[AISWorld] ADBIS 2013 PhD Consortium

[Marco Mesiti]

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DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
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at the 17th East European Conference on

ADVANCES IN DATABASES AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS (ADBIS)

September 1, 2012 (doctoral consortium)
September 2-4, 2012 (main conference)
Genoa, Italy
http://adbis2013.disi.unige.it/
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*** Deadline for submissions: March 26, 2013 ***

ADBIS Doctoral Consortium is a forum for Ph.D. students to present their 
research ideas, confront them with the scientific community, receive feedback 
from senior mentors, socialize and tie cooperation bounds. Students will 
receive support and inspiration from their peers, and they will enjoy the 
opportunity to discuss their research and career objectives with senior members 
of the community from outside their institution. Students will present and 
discuss their research directions in the context of an established 
international conference outside of their usual university environment.

The DC sessions are scheduled in parallel with workshop sessions affiliated 
with the ADBIS conference on the 1-st of September. Each participant will have 
an opportunity to present her/his research, followed by discussion with and 
comments by senior researchers.

In addition, a poster session will be held during the main conference. Each 
participant of the Doctoral Consortium is supposed to present her/his research 
during the poster session, thus increasing the exposure of the research and 
engaging in discussions with senior members of the research community.

ELIGIBILITY
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We seek Ph.D. student participants who have either determined the
direction of their thesis research (probably with some preliminary
results already published), but who still have substantial work to
complete, or Ph.D. student participants who are in the early stages of
their dissertation year. Please note that it is not required to have a
paper accepted for the main conference in order to participate in the
Doctoral Consortium.

SUBMISSIONS
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To submit your application to the Doctoral Consortium please prepare the 
following documents:

1. Research statement: summarize the problem, proposed plan, and progress
    to date. (*max 2 pages*)
2. Curriculum Vitae including the expected graduation date. (*max 1 page*)
3. Advisor's support: a short email from the thesis advisor stating
     support for the student's participation in the Doctoral Consortium,
     describing the current status of the thesis research, and giving the
     expected date of graduation.

Optionally, you may submit the following documents:

4. One first-authored paper (this will appear in the proceedings of DC)
5. Name of paper submitted to ADBIS 2013, if applicable

When submitting your proposal please put items 1,2,4,5 into a single
pdf file, and submit it via the website

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https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/ADBIS2013
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Item 3 should be emailed to the co-chairs Alfons Kemper (kemper at in.tum.de) and 
Boris Novikov (borisnov at acm.org) directly.

REVIEW PROCESS
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The papers for DC (item 4 above) should be at most 6 pages in Springer format 
(formatting instructions can be obtained via 
http://www.springer.com/series/11156) and describe the state of the whole PhD 
project, rather than a specific completed result.  The paper should outline the 
objectives, the problem, state of the art, results obtained so far, and what is 
still to be done in the frame of the PhD project. If an author prefers to 
present a completed research result, the paper should be submitted to the main 
conference or one of accompanying workshops.

The papers submitted to the DC will be reviewed by a PC and the authors of 
successful submissions must take into account reviewer's comments during the 
preparation of final version and describe the changes in a separate document to 
be submitted together with the final camera-ready version.

The program committee reserves a right to reject a paper if the final version 
does not meet the requirements above.

Selection of participants who did not submit a DC paper (item 4) will be based 
on the clarity of the submitted materials and the student's stage of research. 
We will also take institutional representation into account in order to provide 
a truly diverse environment for research presentation and discussion. 
Applications not adhering to the provided guidelines (including page limits) 
may not be considered.

PROCEEDINGS
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The DC papers will be published together with ADBIS workshops proceedings, by 
Springer in the Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing series.

The authors of best DC submissions will be invited to provide an extended 
version to an international journal (acceptance is subject to further 
reviewing).

IMPORTANT DATES
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- **Submission deadline**: March 26, 2013
- **Notification**:        May 19, 2013
- **Camera ready**:        June 10, 2013

- **PhD Consortium**:      September 1, 2013

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CO-CHAIRS
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-  Alfons Kemper, Techn. Univ. Muenchen, Munich, Germany
-  Boris Novikov, St-Petersburg University, Russia

CONTACT
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Requests for information should be e-mailed to kemper at in.tum.de and 
borisnov at acm.org