LDIC 2014 - Doctoral Workshop at LDIC 2014

Doctoral Workshop at LDIC 2014
Bremen, Germany, February 10, 2014
The Doctoral Workshop is one of the Satellite Events of the 4th International Conference on Dynamics in Logistics ? LDIC 2014. The LDIC 2014 is held in conjunction with the 2nd conference ?Impact of Virtual, Remote and Real Logistics Labs” - ImViReLL’14.
The Doctoral Workshop addresses doctoral candidates in an early stage of their PhD project. It offers an opportunity to present and to defend the own research topic, the first ideas for a research approach and the first findings. The purpose is to generate impact for the progress and the excellence of the thesis by discussing and reviewing the research proposals and to present the own research in an international context. Thus, a second integral aspect of the Doctoral Workshop will be the training of professional presentation skills for science and academia.
The Doctoral Workshop intends to provide those PhD students an opportunity who do not have enough results to contribute with a full conference paper. Nevertheless, the doctoral candidates should take the opportunity to participate also in the conferences which give access to the worldwide leading capacities in the area of logistics. The accepted participants will be invited to register as student.
Addressed Topics
All research topics which are called for the LDIC conference are also relevant for the Doctoral Workshop. The research proposals should address one of the topics listed at www.ldic-conference.org.
Submission Rules
The Doctoral Workshop bases on the submission of a research plan (not more than 5 pages) which will be reviewed by the Program Committee. In case of acceptance, the candidates are invited to present their topic (10 min. rehearsal, 20 min. feedback/review, 5 min. presentation). The Doctoral Workshop will start with a tutorial to introduce and train the basics of a professional presentation style and research methodology. The Program Committee will reward the most promising PhD project as well as the best presentation with a Certificate.
Content of the Research Plan
1. Introduction
2. Motivation
3. Research Problem
4. Research Objective
5. Expected results / generated knowledge
6. Research methodology
7. Links to other disciplines
Time Schedule
September 30, 2013
Submission deadline for research proposals
November 12, 2013
Acceptance of submissions
February 10, 2014
Doctoral Workshop with training unit
February 11 ? 13, 2014
LDIC Conference
Conference Dinner
Nomination of the best research proposal and of the most impressive presentation
Submission of Research Proposals
Research proposals should be submitted in PDF format to PhDWs-AT-LogDynamics.com
before September 30, 2013.
Chairs of the Doctoral Workshop
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Marcus Seifert, BIBA
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge, IGS, University of Bremen