Doctoral Symposium—Call for Papers

The DEBS 2023 Doctoral Symposium welcomes submissions from doctoral students who are undertaking research relevant to the DEBS 2023 conference. Topics covered include, but are not limited to:

Submission Guidelines

Doctoral symposium papers should describe the problem addressed as part of the PhD work, explain its importance, discuss the limitations of existing solutions and give some indication of steps taken towards a solution. There should be enough substance to stimulate discussion at the symposium, but the work does not need to be complete. We thus encourage submissions from students both at early and late stages of their doctoral work.

Submissions should be written based on the following structure, which focuses on the key methodological components required for a sound research synthesis:

Submissions must be no longer than 4 pages and must adhere to the two-column "sigconf" ACM conference proceeding style. Templates and examples in LaTeX and various versions of Microsoft Word are available for download from the ACM Master Article Template web pages at www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Papers must be in PDF (Adobe’s Portable Document Format) format and must be submitted electronically.

Submissions must be single-author, on the topic of the doctoral work. The name of the supervisor must be clearly marked (“supervised by …”) on the paper, under the author’s name.

All accepted submissions must be presented in person at the symposium. Distinguished scientists will be present to give feedback and advice to the students. During the event, presentations from authors can involve media other than traditional PowerPoint-style slideshows. Please note that in-person attendance is requested for the presenters of Doctoral Symposium.

Submission

Submit your paper using HotCRP: debs23dw.hotcrp.com. If you have any questions, please contact the Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs, Riccardo Tommasini (riccardo.tommasini<at>liris.cnrs.fr) and Senjuti Basu Roy (senjuti.basuroy<at>njit.edu) or the General Chair Valerio Schiavoni (valerio.schiavoni<at>unine.ch).

A short summary of each accepted project will be included in the published conference proceedings, but students are free to submit their work elsewhere in parallel, also.

An expert panel will judge the best submission and separately the best presentation by participating students.

Important Dates