OSS 2013 - OSS 2013 Doctoral Consortium

OSS Doctoral Consortium
The 9th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2013) will feature a Doctoral Consortium on June 25. This site provides information about the goals, scope, guidelines and organizers and program committee.
Goal
The goal of the doctoral consortium is to provide PhD students with an environment in which they can share and discuss their goals, methods and results of their research. During the doctoral consortium students will give a presentation of their current progress. The doctoral consortium provides students with feedback on their work from other students and faculty members, allowing them to enhance their own research proposal.
Scope
The scope of research topics of the doctoral consortium is the same as for the main conference. Therefore, we invite submissions related to all forms of open initiatives. Open source systems (OSS) now extend beyond software to include open access, open documents, open science, open education, open government, open cloud, open hardware, open artworks and museum exhibits, open innovation and more. Submissions may discuss any aspects of open source including, but not limited to software engineering, social and cultural, diffusion and deployment, legal and economic issues. Students who submit a paper to the doctoral consortium should have decided on a research topic or topic area, and have a proposal for an appropriate research method. Preferably, students should be at least a year from completion of their research in order to be able to incorporate the feedback obtained during the consortium in their dissertation.
Submission Guidelines
Papers submitted to the doctoral consortium should be no longer than 10 pages, including references and appendices, and should be formatted using the guidelines set by the main conference. Submissions that do not adhere to the submission guidelines will be desk-rejected without review by the Program Committee. Each submission must include title, author name and affiliation, abstract, list of keywords and a complete list of references. Papers will be subjected to a single-blind review (in which the authors don’t know the reviewers, but the reviewers know the authors).
Submissions should at least discuss the following elements: the background of the research, the motivation for the research, the research question(s) addressed in the study and a description of the proposed research method. Students in the later stages of their research are encouraged to include an overview of their completed research activities.
Submissions must be formatted according to the guidelines set by the OSS main conference.
Please submit your contribution through the EasyChair system.
Acceptance and Proceedings
We invite high-quality submissions of work that is not under review elsewhere. All submissions will be subject to rigorous peer-review by at least 3 members of the Program Committee. Papers will be selected based on: (i) Quality of Contents, (ii) Quality of presentation, and (iii) Novelty and relevance for the Open Source field.
Accepted papers will be published in a separate proceedings volume from the main OSS conference, with an ISBN. Submitting a paper to the Doctoral Consortium represents the author’s agreement to allow the Doctoral Consortium Chairs to publish the paper in the Doctoral Consortium proceedings without compensation to the author. The parties understand that the author is granting a nonexclusive license and all copyrights remain the property of the author.
Authors of accepted papers are required to register for and attend the doctoral consortium. They will also be asked to give a 20-minute presentation on their work, followed by a 20 minutes discussion during which the DC panel and the audience provide feedback on the work.
Acceptance and Proceedings
We invite high-quality submissions of work that is not under review elsewhere. All submissions will be subject to rigorous peer-review by at least 3 members of the Program Committee. Papers will be selected based on: (i) Quality of Contents, (ii) Quality of presentation, and (iii) Novelty and relevance for the Open Source field.
Accepted papers will be published in a separate proceedings volume from the main OSS conference, with an ISBN. Submitting a paper to the Doctoral Consortium represents the author’s agreement to allow the Doctoral Consortium Chairs to publish the paper in the Doctoral Consortium proceedings without compensation to the author. The parties understand that the author is granting a nonexclusive license and all copyrights remain the property of the author.
Authors of accepted papers are required to register for and attend the doctoral consortium. They will also be asked to give a 20-minute presentation on their work, followed by a 20 minutes discussion during which the DC panel and the audience provide feedback on the work.
Organizing Chairs
Björn Lundell, University of Skövde, Sweden
Gregory Madey, University of Notre Dame, USA
Klaas-Jan Stol, Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland
Program Committee (to be completed)
Cornelia Boldyreff, University of East London, UK
Andrea Capiluppi, Brunel University, UK
U. Yeliz Eseryel, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Pat Finnegan, University of New South Wales, Australia
Joseph Feller, University College Cork, Ireland
Brian Fitzgerald, University of Limerick, Ireland
Jonas Gamalielsson, University of Skövde, Sweden
Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, MERIT, the Netherlands
Imed Hammouda, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Chris Jensen, University of California, Irvine
Stefan Koch, Bogazici University, Turkey
Lorraine Morgan, NUI Galway, Ireland
Tetsuo Noda, Shimane University, Japan
John Noll, University of Limerick, Ireland
Gregorio Robles, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
Barbara Russo, University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Walt Scacchi, University of California, Irvine
Maha Shaikh, Warwick Business School, UK
Giancarlo Succi, University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Tony Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon University, USA