[Members] CfP: 18th CIAO! Doctoral Consortium to be held in conjunction with the 8th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference 2018 at Luxembourg

[David Aveiro]

Dear CIAO! members,

in case you have not yet received the CfP, here it is:

In conjunction with the Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC 
2018) 
<http://ciaonetwork.org/events/8th-enterprise-engineering-working-conference-eewc-2018>__ 


May 28th 2018, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

What is the CEEN Doctoral Consortium?

The CIAO! Enterprise Engineering (CEEN) Doctoral Consortium is a 
workshop for doctoral students whose research is related to the CIAO! 
And/or _EEWC_ 
<http://ciaonetwork.org/events/current-events/7th-enterprise-engineering-working-conference-eewc-2017> research 
topics at any stage in their thesis. The goal of the Doctoral Consortium 
is to help the doctoral students with their thesis by giving feedback on 
their own research work as well as to give some general advice on making 
the most of their research environment.

The first objective of the CEEN Doctoral Consortium is to encourage 
doctoral students to write, submit and present papers and to help them 
to improve the quality of the papers. The second objective is to be a 
platform for meeting each other as well as for meeting the members of 
the CEEN.

Members of the CEEN Doctoral Consortium Referee Board will accompany the 
workshop. They will study all the papers and comment on the content of 
the thesis as well as on the presentations. The doctoral students will 
have between half to one hour time for their presentations, focusing on 
what the main theme of the thesis is, what has been achieved and how the 
work should continue. Another half to one hour is reserved for 
discussion and feedback from both the members of the referee board and 
the other doctoral students.

Why submit a paper to the CEEN Doctoral Consortium?

When was the last time you were thinking about the state of your 
doctoral thesis? Have you ever written a paper about your doctoral 
thesis for convincing people that what you are doing makes sense and 
that it is different from or better than existing solutions? Have you 
ever explained to someone exactly why you propose your solution?

In writing a paper for the CEEN Doctoral Consortium, you have to think, 
write and convince people about all these points. In return, you will 
receive feedback, guidance and support.

Not only will you learn from the discussions about your own work, but 
also from other doctoral students in action! The best way to learn how 
to present your work may be from seeing both good and bad examples. 
Having said that, the CEEN Doctoral Consortium provides a friendly and 
supportive forum for such experiences.

What should be the content of such a paper? Different from other papers, 
this paper addresses specifically your thesis, that is the thesis, the 
whole thesis and nothing but the thesis. You should answer questions like:

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    What is the problem being addressed in your thesis?

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    What is the solution you are proposing?

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    How does it relate to existing work?

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    What is the state of your thesis?

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    What have you done so far?

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    What are your future plans?

The CEEN Doctoral Consortium will be rounded off by a discussion of 
general questions related to your research. They include, but are not 
limited to, the following aspects:

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    Problem formulation

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    Analysis and evaluation of the state of the doctoral thesis

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    Research methodology

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        Underlying principles of the approach,

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        Utility of the approach

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        Validation of the results

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    Critical evaluation of one’s own work

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        Identification of the target audience and beneficiaries of a thesis

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        Validation techniques (such as prototyping, field experiment, or
        argumentation)

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    Definition of the innovative contribution of a thesis to the
    existing state of the art.

Submissions

To apply for presentation at the CEEN Doctoral Consortium, please submit 
a paper of your doctoral work by uploading it to the Easy Chair System 
_here_ <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ciaodc18>. The papers 
will then be distributed among the members of the referee board in order 
to review them. Submissions must conform to Springer’s LNBIP format and 
should not exceed 15 pages, including all text, figures, references and 
appendices. Information about the Springer LNBIP format can be found at 
_Springer LNBIP Web page_ <http://www.springer.com/series/7911>. In the 
author section of the paper, the first name and affiliation should be of 
the student. The supervisor(s) names and affiliations should follow with 
the respective role (e.g., main supervisor, or co-supervisor) between 
brackets after the name. In the Easy chair system submission only the 
student should be specified as author.

Your submitted paper should

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    clearly formulate the research question,

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    identify the significant problems in the field of research,

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    outline the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the
    state of existing solutions,

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    present clearly any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the
    results achieved so far,

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    sketch the research methodology that is or will be applied,

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    point out the contributions of the applicant to the problem
    solution, and

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    State in what aspects the suggested solution is different, new or
    better as compared to existing approaches to the problem.

Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, correctness, 
and clarity. No more than 6 papers can be accepted for presentation.

Important Dates

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    Deadline for submission:

	

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    May 8, 2018

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    Notification of acceptance:

	

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    May 14, 2018

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    Doctoral Consortium:

	

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    May 28 , 2017


*Doctoral Consortium co-Chairs*

Wided Guédria, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology

Sérgio Guerreiro, University of Lisbon / INESC-ID, Portugal


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