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PhD Symposium |
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Goal The symposium will be a two half days held during the main ICST conference. The goal is several-fold: To provide constructive feedback and guidance to doctoral students who are performing their dissertation research in the fields of software testing and verification and validation, to develop a supportive community of researchers and potential collaborators, and to permit students to interact with established researchers and practitioners in the field. Scope The symposium will serve both "early" post-qualifier PhD researchers who have some preliminary results as well as ABDs (all but dissertation students) who have at least another six months before their dissertation defence. Each paper will present a research summary, maximum of four pages in the conference style. The first author of the paper will be the student reporting on his/her research. Nevertheless, other co-authors (e.g. his/her advisor's) are allowed. We expect all students of accepted papers to give a short presentation. After the public presentation, the students will receive oral feedback from a panel of researchers/practitioners. The students may also seek advice regarding: Completion of a PhD, how to perform research in testing, how to design and execute empirical research, etc. Review Process There will be a screening process based on a short research summary. The following criteria will be considered: - Quality of the research - Relevance of the research to software testing, verification and validation, - Quality of the summary,Diversity of background, research topic, and approach, and - Stage of the research. Therefore, your summary should include the following issues: - The problem to be addressed by your thesis (justify the importance and show that it has not yet been addressed), - Your research hypothesis, - The expected contributions of your dissertation research, - Your proposed research approach, - Summary of results to date, and - How you plan to evaluate your results and present these to the community.
Your research summary must conform to the ICST 2010 Format and Submission Guidelines and must be a maximum of four pages with main text in 10 point font, including all text, references, appendices, and figures. All submissions must be in English.
Upon notification of acceptance, all authors of accepted research summaries will be asked to complete a Copyright form and will receive further instructions for preparing their camera ready versions for publication in the conference proceedings. How to Submit In addition to the submission, the student's advisor should email to the Ph. D. symposium co-chairs (see below) a letter of recommendation. The letter must include an assessment of the current status of your thesis research, and the expected date for dissertation submission. Submissions are managed through easychair. Important Dates
Doctoral Symposium Committee Co-Chairs Fatiha Zaïdi, University Paris Sud-XI, France Manuel Núñez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Atif Memon, University of Maryland, USA Panel Members TBC
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General ChairMarie-Claude Gaudel, France |