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<font face='Lucida Grande' size='4'><b>*** First Call for Doctoral Consortium ***<br></b><br>14th International Conference on<br>Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020)<br><br>Royal Apollonia Beach Hotel 5*, Limassol, Cyprus<br><br>May 20-22, 2020, Limassol, Cyprus<br><br><a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNHRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMCk6IEZpcnN0IENhbGwgZm9yIERvY3RvcmFsIENvbnNvcnRpdW0JNDI5CUxpc3RzCTE0NAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Frcis-conf.com%2F">http://rcis-conf.com/</a><br><br>Submission deadline: February 14, 2020 (AoE)</font><font face='Lucida Grande'><br><br>(Proceedings to be published by Springer)<br><br> <br>RCIS aims to bring together scientists, researchers, engineers and<br>practitioners from a wide range of information science fields and to provide<br>opportunities for knowledge sharing and dissemination. RCIS 2020 will<br>continue paying attention to traditional topics at the conference; in addition,<br>we solicit submissions aligned the special theme of Information Science in<br>the Days of Artificial Intelligence. We understand AI in a broad sense,<br>including machine learning, self-adaptation, logic-based reasoning,<br>automation, agents and multiagent systems, natural language processing,<br>user modelling, behavioural analytics, etc.<br><br>The RCIS 2020 Doctoral Consortium is an opportunity for doctoral students<br>to present, discuss and develop their research project in an interdisciplinary<br>workshop, under the guidance of a panel of senior researchers. The Doctoral<br>Consortium offers nice opportunities for PhD students. Firstly, the feedback<br>received during the Doctoral Consortium will really benefit students who have<br>defined their topic, research plan and have obtained early results, but who<br>still have room for improving their longer-term plan. Secondly, students at all<br>stages of their doctoral project can meet the welcoming RCIS community and<br>widen their network of contacts.<br><br>The main scope and topics of the Doctoral Consortium are the same as those<br>of the main conference. RCIS welcomes submissions from the whole spectrum<br>of the Information Science field. The list of themes and topics includes, but is<br>not limited to, Information Systems and their Engineering, Data and<br>Information Management, Domain-specific IS Engineering, Information<br>Infrastructures, User-Oriented Approaches, Business Process Management,<br>Data Science, Reflective Research and Practice (see the call for papers of RCIS<br>2020 for more detail).<br><br><br>OBJECTIVES<br><br>The Doctoral Consortium has the following objectives:<br>• Provide a platform for students to present their work and to meet other<br>peers and be familiar with different research topics and methods. <br>• Provide feedback on students' current research and guidance on future<br>research directions.<br>• Promote the development of a supportive community of scholars and a<br>spirit of collaborative research and networking.<br>• Contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other<br>researchers.<br><br>The Doctoral Consortium is organised in sessions that are part of the RCIS 2020 conference programme.<br><br><br>SUBMISSION GUIDELINES<br><br>Interested PhD students are invited to submit papers, in agreement with their<br>supervisors, addressing the following instructions. Please bear in mind that<br>we are not prescribing a specific structure of sections; we just expect that you<br>cover these topics in the paper:<br>• Introduce the field of research and identify the main challenges.<br>• Formulate the research questions and objectives, justifying why they were<br>chosen.<br>• Outline the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the state<br>of existing solutions.<br>• Sketch the research methodology that is being applied.<br>• Describe the proposed solution and the results achieved so far.<br>• State how the suggested solution is different from or better than existing<br>approaches.<br>• Indicate the issues still to be resolved and describe the next steps that are<br>planned.<br><br>Papers shall be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP conference<br>proceedings template (for LaTeX and Word):<br><u><a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNHRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMCk6IEZpcnN0IENhbGwgZm9yIERvY3RvcmFsIENvbnNvcnRpdW0JNDI5CUxpc3RzCTE0NAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fgp%2Fcomputer-science%2Flncs%2Fconference-proceedings-guidelines">https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines</a><br></u>Submissions must be written in English, and must be authored by the student<br>only. The maximum length of the paper should be eight (8) pages, including<br>references, appendices, etc. Papers that have already been accepted or are<br>currently under review for other conferences, workshops or journals will not<br>be considered for publication at the RCIS 2020 Doctoral Consortium. So,<br>while we can accept certain overlap with other papers, we discourage re-<br>submissions and double submissions.<br><br>Authors of accepted submissions will submit the camera-ready version using<br>the same format as the initial submission (some additional instructions might<br>be issued at this stage). The reviewers’ comments shall be taken into account<br>in the camera-ready paper. Only papers that have been presented by their<br>author will be published in the conference proceedings. Authors will receive<br>information on the presentation, and how to register for the conference.<br>There will be a discounted registration fee for Doctoral Consortium students.<br><br>The accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNBIP volume, along with<br>the other papers accepted for RCIS 2020. This will give visibility to the work<br>of the doctoral student and contribute to building their CV.<br><br>The submission site is <u><a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkxNHRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBSZXNlYXJjaCBDaGFsbGVuZ2VzIGluIEluZm9ybWF0aW9uIFNjaWVuY2UgKFJDSVMgMjAyMCk6IEZpcnN0IENhbGwgZm9yIERvY3RvcmFsIENvbnNvcnRpdW0JNDI5CUxpc3RzCTE0NAljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.easychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Drcis2020">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2020</a></u> Please choose “Doctoral Consortium” as a submission type.<br><br>By submitting a Doctoral Consortium paper, doctoral students commit that<br>they will attend the conference to present their research. The appearance of a<br>paper in the Springer proceedings is dependent on the registration of the<br>author within the early registration deadline on March 31, 2020.<br><br><br>REVIEW PROCESS<br><br>The review and decision of acceptance will be based on the opinions of at<br>least two reviewers. Several factors will be considered, including the quality<br>of the proposal, the clarity of the paper, and the stage within the doctoral<br>education program. The selection process will, when possible, maximise a<br>good coverage of the topics of the conference and diversity of participants'<br>background, research objectives, and research methods.<br><br><br>AT THE CONFERENCE<br><br>Each student will present his or her work to the participants with substantial<br>time allowed for discussion and questions by participating researchers and<br>other students. The discussion will be guided by a member of the committee<br>of expert mentors, who will play the role of proposal discussant together with<br>another PhD student that has been accepted at the Doctoral Consortium.<br><br>Each student will be invited to review another accepted Doctoral Consortium<br>paper and prepare a few questions to be discussed during the consortium<br>day. The papers will be assigned in advance such that the students will have<br>sufficient time to review the paper and prepare their questions.<br><br>The consortium sessions will have an informal and friendly atmosphere where<br>every participant is encouraged to be actively involved in the discussion, the<br>core objective being to learn how to conduct excellent research, as well as<br>provide and receive useful feedback to improve one’s work.<br><br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br><br>• Papers submission deadline: February 14, 2020 (AoE)<br>• Notification to authors and registration opening: March 15, 2020<br>• Author registration deadline for all paper types: March 31, 2020<br>• Camera-ready copy deadline for all paper types: March 31, 2020<br>• Conference: May 20-22, 2020<br><br> <br>CONFERENCE COMMITTEES<br><br><u>Steering Committee<br></u>• Saïd Assar, Institut Mines-Telecom Business School, France <br>• Marko Bajec,University of Ljubljana, Slovenia<br>• Pericles Loucopoulos, Manchester University, University Kingdom<br>• Haralambos Moratidis, University of Brighton, United Kingdom <br>• Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France<br>• Oscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain<br>• Jolita Ralyté, CUI, University of Geneva, Suisse<br>• Colette Rolland, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France <br><br><u>General Chairs<br></u>• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus<br>• Pericles Loucopoulos, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece<br><br><u>Organising Chair<br></u>• Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD., Cyprus<br><br><u>Program Chairs<br></u>• Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden<br>• Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, Netherlands<br><br><u>Doctoral Consortium Chairs<br></u>• Raian Ali, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom<br>• Sergio España, Utrecht University, Netherlands<br><br><u>Tutorial Chairs<br></u>• Estefania Serral Asensio, KU Leuven, Belgium<br>• Ignacio Panach, University of Valencia, Spain<br><br><u>Posters & Demos Chairs<br></u>• Elena Kornyshova, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France<br>• Marcela Ruiz, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland<br></font>
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