[AISWorld] CAiSE'13 Doctoral Consortium - Call for Submissions

[Marta Indulska]

CAiSE 2013 Doctoral Consortium – Call for Submissions

**Important Dates**
Submission: 19th of April 2013
Notification of Acceptance: 13th of May 2013
Camera-ready Copy: 27th of May 2013
Doctoral Consortium: 21st of June 2013
CAiSE Workshops & Conference: 17th–21st of June 2013

The CAiSE 2013 Doctoral Consortium will be the 20th Doctoral Consortium held in conjunction with the CAiSE conference series. It is intended to bring together PhD students working on foundations, techniques, tools and applications of Information Systems. The consortium will provide students with an opportunity to present and discuss their research with an audience of peers and senior faculty in a supportive environment, as well as to participate in a number of plenary sessions with prominent Information Systems academics. 

The goals of the Doctoral Consortium are:
- to provide fruitful feedback and advice to the selected PhD students on their research project 
- to provide the opportunity to meet experts from different backgrounds working on topics related to the Information Systems Engineering field
- to provide opportunities for interaction with other PhD students and stimulate an exchange of ideas and suggestions among participants
- to provide an opportunity to discuss concerns about research, supervision, the job market, and other career-related issues. 

Submission information

To be eligible for the Consortium the candidate must be a current doctoral student within a recognised university. Ideally, the candidate should have at least 6-12 months of work remaining before expected PhD completion. Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format by April 19th via the Easychair conference system at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2013dc
Submissions must be single-author, but the name of the supervisor should also be noted in the paper. The language of the consortium is English.  All submitted materials must be in English.  Attendees must have sufficient proficiency in English to allow them to participate in the academic discussions of the Consortium.

Submission guidelines

The paper must:
- clearly formulate the research question,
- identify a significant problem in the field of research,
- outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions
- present clearly any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the results achieved so far,
- describe the research methodology that is applied or planned,
- outline the contributions of the applicant’s work to the problem domain and highlight their uniqueness,
- conform to the Springer LNCS format
- contain less than 4000 words (approx. 8 pages in LNCS style)

Each submitted paper will be reviewed by two members of the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee. The main evaluation criteria are: originality, significance, technical soundness, accuracy, and clarity. Acceptance for the Doctoral Consortium is competitive in nature and is based on the evaluation criteria above. The participants of the doctoral consortium are also strongly encouraged to attend the main conference. There is a small registration fee for the Doctoral Consortium, which includes access to the main conference.

For more information on the consortium please refer to: http://www.pros.upv.es/index.php/en/call-for-papers-caise2013/doctoral-consortium

Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs
Barbara Weber, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Marta Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia