Call for Papers

Computer Science & I.T Research Students' Conference (CRSC'07)
First Call for Papers
6th December, 2007
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
http://pgconf.cs.rmit.edu.au/

The School of Computer Science and Information Technology at RMIT University holds a postgraduate research students' conference each year. The aims of the conference are multi-fold:

• To introduce new research students to the School research community.
• To communicate current research activities to staff and students of the School.
• To provide feedback to research students about their work from staff members not associated with the research project, and from other students.

It is School policy that all research students give a talk on their research activities during the recent academic year. Participation in the conference will be considered when the School scholarships and top-ups are reviewed.

The talk should be on a selected aspect of student research which would be of interest to others. It takes around 15 minutes and should not try to cover all of the thesis area, nor all the work that has been done in previous years.

All research students in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology at RMIT are expected to provide a paper to the conference. New students (those who have started a higher degree by research this year) are expected to provide an extended abstract that describes the motivation, goals and, optionally, the results of the work done to date.

Research students who commenced their higher degree last year or earlier are expected to provide a full paper describing some of their research outcomes to date. It is acceptable to use a paper that has been submitted or presented elsewhere.

You are encouraged to use LaTeX in the preparation of papers and extended abstracts, although this is not a requirement. A style file and an example paper are available from the conference home page. If you are reusing an existing paper, you can use existing formatting. Papers in PDF format and a short abstract (about 200 words) must be submitted using the web interface on the conference home page.

The proceedings of the conference will be available on the conference web site.

Three awards will be presented at the end of the conference:

• Best Paper
• Best First Year Student Paper
• Best Presentation

Students who commenced their degrees during 2007 are eligible for the Best First Year Student Paper award.

The Best Presentation award will be judged by the audience by means of feedback forms and all scores will be averaged.

Both new work and previous work is eligible for the best paper awards.

Persons intending to present a talk or attend the conference must register using the form available from the conference web page.

All registrations must be received by the deadline listed below for catering purposes.

Abstract submission deadline:	11th October 2007
Camera-ready papers deadline:	01st November 2007
Registration deadline:	22th November 2007
presentation document deadline:	29th November 2007
Conference date:	06th December 2007

For further information please visit the conference web site at: http://pgconf.cs.rmit.edu.au

Or alternatively contact us at:

• Submission Enquiries: Iman Yusuf (s3047516 at student dot rmit dot edu dot au)
• General Enquiries: Steven Burrows (steven dot burrows at rmit dot edu dot au)