DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM
The BESC 2022 Doctoral Symposium provides a supportive environment that enables doctoral students to get constructive feedback on their research. Students will have the opportunity to discuss their work with experienced members in the interdisciplinary field of behavioural and social computing. Thus, the symposium offers a unique opportunity to gather valuable expert feedback and connect with peer students in the same field. The event is dedicated to PhD students who are at least in the second year of their program, presenting initial results that are not yet mature enough for a complete paper. The BESC doctoral symposium covers the same research topics as the conference.
Dates/Deadlines
Paper Submission Details/Guidelines
To participate, students should prepare a maximum of 4 pages answering the following questions:Doctoral consortium papers are short and are used as a basis for guidance and discussion. Students should think about the above points carefully and try to make their ideas concrete and straightforward. Students at relatively early stages of their research may find it challenging to address some of these points but should still attempt to do their best.
Doctoral students shall get mentorship from their supervisors to familiarize themselves with the entire process, including the submission, presentation and registration. Please seek your supervisor's support in advance.
Paper submission system is available at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2022 where you can select Doctoral Symposium Track for the submission.
Structure
All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are available from http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.htmlThe Doctoral Consortium Papers shall relate to the BESC 2022 topics listed in the main track.
Title: Your name, affiliation, email address.
1. Introduction/Motivation: Give a general introduction to the domain/area/topic and indicate its importance, novelty and impact in Behavioral and Social Computing.
2. Related work: Describe existing work in the area, work focusing on the same or similar problem, or work that might be useful for realizing your PhD.
3. Problem Statement and Contributions: Based on motivation and related work, formulate the problem you intend to solve or the questions you want to answer. This section should include a precise statement of one main research question and, possibly, very few sub-questions.
4. Research Methodology and Approach: Describe the research methodology you will apply in your research. Describe your approach to solving the problem and testing your hypotheses. If your research implies developing solutions, describe how you will evaluate them. If it contains discovering new knowledge, describe its implications and use.
5. Preliminary or Intermediate Results: Report the results achieved in your PhD.
6. Conclusions: Present your intermediate conclusions and lessons learned.
All submissions must be in English, PDF format, and not contain or cite proprietary or confidential material. The research plan should be submitted via the Easychair Doctoral Symposium track. Papers will be reviewed based on the relevance, originality, and feasibility of the described research. All accepted and presented papers expect to be included in IEEE Xplore and submitted for indexing in DBLP, Scopus, Google Scholar, EI, etc. The student must attend BESC 2022 for the submission to be published. Students have to acknowledge their supervisory team in the Acknowledgement session.