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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>*** Ph.D. Award: Last Call for Applications ***</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering</b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><b>(CAiSE'24)</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"><a href="https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/">https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/</a></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;">(*** Submission Deadline: 1st March, 2024 AoE ***)</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 18px; color: #000000;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The deadline to apply for the CAiSE 2024 PhD Award is March 1st 2024. The conditions to</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">apply are:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• having participated as an author in a previous CAiSE Doctoral Consortium or at a main</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">CAiSE Event: either the main conference, the CAiSE Forum, EMMSAD, or BPMDS;</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• having successfully defended the PhD thesis in the last two years (i.e., since January 2022).</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The application must be submitted electronically to the PhD Awards track of CAiSE 2024 via</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">EasyChair <<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024</a>> . The application
must be</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">a single PDF file containing:</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• a short cover letter that includes the list of PhD committee members,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• a support letter from the thesis advisor,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• the candidate's defended PhD thesis,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• the candidate’s CV.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>ABOUT THE PHD AWARD</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The CAiSE PhD Award 2024 is granted annually to an outstanding recent PhD thesis in the</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">field of Information Systems Engineering.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The award is co-sponsored by the CAiSE Steering Committee and Springer. It consists of a
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">certificate, free full registration (5 days) to the next two editions of the CAiSE conference,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">and a book voucher for a free selection worth EUR 500 from Springer’s printed books
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">collection. In addition, the selected thesis will be recommended for publication as a
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">monograph in the LNBIP series published by Springer, provided that Springer’s publication
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">conditions are met.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">The PhD theses submitted for the award will be reviewed by a standing committee of senior
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">members selected from the CAiSE Advisory Committee, the CAiSE Steering Committee, and</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">the CAiSE Program Committee.
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>AWARD CHAIR</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Professor Andreas L Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>IMPORTANT DATES</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Submission of application: 1st March, 2024 (AoE)</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• Notification: 15th April, 2024</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"><b>PAST RECIPIENTS</b></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• 2023: Anna Bernasconi, PhD from Politecninco Milano (Italy), thesis title “Model, Integrate,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Search... Repeat: a Sound Approach to Building Integrated Repositories of Genomic Data”
(link to the forthcoming monograph:
<a href="https://link.springer.com/book/9783031449062)">https://link.springer.com/book/9783031449062)</a></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• 2022: Volodymyr Leno, PhD from University of Melbourne (Australia), thesis title </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">“Robotic Process Mining: Accelerating the adoption of Robotic Process Automation”
(link to the thesis:
<a href="https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/bitstream/handle/">https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/bitstream/handle/</a></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">11343/297274/98f9efca-4dd2-eb11-94dc-0050568d0279_manuscript.pdf)
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• 2021: Orlenys Lopez Pintado, PhD from University of Tartu (Estonia), thesis title
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">“Collaborative Business Process Execution on the Block Chain: the Caterpillar System”
(link to the thesis:
<a href="https://dspace.ut.ee/items/1e09072c-5442-463a-b8c6-0425951cb90b)">https://dspace.ut.ee/items/1e09072c-5442-463a-b8c6-0425951cb90b)</a></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• 2020: Steven Mertens, PhD from Ghent University (Belgium), thesis title “Enabling process</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">management for loosely framed knowledge-intensive processes”
(link to the published monograph:
<a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030661922)">https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030661922)</a></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• 2019: Giovanni Meroni, PhD from Politecnico di Milano (Italy), thesis title “Artifact-driven
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">business process monitoring”
(link to the published monograph:
<a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030324117)">https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030324117)</a></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• 2018: Wei Wang, PhD from University of Queensland (Australia) thesis title “Integrated
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Modeling of Business Processes and Business Rules”
(link to the published monograph:
<a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030118082)">https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030118082)</a></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• 2017: Marcela Ruiz, PhD from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain), thesis title
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">“TraceME: A Traceability-Based Method for Conceptual Model Evolution”
(link to the published monograph:
<a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319897158)">https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319897158)</a></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">• 2016: Le Minh Sang Tran, PhD from University of Trento (Italy), thesis title “Managing the</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left"><span style="font-family: Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: #000000;">Uncertainty of the Evolution of Requirements Models”
(testimony of the 2016 CAiSE PhD Award winner:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-vvlH66lC4)">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-vvlH66lC4)</a></span></div>
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