4th OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, Nov 25 - 26, 2007 http://www.iwi.uni-sb.de/data/otm2007phd/index.htm Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag

OVERVIEW

The OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium offers doctoral (Ph.D.) students within the subject area of the OTM community the opportunity to present and to discuss their research in a constructive and international atmosphere, and to get feedback from prominent scholars. Each student gets a slot of 60 minutes. The language is English.

The OTM'07 Academy Doctoral Consortium will be accompanied by prominent professors in the field of information systems who will study the papers in advance and actively participate in the discussions.

GOAL & OBJECTIVES

The goal of the OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium is to support the participating doctoral students with constructive remarks and feedback on the presented research from prominent scientists in the information systems field.

The OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium will be kicked off and rounded off by a discussion of general questions related to Ph.D. research. They include the following aspects:

• problem formulation,
• problem analysis,
• research methodology,.
• writing a thesis,
• evaluating the innovative contribution of a thesis,
• academic careers.

OTM ACADEMY DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM TOPICS

The OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium deals with the topics of the main conference.

The general areas addressed are:

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

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

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

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be in PDF format and must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format.

The paper must specifically address the doctoral student.s thesis! Therefore, the paper should

• have the PhD student as single author (by preference), or as first author with his/her (main) promoter as second author,
• 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 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 14 doctoral students.

The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Author instructions can be found at:

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

The paper submission site is located at

http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/dc/2007/papers/

Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings. To facilitate participation at the conference, PhD students will enjoy a reduced registration fee that will give them free access to all OTM conferences and workshops.

ORGANISATION COMMITTEE

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
  Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology
  Warszawa, Poland
  

Additional Reviewers

• Domenico Beneventano
  Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
  Universià di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
  
• Jaime Delgado
  Distributed Multimedia Applications Group (DMAG)
  Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
  
• Schahram Dustdar
  Distributed Systems Group
  Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  
• Jörg Müller
  Mobile and Enterprise Computing Lab (MECL)
  Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
  

Workshop Organizers

• Antonia Albani (a.albani@tudelft.nl)
  Information Systems Design
  Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  
• Torben Hansen (Torben.Hansen@iwi.dfki.de)
  Institute for Information Systems
  German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
  
• Johannes Maria Zaha (zaha@sse.uni-due.de)
  Software Systems Engineering
  University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany