium
provides students with feedback on their work from other students and
faculty members, allowing them to enhance their own research proposal or
get feedback on their research in process.

The scope of research topics of the doctoral consortium is the same as for
the main conference. Therefore, we invite submissions related to all forms
of open initiatives. Open source systems (OSS) now extend beyond software
to include open access, open documents, open science, open education, open
government, open cloud, open hardware, open artworks and museum exhibits,
open innovation and more. Submissions may discuss any aspects of open
source including, but not limited to software engineering, social and
cultural, diffusion and deployment, legal and economic issues. Students who
submit a paper to the doctoral consortium should have decided on a research
topic or topic area, and have a proposal for an appropriate research
method. Preferably, students should be at least a year from completion of
their research in order to be able to incorporate the feedback obtained
during the consortium in their dissertation.


Important Dates
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6 April 2012          submission due
18 May 2012           decision back to authors
10 September 2012     doctoral consortium presentations
26 October 2012       revised papers due
9 November 2012       doctoral consortium proceedings online


Submission
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Papers submitted to the doctoral consortium should be between 3,000 and
4,000 words, not including references, and should be formatted using the
following template. Each submission must include title, author name(s) and
affiliation, abstract, list of keywords and a complete list of references.
Papers will be subjected to a single-blind review (in which the authors
don't know the reviewers, but the reviewers know the authors). Submissions
should at least discuss the following elements: the background of the
research, the motivation for the research, the research question(s)
addressed in the study and a description of the proposed research method.
Students in the later stages of their research are encouraged to include an
overview of their completed research activities.

NOTE:

The Doctoral Consortium submissions will be handled separately from the
main conference.

Submissions should be emailed to oss2012dc at gmail.com with the subject line
"OSS 2012 Doctoral Consortium Submission."

Acceptance
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Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of the Doctoral
Consortium. Submitting a paper to the Doctoral Consortium represents the
author's agreement to allow the Doctoral Consortium Chairs to publish the
paper in the Doctoral Consortium proceedings without compensation to the
author. The parties understand that the author is granting a nonexclusive
license and all copyrights remain the property of the author. Authors of
accepted papers are required to register for and attend the doctoral
consortium. They will also be asked to give a presentation on their work
for about 20 minutes, which will be followed by a 20 minutes discussion
during which students are given feedback on their work by faculty members
and other students.

Travel funding fellowships
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The DC organizing chairs are actively looking for funds to support travel
costs for some doctoral students to attend this conference. Should funds be
received, applicants will be chosen based on the merit of the paper
submitted. Interested participants should note in their submission that
they are interested in being considered for this funding (assuming it is
available) and should monitor the OSS2012 for new developments related to
this funding possibility.


Organizing Chairs
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Cornelia Boldyreff, University of East London, UK, c.boldyreff at uel.ac.uk
U. Yeliz Eseryel, University of Groningen, The Netherlands,
yeliz at eseryel.com
Charles Knutson, Brigham Young University, USA, cdknutson at gmail.com
Charlie Schweik, University of Massachusetts, USA, cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu
Klaas-Jan Stol, Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland,
klaas-jan.stol at lero.ie


Questions?
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Please see the website for further details: www.oss2012.org or email any of
the organizing chairs above.
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