CfP: The CAiSE Doctoral Consortium 2009

You are invited to submit a paper to the CAiSE Doctoral Consortium 2009 which will take place June 9-10 in Amsterdam...

CAiSE-DC2009 (CAiSE Doctoral Consortium 2009)

9-10 June 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(held in conjunction with CAiSE09)
(supported by SIKS)

http://caise09.thenetworkinstitute.eu/doctoral.php

The CAiSE Doctoral Consortium 2009 is an international forum for PhD
students working in the areas addressed by the CAiSE conference. The forum
is intended to bring together PhD students and give them the opportunity
to present and discuss their research in a constructively critical
atmosphere. The consortium will operate in a workshop format, giving PhD
students an opportunity to showcase their research and providing them with
feedback from senior international researchers. We particularly encourage
students that are somewhere in the middle of their research to submit to
this workshop.

The goals of the Doctoral Consortium event are
- To provide fruitful feedback and advice to the selected Ph.D. students
on their research thesis.
- To provide the opportunity to meet experts from different backgrounds
working on topics related to the Information Systems Engineering field.
- To interact with other PhD students and stimulate an exchange of ideas
and suggestions among participants.

A CAiSE Doctoral Consortium Faculty panel consisting of prominent
researchers in the field of information systems engineering will actively
reflect on the research work and will contribute to the discussions. The
workshop in Amsterdam will be the 16th Doctoral Consortium of a series
held in conjunction with the CAiSE conferences.

The submitted paper must give a clear description of the PhD work being
conducted by author of the paper, and in particular:
- provide a clear description of the research problem being addressed,
- motivate the proposed research, i.e. state why the research work is
being conducted, and what benefits the research will bring,
- outline the current knowledge of the problem domain, briefly describe
what existing work the research builds upon (citing key papers), and also
briefly describe any existing solutions that have been developed or are
currently being developed (citing key papers),
- present clearly preliminary results and scientific papers from the
research work, and propose a plan of research to complete the research,
- point out the contributions of the applicant to the solution of the
problem, and state in what aspects the suggested solution is different,
new or better as compared to existing approaches to the problem.

However, the paper need not be structured to answer those questions
directly, but may instead follow the format of a standard conference
paper. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee with
respect to overall quality of presentation, the potential for future
impact of the proposed PhD research on the field of Information Systems
Engineering, and the likely benefit to the student of attending the
consortium.

The DC will be organized on June 9 and 10. The arrangement will allow
participants to visit the CAiSE workshops for the same price (apart from
proceedings) and to attend the keynote speech at the first day of the
conference.

Important dates
23rd February 2009 Paper submission deadline
31st March 2009 Notification of acceptance
30th April 2009 Final camera-ready copy of paper
3rd June 2008 Copy of presentation supplied to organizers
9-10 June 2009 Workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Submission Instructions
To apply for participation at the Doctoral Consortium, please submit your
paper via http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caisedc2009
Submissions must be made in PDF format, by the deadline stated, and the
paper must conform to the Springer's LNCS format. The paper is restricted
to 4000 words (approximately 8 pages). Submissions must be single-author,
but the name of the supervisor should also be mentioned within the paper.

PC Co-chairs and Workshop Organizers
Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University
Hans Weigand, University of Tilburg