(DBWORLD) 2nd CfP: CAiSE'98 Doctoral Consortium

Antonia Erni (erni@inf.ethz.ch)
Mon, 15 Dec 1997 14:05:28 +0100

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CAiSE*98
Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering

5th Doctoral Consortium

Pisa, Italy, 8-9 June 1998

CALL FOR PAPERS

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Overview

The Doctoral Consortia on Advanced Information Systems Engineering are intended
to bring together PhD students within the information systems engineering field
and give them the opportunity to present and to discuss their research in a
constructive and international atmosphere.

The CAiSE*98 Doctoral Consortium will be accompanied by prominent professors in
the field of information systems which will actively participate and
contribute
to the discussions.

The workshop in Pisa will be the 5th Doctoral Consortium of a series held in
conjunction with the CAiSE conferences in Utrecht (1994), in Jyvaskyla (1995),
in Heraklion (1996), and in Barcelona (1997). It will be held during the first
two days (8-9 June 1998) of the CAiSE*98 conference.

Workshop language is english.

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Aims & Objectives

Aim of the CAiSE Doctoral Consortia is to support the reserach done by doctoral
students with constructive remarks and feedback from prominent scientists in
the
information systems field.

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

* problem formulation,
* analysis and evaluation of the state of the art,
* research methodology, including
+ underlying principles of the approach,
+ utility of the approach, as well as
+ validation of the results.
* critical evaluation of one's own work, including
+ identification of the target audience and beneficiaries of a thesis,
+ validation techniques (such as prototyping, field experiment, or
argumentation),
+ definition of the innovative contribution of a thesis to the existing state
of the art.

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Conference Topics

The CAiSE Doctoral Consortia deal with the topics of the main Conference. In
1998 these topics include but are not restricted to

* Requirements engineering
* Methodologies and models for IS
* Interrelating methods and formalisms
* Reuse at conceptual and design levels
* IS implementation techniques: reuse-based development, database programming
* Languages, application generators, object-oriented design
* Geographic IS
* Interoperability of applications
* Spatial and temporal information management
* IS strategy and planning
* Systems procurement processes
* Maintenance and evolution of IS
* Information repositories
* Data and process re-engineering
* Metrics and indicators
* IS security
* Re-engineering legacy IS
* Managing organizational knowledge assets
* Workflow management and co-operative work
* Case studies and experience reports
* Web applications
* Network-centric computing
* Information services on the net
* Novel IS architectures: distributed, co-operative, intelligent
* Interoperable, multimedia, open, client-server
* Data warehouses and data mining
* Information and cultural heritage

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Accompanying Professors

The 5th Doctoral Consortium will be accompanied by:

* Janis Bubenko, janis@dsv.su.se,
Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University,
Department of Computer and Systems Science.

* Jan Dietz, dietz@is.twi.tudelft.nl,
Delft University of Technology,
Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics.

* Hans-Dieter Ehrich, ehrich@ips.cs.tu-bs.de,
Technical University of Braunschweig,
Institute for Programming Languages and Information Systems.

* Moira C. Norrie, norrie@inf.ethz.ch,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich,
Institute for Information Systems.

It is planned to invite further senior scientists who are interested in
contributing their knowledge and experience to the Doctoral Consortium:

* Stefan Conrad, conrad@iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de,
University of Magdeburg,
Institute for Technical Information Systems.

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Submissions

To apply for participation at the Doctoral Consortium, please provide an
abstract of your doctoral work to the workshop organizers. The abstract is
restricted to 4000 words (approximately 8 pages). Submissions may be handed in
either electronically in postscript format, or as 5 paper copies.

The abstract should

* clearly formulate the research question,
* identify the significant problems in the field of research,
* outline the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the state of
the art of existing solutions,
* present clearly any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the results
achieved so far,
* sketch the research methodology that is applied,
* point out the contributions of the applicant to the problem solution, and
* 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 orginality, significance, correctness, and
clarity. Admission is limited to 20 students.

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Announcement of Proceedings

Accepted papers will be published as workshop proceedings, printed as technical
report of the Institute of Information Systems, Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology Zurich. The proceedings will also be availabe in the world wide
web.

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Important Dates

Deadline for submission: January 30th, 1998
Notification of acceptance: March 15th, 1998
Camera-ready paper due: April 15th, 1998
Doctoral Consortium: June 8th-9th, 1998
CAiSE*98: June 8th-12th, 1998

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Contact Address

Electronic mail concerning the Doctoral Consortium should be sent to:

caise98dc@informatik.tu-muenchen.de

For more information, see:

http://www4.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~thurner/CAiSE98DC/index.html

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Workshop Organizers

Antonia Erni Veronika Thurner

Institute for Information Systems Department of Computer Science
Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technology Zurich Technical University of Munich
ETH Zentrum Arcisstrasse 21
CH-8092 Zurich D-80290 Munich
Switzerland Germany

phone: +41 1 632 7379 phone: +49 89 289 25153
fax: +41 1 632 1172 fax: +49 89 289 28183
email: erni@inf.ethz.ch email: thurner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de

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editor: Veronika Thurner
see also: http://www4.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~thurner/CAiSE98DC/index.html
last update: 31 July 1997

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