ICWE 2016 PHD SYMPOSIUM
IMPORTANT DATES

* Paper submission: 22 February 2016 (23h59 Hawaii Time)
* Notification of acceptance: 16 March 2016 (23h59 Hawaii Time)
* Camera-ready: 23 March 2016 (23h59 Hawaii Time)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The ICWE 2016 PhD Symposium aims to improve the research of PhD students and
broaden their perspectives by giving them the opportunity to share and
develop their research ideas in a supportive environment, get feedback from
senior members of the Web engineering community, improve their communication
skills, exchange ideas, and build relationships with other international Web
engineering PhD students.

This event will bring together PhD students working on topics related to the
Web Engineering field. The goal is to provide a forum for PhD students to
present ongoing research in a collaborative environment and share ideas with
other young researchers in an international atmosphere.

Selected contributions will be presented in a dedicated conference session
where participants will discuss their research ideas and results, and
receive constructive feedback from an audience consisting of their peers as
well as more senior experts in the field. In addition to that, students will
be invited to participate at the poster sessions so that they also receive
comments of other participants in the conference.

PhD students carrying out research in Web Engineering are invited to submit
a paper to the PhD Symposium, to be reviewed by the program committee
members. We particularly encourage submissions from students who are at the
last stages of their doctoral work, but with sufficient time prior to
completing their dissertation, and from those who are in the beginning
stages, but have a specific research proposal, who can obtain valuable
feedback about their research plans.

The criteria used for accepting a paper include potential quality of the
research, contribution of the work to the field of Web Engineering,
originality of the work, and overall quality of paper.

All PhD Symposium papers will appear in the main conference proceedings that
will be published in Springer LNCS.


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Length: Submissions must not be longer than 6 (six) pages.

Format: Submissions should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS
guidelines (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) and must include:

* author's name;
* affiliation;
* a 150 words abstract;
* the name of the student's PhD supervisor(s);
* the problem(s) that the proposed research is going to solve and the
motivation for solving them;
* related work: current approaches to solve this problem;
* the aims and objectives of the proposed research;
* the research methodology to be used to achieve the research goals,
including a brief description of the work done to date and a tentative plan
for future work;
* the main contribution(s) of the research to Web Engineering.

Submission: Authors should submit their contributions to the ICWE 2016 PhD
Symposium submission site at EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icwe2016

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Devis Bianchini, University of Brescia, Italy
Maria Bielikova, SlovakUniversity of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Alexandra Cristea, University of Warwick, UK
Damiano Distante, Unitelma Sapienza University, Italy
Tommaso Di Noia, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
PeterDolog, Aalborg University, Denmark
Martin Gaedke, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Ivan Jelínek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
In-Young Ko, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Manuel Wimmer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

PHD SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS

Flavious Frasincar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Gustavo Rossi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
Marco Winckler, Universite de Toulouse, France
Contact: [email protected]