- From: Antonia Albani <antonia.albani@wiwi.uni-augsburg.de>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:51:35 +0200
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==================================================================== We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS "2nd Ph.D. Student Symposium" http://www.starlab.vub.ac.be/events/OTM05PhD/ ***** extended deadline: 01/07/2005 ***** 30-31 Oct 2005 Agia Napa, Cyprus In conjunction with On The Move Federated Conferences (OTM'05) http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/ Proceedings published by Springer LNCS ==================================================================== OVERVIEW -------- The Ph.D. Student Symposium of the federated conferences is intended to bring together Ph.D. students within the subjects of the OTM community and give them the opportunity to present and to discuss their research in a constructive and international atmosphere. The OTM'05 Ph.D. Student Symposium will be accompanied by prominent professors in the field of information systems which will actively participate and contribute to the discussions. The workshop in Agia Napa, Cyprus, will be the 2nd Ph.D. Student Symposium held in conjunction with the OTM conference from 30 - 31 October 2005. Workshop language is english. AIMS & OBJECTIVES ----------------- Aim of the OTM Ph.D. Student Symposium is to support the research done by doctoral students with constructive remarks and feedback from prominent scientists in the information systems field. The Ph.D. Student Symposium will be rounded off by a discussion of general questions related to Ph.D. research. They include, but are not limited to, the following aspects: * problem formulation, * analysis and evaluation of the state of the Ph.D. thesis, * research methodology, including o underlying principles of the approach, o utility of the approach, as well as o validation of the results. * critical evaluation of one's own work, including o identification of the target audience and beneficiaries of a thesis, o validation techniques (such as prototyping, field experiment, or argumentation), * definition of the innovative contribution of a thesis to the existing state of the art. Additionally keynote speakers will address general purpose issues, related to Ph.D. research and life in academia afterwards. SYMPOSIUM TOPICS ---------------- The OTM Ph.D. Student Symposium deals with the topics of the main conference. The general areas addressed but are not restricted to * Distributed Objects and Applications * Management of Semantically-Expressive Information * Applications, Evaluations, and Experiences * Business Process Management * Software and information services for CIS * Agent technologies, systems and architectures for CIS * CIS applications and modeling An extensive list of topics can be found at http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/ SUBMISSIONS ----------- To apply for participation at the Ph.D. Student Symposium, please provide an electronic version of your paper regarding your doctoral work to the cyberchair web page (http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/phd/2005/papers). The paper is restricted to 10 pages. Submissions may be handed in electronically Postscript, PDF or MS Word format. Different from other papers, this paper addresses specifically the Ph.D. student thesis! The paper should * have the PhD student as single author (by preference), or as first author with his/her (main) promoter as second author * clearly formulate the research question, * identify the significant problems in the field of research, * outline the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the state of existing solutions, * present clearly any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the results achieved so far, * sketch the research methodology that is applied, * point out the contributions of the applicant to the problem solution, and * state in what aspects the suggested solution is different, new or better as compared to existing approaches to the problem. Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, correctness, and clarity. Admission is limited to 10 - 14 Ph.D. students. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. ANNOUNCEMENT OF PROCEEDINGS --------------------------- Accepted workshop contributions will be published by Springer-Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) as a part of the workshop proceedings of the 2005 International On The Move Federated Conferences (OTM). Author instructions and style sheets can be found at the Springer site (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------ Deadline intention submission: July 1, 2005 Deadline for submission: July 1, 2005 Notification of acceptance: July 29, 2005 Camera-ready paper due: August 20, 2005 Ph.D. Student Symposium: October 30 - 31, 2005 OTM'05: October 3h - November 4, 2005 ACCOMPANYING PROFESSORS ----------------------- Sonia Bergamaschi DataBase Group Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy Jaime Delgado Distributed Multimedia Applications Group (DMAG) Universitat Pompeu, Spain Jan L. G. Dietz Department of Information Systems Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Werner Nutt School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, U.K. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ------------------- Antonia Albani (antonia.albani@wiwi.uni-augsburg.de) Business Information Systems and Systems Engineering University of Augsburg, Germany Peter Spyns (peter.spyns@vub.ac.be) Semantics Technology and Applications Research Laboratory Free University of Brussels, Belgium Johannes Maria Zaha (johannes.maria.zaha@wiwi.uni-augsburg.de) Business Information Systems and Systems Engineering University of Augsburg, Germany
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