Doctoral Symposium CFP

Goal

The MoDELS 2007 Doctoral Symposium is a forum for Ph.D. students to discuss their goals, methodology, and results at an early stage in their research, in a critical but supportive and constructive environment. The Symposium aims to provide useful guidance for the completion of the dissertation research and motivation for a research career.

Scope

The technical scope of the Symposium is that of MoDELS. The Symposium will provide an opportunity for student participants to interact with other students at a similar stage in their careers and with established researchers in the broader software modeling community.
The symposium is intended for students who have already settled on a specific research topic (closely related to model-driven engineering) and have obtained initial results, but still have enough time remaining before their final defense so that they can benefit from the Symposium experience. Students should be at least a year from completion of their dissertation (at the time of the Symposium), to obtain maximum benefit from participation.

Symposium Committee

Symposium chair:
Claudia Pons, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina

Selection Committee:
David Akehurst - University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
Thomas Baar - Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne, Switzerland
Jean-Michel Bruel - Université de Pau, France
Maja D’Hondt - Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France
Tom Mens , University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium
Ana Moreira - Universidad Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Ivan Porres - Åbo Akademi University, Findland

Submissions Guidelines
Students desiring to participate in the Symposium must submit an abstract describing their doctoral work. The abstract should be 5 pages in PDF format. It should conform to the Springer LNCS style: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. All submissions must be in English

Submissions should be sent to: models07ds[at]info.unlp.edu.ar. Expected date of graduation should be specified in the submission email.

The research abstract should cover:

The technical problem to be solved with a justification of its importance.
An account of related and prior work explaining why this has not solved the problem.
The research hypothesis or claim.
A sketch of the proposed solution.
The expected contributions of your dissertation research.
Progress in solving the stated problem.
The methods you are using or will use to carry out your research.
A plan for evaluating your work and presenting credible evidence of your results to the research community.

Important Dates
Deadline for submission: May 1, 2007
Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2007
Deadline for Final Version: August 1, 2007

Review and Evaluation Criteria
Submissions will be judged on originality, overall contribution, technical merit, presentation quality and relevance to the conference topics. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two mentors from the Doctoral Symposium Committee. Each student that is invited to attend the symposium will be assigned a specific mentor who will be in charge of leading the discussion after the student's presentation.

Publication and Presentation
Accepted papers will be published on the Doctoral Symposium proceedings and summarized in the "Workshop and Symposia" proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. Students who are invited to attend will be given a 30-minute timeslot with 20 minutes for the presentation about their dissertation topic and 10 minutes for questions and responses.

Travel Support
The organizers are currently investigating the possibilities for travel support.
Please check the Doctoral Symposium web page for announcements of any funding opportunities that may become available.

For more information
For additional information, clarifications, or questions, please contact the Doctoral Symposium chair: Claudia Pons. Email: cpons[at]info.unlp.edu.ar
See the conference website at http://www.modelsconference.org for further details.


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