OBJECTIVE
The Doctoral Consortium (DC) provides a forum for students to discuss and explore their research interests with a panel of established researchers in Autonomic Computing. Selected students will present their work in front of an audience that consists of both their peers and a committee of established researchers from industry and academia.
The goals of the DC are: (1) to provide feedback on participants’ dissertation topic and focus, and advice on initiating a research career; (2) develop a support community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research across academia and industry; (3) contribute to the conference goals through interactions with other researchers and participation in conference events.
SCOPE
The DC is open to all Ph.D students carrying out research on topics related to ICAC’s areas of interest. Example topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Production or prototype AC systems
- Self-managing element
- Management topics
- Fundamental science of self-managing systems
- Software architectures for self-managing systems
- System-level technologies, middleware or services
- Operating system support for autonomic systems
- Interfaces to autonomic systems
- Toolkits, environments, models, languages, runtime and compiler
- Experiences with autonomic system or component prototypes
- Other topics listed in the ICAC 2009 Call for Papers
SUBMISSIONS
Each submission must have a Ph.D student as the sole author or as the primary author with his/her thesis advisor(s) and should include the following materials (see left for submission instructions):
Research Proposal: A three-page proposal that outlines the following:
- Problem(s) being addressed
- The significance of the proposal and its relevance to Autonomic Computing
- Related work along with a discussion of their pros and cons
- The proposed plan for research including research approach and methodology adopted
- Expected contributions of the research and the novelty and benefits of the suggested solutions
- A description of the progress to date
Curriculum Vita: Include a CV (at most one page) that describes the student’s background and relevant experience (research, education, employment). The CV should mention how long the student has worked on his/her doctoral research and the expected date of completion. It is expected that students submitting to the DC would have one to two years left in their candidature so that they have enough time to incorporate the suggestions during their participation.
Support Letter: A support letter from the faculty, which states support for the student’s participation in the DC.
REVIEW PROCESS
The DC organizing committee will select participants on the basis of clarity and completeness of the submission packet, stage of research, evidence of research promise such as published papers or technical reports, as well as their anticipated contribution to the workshop goals. We solicit applications from any topic area within the scope of the ICAC conference. Students who have identified their thesis direction, but still have significant research to complete are eligible and will be considered; however, the ideal candidate for the DC is one who has recently had his/her research proposal accepted by the thesis committee.
AT THE CONFERENCE
The DC will be held during the conference. Each student will give a research presentation focusing on the main theme of the proposal and have discussions and feedback from the committee and other participants. After the students’ presentations, a 30 minute period will be reserved for group discussions to collect feedback and suggestions about the consortium organization and the participants.
The organizers invite all students to attend and participate in the Doctoral Consortium, whether or not they present their research. Authors of accepted proposals are expected to present their work at the DC and are encouraged to participate in other conference activities.
TRAVEL GRANTS
ICAC hopes to offer a limited number of travel grants to students who have their work accepted at the Consortium. The grant will cover part of the travel costs for the students to attend the Consortium. Details regarding the grants are being worked out and will be announced at the Consortium website.