BIR 2019 invites papers for doctoral consortium (that will be held in conjunction with the conference) that are related to the BIR topics (https://bir2019.ue.katowice.pl/call-for-papers).

The Doctoral Consortium is intended to be a forum for researchers that are doctoral students with the purpose to present their research work. The participants in the Doctoral Consortium will have the opportunity to present their papers, engage in discussions with the faculty members and receive feedback from them in order to improve their research work. Moreover the participants in the Doctoral Consortium will have the opportunity to identify research issues that are related to their research interest and exchange knowledge with other doctoral students. 

Important dates:


Deadline for papers submission (in pdf format): June 25, 2019

Notification of papers acceptance: July 13, 2019 July 25, 2019

Camera ready of the papers: July 30, 2019 August 6, 2019

Doctoral Consortium – Papers Selection 


All the papers submitted to the Doctoral Consortium will be reviewed by two faculty members that are senior researchers in business informatics area. The papers will be evaluated based on the following criteria: relevance, originality, appropriate research methodology, research contribution, and clarity. The accepted papers at the doctoral consortiumwill be presented and discussed with the faculty members. After the acceptance, the authors will be invited to revise their papers based on the feedback received from the reviewers of the Doctoral Consortium, and resubmit it for publication in the CEUR-WS proceedings.

Submission Format and Publication

The papers should be submitted via EasyChair.  We welcome to receive full papers (12 pages) or short papers (6 pages) that should be prepared using the Springer guidelines and the template available at this link: http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines The proceedings of the BIR 2018 doctoral consortium and workshops are intended to be published together as one volume in CEUR-WS.org series (http://ceur-ws.org). 

Doctoral Consortium Chairs 


Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia, marite.kirikova@rtu.lv
Robert Buchmann, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, robert.buchmann@econ.ubbcluj.ro

Doctoral Consortium Faculty Members


Björn Johansson
Raimundas Matulevicius
Małgorzata Pańkowska
Kurt Sandkuhl
Janis Stirna

Submission Guidelines
EasyChair submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bir2019 

Please choose “BIR 2019 Doctoral Consortium” track when submitting your paper through EasyChair.

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