CALL FOR Phd Research Papers The Ninth International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2018) June 25-27, 2018 Porto, Portugal http://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt ICADIWT Doctoral Consortium 2018 ICADIWT 2018 will feature a Doctoral Consortium on June 26, 2018. The main idea is to give the Ph.D. candidates whose submissions have been accepted, an opportunity to discuss their doctoral projects with our Keynote Speakers from the digital and web technologies and the audience. Attendance at the Doctoral Consortium will be based on the Doctoral Consortium PC acceptance of a 6-page long abstract authored by the Ph.D. Candidate. The accepted abstracts will be presented in the ICADIWT 2018 Poster Session and published online together with a full 12 pages long paper that the Ph.D. Candidates will have to submit by (date). The paper will be reviewed by our PC and the Keynote Speakers who will attend the Doctoral Consortium to give the Ph.D. Candidates a feedback about their work. Important dates Abstract submission (up to 6 pages) with a Letter of Support from the Adviser: May 01, 2018 Notification: July 20, 2017 Full paper submission (up to 12 pages): June 01, 2018 Doctoral Consortium Date: June 26, 2018 Instructions for Authors Doctoral Consortium submissions must be emailed to the Doctoral Consortium Chair at diwt@dirf.org Submissions must be prepared in PDF format following the layout guidelines for the IOS guidelines Full paper content guidelines The full paper will be the basis for detailed discussions at the Doctoral Consortium. The Ph.D. Candidate’s paper should include the following: •motivation for the research proposed •the background and related work (with key references) to convince about knowledge grounded upon the literature study in the area •description of the proposed research including the research questions to be addressed, the Author’s contribution, the research methodology and the experiments proposed •at least five specific issues to be put forward for discussion. The Advisor should provide a brief description of the research group in which the Ph.D. Candidate has been working and the relevance of that work to the group’s research area. The students' full papers will be published online and electronically in the USB sticks Review All submissions will be reviewed by the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee with respect to overall quality of presentation, the potential for future impact of the proposed PhD research in the field of web and digital technologies and the potential benefits to the Ph.D. Candidate coming from attendance at the Doctoral Consortium. Chair: Yao-Liang Chung National Taiwan Ocean University Taiwan Email: diwt @ dirf.org