Doctorial colloquium

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for the submission of Doctoral Colloquium abstracts (200-300 words): March 1, 2011
Doctoral Colloquium notification of acceptance: March 21, 2011
Doctoral Colloquium submission of full paper: April 11, 2011
Doctoral Colloquium session: July 27, 2011

The aims of this Colloquium are both social and educational -  to provide research students in the early to mid phases of their PhD (or equivalent) projects an opportunity to meet other people in a similar position, to make relatively informal presentations on their work, to discuss each other’s experiences, ideas and findings, to make connections and to have fun!

Research students should first submit an abstract between 200 and 300 words. On positive evaluation of this abstract, they will be asked to submit a short paper (maximum 4 pages), which shall be included in the conference proceedings to be published by IEEE. Note that the main author of all contributions to the Doctoral Colloquium MUST be a student registered for a PhD or similar research degree. Guidelines for submission can be found here.

All submissions should be on research degree (PhD or similar) projects on topics appropriate to the Intelligent Environments topics, which are either (a) in a relatively early stage, but where the investigating student has already identified the nature and key aspects of the problem(s), and has ideas regarding how to solve them, or (b) is at a stage where interesting results are being produced, but the work is not yet quite at a stage appropriate to produce a long paper. As a minimum, papers should describe a research problem, explain why that problem is important and interesting, detail what the existing solutions (if any) or relevant methods are, including why these are not sufficient or satisfactory, and give some indication of the new solutions or methodologies the student is pursuing. There should be enough substance to offer and stimulate discussion, but the work does not need to be complete.

CONTACT

If you have any suggestions as to what you would like included, or have any questions about the colloquium, then please email the colloquium chairs:

Gordon Hunter (Kingston University, U.K.), G.Hunter@kingston.ac.uk
Juan Antonio Botia Blaya (University of Murcia, Spain), juanbot@um.es