Note that you, the Ph.D. student, are the single author (by preference), or appear as first author with only your (principal) advisor as single additional author. 
 

Type

Two types of papers are allowed. Junior Ph.D. students may submit a five page paper that focuses on presenting a research idea and an intended research plan [position paper]. More experienced Ph.D. students are invited to submit a ten page paper that additionally includes (preliminary) outcomes and results, evaluation data and improvements to the state of the art [technical paper].  


Content

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

  • formulate clearly your research question
  • justify its importance and potential scientific and/or industrial and/or societal impact
  • summarise the current knowledge concerning the problem domain
  • identify the significant problems as well as the state of existing solutions,
  • describe your (potential) contribution to address the problem,
  • 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
  • Related work
  • Research hypotheses
  • Material                              [including the evaluation reference for technical papers]
  • Methods / Work plan       [including the evaluation method for technical papers]
  • Results                              [not required for position paper]
  • Evaluation                         [not required for position paper]
  • Discussion                       [less extensive for position paper]
  • 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.