This symposium aims to provide the always-required
cross-fertilization of ideas and experiences among students in the
field covered by the three joint conferences. The symposium also
helps participants to establish a new research and social network of
their peers in the field of their research. It is another way for
PhD students to actively participate in three major conferences at
the same time.
The symposium is actually organized around two events:
A doctoral symposium for PhD students that have already
developed solutions
A PhD student workshop for early PhD students
Accepted papers will be published online and authors will retain
copyright.
Scope
The technical scope of the doctoral symposium and PhD student
workshop is the conjunction of ECMFA, ECOOP and ECSA 2013 scopes,
with themes such as languages, modelling, processes, environments
and tools, methods and programming/modelling paradigms, execution,
concurrent parallel and distributed systems, evolution, analysis
validation and verification.
Selection Process
Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the
program committee using the following criteria:
Technical quality of the submission, e.g., clarity,
precision and adequacy of the problem statement, related work,
self-contained solution description, expected results and their
evaluation plan.
Overall quality, including originality of the submission,
novelty of the research approach, and relevance to one of the three
conferences. Important Dates
Abstract/Paper and Letter of Recommendation Submission: April 18, 2013, 11:59pm American Samoa time
(extended, firm)
Notification of decision on papers: May 17,
2013 (extended)
Camera-ready paper due: May 23, 2013
(extended)
Doctoral Symposium: July 1-2, 2013 (afternoon of 1st, morning of
2nd) Doctoral Symposium
The goal of the doctoral symposium session is to provide PhD
students with useful feedback towards the successful completion of
their dissertation research. Students will be able to present their
research goal, methods and preliminary results.
Each student is assigned an academic panel, based on the specifics
of that student's research. The student will give a presentation of
15-20 minutes (exact time will be announced later), followed by
15-20 minutes of questions and feedback. The experience is meant to
mimic a "mini-"defence interview. Aside from the actual feedback,
this helps the student gain familiarity with the style and mechanics
of such an interview.
To participate, the students should be far enough in their research
to be able to present:
the importance of the problem,
a clear research proposal,
some preliminary work/results,
an evaluation plan.
The students should still have at least 6 months before defending
their dissertation.
To participate, please submit in the Doctoral Symposium category at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=e3-2013ds
a 3-4 page abstract in the llncs format.
a letter from your advisor. This letter should include an
assessment of the current status of your dissertation research and
an expected date for dissertation submission. The recommendation
letter should be submitted directly by the advisors (on the specific
Advisor category) and should include the submission number of the
paper.
The abstract should focus on the following:
1. problem description:
what is the problem?
what is the significance of this problem?
why the current state of the art can not solve this
problem?
2. goal statement:
what is the goal of your research?
what artefacts (tools, theories, methods) will be produced,
and how do they address the stated problem? How are the artefacts
going to help reach the stated goal?
3. method:
what experiments, prototypes, or studies need to be
produced/executed?
what is the validation strategy? How will it demonstrate
that the goal was reached?
Note that this is not a typical technical paper
submission, and that the focus is not on technical details, but
rather on research method.
PhD Students Workshop
This session is addressed primarily to PhD students in the early
stages of their PhD work. The goal is to allow participants to
present their research ideas and obtain feedback from the audience
including domain experts. Each participant will give a 10-15 minute
presentation, followed by 10-15 minutes of discussions (exact times
will be announced later).
To participate, please submit to the PhD Students category at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=e3-2013ds
6-10 page position paper in the llncs format, presenting
your idea or current work;
a support letter from your advisor. The recommendation
letter should be submitted directly by the advisors (on the specific
Advisor category) and should include the submission number of the
paper.
The position paper should contain (at least):
a problem description;
a detailed sketch of a proposed approach;
related work.
As this is earlier-stage research, it is not necessary to have
concrete results from this research presented in the paper. Instead,
the goal of the paper is to inform the reader of a (well-motivated)
problem and to present a high level (possible) solution.
Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs
Mireille Blay-Fornarino and Philippe Collet, Universitι Nice Sophia
Antipolis France
Scientific Committee
Alexandre Bergel,
University of Chile Chile
Ekkart Kindler, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Compute
Denmark
Patricia Lago, VU University Amsterdam Netherlands
Claudia Raibulet, University of Milano-Bicocca Italy
Arend Rensink, University of Twente Netherlands
Daniel Varrσ, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Hungary
To be extended