[ecoop-info] Call for Papers: COMPSAC 2007 Doctoral Symposium

[Huang Gang]

Call for Papers:  COMPSAC 2007 Doctoral Symposium
Beijing, China, July 24-27, 2007

<http://www.compsac.org/>http://www.compsac.org/
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IMPORTANT DATES:

Deadline for submission: March 12, 2007
Decision notification (electronic): April 9, 2007
Deadline for camera-ready copy and pre-registration: April 30, 2007
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OVERVIEW:

The Doctoral Symposium at COMPSAC will provide an international forum 
for doctoral students to interact with other students and faculty 
mentors. Since 2006, COMPSAC has been designated as the IEEE Computer 
Society Signature Conference on Software Technology and Applications.

The Doctoral Symposium seeks to bring together PhD Students working 
in software engineering and technology and related fields. Selected 
students will have the opportunity to present and discuss their 
research goals, methodology, and preliminary results within a 
constructive and international 
atmosphere.                                 .

The Symposium organizers will strive to provide useful guidance for 
completion of the dissertation research and motivation for a research 
career. The Symposium is intended for students who have already 
settled on a specific research proposal and have produced limited 
preliminary results, but have enough time remaining before their 
final defense to benefit from the fruitful Symposium discussions. 

In coordination with the technical theme of COMPSAC 2007, topics 
pertaining to software engineering of critical infrastructure systems 
such as civil, telecommunications, and medical systems will be of 
particular interest. Related topics include, but are not limited to, 
requirements analysis, co-analysis and co-design, modeling, design, 
development, testing, measurement, verification and validation for 
performance, safety, security, and dependability constraints of such 
systems. As effective construction of critical infrastructure systems 
is not limited solely to the field of computer science and 
engineering and is truly a multidisciplinary effort, submissions 
addressing multidisciplinary research topics are particularly encouraged.

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings 
in hardcopy and on-line version by the IEEE Computer 
Society.                      .

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SUBMISSIONS:

Submissions will be judged on originality, overall contribution, 
technical merit, presentation quality and relevance to the conference 
topics. It is anticipated that each submission will be reviewed by at 
least two mentors from the program committee. Each student invited to 
attend will be assigned a specific mentor who will be in charge of 
leading the discussion after the student's presentation.


Students should consider participating in the Doctoral Symposium at 
least six months BEFORE completion of their dissertation, but after 
having settled on a solid dissertation topic. In the email that 
accompanies the abstract submission, students should identify their 
level of progress toward completion (i.e., briefly state the expected 
date of graduation).

Students desiring to participate in the Symposium must submit an 
extended abstract that describes their doctoral work. Each abstract 
submission should:

* clearly formulate the research topic

* outline the significant problems in the field and their current solutions

* present the preliminary idea, the proposed approach, and the 
results achieved so far

* explicitly point out the contributions of the proposed work

Detailed instructions for electronic paper submission can be found at 
http://www.compsac.org/. The length of the initial submission and 
camera-ready versions of the abstract should be limited to 3 (IEEE 
Proceedings style) pages printed in 10-12 point font. Please follow 
the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines to 
prepare your papers. At least one author of each accepted paper is 
required to pay the student registration fee to the conference. 
Pending availability of funds, a limited number of travel grants may 
be available.

All invited participants will be asked to provide a poster describing 
their research, which will be displayed throughout the conference. 
Each accepted paper must be presented in person by the author, in a 
30-minute timeslot with 20 minutes for the presentation and 10 
minutes for discussion and feedback.
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CONTACTS:
Questions should be addressed to the Doctoral Symposium Chair, Dr. 
Sahra Sedigh, at: sedighs[at]umr.edu.