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<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Call for Abstracts</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> ICGT 2010 Doctoral Symposium</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> <<a href="http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~molm/ICGT10-DS/">http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~molm/ICGT10-DS/</a>></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> An event to be held during ICGT 2010 </span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> 5th International Conference on Graph Transformation</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Enschede (Netherlands), September 29 - October 1, 2010</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> <<a href="http://www.utwente.nl/icgt2010/">http://www.utwente.nl/icgt2010/</a>></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
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<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">The ICGT 2010 Doctoral Symposium will consist of some technical</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">sessions held during the ICGT 2010 Conference, dedicated to</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">presentations by PhD students and by young researchers who completed</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">their doctoral studies within the past two years.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">ICGT 2010 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">interested in the foundations and applications of graph transformation</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">to a variety of areas. A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest can</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">be found on the conference web pages:</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> <<a href="http://www.utwente.nl/projecten/icgt2010/scope/">http://www.utwente.nl/projecten/icgt2010/scope/</a>></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Within ICGT 2010, the Doctoral Symposium will provide a unique</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">opportunity for doctoral students and young researchers (having</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">defended their thesis at most two years previously) to interact with</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">established researchers of the graph transformation community and with</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">other students.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">The Doctoral Symposium will be held on a date to be determined, during</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">the regular activities of the ICGT 2010 conference.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Presentations for the Doctoral Symposium will be selected by the</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Program Committee according to originality, significance, and general</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">interest, on the basis of submitted three-pages abstracts. Accepted</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">abstracts, revised according to the comments by the reviewers, will be</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">included in the LNCS proceedings of the ICGT Conference.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">After the conference, selected authors of presentations will be</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">invited to submit a full paper for the refereed post-proceedings of</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">the Doctoral Symposium, which will be published as a volume of the</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Electronic Communications of the EASST (European Association of</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Software Science and Technology).</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
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<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Important Dates</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">June 11, 2010 Submission deadline for abstracts</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">June 25, 2010 Notification of acceptance</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">July 6, 2010 Final abstract due</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">September 29 - October 1, 2010 ICGT 2010 Conference in Enschede</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">October 15, 2010 Invitation of full papers</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">December 1, 2010 Submission deadline for full papers</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
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<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Submissions</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">The abstracts must be up to three pages long including references, and</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">should be formatted using the standard Springer-Verlag LNCS style</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><<a href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html">http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html</a>>. Each abstract can be</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">authored by a single young resarcher (a PhD student, or having</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">defended the thesis in the last two years).</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">The abstracts have to be submitted electronically via the EasyChair</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">system, at the URL</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> <<a href="http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icgt10ds">http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icgt10ds</a>></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">When submitting, the author should send an email to Andrea Corradini</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><<a href="mailto:andrea@di.unipi.it">andrea@di.unipi.it</a>>, declaring either to be a PhD student, or that</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">he/she defended the thesis in year 2008 or later. In both cases,</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">please indicate the name of the PhD supervisor.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Full papers submitted after the invitation for the post-proceedings</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">can be co-authored by other researchers.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Organizing committe</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Andrea Corradini, Pisa (I)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Maarten de Mol, Enschede (NL)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
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<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"> Contacts</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">For any information about the ICGT 2010 Doctoral Symposium, feel free</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">to contact either Andrea Corradini (email: <a href="mailto:andrea@di.unipi.it">andrea@di.unipi.it</a>, phone:</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">+39 050 2212786), or Maarten de Mol (email: <a href="mailto:M.J.deMol@utwente.nl">M.J.deMol@utwente.nl</a>,</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">phone: +(31)53-4894476)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
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