Call for Doctoral Symposium Submissions

The RE'07 Doctoral Symposium is a one-day workshop to be held immediately before the main conference.

Goal

The Doctoral Symposium is intended to bring together PhD students working on foundations, techniques, tools and applications of requirements engineering and give them the opportunity to present and discuss their research in a constructive and international atmosphere. The goals of the Symposium are:

Provide a setting for constructive feedback on participants' current research and guidance on future research directions,
Develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research
Provide an opportunity for students to interact with established researchers and others in the requirements engineering community.

Organization

Selected students will present their work and receive constructive feedback both from a panel of experts and from other Doctoral Symposium students. The students will also have the opportunity to seek advice on various aspects of completing a PhD and performing research in requirements engineering.
The proceedings of the Doctoral Symposium will be published in the adjunct RE'07 conference proceedings.

Who should participate

Student participants should consider participating in the Doctoral Symposium at least six months before completion of their dissertation to receive feedback on completed work, or earlier when they have settled on a research area or thesis topic to gain advice on shaping the thesis direction, and feedback on preliminary results.

Review process

Each prospective student participant will submit a package of materials for consideration. The participants will be selected on the basis of their anticipated contribution and the potential benefit to the student. Among the criteria that will be considered in reviewing submissions are

the potential quality of the research and its relevance to requirements engineering,
the stage of the research (see the Section "Who should participate" above),
the diversity of background, research topic, and approach.

How to submit

Each submission consists of two elements:

You have to submit a short paper (2-3 pages up to 1500 words maximum ) describing your dissertation research.
An expectation and benefits statement (1 page, 500 words maximum) describing what advice you like to receive and the benefits you expect to gain from attending the doctoral consortium. You should seek your supervisor’s guidance when preparing this statement.

Your paper should clearly state:

The problem to be solved in your thesis (justify why this problem is important and make clear that previous research has not yet solved that problem),
Your research hypothesis (claim),
The expected contributions of your dissertation research,
Summary of results (if appropriate)
How you plan to evaluate your results and present credible evidence of your results to the community.

Please send your submission as an email attachement (PDF preferred) to doc-consortium-re07@manchester.ac.uk

The submission deadline is May 11, 2007.

Faculty panel

Dan Berry, Univ of Waterloo, Canada (Chair)
Julio Leite, PUC, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
Colette Rolland, Univ Of Paris I, France
Kevin Ryan, Univ of Limerick, Ireland

Important dates

May 11, 2007	Deadline for submissions (firm)
June 11, 2007	Notification of Acceptance
July 2, 2007	Camera-ready copy of paper due
October 15, 2007	RE07 Doctoral Symposium

More Information

For more information contact the Doctoral Consortium Chairs.