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DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM at ICSE'09
http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/events/icse2009/calls/DC/

31st International Conference on Software Engineering,
Vancouver, Canada, May 16-24, 2009

GOAL AND SCOPE

The ICSE Doctoral Symposium is a forum for mid-level PhD students to
present and discuss their software engineering research in a critical but
supportive environment. The symposium aims to broaden the perspectives and
improve the skills of these students as a way to contribute both to the
individuals and also to the broader software engineering research
community. Students receive guidance and feedback on various aspects of
their research from established researchers and the other student
attendees.

The forum is intended for students who have a specific research proposal
and some preliminary results, but with sufficient time prior to
dissertation completion to benefit from the workshop experience. In
addition to feedback on the academic aspects of their work, students will
have the opportunity to seek advice on various aspects of completing a PhD
and of successfully joining the software engineering research community.
The Symposium has the same scope of technical topics as the main ICSE
conference.

HOW TO SUBMIT

Apply for participation at the symposium by submitting a research proposal
of four pages or fewer in the required ICSE conference format through the
online submission site. In addition to your basic contact information
(including your adviser's name and email) and the title of your research,
successful proposals will generally include a description of the research
problem and its importance in the field, a brief survey of background and
related work, your expected contributions, how you plan to provide
evidence of the value of your contributions, and any results achieved to
date.

Successful proposals will generally include:

• a clear, concise statement of the research question or problem and why it is important;
• a discussion of why the question/problem is important, what related work is already published, and how your research will add to that field;
• your expected contributions, and how you plan to provide evidence to underpin those contributions;
• and any results achieved to date.

Students at different stages in their work may address these issues in
different ways and in different depth.

A letter of support is not required (as it has been in the past); the
committee will communicate with advisers as needed. Student applicants,
however, should -- in a brief email message to the symposium co-chairs
(with subject "ICSE DS application") -- include several sentences on what
they wish to achieve through the Doctoral Symposium.

Proposals can be submitted electronically via CyberChair
(http://cyberchairpro3.borbala.net/icsedocpapers/submit/).

ACCEPTANCE

Submissions will be accepted based on criteria including the quality of
the research proposal, the quality of the presentation, and the
committee's judgment about the potential benefit to the student. In
addition, the committee intends to include students that represent a
diversity of background, topics, research approaches, and stages of
research.

The symposium is a closed forum, open only to the committee and invited
students.

CHAIRS

David Notkin, University of Washington, US (co-chair) (notkin at
cs.washington.edu)
Marian Petre, The Open University, UK (co-chair) (m.petre at open.ac.uk)

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

André van der Hoek, University of California Irvine, US
Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin, US
Mauro Pezzè, University of Milano Bicocca, IT
Margaret-Anne (Peggy) Storey, University of Victoria, CA
Eleni Stroulia, University of Alberta, CA