DS-ECOOP 2011 - Doctoral Symposium on Object-Oriented Programming - ECOOP (UK)

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Category Programming Languages;Object-Oriented Programming;Doctoral Symposium

Deadline: April 15, 2011 | Date: July 25, 2011

Venue/Country: Lancaster, U.K.

Updated: 2011-02-27 20:12:23 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

This year's Doctoral Symposium at ECOOP occurs in Lancaster, UK.

Please consider submitting your research work. The acceptance rate

is really good. You get to have top notch guys in the field give

you feedback on your work! You also may be able to get studentships

from the conference to cover some of the travel costs.

Academic panel this year is not yet set, but previous academic panels

included names like James Noble, Gary Leavens, and Todd Millstein!

Call for Papers:

DS-ECOOP 2011

25th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming

Doctoral Symposium and PhD Student Workshop

http://ecoop11.comp.lancs.ac.uk/?q=calls/doctoral

Important Dates

Paper submission due: 15 April, 2011

Acceptance notification: 20 May, 2011

Doctoral Symposium and PhD Workshop: 25 July, 2011

Goal

ECOOP 2011 in Lancaster UK hosts the 21st edition of the Doctoral Symposium

and PhD Student Workshop along-side the various workshops. As the name

suggests, this is a two-session event: a Doctoral Symposium and a PhD Student

Workshop. The Doctoral Symposium and PhD Student Workshop provides a forum

for both early and late-stage PhD students to present their research and get

detailed feedback and advice.

The main objectives of this event are:

- to allow PhD students to practice writing clearly and to present

effectively their research proposal

- to get constructive feedback from other researchers

- to build bridges for potential research collaboration

- to contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other

researchers at the main conference

Studentships

Participants of Doctoral Symposium and PhD Student Workshop are eligible to

apply for studentships to receive financial support for travel costs. Further

details regarding studentship applications is available at:

http://ecoop11.comp.lancs.ac.uk/?q=content/studentships

Event Format

This is a full-day event of interactive presentations. Morning and early

afternoon will be dedicated to the Doctoral Symposium, with late afternoon

dedicated to the PhD Student Workshop. Besides the formal presentations,

there will be plenty of opportunities for informal interactions during lunch

and (possibly) dinner. It is planned that members of the academic panel will

give short presentations on a variety of topics related to doing research.

Topics

Potential topics are those of the main conference (see

http://ecoop11.comp.lancs.ac.uk), i.e. all topics related to object

technology. The following list of suggested topics is by no means exclusive:

- Analysis and design methods and patterns

- Databases, persistence, transactions

- Distributed, concurrent, mobile, real-time systems

- Empirical and application studies

- Frameworks, product lines, software architectures

- Language design and implementation

- Modularity, aspects, features, components, services, reflection

- Software development environments and tools

- Static and dynamic software analysis, testing, and metrics

- Theoretical foundations, type systems, formal methods

- Versioning, compatibility, software evolution

Doctoral Symposium

The goal of the doctoral symposium session is to provide PhD students with

useful feedback towards the successful completion of their dissertation

research. Each student is assigned an academic panel, based on the specifics

of that student's research. The student will give a presentation of 15-20

minutes (exact time will be announced later), followed by 15-20 minutes of

questions and feedback. The experience is meant to mimic a "mini-" defense

interview. Aside from the actual feedback, this helps the student gain

familiarity with the style and mechanics of such an interview (advisors of

student presenters will not be allowed to attend their student's

presentations). To participate, the students should be far enough in their

research to be able to present:

- the importance of the problem

- a clear research proposal

- some preliminary work/results

- an evaluation plan

The students should still have at least 12 months before defending their

dissertation. We believe that students that are defending within a year would

not be able to incorporate the feedback they receive.

To participate, please submit:

- a 3-4 page abstract in the llncs format

- a letter from your advisor. This letter should include an assessment of the

current status of your dissertation research and an expected date for

dissertation submission.

The advisor should e-mail this letter to ecoop11-dscomp.lancs.ac.uk

Abstracts should be submitted to:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsecoop11

The abstract should focus on the following:

1. Problem Description

- what is the problem?

- what is the significance of this problem?

- why the current state of the art can not solve this problem?

2. Goal Statement

- what is the goal of your research?

- what artifacts (tools, theories, methods) will be produced, and how do they

address the stated problem? How are the artifacts going to help reach the

stated goal?

3. Method

- what experiments, prototypes, or studies need to be produced/executed?

- what is the validation strategy? How will it demonstrate that the goal was

reached?

Note that this is not a typical technical paper submission, and that the

focus is not on technical details, but rather on research method.

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the committee.

If accepted for presentation, the student's advisor must email the chair no

later than 18 July, 2011 and confirm that the advisor attended at least one

of the student's presentation rehearsals.

PhD Student Workshop

This session is addressed primarily to PhD students in the early stages of

their PhD work. The goal is to allow participants to present their research

ideas and obtain feedback from the rest of the workshop attendees. Each

participant will give a 10-15 minute presentation, followed by 10-15 minutes

of discussions (exact times will be announced later).

To participate, please submit:

- 6-10 page position paper in the llncs format, presenting your idea or

current work

- a support letter from your advisor. The advisor should e-mail this letter

to ecoop11-dscomp.lancs.ac.uk

Position papers should be submitted to:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsecoop11

The position paper should contain (at least):

- a problem description

- a detailed sketch of a proposed approach

- related work

As this is earlier-stage research, it is not necessary to have concrete

results from this research presented in the paper. Instead, the goal of the

paper is to inform the reader of a (well-motivated) problem and to present a

high level (possible) solution.

If accepted for presentation, the student's advisor must email the chair no

later than 18 July, 2011 and confirm that the advisor attended at least one

of the student's presentation rehearsals.

Committee

- Moharram Challenger, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey

- Andreas Mertgen, Technischen Universitat, Berlin, Germany

- Stephen Nelson, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

- Hesam Samimi, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

- Lucas Satabin, Technische Universitat, Darmstadt, Germany

Academic Panel

[Announced soon]

Previous Experiences

The ECOOP Doctoral Symposium is an excellent place to meet many interesting

people and discuss new ideas related to your research topic. It has a

friendly atmosphere which makes everybody welcomed and relaxed. By attending

the PhD symposium last year, I had the opportunity to engage in new

collaborations with researchers from different institutions. I also received

feedback from both well-established researchers and fellow PhD students which

had a great positive effect on my thesis. I would certainly recommend all PhD

students to attend the ECOOP PhD Symposium and Workshop.

- Eduardo Figueiredo, participant DS ECOOP'08

The ECOOP Doctoral Symposium was a remarkable event. It was an honor to get

feedback on my personal thesis topic from such well-established researchers

in the field. Their comments not only encouraged me to continue with my

thesis work but also gave me valuable feedback on how to refine my concrete

topic and bring the overall topic into shape. In addition, I found the other

students' talks to be some of the most interesting ones at ECOOP. Some of

them were very inspiring even for my own work. Overall, my participation in

the symposium will certainly have a great positive effect on my thesis.

Apart from that it was a fun day which made me meet many interesting people.

- Eric Bodden, participant DS ECOOP'07

More Information and Contact

For additional information about Doctoral Symposium, please visit the event

page at:

http://ecoop11.comp.lancs.ac.uk/?q=calls/doctoral

and contact the ECOOP 2011 Doctoral Symposium Chairs at email address:

ecoop11-dscomp.lancs.ac.uk