The Doctoral Symposium at the 21st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’13) brings together PhD students working in requirements engineering and facilitates the interaction among PhD students and RE researchers. Students present their research to receive constructive feedback from a panel of senior international researchers. The doctoral symposium is run in a highly interactive and workshop-like format.
The Doctoral Symposium welcomes PhD students who have already settled on a dissertation topic and whose PhD dissertation will benefit from external feedback. Such students will typically be midway through their PhD work.
To apply as a student participant to the Doctoral Symposium you need to submit a package consisting of two parts no later than April 3rd, 2013.
Part 1. Research Abstract
Research abstracts must be formatted according to the IEEE formatting guidelines provided here and must not exceed 4 pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures. Research abstracts must be in English and must be submitted via Easychair in PDF format.
The research abstract should include:
The sections of the research abstract do not have to follow the above structure, but must have similar content. Students at a relatively early stage of their research might have some difficulty addressing all of the content requirements, but should attempt to do so as well as they can.
Submissions should contain no proprietary or confidential material and should cite no proprietary or confidential publications.
Part 2: Recommendation Letter
Ask your (main) dissertation advisor for a letter of recommendation. This letter should include:
The letter should be in PDF format and should be sent directly by your advisor via e-mail to both the RE’13 Doctoral Symposium Chairs, Ana Moreira and Paul Grünbacher. This letter will be held confidential. The e-mail should have the subject "RE13-DS-Recommendation" and your last name.
The Doctoral Symposium Committee will select participants using the following three criteria:
If you are accepted as a student participant at the Doctoral Symposium, you should plan to attend the Requirements Engineering conference. The organizing committee offers scholarships allowing students to attend the conference in return for acting as a student volunteer, and priority is given to applications from students participating in the Doctoral Symposium.
If you wish to be considered for a volunteer scholarship, you are encouraged to apply to the Student Volunteer program of RE’13 immediately after you are notified about acceptance as a participant in the Doctoral Symposium.
*All deadlines are 23:59 Pago Pago, American Samoa time
Gustavo Rossi, Lifia, Argentina
Jane Cleland Huang, DePaul University, USA
Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands
John Grundy, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Neil Maiden, City University London, UK
Xavier Franch, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Daniel Amyot, University of Ottawa, Canada
Pete Sawyer, University of Lancaster, UK
Martin Glinz, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Universidade Federal da Bahia and Fraunhofer Project Center (FPC) for Software and Systems Engineering, Brasil
For more information, please contact the RE’13 Doctoral Symposium Chairs:
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