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                Pervasive 2009 - Doctoral Colloquium
      The Seventh International Conference on Pervasive Computing

                           Nara, Japan
                         May 11-14, 2009
                    http://pervasive2009.org/
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+ Call for Papers

    PhD students and candidates are invited to present, discuss and
defend their work-in-progress or preliminary results in an
international and renowned audience of researchers and developers in
the ubiquitous computing field at PERVASIVE 2009. PhD students and
candidates at all stages in the process are invited to submit a thesis
position paper. Participants will be expected to give short, informal
presentations of their work during the Colloquium, to be followed by a
discussion. The submission should clearly state:

    * the original key idea / hypothesis of the thesis
    * the problem domain and the specific problem addressed
    * an overview of related work in the area of the PhD work
    * methodological approach
    * research carried out
    * the contribution made in the field of ubiquitous computing 
      (for early work, state the expected contribution)

+ Submission and Review Process

    Submissions (up to 8 pages) should be formatted according to the
guidelines of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science [LNCS
format] and should be submitted as PDF files through [EDAS
system]. The submissions will be reviewed and based on these reviews
approximately 8 participants for the doctoral colloquium will be
selected. The accepted thesis position papers will be published in the
adjunct proceedings of PERVASIVE 2009.

SUBMISSION SITE: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6683&

+ Critical Dates

    * January 26, 2009: Submission of thesis position paper
    * March 1, 2009: Author Notification
    * March 20, 2009: Camera-ready paper deadline
    * May 11, 2009 Doctoral Colloquium in Nara, Japan

+ Doctorial Colloquium Chairs

    Jakob E. Bardram, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
    Tatsuo Nakajima, Waseda University, Japan