[AISWorld] CFP: Doctoral Consortium at the 13th International Conference on Open Source Systems

[Kevin Crowston]

Doctoral Consortium at the 13th International Conference on Open Source Systems – DC at OSS 2017 

- Abstracts due: February 20, 2017 
- Submissions due: February 24, 2017 
- Author notification: March 29, 2017 
- Camera-ready copy due: May 1, 2017 
- Consortium: May 22-23, 2017 

http://oss2017.lifia.info.unlp.edu.ar/blog/index.php/doctoral-consortium 

Come join us on beautiful Buenos Aires, Argentina, to participate in the world's most important academic conference on Free and Open Source Software! 

# Goal 

The goal of the doctoral consortium 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. 

# Scope 

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. 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. 

# Acceptance 

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. 

# NSF Travel Support 

A grant from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) will support travel for a few US-based students to attend the doctoral consortium. Selection will be based on the reviews of the submitted proposal. Applications from members of underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged. 

# Organizing chairs 

- Imed Hammouda, Chalmers and University of Gothenburg, Sweden 
- Gregory R. Madey, University of Notre Dame, USA