Automated Software Engineering - ASE'98
13th IEEE International Conference
October 13-16, 1998
Sheraton Princess Kaiulani
City Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Doctoral Symposium Information
Call for Participation
The Doctoral Symposium at ASE'98 is intended to bring together
PhD students working on foundations, techniques, tools and applications
of automated software engineering technology and give them the
opportunity to present and to discuss their research in a constructive
and international atmosphere. The goals of the symposium are:
- To provide a setting for mutual feedback on participants' current
research, and guidance on future research directions
- To develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of
collaborative research
- To contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other
researchers and conference events.
The Doctoral Symposium will be held before and during the main
conference. We will spend the the day before the conference in a one
day workshop, in which the selected students each present their work,
and get constructive feedback from one another, and from a panel of
advisors. The workshop will also include two invited talks on topics
relevant to the process of completing a PhD and writing a
thesis. During the conference itself, the symposium participants will
run a plenary panel session. This session will include a brief summary
of the work presented at the DC and an award for the best
presentation. It will then invite an open discussion session in which
the normal rules of a panel session are reversed: students
participating in the DC will pose questions to the audience, to seek
advice on various aspects of doing a PhD.
The ASE'98 DC has the same scope as the main Conference. Topics
include but are not restricted to:
- Architecture
- Automating software design and synthesis
- Automated software specification and analysis
- Computer-supported cooperative work, groupware
- Domain modeling
- Education
- Knowledge acquisition
- Maintenance and evolution
- Process and workflow management
- Program understanding
- Re-engineering
- Requirements engineering
- Reuse
- User interfaces and human-computer interaction
- Testing
- Verification and validation
Submissions
To apply for participation at the symposium, you should submit an
abstract of your doctoral work to the workshop organizers. Only
electronic submissions will be accepted, in either PDF or Postscript
only. Abstracts should be less than 3000 words, and should:
- clearly identify the research question you are addressing,
- outline the significant problems in the field of
research and the current solutions,
- present the preliminary ideas and state the proposed
approach clearly, and
- present the contributions of the applicant and the
results of the work.
In addition, you should provide a letter of recommendation from your
thesis advisor. It must include an assessment of the current status of
your thesis research, and an expected date for thesis submission. Note
that the DC is intended for students who have not yet completed their
thesis research, and do not expect to write up their theses before the
conference. If you are already writing your thesis, or expect to be
substantially done by the time of the DC, we encourage you to submit your
work as a full paper to a future ASE conference.
Submissions will be reviewed by the Doctoral Symposium advisors panel,
and selected for inclusion in the symposium on the basis of originality,
technical merit, presentation quality, and relevance to the conference
topics. The selected abstracts will appear in the conference
proceedings.
Admission is limited to 8 students.
A Poster Session is planned for the main conference. If you are selected
to present at the DC, you should also prepare a poster about your
thesis work. You will be given the opportunity to display and discuss the
poster during the conference.
Financial Support
We hope to be able to offer financial support to some or all of the DC
presenters, to cover travel to the conference. If you are interested in
applying for a travel grant, please let us know.
Important Dates
Deadline for submission : July 10th, 1998
Notification of acceptance : August 3rd, 1998
Camera-ready paper due : August 10th, 1998
ASE'98 : October 13-16, 1998
Contact Address
Questions regarding the doctoral symposium should be directed to:
Dr. Steve Easterbrook
Senior Research Associate,
NASA/WVU Software Research Lab,
100 University Drive,
Fairmont, WV 26554, USA
Phone: +1 304 367 8352
Fax: +1 304 367 8211
Steve.Easterbrook@ivv.nasa.gov
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