PhD Symposium

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The Doctoral Symposium of the 22nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid2022) provides a forum for students in all areas of Cluster, Cloud and Cloud computing research to obtain visibility, feedback and advice on their Ph.D. dissertation topics and on their research careers. The Symposium promotes fruitful interactions and networking between student researchers at a similar stage in their careers. The program committee consists of experts in the field and will provide their valuable feedback to the ongoing research work of participating students. Selected students will present their work in front of an audience of both their peer and researchers and will also be invited to present their work as a poster in the poster exhibition of CCGrid. There will be prizes for the best presentations, which will be announced at the conference Awards Ceremony.

What is the Doctoral Symposium? The Doctoral Symposium is a venue to provide a supportive setting in which PhD students can present their work at any stage (just started, partially finished, or almost finished) and obtain visibility, feedback and advice from established or other student researchers. The objective is to host as many motivated students as possible in the program.

What does a paper for the Doctoral Symposium contain? The paper should focus on the research problem in your dissertation. You can include your partial or even preliminary ideas, results as well as the proposed solution of your problem, or a high-level summary of your published work. Each submitted paper will receive detailed reviews with friendly feedbacks.

 
Important dates
  • Paper Due: February 25, 2022
  • Author Notification: March 10, 2022
 
Submission requirements

Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 5 letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Authors should make sure that their file will print on a printer that uses letter-size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the conference is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees.

Paper submissions are limited to 5 pages in 2-column IEEE format including all figures and references. Submitted manuscripts exceeding this limit will be returned without review. See formatting templates (Link) for details:

  • LaTex Package ZIP
  • Word Template DOC and PDF

Doctoral symposium papers submissions should be made through EasyChair.

Topic of interest

The symposium is open to all Ph.D. students carrying out research on topics related to the theme of CCGrid conference. The topics of interest are the same as in the Call for Conference Papers.

 
Poster Presentation Talk

The authors of selected papers will be allotted short speaking slots to present their work at the CCGrid Doctoral Symposium. The students will also present their posters and talk one-on-one with the attendees in the poster exhibition session. The recommended poster size is A1 (594mm by 841mm, portrait).

PC Chairs
Carlos A. Varela, Worldwide Computing Laboratory Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, Italy

PC Members
Uwe Breitenbücher, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Harold Castro, Universidad de Los Andes
Barbara Carminati, INSUBRIA
Travis Desell, RIT.
Stefano Forti, University of Pisa, Italy
Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH
Mohammad Maifi Hasan Khan, U Connecticut
Lena Mashayekhy, U. Delaware
Shrideep Pallickara, Colorado State U.
Dimitrios Tsoumakos, NTUA
Jianwu Wang, UMBC

Best Paper Award

The author of the best paper submitted to the PhD symposium will receive an award of 200 EUR. The award will be assigned by the PC chairs based on two factors, namely (i) the average rates assigned by PC members to submitted papers and (ii) the quality of the paper presentation at the symposium.