Doctoral Symposium at the 3rd International Conference on Software Language Engineering
Call for Submissions
October 11, 2010
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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* Goals *
SLE aims to integrate the different sub-communities of the software-language-engineering community to foster cross-fertilisation and strengthen research overall. The Doctoral Symposium at SLE 2010 contributes towards these goals by providing a forum for both early and late-stage PhD students to present their research and get detailed feedback and advice from researchers both in and out of their particular research area.
The main objectives of this event are: * to provide PhD students with an opportunity to write about and present their research, * to provide PhD students with constructive feedback on their work from their peers and from established researchers in their own and in different SLE sub-communities, * to build bridges for potential research collaboration, and * to foster integrated thinking about SLE challenges crossing the boundaries between sub-communities.
The first edition of the Doctoral Symposium will be held in conjunction with SLE 2010 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, on October 11, 2010.
* Event Format *
The Doctoral Symposium is a one-day event consisting of two parts:
1) A Plenary Session in the morning, where selected PhD students give short presentations on their research. The emphasis here is on feedback from fellow PhD students and established researchers in the field and on discussion of the research presented.
2) A Mentoring Session in the afternoon, where students are matched up with one or two established researchers from their own and neighboring sub-communities to receive detailed and specific feedback on their research abstracts.
Additionally, there will be a poster session as part of the main SLE conference. Doctoral-Symposium participants will be invited to present a poster on their research as part of this poster session.
The doctoral symposium will also include a social event in the evening of October 11. Details of this are currently still under negotiation.
* Important Dates *
Deadline for submissions July 12, 2010 Deadline for notifications August 27, 2010 Deadline for revisions September 17, 2010 Doctoral Symposium October 11, 2010
* Submissions *
Submissions are invited from PhD students working on any topic that falls within the SLE conference remit. Students should read the SLE call for papers for more details on topics of interest. Submissions consist of two parts, a research abstract (maximum 4 pages LNCS format plus references) and a letter of recommendation from the student's supervisor.
Research Abstracts should be based on the following outline:
1. Problem Description and Motivation
Describe the problem you are addressing and motivate why this is a relevant research problem.
2. Brief Overview of Related Work
Focus on demonstrating that your work addresses a significant gap in the current research literature.
3. Proposed Solution
Give a high-level overview of your proposed solution to the problem identified in part 1. Describe any hypotheses that you have formulated.
4. Research Method
Describe the research method you are using. In particular: What steps will you undertake to validate your hypotheses?
It is understood that students at different stages of their research will be able to make more or less detailed and stabilised contributions to each of these sections. Therefore, we provide this outline as more of a guide than a strict requirement. Nonetheless, we encourage even early-stage PhD students to consider using this outline.
Letters of recommendation should be provided by the student's supervisor and should include an assessment of the current status of the thesis research and an indication of the expected deadline for thesis submission. In addition, the supervisor should indicate what she/he hopes the student would gain from participation in the Doctoral Symposium.
Research abstracts should be submitted using EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sleds10 . Supervisors should send letters of recommendation by email from their university account directly to sleds10@easychair.org .
Research abstracts will be published as part of the SLE pre-proceedings and will be archived online, most likely at CEUR-WS.org.
* Review of Research Abstracts *
Students submitting research abstracts will also be asked to review the abstracts of two other submitted abstracts (in addition to reviews by the Selection Committee) to gain some experience in the review process.
* Organisation *
Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs:
Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, USA, evw@cs.umn.edu Steffen Zschaler, Lancaster University, UK, szschaler@acm.org
Selection Committee:
Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich, Switzerland Mark van den Brand, Eindhoven University, The Netherlands Jordi Cabot, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Tony Clark, Thames Valley University, UK Charles Consel, LaBRI / INRIA, France James Cordy, Queens University, Canada Dragan Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada Jeff Gray, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Gorel Hedin, Lund University, Sweden Adrian Johnstone, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Paul Klint, CWI, The Netherlands Dimitrios Kolovos, University of York, UK Ivan Kurtev, University of Twente, The Netherlands Ralf Laemmel, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Julia Lawall, DIKU, Denmark Brian Malloy, Clemson University, USA Richard Paige, University of York, UK Joao Saraiva, University of Minho, Portugal Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Jurgen Vinju, CWI, The Netherlands Jos Warmer, Ordina, The Netherlands Jon Whittle, Lancaster University, UK