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<a name="OLE_LINK4"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">[Extended Deadline] Ph.D. Student Symposium:
</span></b></a><a name="OLE_LINK9"></a><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK9"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Call for Submissions</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> (Due
April, 26)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The PhD Student Symposium aims at providing a platform for graduate students in the area of distributed computing systems to present their research idea and ongoing research efforts. The venue also represents
a unique opportunity for students to network with other junior and senior researchers as well as more experienced ones, receive constructive feedback, guidance, tips, and learn about cutting-edge research problems being tackled by the community, in academia
and industry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We encourage submissions from graduate students about research at an early stage as well as more advanced dissertation-level research. <b>Students with accepted presentations at the PhD Student Symposium will
be considered for the Best PhD Student Symposium Award. Accepted submissions will be published as part of the main conference proceedings on the IEEE Xplore Library.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submission Formats</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submissions for the PhD Student Forum should consist of the following two items in
<b>ONE PDF file</b>:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A double-column <a name="_Hlk156561937">
extended abstract </a>about the proposed dissertation research with <b>up to 2 pages (including references)</b>, which should include a brief discussion of motivation, objectives, challenges, background, research methods, initial results and current/future
contributions. The extended abstract is <b>single-blind</b>, meaning every submission must state the name and affiliation of the author on the first page. The extended abstract should follow the IEEE 8.5″ x 11″ two-column format using 11pt fonts and the IEEE
Conference template (downloadable by selecting “Conferences” in the IEEE-Template Selector
<a name="OLE_LINK2"></a><a href="https://template-selector.ieee.org/"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">https://template-selector.ieee.org/</span><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK2">
</span>). <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A <b>one-page CV </b>of the student, which should include the years into the PhD program and the expected graduation time.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Abstracts can be submitted to: <a name="OLE_LINK1"></a><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdcs2024"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdcs2024</span><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please send emails to </span><a href="mailto:xguo8@gmu.edu"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">xguo8@gmu.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
and </span><a href="mailto:ana.aguiar@fe.up.pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">ana.aguiar@fe.up.pt</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">for any questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ph</span><span style="font-family:SimSun">.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">D. Student Symposium Co-Chairs:
Xiaonan Guo (George Mason University), Ana Aguiar (University of Porto)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Important Dates
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk163685267"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submission deadline:<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163685267"><s><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">April 5, 2024</span></s></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163685267"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> April 26, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163685267"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Notification date:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163685267"><s><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">April 19, 2024</span></s></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163685267"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> May 9, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163685267"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Camera ready:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163685267"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">May 19, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Xiaonan and Ana<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ph.D. Student Symposium Co-Chairs, ICDCS 2024<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"PingFang SC";color:#101214;background:#FCFDFE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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