[AISWorld] Reminder: PROFES 2016 Doctoral Symposium - Call for Research Proposals

[Xiaofeng Wang]

Doctoral Symposium at the 17th International Conference on
Product-focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2016)
https://profes2016.idi.ntnu.no/ <https://profes2016.idi.ntnu.no/>
22th-24th November 2016, Trondheim, Norway

We invite submissions to the PROFES 2016 Doctoral Symposium, to be held
during the week of 21 November 2016. The PROFES Doctoral Symposium
provides a forum for both early and late-stage PhD students, working on
foundations, techniques, methods and tools related to software process
and product quality improvement, to present their research and get
detailed feedback and advice.

The goal of the Doctoral Symposium is to provide students with useful
guidance and feedback for the successful completion of their
dissertation from established scholars and other PhD attendees. The
doctoral symposium will also help participants to establish a new
research and social network of their peers in this field, in particular,
between the promising young researchers and senior members of the
community.

It will provide PhD students with an opportunity to present and to
discuss their research with senior researchers acting as mentors in a
constructive and friendly atmosphere. The PhD Symposium has the same
scope as the main PROFES 2014 conference.

SUBMISSIONS AND EVALUATION

To participate, please submit a research proposal or plan of no more
than 5 pages, PDF format according to Springer LNCS formatting
guidelines (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0),
through Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=profes2016).

Research proposals should include the following information:

-   Title
-   Your name and contact information
-   Your supervisor's name
-   Abstract
-   The research area and sub-area of your work
-   The research problem and its significance
-   A brief literature review, and how the proposed research fits in
    within existing research in the field
-   Description of the proposed research methodology
-   Results achieved so far (if any)
-   Future research agenda

Submissions will be assessed by the Doctoral Symposium Committee using
the following criteria:

1.  Quality of the research proposal, which should include a clear and
    concise statement of the research questions or problem being
    addressed, and its importance
2.  Discussion of the related work, and how your research will
    contribute to the field
3.  Relevance of your submission to the symposium
4.  Quality of the references cited
5.  Quality of the presentation

The reviewers will take into account students' current research stage
when assessing submissions.

PRESENTATION AND PUBLICATION OF RESEARCH PROPOSALS

Students are expected to give an oral presentation of their research
proposals during the Doctoral Symposium. In addition, accepted proposals
will be included in the PROFES Proceedings; registration for the
Doctoral Symposium is mandatory in order for accepted proposals to be
included in the Proceedings.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 20, 2016

Inquiries can be directed to the Symposium chairs:
Xiaofeng Wang, University of Bolzano (Xiaofeng dot wang at unibz dot it)
or
John Noll, Lero, the Irish Software Research
Centre (john dot noll at lero dot ie)