The goal of the forum is to enable PhD students to present their work and get feedback from experienced researchers and industrial partners. Accepted contributions will be published in the proceedings, provided their authors will present their work in a special poster session during the conference.

ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS

Eligible students must fulfil the following conditions:

Minimum 1 year of experience in a PhD program
PhD not completed at the time of submission
University approved thesis proposal or 1 published paper
No publication at the PhD forum at earlier FPL conferences

Authors are welcome to submit regular papers in addition to PhD forum papers as long as the two do not describe overlapping results. We intend the forum to be a means to describe new research directions as well as provide a means for early stage PhD students to present preliminary work at the conference.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT

Selected PhD students will have a reduced registration fee.

PAPER FORMATTING

PhD forum submissions must follow the FPL paper formatting instructions, and they must not be longer than 2 pages. Authors can omit the 'Abstract' section in order to save space. All contributions must be submitted electronically in the PDF format via the START conference manager web page. For more details see the submission page

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission deadline: extended till March 23, 2009 (23:59 GMT)
Acceptance notification: May 22, 2009
Camera-ready deadline: June 12, 2009