Introduction

The main objectives of the event are:

1. to allow PhD students to practice writing clearly and to present effectively their research proposal
2. to get constructive feedback from other researchers
3. to build bridges for potential research collaboration
4. to contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers at the main conference.

The 17th edition of the Doctoral Symposium and PhD Workshop will be held as part of ECOOP 2007, Berlin, Germany. As the name suggests, this is a two-session event: a Doctoral Symposium and a PhD Students Workshop.

Event Format

This is a full-day event of interactive presentations. Morning and early afternoon is dedicated for Doctoral Symposium, late afternoon for PhD Students Workshop. Besides the formal presentations, there will be plenty of opportunities for informal interactions during lunch and (possibly) dinner. Rather than having one single distinguished invited speaker, we will have the members of the academic panel talk about how to do high-impact research (Ralph Johnson), choosing meaningful research projects (Andrew Black), writing effectively about research (Jeremy Siek), writing the PhD dissertation (Eric Jul), evaluating the research results (Jonathan Aldrich). 

Below is the list of submissions accepted this year.

Doctoral Symposium:

• The design and implementation of formal monitoring techniques (Eric Bodden - McGill University, Canada)
• Refactoring-Based Support for Binary Compatibility in Evolving Frameworks (Ilie Savga - TU Dresden, Germany) 
• Modeling Change-based Software Evolution (Rommain Robes - University of Lugano, Switzerland)
• A Rewriting Approach to the Design and Evolution of Object-Oriented Languages (Mark Hills - UIUC, USA)
• An Integrated Quantitative Assessment Model for Usability Engineering (Haidar Jabbar - Anna University, Chennai, India) 
• Flexible Ownership Domains for Expressing and Visualizing Design (Marwan Abi-Antoun, CMU, USA)

PhD Workshop:

• Checking Semantic Usage of Frameworks (Ciera Christopher - CMU, USA)
• An Integrated Method based on Multi-Models and Levels of Modeling for Design and Analysis of Complex Engineering Systems (Michel dos Santos Soares - Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands)
• Ordering Functionally Equivalent Software Components (Giovanni Falcone - University of Mannheim, Germany)

The final proceedings can be found online and as Technical Report at TU Berlin, ISSN 1436-9915.

Schedule:

Start	Event	Primary/Secondary Investigator
9:00 AM	Opening	Danny Dig
9:10	A Rewriting Approach to the Design and Evolution of Object-Oriented Languages (Mark Hills)	Jonathan Aldrich, Jeremy Siek
9:50	Flexible Ownership Domains for Expressing and Visualizing Design (Marwan Abi-Antoun)	Jeremy Siek, Andrew Black
10:30	Coffee Break
10:45	Refactoring-Based Support for Binary Compatibility in Evolving Frameworks (Ilie Savga)	Jeremy Siek, Ralph Johnson
11:25	Modeling Change-based Software Evolution (Rommain Robes )	Andrew Black, Jonathan Aldrich
12:05 PM	Inspirational talk: How to do high-impact research	Ralph Johnson
12:20 PM	Inspirational talk: Designing meaningless research projects	Andrew Black
12:35	Lunch
13:45	Inspirational talk: Evaluating your research results (Jonathan Aldrich)
14:00	Inspirational talk: Effectiveley writing about your research (Jeremy Siek)
14:15	The design and implementation of formal monitoring techniques (Eric Bodden)	Jonathan Aldrich
14:55	An Integrated Quantitative Assessment Model for Usability Engineering (Haidar Jabbar)	Eric Jul, Ralph Johnson
15:35	Coffee Break
15:45	Inspirational talk: Writing your PhD Dissertation	Eric Jul
16:00	Checking Semantic Usage of Frameworks (Ciera Christopher )	Ralph Johnson
16:30	An Integrated Method based on Multi-Models and Levels of Modeling for Design and Analysis of Complex Engineering Systems (Michel dos Santos)	Eric Jul
17:00	Ordering Functionally Equivalent Software Components (Giovanni Falcone)	Andrew Black
17:30	Retrospective, choosing next year's committee, closing	Danny Dig

 

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline:  May 1, 2007, 23:59 Apia time. Submission is NOW CLOSED.

Notification of acceptance: May 30

If accepted for presentation, the student's advisor must e-mail the chair (no later than July 24) and confirm that the advisor attended at least one of student's presentation rehearsals.

This is full-day event (9AM to 6PM), Monday, July 30, 2007. It takes place at TU Berlin in room H 3004.

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).

Eligibility Criteria: 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. For convenience, a LaTeX template is available here.
• 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 Danny Dig.

The abstract should focus on the following:

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?

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?

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.

Here is an example of an OK abstract.

PhD Students 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 (LaTeX template), presenting your idea or current work.
• a support letter from your advisor. The advisor should e-mail this letter to Danny Dig.

The position paper should contain (at least):

• a problem description
• a detailed sketch of a proposed approach
• related work.

It is expected that there would be no results available, therefore, the goal of the paper is to inform on a problem and to present a high level (possible) solution.

Financial Support

Due to the generosity of AITO, participants might receive (depending on the number of applications submitted) partial reimbursement (between 60%-70%) for their expenses (conference registration, travel, lodging). Please keep all the original receipts - you will need to send them later to AITO.

Committee

Danny Dig (chair and organizer), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA

Jacqueline McQuillan, National University of Ireland

Mikhail Roshchin, Volvograd State Tech University, Russia 

Javier Perez, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain

Naouel Moha, University of Montreal, Canada

Academic panel:

- Ralph Johnson (UIUC, US)

- Andrew Black (Portland State, US)

- Jeremy Siek (U of Colorado - Boulder, US)

- Eric Jul (DIKU, Denmark)

- Jonathan Aldrich (CMU, US)

External Reviewers: Mircea Trofin (Microsoft), Paul Adamczyk.(UIUC), Foutse Khomh (U of Montreal), Guillaume Langelier (U of Montreal), Stéphane Vaucher (U of Montreal), José Manuel Marqués Corral (U of Valladolid), Miguel Ángel Laguna Serrano (U of Valladolid), Manuel Barrio Solórzano (U of Valladolid)

Previous Experiences 

"At the Doctoral Symposium and PhD Workshop I met many researchers in my area and had a number of interesting discussions. There was a very relaxed atmosphere throughout the sessions and all of the students that participated received excellent feedback on their work. As a result of attending the workshop, I have struck up some collaborations with fellow PhD students from other universities. I would thoroughly recommend anyone undertaking a PhD to attend the Doctoral Symposium and PhD Workshop"
                                                                                                  - Jacqueline McQuillan, participant DS ECOOP'06

 

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