CAISE 2006 Doctoral Consortium - Paper submission deadline

Call For Papers

The Doctoral Consortium on Advanced Information Systems Engineering is intended to bring together Ph.D. students within the information systems engineering field to discuss their research in an international forum.

The CAiSE*06 Doctoral Consortium will be accompanied by prominent professors in the field of information systems which will actively participate and contribute to the discussions. The workshop lasts one day (6 June 2006) and about 10 - 15 Ph.D. students will have the possibility to participate.

Aims & Objectives

The CAiSE Doctoral Consortium aims to support the research done by doctoral students with constructive remarks and feedback from prominent scientists in the information systems field. It will be rounded off by a discussion of general questions related to Ph.D. research. More precisely, the following points are approached:

-problem formulation,
-analysis and evaluation of the state of the Ph.D. thesis,
-research methodology, including underlying principles of the approach,
-utility of the approach, as well as validation of the results,
-critical evaluation of one's own work, including identification of the target audience and beneficiaries of a thesis,
-validation techniques (e.g. prototyping, field experiment),
- definition of the innovative contribution of a thesis to the existing state of the art.

Workshop Topics

The topics for submissions are solicited include (but are not limited to):

-Methodologies and Models for IS
-Requirements Engineering for IS
-Infrastructure for Internet Business Models
-Data Warehousing & OLAP
-E-government
-Information Quality
-Privacy and Security
-Web Content Management and Distribution
-Workflow Systems, Knowledge Management
-Metadata and Ontologies
-Support for Cooperative Work
-Novel Database Technologies
-Distributed and Mobile Architectures
-OO and Agent-Oriented Technologies and their Applications to IS Development
-Aspect-oriented sofwtare development
-XML and IS
-Languages and Protocols for IS
-Component-Ware and IS
-IS Reengineering
-Advanced Application Domains
-IS Usability
-Interfaces to IS
-Validation and Evaluation of IS Models
-Web Services
-Mobile Commerce Systems
-Semantic Web

IMPORTANT DATES

Final deadline for submission: February 15th, 2006
Notification of acceptance: March 15th, 2006
Camera-ready paper due: May 2nd, 2006
Doctoral Consortium: June 6th, 2006
CAiSE*05: June 5-9th, 2006

SUBMISSION PROCESS

1) What to submit: different from other papers, this paper addresses specifically the Ph.D. thesis. To apply for participation at the Doctoral Consortium, please send a short paper of your doctoral work to the contact address of the workshop organizer (pcampos@uma.pt).

The short paper is restricted to 4000 words (approximately 8 pages).

Submissions must be electronically in postscript or pdf format by the deadline stated.
The homepage of the Doctoral Consortium can be found at
http://dme.uma.pt/caise06dc

2) Submission format and rules: the abstract should
-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 being applied,
-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.

Submitted papers will be reviewed by the previous year's based on originality, significance, technical soundness, accuracy, and clarity.

Admission is limited to 10-15 Ph.D. students.

3) Review process: accepted papers will be published as workshop proceedings and made available on the World Wide Web.

4) Registration: the participants of the doctoral consortium are strongly encouraged to also register for and attend the main conference.