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In 2009, the United Information Systems Conference (UNISCON 2009) will take place in Sydney, Australia. UNISCON combines three exciting international scientific conferences in the area of Information Systems:
- 8th International Conference on Information Systems Technology and its Applications (ISTA 2008)
- 8th International Conference on Conceptual Modelling Approaches for e-Business (eCOMO 2008) and
- 2nd International Workshop on Model-Based Software and Data Integration (MBSDI 2009)
In addition to its plenary sessions, this year conference will include a doctoral consortium. The doctoral consortium will facilitate the exchange and presentation of high quality on-going research in all aspects of Information Systems. This forum will allow doctoral students to present their work and obtain guidance from mentors as well as to get in contact with other postgraduate students.
The main goal of the doctoral consortium is to create opportunity for doctoral students in early stage of their research to test their research ideas, present their current progress and future plan, and most of all to receive constructive criticism and insights related to their future work and career perspectives. Mentors (peer researchers and experts in the field) will be assigned to groups of students to provide individual feedback and advice on the papers, the focus of the work and further developments.
The Doctoral Consortium track of UNISCON 2009 accepts submission of doctoral research papers mainly in the following three areas (For specific topics in each of the areas, please visit the URL given):
These areas are closely related to the main conference’s ISTA Conference, eCOMO Conference and MBSDI workshop.
Doctoral Consortium papers should include a clear presentation of the doctoral research direction, the positioning of the research in the context of Information Systems and related fields, work done so far and further research plan. All submissions should be no longer than 5 pages in the same format that is used for the main conference papers.
All papers submitted to the Doctoral Consortium stream will undergo a thorough reviewing process with a view to providing detailed and constructive feedback. The best submissions (3 papers) in the above-mentioned three areas will be selected for presentation at the relevant Conference or Workshop. Selected Doctoral Consortium full papers (5 pages) will be published in supplementary proceedings and extended abstracts of best papers (3 papers) will be included in the UNISCON 2009 proceedings.
Important Dates for Doctoral Consortium:
Paper submissions deadline- 08 December 2008 - Closed
Notification of acceptance - 09 January 2009
Final versions due - 16 January 2009
Doctoral Consortium Held on - 20 April 2009
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