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The OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium is a workshop specifically aimed at Ph.D. students at any stage in their thesis.
The OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium offers doctoral (Ph.D.) students within the subject area of the OTM 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 OTM'07 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.
The event will be held in conjunction with On The Move Federated Conferences and Workshops (OTM'07)
25 - 26 November 2007
Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal
The web page of 4th OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium is
http://iwi.uni-sb.de/data/otm2007phd/index.htm
OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium Topics The OTM 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 OTM 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/dc/2007/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 OTM conferences and workshops. Important Dates
- Deadline for abstract submission: July 14, 2007
- Deadline for paper submission: July 22, 2007
- Notification of acceptance: September 1, 2007
- Camera-ready paper due: September 10, 2007
- Doctoral Consortium: November 25 - 26, 2007
- OTM'07 Conferences: November 25 - 30, 2007
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