Doctoral Symposium

The objective of the symposium is to provide junior researchers with the opportunity to present their research proposals to the empirical software engineering community and receive valuable feedback from peers and experienced researchers and practitioners in that community. The symposium will facilitate the exchange of ideas among young and experienced researchers. To do so, experienced members of the empirical software engineering community will serve as the symposium advisers and provide feedback to students presenting their work. We will also ask all of you to do peer review of one or two submission. Physical participation to the symposium is mandatory provided your submission is accepted. 

Participants are doctoral students, preferably at a mid-point in their dissertation work (though other doctoral students are also welcome). The submitted research proposal should be single-authored and include the title of your research, your name, your advisor, your email address, and a short abstract (see below) in the style of an abstract for a regular paper. In your submission, please write shortly about all the points in the list below that are relevant for your PhD project:

• Title and abstract (up to 250 words)
• Introduction (motivation, rationale, background) to the research
• Description of issues or points on which the author would like to get the most advice on
• Relevant prior work (foundations, relevant research results, research gap this work tries to fill)
• Research objectives, questions and hypotheses (with rationale)
• Research approach, empirical study design and arrangements
• Definition of most important metrics (e.g. following the GQM approach)
• Data analysis methods and techniques
• Validity threats and their control
• Summary of the current status of the research and planned next steps

Submissions must be written in English and are limited to up to four pages (including figures, tables and references) using ACM template. Accepted contributions will be published in the ACM companion proceedings for the conference.

Posters Track

Note that for EASE 2020 we accept poster only from doctoral students.

In this track doctoral students will be able to publish late-breaking results, technical descriptions, smaller research contributions, and works-in-progress in a concise and visible format. Physical participation is mandatory provided your submission is accepted. Accepted posters will be displayed in the conference venue, giving you an opportunity to engage in discussion with other attendees around your research.

Submissions to the posters track must be written in English and are limited to up to two pages (including figures, tables and references) using ACM template. Accepted contributions will be published in the ACM companion proceedings for the conference.

Travel Funds

The conference can provide travel funds to support PhD students planning to travel to the conference. If you want to apply for travel funds please do the following:

1. Write a short travel fund application letter, explaining the amount you apply for, the reasons for applying and what expenses you will cover with the funds
2. Submit the letter to Orges Cico (orges.cico@ntnu.no) when you send us your submission.
3. Applications will be prioritised and we will inform you about the outcome of your application.