ConTEL 2009

Doctoral Symposium

Overview

The ConTEL 2009 Doctoral Symposium is envisioned as an event where PhD students can share their research results and experiences with other students at a similar stage in their work, and get constructive criticism and helpful feedback from established researchers. The prospective participants should have initial results in the specific dissertation research topic, and have enough time – at least a year or so ahead – from completion of their dissertation at the time of the Symposium to get the most benefit from participation.

Symposium format

At the symposium, each presentation will be aloted 30 minutes. The doctoral student will give a presentation of 15-20 minutes (exact time will be announced later and strictly timed), followed by feedback, questions, and open discussion.

The presentation must cover the following issues:

• Problem - What exact problem, issue, or question does this research address?
  
• Motivation - What is the significance of this problem? Why is it worth solving? What limitations or failings of current state-of-the-art understanding, knowledge, methods, or technologies does this research resolve?
  
• Goals - What is the expected outcome? What new understanding, knowledge, methods, or technologies will this research generate? How do they relate to the research problem?
  
• Methodology - What experiments, prototypes, or studies need to be performed? How will they be measured, evaluated and validated? How will they demonstrate that the goal is reached?

Discussion will be moderated by the Doctoral Symposium chair. Each student will be assigned an academic panel, based on the specifics of that student's research, who will provide individual feedback. Aside from that, research issues may be discussed by broader audience (advisors of student presenters will not be allowed to participate in their student's discussion).

Submission process

Paper submissions should use the same paper format as conference paper. Minimum paper length for the papers submitted to the doctoral symposium is 4 pages, and maximum is 8 pages. All other conditions regarding paper format, submission and deadlines apply as set for the main conference.

It should be noted though, that doctoral symposium submission differ from typical technical paper submissions in that the focus is not on technical details, but rather on research method.

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the committee.

Accepted papers in final format, together with (anonymized) reviews will be made available to academic panel members prior to the conference to facilitate better feedback.

Paper submissions must be submitted via EDAS (please select "Doctoral Symposium" in paper category).

Publication

The doctoral symposium papers will be published in a special section as a part of the ConTEL 2009 conference proceedings.

For more information

For additional information, clarification, or questions, please contact the Doctoral Symposium chair, Gordan Ježić, University of Zagreb, Croatia at gordan.jezic@fer.hr

 

Program Committee

TBA.