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Dear CIAO! members,<br>
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in case you have not yet received the CfP, here it is:<br>
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<font color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">In
conjunction with the </font></font></font><a
href="http://ciaonetwork.org/events/8th-enterprise-engineering-working-conference-eewc-2018"><font
face="Arial, serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Enterprise
Engineering Working Conference (EEWC 2018)</font></font></a><font
color="#0e73b8"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><u>
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<font color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">May
28th 2018, Luxembourg, Luxembourg</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Trebuchet MS, serif"><font
style="font-size: 13pt" size="3">What
is the CEEN Doctoral Consortium?</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">The
CIAO! Enterprise Engineering (CEEN) Doctoral Consortium is a
workshop
for doctoral students whose research is related to the CIAO!
And/or </font></font></font><a
href="http://ciaonetwork.org/events/current-events/7th-enterprise-engineering-working-conference-eewc-2017"><font
color="#0e73b8"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><u>EEWC</u></font></font></font></a><font
color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"> 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.</font></font></font></p>
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100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify">
<font color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">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.</font></font></font></p>
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100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify">
<font color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">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.</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.26in; margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height:
0.24in; background: #ffffff">
<font color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Trebuchet MS, serif"><font
style="font-size: 13pt" size="3">Why
submit a paper to the CEEN Doctoral Consortium?</font></font></font></p>
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100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify">
<font color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">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?</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.1in; margin-bottom: 0.16in; line-height:
100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify">
<font color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">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.</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.1in; margin-bottom: 0.16in; line-height:
100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify">
<font color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">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.</font></font></font></p>
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100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify">
<font color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">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:</font></font></font></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height:
100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify"> <font
color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">What is the problem
being addressed in your thesis?</font></font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height:
100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify"> <font
color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">What is the solution
you are proposing?</font></font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height:
100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify"> <font
color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">How does it relate to
existing work?</font></font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height:
100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify"> <font
color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">What is the state of
your thesis?</font></font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height:
100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify"> <font
color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">What have you done so
far?</font></font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0.19in;
line-height: 100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify"> <font
color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">What are your future
plans?</font></font></font></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-top: 0.1in; margin-bottom: 0.16in; line-height:
100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify">
<font color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">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:</font></font></font></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height:
100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify"> <font
color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Problem formulation</font></font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height:
100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify"> <font
color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Analysis and evaluation
of the state of the doctoral thesis</font></font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height:
100%; background: #ffffff"> <font color="#4d4d4f"><font
face="Arial, serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Research
methodology</font></font></font></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0in;
line-height: 100%; background: #ffffff"> <font
color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Underlying
principles of the approach,</font></font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0in;
line-height: 100%; background: #ffffff"> <font
color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Utility of the
approach</font></font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0in;
line-height: 100%; background: #ffffff"> <font
color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Validation of the
results</font></font></font></p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height:
100%; background: #ffffff"> <font color="#4d4d4f"><font
face="Arial, serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Critical
evaluation of one’s own work</font></font></font></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0in;
line-height: 100%; background: #ffffff"><a name="_GoBack"></a>
<font color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Identification of
the target audience and beneficiaries of a thesis</font></font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0in;
line-height: 100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify"> <font
color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Validation
techniques (such as prototyping, field experiment,
or argumentation)</font></font></font></p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0.19in;
line-height: 100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify"> <font
color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Definition of the
innovative contribution of a thesis to the existing
state of the art.</font></font></font></p>
</li>
</ul>
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0.24in; background: #ffffff" align="justify">
<font color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Trebuchet MS, serif"><font
style="font-size: 13pt" size="3">Submissions</font></font></font></p>
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#ffffff" align="justify">
<font color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">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 </font></font></font><a
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ciaodc18"><font
color="#0e73b8"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><u>here</u></font></font></font></a><font
color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">.
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 </font></font></font><a
href="http://www.springer.com/series/7911" target="Opens
external link in new window"><font color="#0e73b8"><font
face="Arial, serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><u>Springer
LNBIP Web page</u></font></font></font></a><font
color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">. 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.</font></font></font></p>
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100%; background: #ffffff">
<font color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Your
submitted paper should</font></font></font></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height:
100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify"> <font
color="#4d4d4f"> <font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">clearly formulate the
research question,</font></font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height:
100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify"> <font
color="#4d4d4f"> <font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">identify the
significant problems in the field of research,</font></font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height:
100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify"> <font
color="#4d4d4f"> <font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">outline the current
knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the state of
existing solutions,</font></font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height:
100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify"> <font
color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">present clearly any
preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the results
achieved so far,</font></font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height:
100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify"> <font
color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">sketch the research
methodology that is or will be applied,</font></font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0in; line-height:
100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify"> <font
color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">point out the
contributions of the applicant to the problem solution,
and</font></font></font></p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; margin-bottom: 0.19in;
line-height: 100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify"> <font
color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">State in what aspects
the suggested solution is different, new or better as
compared to existing approaches to the problem.</font></font></font></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-top: 0.1in; margin-bottom: 0.16in; line-height:
100%; background: #ffffff" align="justify">
<font color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Submissions
will be judged on originality, significance, correctness,
and
clarity. No more than 6 papers can be accepted for
presentation.</font></font></font></p>
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style="font-size: 13pt" size="3">Important
Dates</font></font></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.07in; background: #ffffff"
align="justify"> <font color="#4d4d4f"><font
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size="2">May 8, 2018</font></font></font></p>
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size="2">Notification of acceptance:</font></font></font></p>
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size="2">May 14, 2018</font></font></font></p>
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size="2">Doctoral Consortium:</font></font></font></p>
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align="justify"> <font color="#4d4d4f"><font
face="Arial, serif"><font style="font-size: 10pt"
size="2">May 28 , 2017</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3"><b>Doctoral
Consortium co-Chairs</b></font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2">Wided
Guédria, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology</font></font></font></p>
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<font color="#4d4d4f"><font face="Arial, serif"><font
style="font-size: 10pt" size="2"><span lang="pt-PT">Sérgio
Guerreiro, University of Lisbon / INESC-ID, Portugal</span></font></font></font></p>
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