[AISWorld] CFP: Doctoral Consortium at PoEM 2016 (The Practice of Enterprise Modeling)

[Kurt Sandkuhl]

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PoEM 2016 Doctoral Consortium   !!! Submission deadline: September 5th, 2016  !!!
     Call for Papers
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DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM of
9th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on The PRACTICE OF ENTERPRISE MODELING (PoEM)

8-10 November, 2016, Skövde, Sweden - http://www.his.se/poem2016/dc/
PoEM Series: http://poem.dsv.su.se/
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=poem2016


The Doctoral Consortium at PoEM 2016 will be a meeting place and discussion forum for
PhD students from the enterprise modelling and information systems community. The
main objective is to provide an opportunity for presenting and discussing PhD projects
in order to get advice and investigate new perspectives from an audience of peers and
senior faculty in a supportive environment. It is intended to bring together PhD
students working on foundations, techniques, methods, tools and applications of
Enterprise Modeling and provide them with an opportunity to present and discuss their
research to, as well as to participate in a number of plenary sessions with
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 Enterprise Modeling discipline
* To interact with other PhD students and stimulate an exchange of ideas
* To provide the opportunity to discuss concerns about research, supervision, the
  job market, and other career-related issues
* To discuss different aspects of a PhD project according to the current status, e.g.,
  * Identify a significant problem in the field of research and establish a gap based
    on the current status of the problem domain and existing solutions
  * Indicate a research goal related to identified gap and formulate research questions
  * Present preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the results achieved so far
  * Describe the research methodology applied or planned
  * Outline the contributions of the applicant's work to the problem domain and
    highlight their uniqueness

To be eligible for the Doctoral Consortium, the candidate must be a current doctoral
student within a recognized university. Ideally, the candidate should have at least
6 month of work already performed or at least 6-12 months work remaining before
expected completion.

Doctoral Consortium Mentors
Selected members of the program committee who are experienced in guiding PhD work
will act as mentors during the doctoral consortium and provide advice to the
individual PhD students regarding their PhD projects. The list of mentors will
be published in October 2016.

Special Session on Publishing Opportunities
There are many possibilities for PhD students to publish research work: workshops,
conferences, book chapters, journals, open access publications, etc. In many countries
it is mandatory to have at least some publications before being able to finish a PhD
dissertation. In a special session for the doctoral consortium participants, Prof.
Kurt Sandkuhl will offer a perspective on publishing opportunities from the view of
an experienced researcher. Special focus will be on journal publications, including
typical review and publication processes. The Springer journal BISE (Business &
Information Systems Engineering) will be used as an example. One intention of the
session is to encourage participants to consider extending their research publications
towards journal publications.

Reduced Registration Fee
Authors of accepted Doctoral Consortium papers will benefit from a reduced registration
fee, which will enable them also to attend the PoEM conference, and all associated
social events.

Submission guidelines
Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format before the deadline (see
important dates) via the EasyChair conference system at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=poem2016dc
Submissions must be single-author, but the name of the supervisor should also be
mentioned within 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. The
accepted papers will be published in as a volume of CEUR online proceedings.
The paper should conform to Springer LNCS format and contain less than 4000 words
(approx. 8 pages in LNCS style). Information about LNCS format is available at:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Selection Process
Each submitted paper will be reviewed by two members of the Doctoral Consortium
Program Committee. The main evaluation criteria are: relevance, originality, potential
contribution, technical soundness, and clarity. Acceptance for the Doctoral Consortium
is competitive in nature and is based on the evaluation criteria above.

Important Dates
Submission deadline: 5. September 2016
Notification of Acceptance: 1. October 2016
Camera-ready Copy: 15. October 2016

Program Committee (preliminary)
Michael Fellmann, Rostock University
Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University
John Krogstie, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu
Anne Persson, University of Skövde
Jeremy Rose, University of Skövde
Irina Rychkova, University of Sorbonne
Kurt Sandkuhl, University of Rostock
Ulf Seigerroth, Jönköping University
Eva Söderström, University of Skövde
Janis Stirna, Stockholm University
Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University


PoEM 2016 DC Home Page: http://www.his.se/poem2016/dc/
Paper to submission doctoral consortium via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=poem2016dc