Collocated with The 6th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS 2010), a Doctoral Consortium will be organized in Notre Dame, IN, USA. The Doctoral Consortium will take place on May 30, 2010, which will allow participants to attend the main conference afterwards.

GOAL

The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide PhD students with an environment in which they can share and discuss their goals, methods and results before completing their research. Students can apply for the Doctoral Consortium by submitting a paper describing their research proposal. All submissions will be peer reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Feedback on the proposal will be returned to all authors. Participants will be selected based on the quality of the proposed research, its potential significance and contribution to the OSS domain, and the potential benefit of the Doctoral Consortium to the PhD student's research.

PhD students that are accepted to the Doctoral Consortium, will give a presentation of their work. We aim to provide sufficient time for discussion (at least 20 minutes) to ensure that PhD students obtain quality feedback from the Doctoral Consortium co-chairs, the members of the program committee, as well as other PhD students. This feedback will allow them to enhance their own research proposal. We will also invite other faculty members to attend the Doctoral Consortium to stimulate discussion. Subsequently, doctoral students whose advisory committee lacks sufficient expertise with current OSS research may benefit in a number of ways from participating in the Doctoral Consortium with attending faculty.

The Doctoral Consortium will take place on May 30, allowing participants to attend the OSS 2010 conference after the Doctoral Consortium. This allows PhD students to further discuss their research with other researchers in the following days.

PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings of the OSS 2010 Doctoral Consortium can be downloaded from this page.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The OSS 2010 Doctoral Consortium is partially supported by the US National Science Foundation under award number IIS-1005183.