The Doctoral Symposium of the 21st IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid2021) provides a forum for students in all areas of Cluster, Grid and Cloud research to obtain visibility, feedback and advice on their Ph.D. dissertation topics and on their research careers. The Symposium promotes fruitful interactions and networking between student researchers at a similar stage in their careers. The program committee consists of experts in the field and will provide their valuable feedback to the ongoing research work of participating students. Selected students will present their work in front of an audience of both their peer and researchers and will also be invited to present their work as a poster in the poster exhibition of CCGrid. The proceedings of the doctoral symposium will be published as part of CCGrid 2021 Proceedings through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for EI indexing.

What is the Doctoral Symposium? The Doctoral Symposium is a venue to provide a supportive setting in which PhD students can present their work at any stage (just started, partially finished, or almost finished) and obtain visibility, feedback and advice from established or other student researchers. The objective is to host as many motivated students as possible in the program.

What does a paper for the Doctoral Symposium contain? The paper should focus on the research problem in your dissertation. You can include your partial or even preliminary ideas, results as well as the proposed solution of your problem, or a high-level summary of your published work. Each submitted paper will receive detailed reviews with friendly feedbacks.

Important Dates

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 8 letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Authors should make sure that their file will print on a printer that uses letter-size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the conference is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees.

Paper submissions are limited to 8 pages in 2-column IEEE format including all figures and references. See formatting templates for details:

• LaTex Package ZIP (Link)
• Word Template DOC (Link) and PDF (Link)

PUBLICATION

The proceedings of the doctoral symposium will be published as part of CCGrid 2021 Proceedings through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services, will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for EI indexing, and will be distributed electronically at the conference.

TOPIC OF INTEREST

POSTER PRESENTATION TALK

The authors of selected papers will be allotted short speaking slots to present their work at the CCGrid Doctoral Symposium. The students will also present their posters and talk one-on-one with the attendees in the poster exhibition session. The recommended poster size is A1 (594mm by 841mm, portrait).

Doctoral Symposium Chairs

Program Committee