Doctoral Consortium Call

The joined CBI 2025 and EDOC 2025 Doctoral Consortium aims to offer a supportive learning opportunity for doctoral students in the early stage of their research to discuss their work in progress and to receive feedback and guidance from senior researchers and the audience. A panel of senior researchers will serve as mentors during the Doctoral Consortium sessions. In addition, the Doctoral Consortium offers opportunities to establish a social network with the peers in the field of CBI and EDOC conferences and to engage with some industry participants.

Doctoral students that are somewhere in the middle of their research are invited to submit a paper presenting their work and participate in the dedicated sessions. The topics eligible for Doctoral Consortium submissions are the same as that of the CBI 2024 and EDOC 2024 conferences.

Submissions

To participate at the Doctoral Consortium, students should submit papers that cover the following aspects of their PhD project (see important dates):

  • The context and goal of the research;
  • The scientific problem addressed and its relevance. This problem must be supported by means of literature review, observations from practice, case studies, and can be further refined in terms of research questions and/or hypotheses;
  • The overview of earlier works that have addressed the same or similar problems and explanations why the problem is not yet solved (i.e. limitations, open issues and controversies);
  • The research methodology followed to address the problem;
  • The proposed solution and the results obtained so far;
  • A plan for the evaluation/validation of results.

Submissions must be single-author (PhD student only). The names of the supervisors should be mentioned in the Acknowledgments section after the conclusion and before the references.

Submissions must have at most 8 pages, in English, must follow the Springer CS Style (an Overleaf LaTeX template is available), and must be done via EasyChair (be carefull in submiting in the correct track): https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbiedoc2025.

Students accepted for the Doctoral Consortium and with no other participation in the conference that requires an author registration, will be not require to pay registration if volunteer to join the local organization to support the operations of the confeence.

Publication

Accepted papers will be included in a post-proceedings volume of the conference, to be published in CEUR or in the LNBIP series by Springer.