Call for Papers - Doctoral Symposium 2024

 

The ISSRE 2024 Doctoral Symposium is intended to bring together PhD students working on innovative research for improving, monitoring, and assessing the reliability, dependability, and security of software systems, and give them the opportunity to present and discuss their research in a constructive, friendly, and international atmosphere. The goals of the Doctoral Symposium are:

• Providing a setting for constructive feedback on participants' current research and guidance on future research directions;
• Developing a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research;
• Providing an opportunity for PhD students to interact with established researchers and practitioners in the software reliability engineering community.

The authors of the selected papers will present their work and receive feedback both from a panel of experts from academia and industry and from other Doctoral Symposium students. The students will also have the opportunity to seek advice on various aspects of completing a PhD, such as how to perform research, how to design and execute empirical research, etc.

The papers accepted and presented at the Doctoral Symposium will be published in the supplementary conference proceedings of ISSRE 2024.

Who should participate

Students at all stages (at the beginning, at the middle, or near the end of their PhD) who are working on a thesis topic relevant to ISSRE are encouraged to participate in the Doctoral Symposium.

Submissions

Each submission consists of two elements:

1. Research proposal: a 4-page paper describing your dissertation research to be authored by the student only. Your advisor should be included in the acknowledgments.
2. Letter of recommendation: ask your advisor to submit a letter of recommendation in support of your application. This letter should include your name and a candid assessment of the current status of your dissertation research. The letter should be emailed to both Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs with the subject "ISSRE 2024 Doctoral Symposium Recommendation".

Your research proposal should contain at least the following items: 1) a title for your work; 2) an abstract (maximum 200 words); 3) a description of the technical problem to be solved; 4) the proposed approach; 5) a brief description of the work accomplished to date; 6) the tentative date of your thesis defense.

All submissions must be original work, and must not have been previously published, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Formatting guidelines

Papers must be written in English, and be formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Format Guidelines.

Process

All papers must be submitted electronically at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=issre2024.

Please make sure to select the track The 35th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2024) - Doctoral Symposium at the beginning of the submission process.

Submissions will be reviewed by at least two members of the Doctoral Symposium Panel of Experts. Authors of submissions selected for acceptance will present their work during the Doctoral Symposium and have the camera-ready version of their paper published in the ISSRE 2024 Supplementary Proceedings and the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

Important Dates (AoE)

• Deadline for Submissions: July 23rd, 2024
• Notification of Acceptance: August 16th, 2024
• Camera-ready copy paper: August 23rd, 2024 (tentative)
• ISSRE 2024 Doctoral Symposium: TBD

IEEE Conference Publishing Policies

All submissions must adhere to IEEE Conference Publishing Policies <Submission Policies - IEEE Author Center Conferences>.

IEEE Cross Check

All submissions will be screened for plagiarized material through the IEEE Cross Check portal.

Organization

Co-Chairs

• Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal, naghmeh@dei.uc.pt
• Yulei Sui, University of New South Wales, Australia, y.sui@unsw.edu.au

Program Committee

• Baldoino Neto, Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil
• Filipe Aráujo, University of Coimbra, Portugal
• Hsu Myat Win, RMIT University, Australia
• Ibéria Medeiros, University of Lisbon, Portugal
• José Fonseca, Polytechnic Institute of Guarda, Portugal
• Leonardo Montecchi, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
• Luigi De Simone, Federico II University of Naples, Italy
• Xiao Cheng, University of New South Wales, Australia

Contact

If there are queries regarding the CFP, please contact the ISSRE 2024 Doctoral Symposium co-chairs.