PhDS 2005 PC Co-chairs’ Message

Abstract

With this Symposium for PhD students associated with the “On The Move Federated Conferences” we present the second edition of an event stimulating PhD students to summarise and present their results on an international forum. The Symposium supports PhD students in their research by offering an internationally highly reputed publication channel, namely the Springer LNCS proceedings of the OTM workshops, and by providing an opportunity to gain ample feedback from prominent professors. More specifically, students receive general advice on making the most of their research environment, on how to focus their objectives, on how to establish their methods, and on how to adequately present their results. These eminent professors thus help establishing a dialogue setting of scientific interrogation, discussion, reflexion and guidance between students and mentors. For taking up this challenging task, we would like to vividly thank our team of accompanying professors, namely:

• Domenico Beneventano, DataBase Group Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’ Informazione, Universitá di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy.

• Jaime Delgado, Distributed Multimedia Applications Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain.

• Jan Dietz, Department of Information Systems, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands.