The Doctoral Consortium on Enterprise Systems Engineering is intended to bring together Ph.D. students within the enterprise systems engineering field to discuss their research in an international forum. The Doctoral Consortium will provide students with an opportunity to:

• Present their research work in a relaxed and supportive environment
• Receive feedback and suggestions from peers and experienced faculty
• Gain an overview of the breadth and depth of enterprise systems research
• Obtain insight into directions for enterprise systems research taken by other doctoral candidates
• Discuss concerns about research, supervision, the job market, and other issues
• Network with peers and future colleagues

In addition the faculty panel will give some talks helping students to deal with topics such as how to write a Ph.D. thesis and how to make good presentations.

Thus, the symposium will help shape ongoing and future research projects aimed at enterprise systems, will promote scholarship and networking among new researchers in this emerging interdisciplinary area, and will expose these promising young researchers to the larger global community.

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM REQUIREMENTS AND RULES

The Doctoral Consortium is based on the following requirements and rules:

- Doctoral Consortium is open only to Doctoral Students who have started their research;
- Each student with an accepted paper for the Doctoral Consortium must register and attend the ICEIS Conference;
- The Doctoral Consortium Proceedings may be included in the conference proceedings; (this depends on the date we receive the final
   versions of the papers)
- Each paper must be presented by the Doctoral Student;
- Submissions will be judged on originality, significance and clarity. 
- Paper length: 4 to 12 pages
- Papers must be written in MS-Word or Latex including the following information:

   - stage of the research,
   - outline of objectives,
   - research problem,
   - state of the art,
   - methodology and
   - expected outcome.

HOW TO APPLY TO THE DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

To apply for participation at Doctoral Consortium, please submit the following materials by e-mail (to the Doctoral Consortium Chair):

- Cover page with your name, title of your thesis, institution, full postal address, phone number and e-mail address;
- The paper (formatted as described in the previous section)

Doctoral Consortium Submission: deadline expired
Author Notification: deadline expired
Final Camera-Ready Submission and Registration: 7th April 2006
Doctoral Consortium date: 23rd of May 2006

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS

George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (george@cs.ucy.ac.cy)
Joaquim Filipe, INSTICC/EST-Setúbal, Portugal