Call for Doctoral Consortium

The aim of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a framework as part of which students can present their ongoing research work and meet other students and researchers and obtain feedback on lines of research for the future.

The Doctoral Consortium is intended for students who have a specific research proposal and some preliminary results, but who are still far from completing their dissertation.

All proposals submitted to the Doctoral Consortium will undergo a thorough reviewing process with the aim of providing detailed and constructive feedback. The accepted submissions will be presented at the Doctoral Consortium and published in the conference proceedings.

Contributions and publication

The author/s must write a paper formatted according to the LNNS template, with a maximum length of 6 pages. All proposals submitted to the Doctoral Consortium will undergo a thorough reviewing process with the aim to provide detailed and constructive feedback. The accepted submissions will be presented at the Doctoral Consortium and published in the conference proceedings.

The submissions should identify:

Problem statement
Related work
Hypothesis
Proposal
Preliminary Results and/or Evaluation Plan
Reflections

Submission

All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using the DCAI conference management system.

Publication

Accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems.

At least one of the authors will be required to register and attend DCAI to present the paper in order to have it included in the conference proceedings.