We prefer you, the Ph.D. student, to be the single author, or alternatively to appear as the first author with only your most important advisor as second author. 
 

Type

Two types of papers are allowed. Junior Ph.D. students may submit a shorter paper  (minimum 5 pages) that focuses on presenting a research idea and an intended research plan. More experienced Ph.D. students are invited to submit a full page (maximum 10 pages) paper that additionally includes (preliminary) outcomes and results, evaluation data and improvements to the state of the art.  

Content

Your paper must specifically address your Ph.D. thesis work ! Therefore, in your paper you should

• formulate clearly your research question and illustrate it with a motivating example
  
• justify its importance and potential scientific and/or industrial and/or societal impact (context)
  
• summarise the current knowledge concerning the problem domain (background)
• identify the significant problems as well as the state of existing solutions (problem analysis),
• describe your (potential) contribution to address the problem (expected improvement of the state of the art),
• sketch and justify the approach or methodology you (plan to) apply,
• present your results or outcomes obtained so far
• outline the methodology (and reference) you use to evaluate/validate the results
• discuss how your work is different, new or better as compared to existing state of the art.
• provide some ideas on future work
• list all cited authors with year of publication, title, full unabbreviated journal, book or proceedings name, volume, editor, publisher and correct pages

Outline

Write your paper following this outline as closely as possible

• Abstract
• Introduction                       [including the motivating example]
  
• Related work
• Research hypotheses
• Material                              [including the evaluation reference]
• Methods / Work plan       [including the evaluation method]
• Results                             
• Evaluation                        
• Discussion                       [including how the state of the art has been improved]
• Future/Planned work
• Conclusion
• References

If needed or relevant, include acknowledgements to funding organisations, research programs or projects, additional advisors, collaborating colleagues, supporting undergraduate students or otherwise helpful persons.

-->  Take into account the suggestions by the OTMA faculty members on how to write your paper: read their tips !