CAiSE'10

Call for Tutorials

The CAiSE tutorial program provides conference participants with the opportunity to gain new insights, knowledge, and skills in a broad range of areas of Information Systems (IS) engineering. Participants at the tutorials originate for scientific and practitioners IS communities. They include IS practitioners, managers, teachers, researchers, and students seeking to gain a better understanding of IS engineering. CAiSE’10 invites proposals for tutorial to be held in conjunction with the conference. We are soliciting proposals for full-day (6 hours) and half-day (3 hours) tutorials as well as mini-tutorials (1h30). This year, we are also soliciting local tutorials that should cover issues especially relevant for the local community of Information System Engineering. In this case, tutorials can be held in French. This year the CAiSE will focus on Evolving Information Systems and we especially encourage tutorials that reflect the conference theme and provide clear utility to practitioners. Tutorials are intended to provide independent instruction on a topic of relevance to the audience described above. Therefore no commercial or sales-oriented presentations will be accepted. Potential presenters should keep in mind that there may be quite a varied audience, including novice graduate students, seasoned practitioners, and specialized researchers. They should be prepared to cope with this diversity unless they make clear that the tutorial is oriented to a particular subgroup. Also bear in mind that not everyone will have English as their first language. Thus, presenters should provide comprehensive notes written in clear, standard English. Idioms, irony, slang and culture-specific references should be avoided as far as possible. .
Tutorial proposals should be submitted to both the tutorial chairs, Jolita Ralyté and Pierluigi Plebani . Prior contact with the tutorial chairs is encouraged.

The tutorials committee will review each proposal and will select quality proposals that fit the criteria mentioned below. Each tutorial proposal will be evaluated on its anticipated benefit for prospective participants and its fit within the tutorial program as a whole. Factors to be considered also include: relevance, timeliness, importance, and audience appeal; suitability for presentation in a half- or full-day tutorial format; effectiveness of teaching methods; and past experience and qualifications of the instructors.
The organizer(s) of approved tutorials will be responsible for advertising their tutorial. Organizers (including co-organizers) are expected to attend their entire tutorial and to provide a summary of the event, for presentation to CAiSE organisers.

Dates

  • Deadline for proposals: 18th December 2009
  • Decision on acceptance: 5th February 2010
  • Camera-ready Copy of Tutorial Notes (firm): May 7th, 2010
  • Tutorial: 7-11 June 2010, Hammamet, Tunisia


Detailed instructions for tutorial proposers
The proposal (length up to 1500 words) should cover the following points:

  1. Duration: Half day (3h) or full day (6h) or mini-tutorial (1h30)
  2. Type: normal or local and, in the latter case, in which language (French/English) the tutorial will be held.
  3. Goal and Objectives: The overall goal of the tutorial and the concrete objectives to be achieved.
  4. Scope: Intended audience, level (basic or advanced), prerequisites.
  5. Teaching Method: The teaching method(s) that you will use in your tutorial. Please specify the technology requirements for presentation (overhead transparency projector, pc projector, etc.)
  6. Structure of Contents: Here you should provide a structured overview of your planned tutorial, organized into numbered sections and sub-sections. For each sub-section, you should sketch its contents in a few sentences or bullets.
  7. References: Provide references to papers, books, etc. where your tutorial builds on. Please specify previous venues at which this tutorial has been presented.
  8. Sample Slides: Prepare three sample slides from the presentation that you would give if your tutorial were accepted. Select slides that are typical for your presentation style. These slides have to be submitted in a separate PDF file.
  9. Short information on your plans for publicising your tutorial and making it highly visible.

Services provided by CAiSE

  1. Publication of tutorial notes, based on a pack of source files delivered to the Tutorials Chairs.
  2. Tutorials will benefit from the local organizational infrastructure and receive administrative support (registration, badges, refreshments, hotel booking, room rental, beamers, screens, etc.).

 

 

Workshops and Tutorials Chairs


Jolita Ralyté
University of Geneva, CUI
Battelle - bâtiment A, 7, route de Drize
CH-1227 Carouge, Switzerland
Phone: +41 22 379 02 45
Fax: +41 22 379 02 33

Pierluigi Plebani
Politecnico di MIlano
Dipartimento di Elettronica ed Informazione
Via Ponzio 34/5 - 20133 Milano, Italy
Phone: +39 2 2399 3473
Fax: +39 2 2399 3411

Please send your proposals to both Jolita and Pierluigi.

A pdf version of this call of tutorial can be downloaded here