Doctoral Symposium Call for Papers

The Doctoral Symposium of the IEEE World Congress on Services (IEEE SERVICES 2020) will provide a forum for PhD students in all areas of services computing. It aims at offering them visibility, feedback and advice on their PhD research activities and careers, as well as the opportunity of networking among students/researchers at a similar stage in their careers.

The Doctoral Symposium is intended to be a venue to provide a supportive setting in which PhD students can present their work at any stage (just started, partially finished, or almost finished).

Selected students will virtually present their work in front of an audience, having the opportunity to receive feedback, and learn from each other’s experiences.

The proceedings of the doctoral symposium will be published as part of IEEE SERVICES 2020 Proceedings through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for EI indexing. The paper should focus on the research problem in your dissertation. You can include your partial or even preliminary ideas, results as well as the proposed solution of your problem, or a high-level summary of your published work. Each submitted paper will receive detailed reviews with friendly feedback.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: July 24 August 2, 2020
Author Notification: August 4, 2020
Camera-Ready manuscript deadline: August 7, 2020

Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers, intended to be full paper of 4 pages-length, or poster paper of 2 pages-length, which includes figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review.

Authors should make sure that their file will print on a printer that uses letter-size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the conference is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Please visit the Instructions for Authors page on the Congress website.

To be qualified such papers must have one student as the first author and presented by the student. Papers already accepted by the conference’s program chairs, even with a student as the first author, cannot be considered as student papers and must register with full registration fee.

Doctoral symposium papers submissions should be made at the EasyChair submission site. Select “Doctoral Symposium” track: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeservices2020

Registration Rate

We do require each doctoral symposium paper be properly registered with the student advance registration rate: https://conferences.computer.org/services/2020/registration/
Note: Student registration will open between August 4-17.

Publication

Papers for the doctoral symposium will be published as part of IEEE SERVICES 2020 Proceedings through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS), which will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for EI indexing, and will be distributed electronically at the conference. Once your paper/poster is selected, the Publication Chair will forward your contact information to the IEEE CPS staff editor, who will send you the author kit/camera-ready uploading information.

Topics of Interest

The symposium is open to all Ph.D. students carrying out research on topics related to the theme of IEEE SERVICES conference. The topics of interest are the same as in the 2020 SERVICES Call for Papers: https://conferences.computer.org/services/2020/cfp/

Presentation Talk

The authors of selected 4-page DS papers will be allotted short speaking slots to present their work at the IEEE SERVICES Doctoral Symposium including a real-time Q&A. The authors of selected 2-page DS poster papers will be asked to submit a poster (specification will be given later) and give a short pitch talk in the DS Posters Sessions.

Doctoral Symposium Committee Chairs

Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria
Bing Li, Wuhan University
Shao Chun (Jery) Li, IBM Research China