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ACM UMAP 2021: Second Call for Doctoral Consortium
Important Dates
• Paper Submission: March 9, 2021
• Notification to authors: March 31, 2021
• Camera ready submission: April 11, 2021
• ACM UMAP 2021 conference: June 21-25, 2021
• ACM UMAP 2021 DC Session: TBD, 2021
Note: The submissions times are 11:59 PM AoE time (Anywhere on
Earth)
ACM UMAP 2021 is the premier international conference on systems
that adapt to users and user models for adaptation. It includes a
Doctoral Consortium (DC) Session. The DC provides an opportunity
for doctoral students to explore and develop their research
interests under the guidance of distinguished researchers from the
field. Doctoral students are invited to apply to present their
research to experienced scholars who will provide constructive
feedback and advice.
Students are expected to document in a brief submission their
doctoral research (see below described submission information for
further details), which will be evaluated by the consortium
committee. Good quality applications will be selected for
presentation at a Doctoral Consortium Session as part of the
conference. Promising, but less well- developed applications will
be selected for presentation at a poster session. Each student
with an accepted submission will be assigned a mentor who will
provide feedback on the student’s work and will discuss the
doctoral research with the student and the audience at the
consortium.
How to Submit to the Doctoral Consortium
To apply for the ACM UMAP 2021 doctoral consortium, students
should submit a paper presenting their doctoral research organized
under the following headings:
• Research Problem. The problem being addressed and a motivation
outlining the relevance of the problem;
• Related Work. Work already performed by other researchers
related to this problem. This should situate your work, showing
your knowledge of the relevant previous work and how your work
will make a new contribution;
• Research Questions and Proposed Approach. The main questions the
PhD project aims to answer, contributions it aims to achieve, and
the thesis methodology;
• Progress to Date and Future Work. The progress made to date
(including a clear description of the approach, methodology and
preliminary results) as well as the plan for further research.
Topics include (but are not limited to) the ACM UMAP 2021 key
areas.
Each DC submission should cover: identification of related (state
of the art) work, indication of the potential innovation,
application or advancement of the state-of-the-art that the work
intends to achieve. In addition, as appropriate for the PhD
project, each submission may cover: indication of data to be used
for experimentation, indication of implementation approach,
indication of evaluation criteria and experimental design.
Each DC paper submission should be accompanied by a cover page
that states: the paper title, name of the PhD candidate, the name
of his/her supervisor(s) and University, a paragraph describing
the stage they are in the PhD programme, together with a brief
description of their background. This will enable the committee to
adapt its assistance to each student. The DC will be most useful
to students who have completed enough of their thesis work to have
a solid foundation with a clear topic and literature review but
the student should be early enough in their studies to still
benefit from guidance and advice.
Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair submission system
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmumap2021 by selecting
the “UMAP 2021 Doctoral Consortium” track.
Papers will be reviewed single-blind and do not need to be
anonymized before submission.
Submissions should be a single pdf document consisting of 1 cover
page and the paper (up to 7 pages long + references) in the new
ACM single-column style.
Papers must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM
publications.
The templates and instructions are available here:
https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow .
Authors should submit their papers as single-column. The templates
are available here (we strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX for
the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting):
• LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart}
in the sample-authordraft.tex file for single-column):
https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-template/acmart-master.zip
• Overleaf (use\documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart}
for single-column):
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-master-template/pnrfvrrdbfwt
• MS Word:
https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submission_template.docx
NB: Accepted papers will require a further revision in order to
meet the requirements and page limits of the camera-ready format
required by ACM. Instructions for the preparation of the
camera-ready versions of the papers will be provided after
acceptance.
ACM UMAP Proceedings
The accepted ACM UMAP 2021 Doctoral Consortium papers will be
included in the Conference Proceedings, which will be published by
ACM and that will be available via the ACM Digital Library. The
main author (doctoral student) must register for the conference
and present the paper for the paper to be included in the
proceedings.
Financial Support
ACM UMAP has a history of supporting students to attend. Authors
of submissions to the DC will have higher priority for UMAP grant
applications.
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
• Noemi Mauro, University of Torino, Italy
• Stephan Weibelzahl, PFH Private University of Applied Sciences
Göttingen, Germany
email: umap2021-dc AT um.org
<http://um.org/>
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