Automated Software Engineering - ASE'99
14th IEEE International Conference
October 12-15, 1999
Cocoa Beach Hilton
Cocoa Beach, Florida USA
Doctoral Symposium Information
Call for Participation
The ASE'99 Doctoral Symposium 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, on
October 11, in a one day symposium where selected students each present
their work and receive constructive feedback from a panel of advisors
and other Doctoral Symposium students. The symposium will also include
two invited talks on topics relevant to the process of completing a
PhD and writing a Dissertation. Job search issues will be discussed
with informal evening sessions to discuss academic and industrial job
expectations. 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 Symposium. It
will then invite an open discussion session in which the normal rules
of a panel session are reversed: students participating in the
Symposium will pose questions to the audience, to seek advice on
various aspects of completing a PhD and performing research as a young
professional in automated software engineering.
The ASE'99 Doctoral Symposium 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 symposium organizers. Only
electronic submissions will be accepted. All submissions must be in
either PDF or PostScript form. 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
dissertation advisor. The letter must include an assessment of the
current status of your thesis research, and an expected date for
dissertation submission. The Doctoral Symposium is intended for
students who have not yet completed their dissertation research, and
do not expect to write up their dissertation before the conference. If
you are already writing your dissertation, or expect to be
substantially done by the time of the Symposium, we encourage you to
submit your work as a full paper to a future ASE conference. Note
that advisors of student presenters will not be allowed to attend
their student's presentations.
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.
Admission is limited to 10 students. However, all students
submitting abstracts will be invited to attend the Symposium and
participate in discussions.
A Poster Session is planned for the main conference. If you are
selected to present at the Symposium, 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.
A Doctoral Symposium Proceedings will be provided that will include
accepted papers.
Financial Support
Travel scholarships may be available for some or all participants
contingent on the availability of funding. Quality of the submitted
work will be a factor in allocating any scholarships. All student
participants will receive free registration, and will be expected to
work the registration tables during the conference in return.
Important Dates
Deadline for submission : July 15th, 1999
Notification of acceptance : August 3rd, 1999
Camera-ready paper due : August 10th, 1999
Symposium Presentations : October 11, 1999
ASE'99 : October 12-15, 1999
Contact Address
Questions regarding the doctoral symposium should be directed to:
Dr. Perry Alexander
Associate Professor
ECECS Department
The University of Cincinnati
PO Box 210030 / 814 Rhodes Hall
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0030, USA
Phone: +1 513 556 4762
Fax: +1 513 556 7326
Perry.Alexander@acm.org
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