Call for PhD Forum Submissions

The 43rd IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2024) will hold a PhD Forum for PhD/doctoral and graduate students in early to medium stages towards their PhD/doctoral degrees.

The PhD Forum provides an opportunity for graduate students working in research areas related to reliable distributed systems to present their problem statement, research methods and planned contributions, and to receive high-quality feedback and guidance from established researchers and other graduate students joining the forum. The forum consists of two poster sessions and we also plan short presentation slots in the main conference program.

NEW FOR 2024: AWARD

All Ph.D. Forum attending students presenting at the poster sessions and at the short presentations in the main track will be considered for a new "SRDS Ph.D. Forum Award".

Evaluation criteria will include quality of the presentation and quality of the posters.

Important Dates

All deadlines are at AoE

1 Submission July 15th, 2024 July 22nd, 2024
2 Notification July 31st, 2024 August 11th, 2024
3 Author registration August 15th, 2024

Proposal Submission and Evaluation Criteria

Proposal Submission

Proposals must not exceed three pages in IEEE two-column format (excluding references) and be in PDF format. The only author of the paper must be a student.

Proposals must be submitted by email to phd.forum.srds2024@gmail.com.

For more information please contact the SRDS'24 PhD forum co-chairs. Valerio Schiavoni valerio.schiavoni@unine.ch and Elias Duarte elias@inf.ufpr.br.

Structure

Proposals should have the following structure:

  • Title;
  • A 150- to 200-word abstract;
  • Planned contribution and relevance;
  • State of the art and problem domain;
  • Originality and related work;
  • Research questions and main challenges;
  • Research methodology and overall approach.

Evaluation Criteria

  • Relevance to the SRDS community;
  • Quality of the research proposal;
  • Ability to present concisely;
  • Sound methodology.