Fwd: [CMO_EQUIPE:947] OSS 2010 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

[Lionel Allorge <lallorge AT april.org>]

Bonjour,

Voici une info qui peut vous intéresser, transmise par Valérie Dagrain :

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OSS 2010 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
May 30, 2010, Notre Dame, IN, USA
Website: http://www.ua.ac.be/oss2010dc

Collocated with the 6th International Conference on Open Source
Systems (OSS 2010; http://oss2010.org) <http://oss2010.org%29/>, a
Doctoral Consortium will be
organized on May 30, 2010.

GOAL

The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide PhD students with an
environment in which they can share and discuss their goals, methods
and results before completing their research. Students can apply for
the Doctoral Consortium by submitting a paper describing their
research proposal. All submissions will be peer reviewed by at least
two independent reviewers. Feedback on the proposal will be returned
to all authors. Participants will be selected based on the quality of
the proposed research, its potential significance and contribution to
the OSS domain, and the potential benefit of the Doctoral Consortium
to the PhD student's research.

PhD students that are accepted to the Doctoral Consortium, will give a
presentation of their work. We aim to provide sufficient time for
discussion (at least 20 minutes) to ensure that PhD students obtain
quality feedback from the Doctoral Consortium co-chairs, the members
of the program committee, as well as other PhD students. This feedback
will allow them to enhance their own research proposal. We will also
invite other faculty members to attend the Doctoral Consortium to
stimulate discussion. Subsequently, doctoral students whose advisory
committee lacks sufficient expertise with current OSS research may
benefit in a number of ways from participating in the Doctoral
Consortium with attending faculty.

The Doctoral Consortium will take place on May 30, allowing
participants to attend the OSS 2010 conference after the Doctoral
Consortium. This allows PhD students to further discuss their research
with other researchers in the following days. As well, because of the
diversity of the communities involved, the Doctoral Consortium will
allow PhD students to make connections beyond their own disciplines.
As a result, we expect that participation will allow PhD students to
develop a better understanding of the different research communities,
which we believe will facilitate their participation in future
inter-disciplinary research.

We are currently trying to obtain funding for US-based students that
would cover travel and hotel costs. More information will be provided
to students accepted for the Doctoral Consortium when available.
Doctoral students outside the US are encouraged to seek funding with
their local funding agency. A letter of recommendation can be provided
by the Doctoral Consortium chairs upon acceptance.

SCOPE

The scope of research topics of the Doctoral Consortium is the same as
for the main conference. We therefore invite submissions related to
all aspects of open source software including, but not limited to
software engineering perspectives, emerging perspectives, social
science, and studies of OSS deployment.

We invite submissions from PhD students in the early stages of their
research (e.g., those who are at the end of their first year or in
their second year), as well as in the late stages of their research
(e.g., those who are close to graduating). PhD students who submit a
paper to the Doctoral Consortium should at least have decided on a
research topic or topic area, and have a proposal for an appropriate
research method. Preferably, PhD students should still have the time
to incorporate the feedback obtained during the Doctoral Consortium in
their dissertation.

IMPORTANT DATES

January 15, 2010     Submission deadline for papers
February 26, 2010    Decision back to authors
March 12, 2010       Registration
March 19, 2010       Camera ready papers due
May 30, 2010         Doctoral consortium

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Papers submitted to the Doctoral Consortium should be between 3,000
and 4,000 words, not including references, and should be formatted
using the same template as the main conference. Templates and an
example paper can be downloaded from the "Author's Kit" section on the
website of the Doctoral Consortium. Each submission must include
title, author name(s) and affiliation, abstract, list of keywords and
a complete list of references. Papers will be subjected to a
single-blind review (in which the authors don't know the reviewers,
but the reviewers know the authors).

Submissions should at least discuss the following elements: the
background of the research, the motivation for the research, the
research question(s) addressed in the study and a description of the
proposed research method. Students in the later stages of their
research are encouraged to include an overview of their completed
research activities.

All manuscripts must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair
website. Paper submission will open one month before the actual
submission deadline. Detailed submission instructions will be provided
in the "Paper submission" section of the Doctoral Consortium website.
Submissions in both Word and PDF format are welcomed. Please note that
the camera-ready version of papers accepted to the Doctoral Consortium
must be submitted in either Word (.doc) or LaTeX format. The Doctoral
Consortium website can be found at http://www.ua.ac.be/oss2010dc

ACCEPTANCE

Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of the Doctoral
Consortium. Submitting a paper to the Doctoral Consortium represents
the author's agreement to allow the Doctoral Consortium Chairs to
publish the paper in the Doctoral Consortium proceedings without
compensation to the author. The parties understand that the author is
granting a nonexclusive license and all copyrights remain the property
of the author.

Authors of accepted papers are required to register for and attend the
Doctoral Consortium. They will also be asked to give a presentation on
their work for about 20 minutes, which will be followed by a 20 minute
discussion during which PhD students are given feedback on their work
by faculty members and other PhD students.

Should you require additional information, please contact Kris Ven
(kris.ven AT ua.ac.be <mailto:kris.ven AT ua.ac.be>).

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS

Walt Scacchi, University of California, Irvine, USA
Kris Ven, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Jan Verelst, University of Antwerp, Belgium

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University, USA
Joseph Feller, University College Cork, Ireland
Daniel M. German, University of Victoria, Canada
Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Björn Lundell, University of Skövde, Sweden
Maha Shaikh, London School of Economics, UK


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