================================================================= Call for Abstract Submissions ICGT 2008 Doctoral Symposium http://www.di.unipi.it/~andrea/ICGT08-DS/ An event to be held during ICGT 2008 4th International Conference on Graph Transformation Leicester (United Kingdom), September 9 - 12, 2008 <http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/icgt2008> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The ICGT 2008 Doctoral Symposium will consist of some technical sessions held during the ICGT 2008 Conference, dedicated to presentations by PhD students and by young researchers who completed their doctoral studies within the past two years. ICGT 2008 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the foundations and applications of graph transformation to a variety of areas. A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest can be found on the conference web pages: <http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/icgt2008/Scope.html> Within ICGT 2008, the Doctoral Symposium will provide a unique opportunity for doctoral students and young researchers (having defended their thesis at most two years previously) to interact with established researchers of the graph transformation community and with other students. The Doctoral Symposium will be held on a date to be determined, during the regular activities of the ICGT 2008 conference. Presentations for the Doctoral Symposium will be selected by designated members of the ICGT 2008 Program Committee (see <http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/icgt2008/Scope.html> according to originality, significance, and general interest, on the basis of submitted three-pages abstracts. Accepted abstracts, revised according to the comments by the reviewers, will be included in the LNCS proceedings of the Conference. After the conference, selected authors of presentations will be invited to submit a full paper of at most 15 pages for the refereed post-proceedings of the Doctoral Symposium, which is expected to be published as a volume of the Electronic Communications of the EASST (European Association of Software Science and Technology). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates May 20, 2008 Submission deadline for abstracts June 2, 2008 Notification of acceptance June 15, 2008 Final abstract due September 10 - 12, 2008 ICGT 2008 Conference in Leicester September 22, 2008 Invitation of full papers (for selected authors only) November 14, 2008 Submission deadline for full papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions The abstracts must be up to three pages long including references, and should be formatted preferably using the standard Springer-Verlag LNCS style <http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html>. Each abstract can be authored by a single young resarcher (a PhD student, or having defended the thesis in the last two years). The abstracts have to be submitted electronically via the EasyChair system, at the URL <http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icgt08ds> In the mail accompanying the submission, the author should declare either to be a PhD student, or that he/she defended the thesis not earlier than April 2006. In both cases, please indicate the name of the PhD supervisor. Full papers submitted after the invitation for the post-proceedings can be co-authored by other researchers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Grants Discounted fees and grants will be offered for PhD students. Details will published later. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizing committe Andrea Corradini, Pisa (I) Emilio Tuosto, Leicester (UK) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Contacts For any information about the ICGT 2008 Doctoral Symposium, feel free to contact Andrea Corradini: email: andrea@di.unipi.it, phone: +39 050 2212786. ----------------------------------------------------------------------