ER2008 PhD WORKSHOP
27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2008)

October 20-23, 2008, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Conference Web Site: http://www.upc.edu/ER2008

The ER2008 PhD Workshop is intended to bring together PhD students working on topics related to the ER conference series. The workshop will offer PhD students the opportunity to present, discuss, and receive feedback on their research in a constructive and collegial atmosphere. Prominent researchers in the field of conceptual modeling will attend the workshop and mentor the participant students. The workshop is co-located with the ER2008 conference and will take place on the first conference day (Monday, October 20th, 2008). The workshop language is English.

The PhD Workshop is intended for students who have already settled on a specific research proposal and have some preliminary results, but still have enough time remaining before submitting their dissertation so that they can benefit from workshop feedback. The technical scope of the PhD Workshop is the same as that of the ER2008.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

First session
Albert Tort - Test-Driven Conceptual Modeling: A Method and a Tool Changheon Lee - Assessing the Value of Conceptual Modeling: A cost-benefit study Ken Decreus -Requirements-driven development in SUPER
Second session
Fernando Silva Parreiras - Marrying Ontologies and Model Driven Engineering Technical Spaces: The TwoUse approach Shyam Goyal - From Situational to Functional Method Engineering Lina Lubyte - Supporting the Design of Ontologies for Data Access
Third session
Jennifer Horkoff - Evaluation and Analysis of Goal-Oriented Models Valérie Emin - A goal-oriented authoring approach to design, share and reuse learning scenarios Golnaz Elahi - Goal-Oriented Security Trade-Off Modeling and Analysis with Knowledge Support

 

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission:         Notification:         Camera-ready:

May 4, 2008 June 2, 2008 June 30, 2008

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Students willing to participate in the PhD Workshop must submit an abstract describing their doctoral work. The abstract should not exceed 5 pages in the LNCS conference-proceedings style and must cover the following aspects:

• a clear formulation of the research topic
• an outline of the significant problems in the field and their current solutions
• a description of the proposed approach and its expected contributions
• a summary of results, including their (proposed) evaluation method

The abstract must be submitted electronically to Jordi Cabot in PDF format. All submissions will be acknowledged.

Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, technical merit, presentation quality and relevance to the workshop topics. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the workshop program committee (PhD Chairs plus PhD Mentors).

PUBLICATION

No formal proceedings will be published (so that future publication of PhD thesis work in conferences or journals is not hampered). Accepted submissions will be made available to participants electronically.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Questions about the Phd Workshop should be addressed to either of the workshop co-chairs.

PhD WORKSHOP CHAIRS

, University of Toronto, Canada
, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
, Laboratory for Applied Ontology ISTC-CNR, Italy & Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil

PhD MENTORS

Óscar Pastor

Technical University of Valencia, Spain

Bernhard Thalheim

Kiel University, Germany

Sudha ram

University of Arizona, USA

Roel Wieringa

University of Twente, The Netherlands