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.
The goals of the Doctoral Consortium are to ensure that participating PhD candidates:
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).
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.
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:
The paper must:
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.
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.
Questions about eligibility and other inquiries can be sent to the CAiSE’25 Doctoral Consortium chairs at caise2025-dc@easychair.org.