[AISWorld] CfP - EDOC 2020 Doctoral Consortium (deadline Aug. 7th, 2020)

[Saïd Assar]

24th IEEE EDOC 2020 – The Enterprise Computing Conference

                 http://www.edoc2020.org/

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

The IEEE EDOC 2020 The Doctoral Consortium (DC) is a forum of exchange 
organized to encourage PhD students to present their early work and to 
exchange with other researchers in their fields. Senior researchers will 
provide feedback and advice on the work and advice on managing research 
projects. The Doctoral Consortium is also a place to establish a social 
network with peers in the field of the conference.
The technical scope of the Doctoral Consortium is that of EDOC 2020, as 
described by the list of the topics in the EDOC 2020 call for papers. We 
encourage submissions from PhD students at an early stage of their 
research project, i.e., typically in their first or second year. A 
submission to the DC should clearly describe motivation, goal, expected 
results, and the research approach taken. Participants will be expected 
to actively discuss and argue about their work by reading each other’s 
work prior to the DC, giving a presentation at the Doctoral Consortium, 
debating together, and listening to senior researchers’ feedback.

DC SUBMISSIONS
To participate at the Doctoral Consortium, students should prepare a 
submission package consisting of two parts, (i) a paper and (ii) a 
letter of recommendation:

  (i) The paper (typically 3 to 6 pages) should cover the following aspects:
- The context and goal of the research;
- The scientific problem addressed in the PhD project and its relevance 
to the conference field. Any observation or case study that justifies or 
substantiates the problem should be given. The problem can be further 
specified with research questions and hypotheses;
- Earlier works that have addressed a similar problem. Explanations why 
the problem is not solved (i.e. open issues and controversies) should be 
underlined;
- The scientific method proposed to address the problem at hand ;
- The expected results, and any result that has already been obtained so 
far;
- A plan for the evaluation of results.
All submissions must be made in PDF format and comply with the IEEE 
Computer Society Conference Proceedings Format Guidelines.
Doctoral Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format via the 
EDOC Conference Management system hosted on EasyChair to track EDOC 2020 
Doctoral Consortium.

(ii) The recommendation letter should:
- be submitted directly to the DC chairs
- include the title of the paper, the name of the candidate, the status 
of the dissertation research, and an expected date for the PhD defense.

SELECTION PROCESS
Desk rejects of papers that:
- do not comply with the formatting guidelines,
- are out of scope of the conference themes,
- have been (or are) submitted or published elsewhere,
- include plagiarism.

The Doctoral Consortium Committee will review submissions using the 
following criteria:
- Technical quality, clarity, soundness, precision, and adequacy of the 
problem statement, related work, self-contained and feasible method 
description, realistic expected results, and sensible evaluation plan.
- Overall quality.

PROCEEDINGS
Accepted doctoral papers will be published in the workshop proceedings 
of the IEEE EDOC conference (EDOCW), which will be submitted to the IEEE 
Xplore® digital library.
The PhD student, author of the accepted DC paper, must register for the 
conference and be in attendance to present the paper during the Doctoral 
Consortium.

IMPORTANT DATES
- Doctoral papers submissions: 26 July 2020 7 August 2020
- Doctoral papers acceptance notification: 30 August 2020 7 September 2020
- Doctoral papers camera-ready papers due: 13 September 2020
- Author registration: 13 September 2020
- Doctoral Consortium sessions: 5 October 2020

DC ADVISORY COMMITTEE
- Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany
- Georg Grossmann, University of South Australia, Australia
- Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, The Netherlands

DC CHAIRS
- Said Assar, Institut Mines Telecom Business School, France
- Bernd Neumayr, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

DC PROGRAM COMMITTEE [confirmed members]
- Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany
- Lamiae Benhayoun, IMT-BS, France
- Markus Borg, RISE, Sweden
- Dominik Bork, TU Wien, Austria
- Georg Grossmann, University of South Australia, Australia
- Manuele Kirsch-Pinheiro, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France
- Manfred Jeusfeld, University of Skövde, Sweden
- Andreas L. Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway
- Camille Salinesi, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France
- Dalila Tamzalit, University of Nantes, France
- Thierno Tounkara, IMT-BS, France

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Saïd Assar*, *Professor
Institut Mines-Telecom Business School
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Homepage : http://www-public.imtbs-tsp.eu/~assar/ 
<http://www-public.imtbs-tsp.eu/%7Eassar/>