Call for ICSE 2003 Doctoral Symposium

INTRODUCTION

The Doctoral Symposium is a forum for Ph.D. students to publicly discuss their research goals, methods, and results at an early stage in their research. The Symposium aims to provide useful guidance for completion of the dissertation research and initiation of a research career. The Symposium and ICSE will also provide an opportunity for student participants to interact with established researchers and others in the wider software engineering community.

Participants who present their work at the Symposium will be offered support in the form of complementary admission to the Symposium and to ICSE. Additional support may be provided depending on available resources.

DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE

Dick Hamlet Portland State University USA (Symposium Co-chair)
Mary Lou Soffa University of Pittsburgh USA (Symposium Co-chair)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE

10 January 2003

WHO SHOULD SUBMIT?

Students should consider participating in the Doctoral Symposium at least six months before completion of their dissertations, but after having settled on a research area or dissertation topic.

REVIEW PROCESS

Each prospective student participant will submit a package of materials for consideration by the Symposium Committee. The Committee will select participants using the following criteria:

SUBMISSIONS

To apply as a student participant in the Doctoral Symposium, prepare a submission package consisting of three parts listed below. Each part must be submitted electronically by the submission deadline.

Part 1: GENERAL INFORMATION

  1. Name of student participant
  2. Name of dissertation advisor
  3. University and department
  4. Full mailing address, including country and postal code
  5. Telephone
  6. Fax
  7. Electronic mail address
  8. Electronic mail address of dissertation advisor
  9. Universal resource locator (URL), if available
  10. Related submissions (e.g., if you are also submitting a technical paper to ICSE)
  11. Brief description of research topic (25 words or less)
  12. 2 to 5 keywords and phrases
E-mail in plain ASCII, no markup, to: hamlet@cs.pdx.edu with the subject line: ``Doctoral Symposium Application''.

Part 2: RESEARCH ABSTRACT

(See FORMAT description below.)

The research abstract should include:

Students at relatively early stages of their research will have some difficulty addressing some of these areas. Nonetheless, each prospective student participant should address them as well as possible.

Part 3: LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION

Ask your dissertation advisor to e-mail (plain ASCII text, no markup) a letter of recommendation to hamlet@cs.pdx.edu. The subject line should be: ``Recommendation for XXX'', where XXX is your name. The letter should include an assessment of the current status of your dissertation research and an expected date for dissertation submission.

FORMAT OF RESEARCH ABSTRACT

Research abstracts should be 3-5 pages long, and may be submitted in any of the following formats (in order of preference):

Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)
Plain ASCII text with no markup
HTML 3.0 or lower, no images
Level 2 PostScript, with all fonts included except Times and Symbol
Typeset abstracts should be set in 12-point type on a 14-point baseline, with 1-inch margins on all sides. Page size letter is preferred to A4. For plain text, line length should be limited to 80 characters. E-mail to hamlet@cs.pdx.edu, with the subject line: ``Doctoral Symposium Abstract''. PDF and PostScript files should be sent uuencoded to prevent corruption by mail handlers.

UPON ACCEPTANCE

Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent by e-mail. 

Final versions of research abstracts will be included in a Symposium Proceedings to be distributed to all participants.

Participants selected for the Doctoral Symposium will later be asked to prepare a short description of their research for the published ICSE Proceedings.

GROUND RULES

Important Dates

Submissions Due 10 January 2003
Notification 7 February 2003
Final Summaries Due 3 March 2003
Final Abstracts Due 11 April 2003

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Dick Hamlet
Department of Computer Science
Portland State University
Box 751
Portland, OR 97297 USA
Tel: (503) 725-3216
Fax: (503) 725-3211
Email: <hamlet@cs.pdx.edu>
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