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Padova | Italy

Doctoral Symposium

About

The goal of the J3C 2025 Doctoral Symposium is to provide an international forum for doctoral students to interact with and engage with academic mentors working in the areas of the Joint Conference on Computers, Cognition and Communication. The symposium supports contributors directly, and provides independent and constructive feedback about contributors’ already completed and planned research.

The Symposium will have a half-day workshop format, with presentations by the doctoral students whose papers are accepted by peer reviewers, posters sessions, feedback from the mentors (who are among the peer reviewers), and plenty of time for discussion. The workshop is open to all research students, mentors, presenters, and all other conference participants.


Who should participate

Doctoral students should consider participating in the Doctoral Symposium if they are at least six months away from completing their dissertation at the time of the event, but after having settled on a research area or thesis topic.


Submission Guidelines

Each student’s Doctoral Symposium submission consists a short paper describing the student’s dissertation research. This paper submission has to be authored by the student only, and must follow the following structure:

  • Problem: Briefly introduce the problem or research questions that the research intends to address, stating the target audience. Briefly explain why the problem is important and needs to be addressed.
  • Expected contributions: Give a summary list of the expected contributions the research will make, to theory and practice, noting potential identified non-academic contributions if relevant.
  • Related work: Present a critical review of a relevant selection of related work, which shows how the research will differ from or extend the published state of the art.
  • Proposed approach: Summarise the approach planned / in progress to address the problem.
  • Plan for evaluation: Outline the evaluation plan, which will demonstrate that the problem has been addressed or research questions answered, and will demonstrate how the research goes beyond the existing state of the art.
  • Current status: Summarise the work completed to date, including any results obtained, and present the timeline for completion of the research and write-up.

Submissions must not exceed five (4) pages plus two (1) pages for references and adhere to the J3C Submission Guidelines.

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Alois Zoitl