Doctoral Consortium

Sponsored by VLDB

The aim of ADBIS 2009 Doctoral Consortium (DC) is to facilitate high quality of research in the field of data bases and information systems.

Publication

Two types of publications according to the acceptance notification:

1. In ADBIS 2009 Workshop proceedings by Springer
2. In ADBIS 2009 Local Proceedings

Important dates

June 27, 2009: Camera ready papers are to be submitted to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcadbis2009

Formatting guidelines: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0

June 30, 2009:  should be sent to marite.kirikova@cs.rtu.lv or fax: +371 67089584

Copyright forms (for Springer only) Springer copyrights form for download 

Registration forms. (Participation in ADBIS 2009 main conference is free of charge for DC participants)

September 8-10, 2009: Doctoral Consortium sessions in main building of Riga Technical University, Kaļķu 1, Rīga, Latvia

Presentation outlook

15 min – doctoral student’s presentation
5-10 min – questions and comments from the audience
5-10 min – discussant’s presentation

Order of the last two will be tailored to each presentation

Contacts

Accommodation issues: Girts Karnitis  girts.karnitis@di.lv

Publications (technical issues): Ludmila Penicina ludmila.penicina@rtu.lv

Other issues:

Marite Kirikova
Department of Systems Theory and Design
Riga Technical University
Riga, LV-1658, Latvia
Tel: +371 67089582; +371 2 6188383 (mobile)
Fax: +371 67089584
E-mail: marite.kirikova at cs.rtu.lv

ADBIS 2009 DC co-chairs

Zohra Bellahsène, University of Montpellier II, France
Atis Kapenieks, IEEE Latvia
Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia

ADBIS 2009 DC Program Committee

Albertas Caplinskas, Lithuania
Andris Ambainis, Latvia
Benkt Wangler, Sweden
Boris Rachev, Bulgaria
Ela Hunt, United Kingdom
Ernest Teniente, Spain
Ester Zumpano, Italy
Farouk Toumani, France
Guntis Barzdins, Latvia
Hele-Mai Haav, Estonia
Janis Grabis, Latvia
Janis Grundspenkis, Latvia
Jaroslav Pokorny, Czech Republic
Leo Selavo, Latvia
Mark Roantree, Ireland
Leonid Kalinichenko, Russia
Pnina Soffer, Israel
Tadeusz Morzy, Poland
Tatjana Welzer, Slovenia
Yannis Manolopoulos, Greece
Wita Wojtkowski, USA

ADBIS 2009 DC Organizing Committee

Girts Karnitis, University of Latvia
Ludmila Penicina, Riga Technical University

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Formerly published information is below

Topics

The topics of Doctoral Consortium papers are the same as of the ADBIS main conference topics

ADBIS DC Submisson Guidelines

The papers submitted to the ADBIS 2009 DC should adhere to the following requirements:

1. The topic of the paper should conform to ADBIS main conference topics
2. The submission should be single-authored
3. The submission should be scientifically relevant
   • The paper should be structured according to general principles of the structuring of scientific papers
   • A clear description of research problem should be included in the paper
   • Related works relevant to the research problem should be reviewed and compared with the author’s approach of searching for the solution of the problem
   • Research method and preliminary results of research should be presented and the plan of further research proposed
   • Current and expected final contribution of the research work in the field of data bases and information systems should be outlined.
4. The length of the paper should be no less than 5 and no more than 9 pages
5. The submission should be formatted according to Springer-Verlag requirements available at
   http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0


6. Papers are submitted in the .doc or .pdf format by the submission date at the ADBIS DC submission site:
   http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcadbis2009

Procedure

1. All DC submissions will be reviewed by at least two Doctoral Consortium (DC) Program Committee (PC) members.
2. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit camera ready versions of their papers, where they have taken into consideration the DC PC feedback.
3. Each camera ready paper will be reviewed by assigned DC PC member who will serve as a discussant of the paper at the DC session.