CAISE 2025 Doctoral Consortium: Call for Papers

CAiSE'25, Vienna, Austria June 16-20, 2025

CAISE 2025 Doctoral Consortium: Call for Papers

The CAiSE conference series has a proud track record of running an international Doctoral Consortium affiliated with the event. The CAiSE 2025 Doctoral Consortium aims to attract PhD candidates working on foundations, techniques, tools, and applications in the Information Systems Engineering field. At the Doctoral Consortium, the participating PhD candidates will have the opportunity to present their research and to get feedback from an audience of peers and senior faculty in a supportive environment. There will also be discussions tailored to the needs and interests of PhD candidates.

Goals of the Doctoral Consortium

The goals of the Doctoral Consortium are to ensure that participating PhD candidates:

  • Receive constructive and personalized feedback and advice on their research program by dedicated Doctoral Consortium mentors
  • Provide an opportunity to meet, interact with, and learn from established researchers and practitioners in the Information Systems Engineering community
  • Develop a supportive community of peer scholars and a spirit of collaborative research
  • Discuss broader opportunities and concerns related to a PhD study and post-PhD pathways
  • Open the main path to apply to a “CAISE PhD Award” in a future edition of CAISE after the PhD thesis has been defended

Eligibility

To be eligible for the Doctoral Consortium, the candidate must be a current PhD student within a recognized research institution. We welcome submissions of both late-stage PhD candidates (having at least 6 months of work after the conference and before their expected completion), and early-stage PhD candidates (with at least 6 months of work already performed prior to the submission date).

Why Submit?

The CAiSE 2025 Doctoral Consortium will be attended by renowned academics from the Information Systems Engineering field who will actively participate as mentors for the PhD candidates accepted to the Doctoral Consortium. The participating PhD candidates will receive constructive reviews on their submission, as well as personalized guidance by Doctoral Consortium mentors regarding their research program and presentation at the Consortium event. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in a CAISE Forum + Doctoral Consortium proceedings volume within the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. Participants of the CAiSE Doctoral Consortium will be subsequently eligible to submit their PhD thesis (after the degree is granted) for a CAiSE PhD Award.

Submission Process

Submissions must be made electronically by the stated deadline via the EasyChair conference system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2025.

Each submission should contain:

  • A recommendation letter from the student’s PhD advisor
  • A paper describing the research plans and the current status of progress

The paper must:

  • Clearly formulate the research questions investigated in the thesis
  • Identify a significant problem in the field of Information System Engineering
  • Outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions
  • Describe the research methods that are applied or proposed and the expected artifacts
  • Outline the contributions of the applicant’s work to the problem domain and highlight their uniqueness
  • Present any preliminary results achieved so far (mainly relevant for late-stage PhD students)
  • Conform to Springer’s authors guidelines and use their LaTeX or Word proceedings templates
  • Not exceed 8 pages in LNCS format

Review Process

Each submission will be reviewed by two members of the Doctoral Consortium Mentoring Board. The main evaluation criteria are relevance, originality, significance, technical soundness, accuracy, clarity, and the expected benefits to the PhD candidate from participating in the Doctoral Consortium. Acceptance is based on the review outcomes.

Attendance and Registration Fee

The Doctoral Consortium is held in parallel with the main CAiSE conference on 18-20 June 2025. There is no separate registration fee for participants in the Doctoral Consortium. Participants should register for the main conference by selecting either the “Main conference” option or another option that includes the main conference.

Key Dates

  • Submission: 7th March 2025
  • Notification of Acceptance: 7th April 2025
  • Camera-ready copy: 14th April 2025
  • Author Registration: 14th April 2025
  • Doctoral Consortium: 18-20 June 2025

Questions and Inquiries

Questions about eligibility and other inquiries can be sent to the CAiSE’25 Doctoral Consortium chairs at caise2025-dc@easychair.org.

Program Committee and Mentoring Board

  • Said Assar, Institut Mines Telecom Business School, France
  • Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
  • Renata Guizzardi, University of Twente, the Netherlands
  • Raimundas Matulevičius, University of Tartu, Estonia
  • Massimo Mecella, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
  • Jan Mendling, Vienna University, Austria
  • Óscar Pastor, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
  • Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  • Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland
  • Hajo Reijers, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
  • Maribel Yasmina Santos, University of Minho, Portugal
  • Monique Snoeck, KU Leuven, Belgium
  • Janis Stirna, Stockholm University, Sweden
  • Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden

Doctoral Consortium Chairs

  • Sergio España, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
  • Selmin Nurcan, Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne, France