2nd Call for Papers: 11th Doctoral Consortium at CAiSE*2004

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2nd CALL FOR PAPERS for the 

11th Doctoral Consortium at 
CAiSE*04 - Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering 

Riga, Latvia 
7-8 June, 2004 



OVERVIEW 

The Doctoral Consortium on Advanced Information Systems Engineering is 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*04 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 
Riga will be the 11th Doctoral Consortium of a series held in conjunction with 
the CAiSE conferences 
in Utrecht (1994), in Jyväskylä (1995), in Heraklion (1996), in Barcelona 
(1997), in Pisa (1998), 
in Heidelberg (1999), in Stockholm (2000), in Interlaken (2001), in Toronto 
(2002) and in Klagenfurt/Velden (2003). 

The workshop will be held during the first two days (7-8th June 2004) of the 
CAiSE*04 conference. 
The Workshop language is English. 


IMPORTANT DATES 

Final deadline for submission: February 28th, 2004
Notification of acceptance: April 11th, 2004
Camera-ready paper due: May 2nd, 2004
Doctoral Consortium: June 7-8th, 2004
CAiSE*04: June 7-11th, 2004


AIMS & 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. 


PARTICIPATING FACULTY

Prof. Dr. Andreas L. Opdahl
Department of Information Science,
Faculty of Social Science
University of Bergen
Norway 

Prof. Dr. Hans J. Oppelland
Department of Management Information Systems, 
Faculty of Economics
Erasmus University of Rotterdam
The Netherlands

Prof. Dr. Naveen Prakash
Jaypee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT)
Faculty of Computers and Information Technology
Jaypee University of Information Techonology
India 

Assoc.Prof. Dr. Carson Woo
Management Information Systems Division, 
Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration
The University of British Columbia
Canada 



WORKSHOP TOPICS 

The CAiSE Doctoral Consortia deal with the topics of the main CAiSE Conference. 
In 2004 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 



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 organizers. 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 originality, 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. 


ANNOUNCEMENT OF PROCEEDINGS 

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


CONTACT ADDRESS 

Electronic mail concerning the Doctoral Consortium should be sent to 
caise04dc-bFQGk7XrAVGVDowBgJYIVQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
The homepage of the Doctoral Consortium can be found at 
http://caise04dc.idi.ntnu.no/. 


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS 

Xiaomeng Su
Department of Information and Computer Science 
Nowegian University of Science and Technology
7491 Trondheim
Norway
e-mail: xiaomeng-bFQGk7XrAVEXWF+eFR7m5Q@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

Ewald A. Kaluscha
University of Klagenfurt 
9020 Klagenfurt 
Austria 
e-mail: ewald.kaluscha-J4KdcPzKHHMdnm+yROfE0A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


WORKSHOP ADVISORS 

Eva Söderström
Department of Computer Science
The University of Skövde
Box 408, 54128 Skövde
Sweden

Joerg Evermann
School of Information Management
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600,6001 Wellington 
New Zealand 


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