ICSOC 2011 PhD Symposium

 

The 9th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2011)

 

5-8 December 2011, Paphos, Cyprus

 

 

***AIM AND TARGET AUDIENCE***

 

The ICSOC PhD Symposium 2011 is an international forum for PhD students working in all the areas addressed by the ICSOC conference (http://www.icsoc.org). The goals of the ICSOC PhD Symposium are:

 

- To bring together PhD students and established researchers in the field of service oriented computing.

- To enable PhD students to interact with other PhD students and to stimulate an exchange of ideas, suggestions, and experiences among participants.

- To give PhD students the opportunity to present and discuss their research in a constructive and critical atmosphere.

- To provide students with fruitful feedback and advice on their research approach and thesis.

 

We particularly encourage students that are still developing their research methodology or are somewhere in the middle of their research program to submit to this symposium. Only active PhD students are eligible to submit, and topics are restricted to their doctoral work within the scope of the ICSOC conference.

 

The symposium in Paphos, Cyprus will be the 7th PhD Symposium of the series held in conjunction with the ICSOC conferences in San Francisco, USA (2010), Stockholm, Sweden (2009), Sydney, Australia (2008), Vienna, Austria (2007), Chicago, USA (2006), and Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2005).

 

 

***SUBMISSION FORMAT AND PROCEEDINGS***

 

Submitted papers should give a clear description of the PhD work being conducted by the author of the paper. In particular, papers must:

 

- Provide a clear problem statement.

- Outline the research challenges that drive the proposed work.

- Describe the proposed solution, its expected impact, the expected research plan, and – if available – preliminary results.

- Discuss the progress beyond the state of the art of the envisioned research outcome compared to current literature and approaches (cite key papers).

 

Each paper must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and must be at most 6 pages in length (strictly enforced). Submissions must be single-author, and the name of the supervisor(s) must be clearly marked ("supervised by ...") under the author’s name.

 

Papers must be submitted electronically, in PDF format, via the PhD Symposium track in the ICSOC submission system. Accepted papers will be included in the ICSOC 2011 post-conference proceedings of satellite events, to be published by Springer as part of the Service Science series.

 

 

***REVIEW PROCESS AND FORMAT OF THE SYMPOSIUM***

 

Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the PhD Symposium Program Committee. The main evaluation criteria are: relevance to service-oriented computing, potential for impact, quality of proposed research. The selection of papers will be based on these criteria.

 

In order to stimulate the discussion during the symposium, (i) reviewers will be asked to provide one paragraph description of what solution they think suits the described problem and how they would approach the research (in addition to the review); (ii) students accepted for participation will be asked to write their own reviews of two/three other accepted papers. As a feedback on their reviews, students will be granted access to the respective reviews by the Program Committee.

 

The symposium will operate in a workshop format, giving PhD students the opportunity to showcase their research and to assess the solutions proposed by the Program Committee.

 

 

***IMPORTANT DATES***

 

Jul 01, 2011: Paper submission

Jul 30, 2011: Author notification

Aug 15, 2011: Camera-ready submission

 

 

***PHD SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS***

 

Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia

Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland

Sonia Ben Mokhtar, LIRIS, CNRS, France

 

***PROGRAMME COMMITTEE*** (To be confirmed)

Gustavo Alonso, ETHZ, Switzerland

Boualem Benatallah, University of New South Wales, Australia

Djamal Benslimane, University of Lyon, France

Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland

Athman Bouguettaya, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia

Mauro Caporuscio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy

Marlon Dumas, University of Tartu, Estonia

Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA Paris, France

Mohand-Said Hacid, LIRIS, France

Xitong Li, MIT, USA

Kwei-Jay Lin, University of California, Irvine, USA

Pascal Poizat, University of Evry Val d'Essonne, France

David Rosenblum, University College London, UK

Aviv Segev, KAIST, Korea

Stefan Tai, KIT, Germany

Jian Yu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

 

 

***CONTACT INFORMATION***

 

If you have any inquiries, please contact the PhD Symposium chairs at: ps [at] icsoc.org