Dear Colleagues,<br><br>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....<br><br>Apologies for cross posting.<br><div class="gmail_quote">-- <br>Dr. U. Yeliz Eseryel<br>Assistant Professor, University of Groningen<br>Faculty of Economics and Business<br><a href="http://yeliz.eseryel.com">http://yeliz.eseryel.com</a><br>
<br>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br><br> CALL FOR PAPERS <br><br> FOR THE <br> <br> DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM <br><br> at the 8th International Conference on<br> Open Source Systems OSS2012<br>
<br>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br><br>Goal and Scope<br>--------------<br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br><br>Important Dates<br>---------------<br>6 April 2012 submission due<br>18 May 2012 decision back to authors<br>10 September 2012 doctoral consortium presentations <br>26 October 2012 revised papers due<br>
9 November 2012 doctoral consortium proceedings online<br><br><br>Submission<br>----------<br>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.<br>
<br>NOTE: <br><br>The Doctoral Consortium submissions will be handled separately from the main conference. <br><br>Submissions should be emailed to <a href="mailto:oss2012dc@gmail.com" target="_blank">oss2012dc@gmail.com</a> with the subject line "OSS 2012 Doctoral Consortium Submission." <br>
<br>Acceptance<br>----------<br>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. <br>
<br>Travel funding fellowships<br>__________________________<br><br>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. <br>
<br><br>Organizing Chairs<br>--------------------------<br>Cornelia Boldyreff, University of East London, UK, <a href="mailto:c.boldyreff@uel.ac.uk" target="_blank">c.boldyreff@uel.ac.uk</a><br>U. Yeliz Eseryel, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, <a href="mailto:yeliz@eseryel.com" target="_blank">yeliz@eseryel.com</a><br>
Charles Knutson, Brigham Young University, USA, <a href="mailto:cdknutson@gmail.com" target="_blank">cdknutson@gmail.com</a> <br>Charlie Schweik, University of Massachusetts, USA, <a href="mailto:cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu" target="_blank">cschweik@pubpol.umass.edu</a><br>
Klaas-Jan Stol, Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland, <a href="mailto:klaas-jan.stol@lero.ie" target="_blank">klaas-jan.stol@lero.ie</a><br><br><br>Questions? <br>-------<br>Please see the website for further details: <a href="http://www.oss2012.org" target="_blank">www.oss2012.org</a> or email any of the organizing chairs above. <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><br clear="all">
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