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================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS "5th OnTheMove Academy Doctoral Consortium" (SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED) http://vsis-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/otm2008phd/ 09-10 November 2008 Monterrey, Mexico In conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences and Workshops http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/ Proceedings published by Springer LNCS ================================================================== OVERVIEW -------- The OnTheMove Academy Doctoral Consortium offers doctoral (Ph.D.) students within the subject area of the OnTheMove community the opportunity to present and to discuss their research in a constructive and international atmosphere, and to get feedback from prominent scholars. Each student gets a slot of 60 minutes. The language is English. The 5th OnTheMove Academy Doctoral Consortium will be accompanied by prominent professors in the field of information systems who will study the papers in advance and actively participate in the discussions. GOAL & OBJECTIVES ----------------- The goal of the OnTheMove Academy Doctoral Consortium is to support the participating doctoral students with constructive remarks and feedback on the presented research from prominent scientists in the information systems field. The OnTheMove Academy Doctoral Consortium will be kicked off and rounded off by a discussion of general questions related to Ph.D. research. They include the following aspects: * problem formulation, * problem analysis, * research methodology,. * writing a thesis, * evaluating the innovative contribution of a thesis, * academic careers. OnTheMove ACADEMY DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM TOPICS -------------------------------------------- The OnTheMove Academy Doctoral Consortium deals with the topics of the main conference. The general areas addressed are: * Distributed Objects and Applications * Information Management * Applications, Evaluations, and Experiences * Business Process Management * Software Services * Agent technologies and systems * Cooperative Information Systems An extensive list of topics can be found at http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/ SUBMISSIONS ----------- To apply for participation at the OnTheMove Academy Doctoral Consortium, 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/2008/papers ). The paper is restricted to 10 pages. Submissions may be handed in electronically in Postscript, PDF or MS Word format. The paper must specifically address the doctoral student’s thesis! Therefore, the paper should * have the PhD student as single author (by preference), or as first author with his/her (main) promoter as second author, * 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 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 14 doctoral students. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. To facilitate participation at the conference, PhD students will enjoy a reduced registration fee that will give them free access to all OnTheMove conferences and workshops. 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 2008 International OnTheMove Federated Conferences. Author instructions and style sheets can be found at the Springer site (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Deadline for abstract submission: July 7, 2008 (EXTENDED) Deadline for paper submission: July 7, 2008 (EXTENDED) Notification of acceptance: August 15, 2008 Camera-ready paper due: August 25, 2008 Doctoral Consortium: November 09 - 10, 2008 OnTheMove'08 Conferences: November 09 - 14, 2008 DEAN OF THE OnTheMove ACADEMY ----------------------------- Jan Dietz Information Systems Design Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands ACCOMPANYING PROFESSORS ----------------------- Johann Eder Department of Computer Science University of Vienna, Austria *** to be completed *** ADDITIONAL REVIEWERS -------------------- Jaime Delgado Distributed Multimedia Applications Group (DMAG) Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Marlon Dumas Institute of Computer Science University of Tartu, Estonia Jörg Müller Mobile and Enterprise Computing Lab (MECL) Clausthal University of Technology, Germany Hans Mulder Management Information Systems Department University of Antwerp, Belgium *** to be completed *** WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ------------------- Antonia Albani (a.albani@tudelft.nl) Information Systems Design Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Johannes Maria Zaha (zaha@sse.uni-due.de) Software Systems Engineering University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Sonja Zaplata (zaplata@informatik.uni-hamburg.de) Distributed Systems and Information Systems University of Hamburg, Germany
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