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The Nineth International Conference on Service Oriented
Computing
Paphos, Cyprus
December 5-8, 2011
2nd CALL FOR PhD SYMPOSIUM CONTRIBUTIONS
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The ICSOC PhD Symposium 2011 is an international forum for
PhD students working in all the areas addressed by the ICSOC
conference. 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 FOMAT 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 to the PhD
Symposium track of the conference 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
Paper submission: July 01, 2011
Author notification: July 30, 2011
Camera-ready submission: August 15, 2011
PHD SYMPOSIUM CHAIS
Michael Q. Sheng, Adelaide University, Australia
Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Sonia Ben Mokhtar, LIRIS, CNRS, France
PROGAMME COMMITTEE
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
Aviv Segev, KAIST, Korea
Jian Yu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have any inquiries, please contact the PhD Symposium
chairs at:
ps@icsoc.org