Contact | News | Sponsors and Donors | Downloads  Understanding the stakeholders' desires and needs Papers | Tutorials | Workshops | Panels | Doctoral Symposium | Posters and Demos   Call for Doctoral Symposium Submissions The RE06 Doctoral Symposium is a one-day workshop to be held immediately preceding the main conference. Goal The RE'06 Doctoral Symposium is intended to bring together PhD students working on foundations, techniques, tools and applications of requirements engineering and give them the opportunity to present and discuss their research in a constructive and international atmosphere. The goals of the Consortium are: Provide a setting for constructive feedback on participants' current research and guidance on future research directions, Develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research, Provide an opportunity for student participants to interact with established researchers and others in the requirements engineering community. Organization Selected students will present their work and receive constructive feedback both from a panel of experts and from other Doctoral Symposium students. The students will also have the opportunity to seek advice on various aspects of completing a PhD and performing research in requirements engineering. The proceedings of the Doctoral Symposium will be published as an adjunct to the RE06 conference proceedings. Who should participate Student participants should consider participating in the Doctoral Symposium at least six months before completion of their dissertation, but after having settled on a research area or thesis topic. Review process Each prospective student participant will submit a package of materials for consideration. The participants will be selected on the basis of their anticipated contribution to the consortium goals as well as the potential benefit to the students. Among the criteria that will be considered in reviewing submissions are the potential quality of the research and its relevance to requirements engineering, the stage of the research (see the Section "Who should participate" above), the diversity of background, research topic, and approach. Submissions Each submission consists of two elements: 1. You have to submit a short paper describing your dissertation research. 2. Your thesis advisor must send a letter of recommendation by e-mail to the Doctoral Symposium Chair at chengb@cse.msu.edu. The letter of recommendation must include an assessment of the current status of your thesis research and an expected date for thesis submission. Your paper should clearly state: The problem to be solved in your thesis (justify why this problem is important and make clear that previous research has not yet solved that problem), Your research hypothesis (claim), The expected contributions of your dissertation research, How you plan to evaluate your results and present credible evidence of your results to the community. For submission instructions, see the RE'06 submission page. The submission deadline is May 2, 2006. Doctoral symposium committee Betty H. C. Cheng, Michigan State University, USA (Chair) Daniel Berry, University of Waterloo, Canada Nancy Day, University of Waterloo, Canada Donald C. Gause, State University of New York, Binghamton, USA Kevin Ryan, Lero - University of Limerick, Ireland Important dates May 2, 2006 Deadline for submissions (firm) June 9, 2006 Notification of acceptance June 16, 2006 Camera-ready copy of paper due September 12, 2006 RE06 Doctoral Symposium More information For more information, contact Betty H. C. Cheng Department of Computer Science and Engineering Michigan State University 3115 Engineering Building East Lansing, MI 48824 USA Fax: +1 517 432 1061 Email: chengb@cse.msu.edu