In 2000 the EDBT conference series hosted its first Ph.D. Workshop. Since then the EDBT Ph.D. Workshop became famous for its high quality program, attracting more and more attention over the years. Having a world class program committee, well known keynote speakers, and publishing the proceedings in LNCS (by Springer) attracted 86 submissions in 2004 - as we believe the highest number of submissions to a Ph.D. Workshop ever.
Keynote speaker 2006:
Past keynote speakers:
Michael Stonebraker (MIT, USA): “How to develop good research taste” Stefano Ceri (Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy): “What students should know about their PhD - and never dared to ask”
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Year
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Submissions
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Accepted
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Ratio
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| 2006 |
70 |
12 |
17,14% |
| 2004 |
86 |
21 |
24,42% |
| 2002 |
61 |
12(+6) |
29,51% |
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The Ph.D. Workshop is intended to bring together Ph.D. students working on topics related to the EDBT conference series. The workshop will offer Ph.D. students the opportunity to present, discuss, and receive feedback on their research in a constructive and international atmosphere.
The workshop will be accompanied by prominent professors and researchers in the field of database technology. These accompanying professors will participate actively and contribute to the discussions.
The workshop is co-located with and will take place immediately before the EDBT 2006 conference. The workshop language is English.
Papers describing doctoral work should be submitted in PDF or PostScript format
(submission closed!)
until sunday, Dec. 11, 2005 (firm deadline!). The paper length should not exceed 6 pages (single linespace, Times New Roman (or similar) font type, 12 pt font size, reasonable margins). Workshop and paper language is English.
In contrast to regular conference papers, submissions should address specifically doctoral work! Therefore, the following elements are recommended:
- A clear formulation of the research question.
- An identification of the significant problems in the field of research.
- An outline of the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the state of existing solutions.
- A presentation of any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the results achieved so far.
- A sketch of the applied research methodology.
- A description of the Ph.D. project's contribution to the problem solution.
- A discussion of how the suggested solution is different, new, or better as compared to existing approaches to the problem.
The intention of this workshop is to support and inspire Ph.D. students
during their ongoing research efforts. Therefore, it is necessary that
authors will have neither achieved their Ph.D. degree nor submitted
their thesis before the Ph.D workshop (March 26, 2006).
To enforce this rule we require authors to disclose their expected
graduation date and their advisor's name when submitting.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.
Furthermore, post-workshop proceedings will be published in the LNCS
series by Springer. Participants should register for the EDBT conference
itself at student rate.
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