3rd OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium Oct 29 - Oct 30, 2006 Montpellier, France http://otm2006phd.fzi.de/home.html In conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM'06) http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf Proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS

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OVERVIEW

The OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium is intended to bring together doctoral (Ph.D.) students within the subject area of the OTM community. Each student gets the opportunity to present and to discuss his or her research in a constructive and international atmosphere, during 60 minutes. The language is English.

The OTM'06 Doctoral Consortium will be accompanied by prominent professors in the field of information systems who will actively participate in the discussions.

During OTM.05 the General Co-Chairs have proclaimed the former Ph.D. Symposium to be the OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium from OTM.06 on, and Prof. Jan Dietz to be the Dean of the OTM Academy. Therefore, the Doctoral Consortium in Montpellier, France, will be the 3rd one. It is held on 29 and 30 October 2006.

GOAL & OBJECTIVES

The goal of the OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium is to support the research 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 Ph.D. thesis,
• 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.

Additionally keynote speakers will address general purpose issues, related to Ph.D. research and life in academia afterwards.

OTM ACADEMY DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM TOPICS

The Doctoral Consortium deals with the topics of the main conference. The general areas addressed but are not restricted to:

• Distributed Objects and Applications
• Management of Semantically-Expressive Information
• Applications, Evaluations, and Experiences
• Business Process Management
• Software Services
• Agent technologies, systems
• Cooperative Information Systems

An extensive list of topics can be found at http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/

SUBMISSIONS

To apply for participation at the Doctoral Consortium, please provide an electronic version of your paper regarding your doctoral work to the submission webpage at:

http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/phd/2006/papers

The paper is restricted to 10 pages. Submissions may be handed in electronically in Postscript, PDF or MS Word format.

Different from other papers, this paper addresses specifically the Ph.D. student thesis! The paper should

• have the PhD student as single author (by preference), or as first author with his/her (main) promoter as second author
• 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 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 originality, significance, correctness, and clarity. Admission is limited to 10 - 14 Ph.D. students.

Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF PROCEEDINGS

Accepted workshop contributions will be published by Springer-Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) as a part of the workshop proceedings of the 2006 International On The Move Federated Conferences (OTM). Author instructions and style sheets can be found at the Springer site (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).

IMPORTANT DATES

	Abstract Submission Deadline		June 15, 2008 Extended until July 7, 2008
	Paper Submission Deadline		June 30, 2008 Extended until July 7, 2008
	Acceptance Notification		August 15, 2008
	Camera Ready Due		August 25, 2008
	Registration Due		August 25, 2008
	OTM Conferences		November 9 - 14, 2008

DEAN OF THE OTM ACADEMY

• Jan Dietz
  Information Systems Design
  Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  

ACCOMPANYING PROFESSORS

• Johann Eder
  Department of Computer Science
  University of Vienna, Austria
  
  
• Maria Orlowska
  School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
  The University of Queensland, Australia
  
  
  

ADDITIONAL REVIEWERS

• Domenico Beneventano
  Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
  Universià di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
  
  
• Sonia Bergamaschi
  Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
  Universià di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
  
  
• Jaime Delgado
  Distributed Multimedia Applications Group (DMAG)
  Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
  
  

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

• Antonia Albani (a.albani@tudelft.nl)
  Department of Information Systems
  Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  
  
• Gábor Nagypál (nagypal@fzi.de)
  Information Process Engineering
  Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Germany
  
  
• Johannes Maria Zaha (j.zaha@qut.edu.au)
  Business Process Management Research Group
  Queensland University of Technology, Australia