Important Dates for Doctoral Symposium
| Deadline for submissions: | August 11, 2006 |
| Notification of Acceptance: | September 20, 2006 |
| Symposium presentations: | November 6, 2006 |
Goal and Scope
The Doctoral Symposium aims to create a forum for PhD students working on foundations, techniques, methods and tools in software engineering. It will provide participants with an opportunity to present and to discuss their research with senior researchers of the software engineering community in` a constructive and friendly atmosphere.
Specifically, the symposium aims to:
- Provide a setting whereby students receive feedback on their research and guidance on future directions from the Doctoral Symposium Panel that is composed of senior members of the software engineering research community,
- Foster the creation of a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research, and
- Contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers at the main conference.
The Doctoral Symposium is intended for students who have not yet completed their dissertation research and do not expect to write up their dissertation before the conference.
In addition to scientific matters, students will have the opportunity to seek advice on various aspects of completing a PhD and performing research as a young professional in software engineering.
The Doctoral Symposium has the same scope of technical topics as the main FSE conference.
Submissions and Evaluation
To apply for participation at the symposium, you should prepare a submission package consisting of the two parts listed below.
Part 1: Research proposal (4 pages in FSE format) submitted online at http://www.easychair.org/FSE14DS/ and including (not necessarily in this order):
- Your name and contact information (you and dissertation advisor)
- Title of your research
- Research area and sub-area of your work
- Brief description of your research proposal indicating the problem addressed and approach taken (if defined) (25 words or less)
- Description of the research problem and its importance in the field
- Brief survey of background and related work, as well as current solutions/approaches
- Description of the hypothesis that is being investigated
- Detailed description of proposed methodology
- Results achieved so far (if any)
- The expected contributions of your research
- Description of research evaluation methods and your plan to present evidence of contribution to knowledge in the research community
Students at relatively early stages in their research will have some difficulty addressing all these areas in detail; this is understood.
Part 2: Letter of Support (from your research advisor), submitted by email to Daniela Damian.
The letter must include your name and an assessment of the current status of your thesis research and stage in the doctoral program, as well as an expected date for dissertation submission.
Submissions will be reviewed by the Symposium Panel and selected for inclusion in the symposium on the following criteria:
- Quality of the research proposal (research problem, hypothesis and methodology)
- Relevance to conference topics
- Quality of proposal presentation
- Diversity of background, research topic and approach
- Stage of research (students will be selected across a range of research stages)
Doctoral Symposium Panel Members
| Gail Murphy, University of British Columbia, Canada |
| Debra Richardson, University of California, Irvine, USA |
| Laura Dillon, Michigan State University, USA |
| Hausi Muller, University of Victoria, Canada |
| Steve Fickas, University of Oregon, USA |
| Nenad Medvidovic, University of Southern California, USA |
| Steve Easterbrook, University of Toronto, Canada |
Publication and Presentation
The conference proceedings is entirely electronic. A CD (separate from the main program, but distributed to every participant) will be produced for the posters and doctoral symposium.
Advisors of student presenters will not be allowed to attend their student's presentations.