At its 15th edition, the PhDOOS workshop has become an established annual meeting of PhD students in computer science.
The main objective of the workshop is to offer an opportunity for PhD students to meet and share their research experiences, to discover commonalities in research and studentship, and to foster a collaborative environment for joint problem-solving.
PhD students from both industry and academia are encouraged to attend in order to ensure a broad, unconfined discussion. Senior researchers are also welcomed during the plenary sessions, as they may provide insightful viewpoints and advice to the PhD participants.
The workshop also aims at strengthening the international Network of PhD Students in Object-Oriented Systems (PhDOOS). Initiated during the 1st edition of these workshop series at ECOOP'91, this network counts approximately 96 members from all over the world. There is a mailing list and a web site, used mainly for information and discussion on OO-related topics.
The workshop sessions will be determined according to the research interests of the participants. Potential topics of the workshop are those of the main ECOOP conference, i.e. all topics related to object technology including but not restricted to:
The workshop is divided into plenary sessions and subgroup discussion sessions. The subgroups will be formed before the workshop, based on the research interests of the participants. At the workshop, the main part of the technical programme consists of presentations and subgroup discussions. Results and summaries from the subgroup discussions will be presented at a plenary session.
The plenary session will also feature one or two invited speakers talking about the interesting research hot-spots, personal experiences, research methodology, etc. These could be an unique opportunity to hear or ask things not discussed elsewhere, and to have an "unplugged" discussion with a well-known personality of our field.
The Doctoral Symposium and the PhD Workshop have been combined because they address the very same group of participants; therefore, we offer two options for participation: either as a presenter at the Doctoral Symposium part of the Workshop, or as an attendee at the entire workshop including the Doctoral Symposium.
The combined event is by invitation only: an invitation requires you to submit a paper. However, we do expect to invite any PhD student that has submitted a paper even if the submitted paper is by a newly started PhD. student.
The first option is to send a plain paper that describes some part of your dissertation work or an interesting idea to the PhD Workshop, where it can be discussed among other PhD Students.
The second option is to present the whole idea of your dissertation thesis in the Doctoral Symposium, where a group senior researchers will listen to your presentation and evaluate it. There will be a limited number of slots for presentations so there will be a selection process to choose who will get to present their dissertation ideas. If your paper is selected, you will be given a half hour slot to present; if not selected, you will likely be invited to attend the combined Symposium (along with everyone else).
Which option to opt for depends on what stage your PhD work has reached: if you are far enough along to write up your main idea in a paper then opt for the Doctoral Symposium, otherwise opt for the Workshop.
Deadline: Submit by Friday, 18th of March, 2005, 23:59 (Apia Time). See World Clock for local times.
Submissions should be written in English. All materials must be submitted electronically except for recommendations which are to be sent separately by fax or snailmail. Submissions should contain no proprietary or confidential material and should cite no proprietary or confidential publications. Permissions to use video, audio or pictures of identifiable people must be obtained in advance of the Workshop.
We strongly recommend the submissions to follow LNCS format. For simplicity, we have provided a LaTeX template that meets this standard.
To apply as a student participant in the PhD Workshop, you should submit a package containing the following information via e-mail to alex@mcs.vuw.ac.nz. The subject field should be "ECOOP2005: PhD WS submission for <your name here>" (replace <your name here> with your name).
Part I: Author Information (plain text format) - List of Author(s) name(s) - Paper title - Contact details for contact author - Keywords (2 - 10) - Plain text abstract of 200 words or less Part II: Paper Information The paper is limited to ten pages or less.
To apply as a student participant in the Doctoral Symposium, you should submit a package containing the following information via e-mail to alex@mcs.vuw.ac.nz. The subject field should be "ECOOP2005: PhD DS submission for <your name here>" (replace <your name here> with your name).
Part I: General Information (plain text format) - Name of student participant - Name of dissertation advisor - Electronic mail address of dissertation advisor - University and department - Full mailing address, including country and postal code - Telephone number - Fax number - Your own electronic mail address Part II: Research Abstract - Your Name - The title of your dissertation - The research area(s) or subareas of your work - The technical problem to be solved - Justification that prior research has not solved the problem - The research hypothesis - Your approach to solve the problem Part III: Letter of Recommendation The research abstract should be around 2 or 3 pages in length.
Ask your dissertation advisor for a letter of recommendation. This letter should include a candid assessment of the current status of your dissertation research and an expected date for dissertation submission.
Important: The letter of recommendation should be sent directly to Alex Potanin either by fax to: +64 (4) 463 5045 (please make sure that you use a cover page addressing the fax to Alex Potanin) or by snail mail to:
Alex Potanin School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Victoria University of Wellington PO Box 600 Wellington NEW ZEALAND