Doctoral Consortium

The AH Doctoral Consortium (DC) is a special track of AH2006 designed to provide young researchers with an opportunity to gain experience presenting their research to a wider community. The aims of the Doctoral Consortium are:

• To provide doctoral students working in the field of adaptive hypermedia and personalisation with a friendly and open forum to present their research ideas, listen to ongoing work from peer students, and receive constructive feedback
• To provide students with relevant information about important issues for doctoral candidates and future academics.
• To develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research.
• To support a new generation of researchers with information and advice on academic, research, industrial, and non-traditional career paths.

The DC is designed for students currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program, though we are also open to exceptions (e.g., students currently in a Masters program and interested in doctoral studies). It allows participants to interact with established researchers and with other students, through presentations, question-answer sessions, panel discussions, and invited presentations.

Submission and Review

Research submissions in the many and varied aspects of adaptive hypermedia and adaptive web-based systems are encouraged (see “Topics of Interest” page for further details). All submissions must be formatted according to Springer LNCS guidelines (the same format that is used for the main technical stream) and should be no longer than 5 pages in length. All submissions to the Doctoral Consortium will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be provided with a 15-minute presentation slot, followed by 10 minutes questions and answers, during the consortium track. Full papers will be published as a separate conference proceedings with an extended abstract appearing in the main conference proceedings.

Given that this stream is targeted towards very early-stage postgraduate
researchers we understand that few will have prepared a conference
submission before. Thus, when preparing your submissions here are some
points you should try to address.

• What problem, issue, or question does this research address?
• What limitations or failings of current understanding, knowledge,
  methods,
  or technologies does this research resolve?
• What is the significance is the problem, issue, or question?
• What is the proposal (i.e., what experiments, prototypes, or studies will
  be done to achieve the stated goal?).
• How much progress has been made, and what are the current challenges
  presented to the research student?
• How will achievement or contribution of the research be demonstrated or validated?
  

Important Dates

Paper submissions: February 3, 2006
Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2006
Final versions due: March 31, 2006
AH 2006 conference: June 20-23, 2006

Doctorial Consortium Chairs

Lorraine McGinty,
School of Computer Science and Informatics, College of Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University College Dublin, Ireland.
Email: lorraine.mcginty@ucd.ie

Peter Brusilovsky, Department of Information Science and Telecommunications, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Email: peterb@mail.sis.pitt.edu

Click here to download a PDF version of the DC Call for Papers