Final call for papers

                              CAiSE*03

          Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering

                      10th Doctoral Consortium

                          Velden, Austria

                          16-17 June, 2003


OVERVIEW


The Doctoral Consortium on Advanced Information Systems Engineering are
intended to bring together Ph.D. students within the information systems
engineering field and give them the opportunity to present and to discuss
their research in a constructive and international atmosphere. The workshop
lasts two days and about 10 - 15 Ph.D. students will have the possibility to
participate.  The CAiSE*03 Doctoral Consortium will be accompanied by four
prominent professors in the field of information systems which will actively
participate and contribute to the discussions.

The workshop in Velden will be the 10th Doctoral Consortium of a series held
in conjunction with the CAiSE conferences in Utrecht (1994), in Jyvaskyla
(19), Heraklion (1996), Barcelon (1997), Pisa (1998), Heidelber (1999),
Stockholm (2000), Interlaken (2001) and in Toronto (2002).
The workshop will be held during the first two days (16-17th June 2003) of
the CAiSE*03 conference.  The Workshop language is English.


OBJECTIVES


Aim of the CAiSE Doctoral Consortium is to support the research done by
doctoral students with constructive remarks and feedback from prominent
scientists in the information systems field. The Doctoral Consortium will
be rounded off by a discussion of general questions related to Ph.D.
research. They include, but are not limited to, the following aspects:

- problem formulation,
- analysis and evaluation of the state of the Ph.D. thesis,
- research methodology, including
  - underlying principles of the approach,
  - utility of the approach, as well as
  - validation of the results.
- critical evaluation of one's own work, including
  - identification of the target audience and beneficiaries of a thesis,
  - validation techniques (e.g. prototyping, field experiment),
  - definition of the innovative contribution of a thesis to the existing 
    state of the art.


WORKSHOP TOPICS


The CAiSE Doctoral Consortia deal with the topics of the main Conference. In
2003 these topics include but are not restricted to

- Methodologies and Models for IS
- Requirements Engineering for IS
- Infrastructure for Internet Business Models
- Data Warehousing & OLAP 
- E-government
- Information Quality
- Privacy and Security
- Web Content Management and Distribution
- Workflow Systems, Knowledge Management
- Metadata and Ontologies
- Support for Cooperative Work
- Novel Database Technologies
- Distributed and Mobile Architectures
- OO and Agent-Oriented Technologies and their Applications to IS 
  Development
- Aspect-Oriented IS-Design
- XML and IS
- Languages and Protocols for IS
- Component-Ware and IS
- IS Reengineering
- Advanced Application Domains
- IS Usability
- Interfaces to IS
- Validation and Evaluation of IS Models
- Web Services
- Mobile Commerce Systems
- Semantic Web


PARTICIPATING FACULTY


The 10th Doctoral consortium will be accompanied by four leading researchers
in the IS field. These faculty members will come from a variety of
disciplines as well as from a variety of countries to provide the broadest
possible expertise. The faculty members for CAiSE DC 2003 are:

- Jeffrey Parsons
- Richard Welke
- Hans Opelland
- Sudha Ram


SUBMISSIONS


Different from other papers, this paper addresses specifically the Ph.D.
thesis! To apply for participation at the Doctoral Consortium, please
provide an abstract of your doctoral work to the contact address of the
workshop organisers. The abstract is restricted to 4000 words (approximately
8 pages). Submissions must be submitted electronically in postscript or pdf
format.

The abstract should

- clearly formulate the research question,
- identify the significant problems in the field of research,
- outline the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the 
  state of existing solutions,
- present clearly any preliminary ideas, the proposed
  approach and the results achieved so far,
- sketch the research methodology that is applied,
- point out the contributions of the applicant to the problem solution, and
- state in what aspects the suggested solution is different, new or better 
  as compared to existing approaches to the problem.

Submissions will be judged on orginality, significance, correctness, and
clarity by the previous year's participants.  Admission is limited to 10 -
15 Ph.D. students.

The participants of the doctoral consortium are strongly encouraged to also
register for and attend the main conference.


PROCEEDINGS


Accepted papers will be published as workshop proceedings and made available
on the World Wide Web.


IMPORTANT DATES


Deadline for submission:             February 28th, 2003
Notification of acceptance:          April 11th, 2003
Camera-ready paper due:              May 2nd, 2003
Doctoral Consortium:                 June 16-17th, 2003
CAiSE*03                             June 16-20th, 2003


CONTACT ADDRESS


Electronic mail concerning the Doctoral Consortium should be sent to
caise03dc-bhJw6GgyJZ+AAKSGBh5CnQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The homepage of the Doctoral 
Consortium can be
found at http://carlson.commerce.ubc.ca/caise03dc.


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS


Julia Kotlarsky
Department of Decision & Information Sciences
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, The Netherlands
Burg. Oudlaan 50
P.O. Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
The Netherlands
phone: +31 (0)10 4081757
fax:   +31-(0)10-4089010
email: jkotlarsky-N92oPycZH+Tz+pZb47iToQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Eva Soderstrom
Department of Computer Science
The University of Skovde
Box 408
54128 Skovde
Sweden
phone: +46 (0) 500-44 83 47
fax:   +46 (0) 500-44 83 99
email: eva.soderstrom-Ytc6QatJ6EnLoDKTGw+V6w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Joerg Evermann
Management Information Systems Division
Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration
The University of British Columbia
2053 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z2
Canada
phone: +1 604 822 0490
fax:   +1 604 822 0045
email: joerg.evermann-bhJw6GgyJZ8oA39v8rTeAQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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