Welcome

Australasian Computing Doctoral Consortium (ACDC'12)

Monday 30th January 2012

• Introduction
• Invited Speaker
• Programme
• Panel
• Location
• Eligibility
• Submission
• Selection Criteria
• Important Dates
• Organisation

Introduction

The ACDC provides an opportunity for doctoral students to present their research and early results and receive advice and constructive commentary from research experts. Submissions are invited from current PhD students in computing who would benefit from feedback on their research by a panel of established researchers. The consortium will operate in a workshop format. It will contain at least one presentation by a distinguished academic on the challenges and approaches to succeed in a PhD program. Up to ten applicants will be invited to present their work during ACDC 2012, and experts will be invited to attend the presentations and discuss each student's work. These selected applicants will receive complimentary ACSW 2012 student conference registration. Note, however, that ACDC will not provide travel or accommodation costs, but possible support from CORE may be available. Finally, PhD students who wish to attend, but have not submitted a paper, are welcome --- however, be sure to notify the organisers well in advanced since numbers are limited.

Invited Speaker

Programme

9:00	Ahmed Arefin: An integrated, fast and scaleable approach for biological network analysis
10:00	Morning Tea
10:30	Keynote: Strategies to success in scientific work (Jyrki Katajainen)
11:30	Tahiry Rabehaja: Algebraic frameworks for probabilistic and concurrent systems
12:30	Lunch
1:30	Workshop: Writing papers and getting them accepted (Helen Ashman)
2:30	Lida Ghahremanloo: An integrated knowledge base for sustainability indicators
3:30	Afternoon Tea
4:00	Michael Antunovic: Using crowd-sourding for query classification and analysis
5:00	Zahraa Abdallah: Mobile activity recognition using contextual reasoning and ubiquitous data stream processing

Panel

• Helen Ashman, University of South Australia
• Mark Carman, Monash University
• Vic Ciesielski, RMIT University
• Jyrki Katajainen, University of Copenhagen
• Ivan Lee, University of South Australia
• Falk Scholer, RMIT University
• James Thom, RMIT University
• Alexandra Uitdenbogerd, RMIT University
• Karin Verspoor, NICTA

Location

RMIT University, Melbourne.

Eligibility

Students wishing to participate in ACDC should have been enrolled in a PhD program in any area of computing in any CORE university in Australia or New Zealand for between one and 2.5 years by the time of submission.

A Letter of Nomination from either the Head of Department or School or Faculty, detailing the students they are nominating, must be available upon request.

Submission

Each submission should be no longer than FOUR pages including the text, references, figures, and tables. All initial submissions must be in PDF format (paper size: A4), although there are no other style requirements. The submission should clearly specify:

• Student’s full name, affiliation, address, email address, and phone number.
• Student’s PhD enrolment date.
• Title of thesis.
• Keywords.
• Key references.
• Research problem.
• Methodology.
• Preliminary results.

Submissions should be emailed to the Doctoral Symposium Chair, Falk Scholer, at falk.scholer AT rmit DOT edu DOT au by the closing date.

Selection Criteria

Important Dates

Closing Date for submissions:

Organisation

• Dr. Falk Scholer, RMIT University, Australia (chair)
• Assoc. Prof. Helen Ashman, University of South Australia (co-chair)