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<a name="OLE_LINK5"></a><a name="OLE_LINK4"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">[Extended Deadline: May 3rd] Ph.D. Student Symposium:
</span></b></span></a><a name="OLE_LINK9"></a><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK9"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Call for Submissions</span></b></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><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></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><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></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submission Formats</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><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></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;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><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">https://template-selector.ieee.org/
</a>). <o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><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></span></li></ul>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Abstracts can be submitted to: </span><a name="OLE_LINK1"></a></span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdcs2024"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdcs2024</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK1"></span><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please send emails to </span></span><a href="mailto:xguo8@gmu.edu"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">xguo8@gmu.edu</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
and </span></span><a href="mailto:ana.aguiar@fe.up.pt"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">ana.aguiar@fe.up.pt</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">for
any questions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ph</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="font-family:SimSun">.</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><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></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Important Dates
</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><a name="_Hlk163685267"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Submission deadline:<o:p></o:p></span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163685267"><s><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">April 26, 2024</span></s></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163685267"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
May 3, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163685267"><s><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">May 9, 2024</span></s></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:OLE_LINK5"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk163685267"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
May 6, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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