[AISWorld] Call for Papers to Doctoral Consortium of BIR 2018 - 17th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, Stockholm, Sweden

[Lazar Rusu]

*Call for Papers to Doctoral Consortium of BIR 2018 - 17th International 
Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, Stockholm, 
Sweden*

BIR 2018 invites papers for Doctoral Consortium 
(http://bir2018.dsv.su.se/doctoral-consortium) related to the BIR topics 
(http://bir2018.dsv.su.se/call-for-papers) 
<http://bir2018.dsv.su.se/call-for-papers>.

*The BIR 2018 - Doctoral Consortium will be held on 24 September, 2018 
at Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV), Stockholm 
University. *

The Doctoral Consortium is intended to be a forum for researchers that 
are doctoral students with the purpose to present their research work. 
The participants in the Doctoral Consortium will have the opportunity to 
present their papers, engage in discussions with the faculty members and 
receive feedback from them in order to improve their research work. 
Moreover the participants in the Doctoral Consortium will have the 
opportunity to identify research issues that are related to their 
research interest and exchange knowledge with other doctoral students.

*Important dates:*

Deadline for papers submission (in pdf format): 15 June 2018 extended to 
30 June 2018

Notification of papers acceptance: 10 August 2018

Camera ready of the papers: 10 September 2018

*Doctoral Consortium – Papers Selection *

All the papers submitted to the Doctoral Consortium will be reviewed by 
two faculty members that are senior researchers in business informatics 
area. The papers will be evaluated based on the following criteria: 
relevance, originality, appropriate research methodology, research 
contribution, and clarity. The accepted papers at the doctoral 
consortium will be presented and discussed with the faculty 
members. After the acceptance, the authors will be invited to revise 
their papers based on the feedback received from the reviewers of the 
Doctoral Consortium and resubmit it for publication in the CEUR-WS 
proceedings.

*Submission Format and Publication*

The papers to the Doctoral Consortium should be submitted via the 
following EasyChair web page: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bir20180and selecting "*BIR 2018 
DC*". We welcome to receive full papers (12 pages) or short papers (6 
pages) that should be prepared using the Springer guidelines and the 
template available at this link: 
http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines 
<http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines>The 
proceedings of the BIR 2018 doctoral consortium and workshops are 
intended to be published together as one volume in CEUR-WS.org series 
(http://ceur-ws.org <http://ceur-ws.org/>).

*Doctoral Consortium Chairs *

Lazar Rusu, Stockholm University, Sweden

Doina Danaiata, West University of Timisoara, Romania

*Doctoral Consortium Faculty Members*

Björn Johansson, Lund University, Sweden

Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia

Anne Persson, University of Skövde, Sweden

Gianluigi Viscusi, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland