Doctoral Consortium

• Overview
• Important Dates
• Aims and Objectives
• Doctoral Consortium Topics
• Participating Faculty
• Submissions
• Participation
• Proceedings
• Programme

Overview

We are very pleased to announce the First Doctoral Consortium for the AIME series of conferences that will take place on Saturday 23rd July 2005 (Aberdeen, Scotland) in conjunction with the 10th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 05). The Doctoral Consortium, that we hope will become a permanent feature of the AIME conferences, will provide an opportunity for research students to present their on-going work in an informal and supportive atmosphere. The Doctoral Consortium of AIME 05 intents to bring together Ph.D. students from the research area of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine to discuss the specific problems they are researching, to present their preliminary results and to get advice from experienced researchers about various aspects of getting trained in research and preparing a Doctoral Thesis.

The Doctoral Consortium will host the presentations by about 6 - 8 Ph.D. students, and in addition there will a general discussion. The AIME 05 Doctoral Consortium will be conducted by a number of prominent academic researchers with substantial experience in the field who will actively participate and contribute to the discussions.

Important Dates

Aims and Objectives

The aim of the AIME 05 Doctoral Consortium is to support the research done by doctoral students with constructive remarks and feedback from prominent scientists in the AIM field. The Doctoral Consortium will be rounded off by a discussion of general questions related to Ph.D. research. They include, but are not limited to, the following aspects:

• Problem formulation
• Analysis and evaluation of the state of the Ph.D. thesis
• Research methodology
• Critical evaluation of one's own work
• etc.

• To provide a forum for students to present their current research and receive feedback from other students and senior researchers;
• To facilitate networking among Ph.D. students and senior researchers working in the same area
• To support students with information on academic, research, and industrial careers

Doctoral Consortium Topics

The AIME Doctoral Consortia will deal with the topics of the main conferences. In 2005 these topics include but are not restricted to:

Participating Faculty

The First AIME Doctoral Consortium will be conducted by a number of leading researchers in the AIM field. These faculty members come from a variety of disciplines and countries in order to provide a wide range of expertise. They are:

Submissions

Unlike other conference submissions, a Doctoral Consortium submission addresses specifically the Ph.D. thesis! To apply for participation at the AIME05 Doctoral Consortium, please submit an overview/summary paper of your doctoral work to the contact address of the Doctoral Consortium organiser. The overview/summary paper should be between 2000 to 4000 words (approximately 4-8 pages). Submissions must be submitted electronically in postscript or pdf format.

The overview/summary paper should:

• Clearly formulate the research question
• Identify the significant problems in the field of research
• Outline the current knowledge of the problem domain, as well as the state of existing solutions
• Present clearly any preliminary ideas, the proposed approach and the results achieved so far
• Sketch the research methodology that is applied
• Point out the contributions of the applicant to the problem solution
• State in what aspects the suggested solution is different, new or better as compared to existing approaches to the problem

Participation

Participation in the meeting is open to anyone who wishes to attend and not just to the presenting Ph.D. students. Every participant is required to pay a fee which will be set out on the registration page for the main conference. Participants of the Doctoral Consortium are strongly encouraged to also register for the main conference

Proceedings

During the meeting, all participants will be provided with draft proceedings containing all the accepted papers.

Programme