Call for Papers
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CAiSE-DC2009
CAiSE Doctoral Consortium 2009

     	
9-10 June 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  (held in conjunction with CAiSE09)

The CAiSE Doctoral Consortium 2009 is an international forum for PhD 
students working in the areas addressed by the CAiSE conference. The 
forum is intended to bring together PhD students and give them the 
opportunity to present and discuss their research in a constructively 
critical atmosphere. The consortium will operate in a workshop format, 
giving PhD students an opportunity to showcase their research and 
providing them with feedback from senior international researchers. We 
particularly encourage students that are somewhere in the middle of 
their research to submit to this workshop.

The goals of the Doctoral Consortium event are
- To provide fruitful feedback and advice to the selected Ph.D. students 
on their research thesis.
- To provide the opportunity to meet experts from different backgrounds 
working on topics related to the Information Systems Engineering field.
- To interact with other PhD students and stimulate an exchange of ideas 
and suggestions among participants.

A CAiSE Doctoral Consortium Faculty panel consisting of prominent 
researchers in the field of information systems engineering will 
actively reflect on the research work and will contribute to the 
discussions. The workshop in Amsterdam will be the 16th Doctoral 
Consortium of a series held in conjunction with the CAiSE conferences.

The submitted paper must give a clear description of the PhD work being 
conducted by author of the paper, and in particular:
- provide a clear description of the research problem being addressed,
- motivate the proposed research, i.e. state why the research work is 
being conducted, and what benefits the research will bring,
- outline the current knowledge of the problem domain, briefly describe  
what existing work the research builds upon (citing key papers), and  
also briefly describe any existing solutions that have been developed or 
are currently being developed (citing key papers),
- present clearly preliminary results and scientific papers from the 
research work, and propose a plan of research to complete the research,
- point out the contributions of the applicant to the solution of the  
problem, and state in what aspects the suggested solution is different, 
new or better as compared to existing approaches to the problem.

However, the paper need not be structured to answer those questions 
directly, but may instead follow the format of a standard conference 
paper. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee with 
respect to overall quality of presentation, the potential for future 
impact of the proposed PhD research on the field of Information Systems 
Engineering, and the likely benefit to the student of attending the 
consortium.

The DC will be organized on June 9 and 10. The arrangement will allow 
participants to visit the CAiSE workshops for the same price (apart from 
proceedings) and to attend the keynote speech at the first day of the 
conference.

Important dates
23rd February 2009  	Paper submission deadline
31st March 2009   	Notification of acceptance
30th April 2009   	Final camera-ready copy of paper
3rd June 2008    	Copy of presentation supplied to organizers
9-10 June 2009   	Workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Submission Instructions
To apply for participation at the Doctoral Consortium, please submit 
your paper via http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caisedc2009
Submissions must be made in PDF format, by the deadline stated, and the 
paper must conform to the Springer's LNCS format. The paper is 
restricted to 4000 words (approximately 8 pages). Submissions must be 
single-author, but the name of the supervisor should also be mentioned 
within the paper.

PC Co-chairs and Workshop Organizers
Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University
Hans Weigand, University of Tilburg