CAiSE’26 Doctoral Consortium: Call for Papers
The CAiSE conference series has a proud track record of running an international Doctoral Consortium affiliated with the event. The CAiSE 2026 Doctoral Consortium aims to attract PhD candidates working on foundations, techniques, tools, and applications in the Information Systems Engineering field. At the Doctoral Consortium, the participating PhD candidates will have the opportunity to present their research and to get feedback from an audience of peers and senior faculty in a supportive environment. There will also be discussions tailored to the needs and interests of PhD candidates.
Goals of the Doctoral Consortium
The goals of the Doctoral Consortium are to ensure that participating PhD candidates:
- Receive constructive and personalized feedback and advice on their research program by dedicated Doctoral Consortium mentors
- Provide an opportunity to meet, interact with, and learn from established researchers in the Information Systems Engineering community
- Develop a supportive community of peer scholars and a spirit of collaborative research
- Discuss broader opportunities and concerns related to a PhD study and post-PhD pathways
- Open the main path to apply to a “CAISE PhD Award” in a future edition of CAISE after the PhD thesis has been defended
Eligibility
To be eligible for the Doctoral Consortium, the candidate must be a current PhD student within a recognized research institution. We welcome submissions of PhD candidates with at least 6 months of work already performed prior to the submission date and at least 6 months of expected work after the conference before the final submission of the PhD dissertation.
Why Submit?
The CAiSE 2026 Doctoral Consortium will be attended by renowned academics from the Information Systems Engineering field who will actively participate as mentors for the PhD candidates accepted to the Doctoral Consortium. The participating PhD candidates will receive constructive reviews on their submission, as well as personalized guidance by Doctoral Consortium mentors regarding their research program and presentation at the Consortium event. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in a CAISE Forum + Doctoral Consortium proceedings volume within the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. Participants of the CAiSE Doctoral Consortium will be subsequently eligible to submit their PhD thesis (after the degree is granted) for a CAiSE PhD Award.
Submission Process
PhD students interested in engaging in detailed discussions on their research at the Doctoral Consortium are invited to submit a paper (written in English) that outlines their thesis work and follows the mentioned points:
- Clearly formulate the research questions investigated in the thesis
- Identify a significant problem in the field of Information System Engineering
- Outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions
- Describe the research methods that are applied or proposed and the expected artifacts
- Outline the contributions of the applicant’s work to the problem domain and highlight their uniqueness
- Present any preliminary results achieved so far (mainly relevant for late-stage PhD students)
- Conform to Springer’s authors guidelines and use their LaTeX or Word proceedings templates
- Not exceed 8 pages in LNCS format
The paper should be single-authored by a doctoral student. Furthermore, the paper should be discussed with and approved by the respective PhD supervisor before submission.
AI support in writing is not prohibited, but we request that authors use it responsibly and be transparent about its usage (see https://ceur-ws.org/GenAI/Policy.html for acceptable and unacceptable cases and how to report on it).
Submissions must be made electronically by the stated deadline via the EasyChair conference system at https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=caise2026 (select as track: Doctoral Consortium)
Review Process
Each submission will be reviewed by two members of the Doctoral Consortium Mentoring Board. The main evaluation criteria are relevance, originality, significance, technical soundness, accuracy, clarity, and the expected benefits to the PhD candidate from participating in the Doctoral Consortium. Acceptance is based on the review outcomes.
Attendance and Registration Fee
The Doctoral Consortium is held in parallel with the main CAiSE conference on 10-12 June 2026. There is no separate registration fee for participants in the Doctoral Consortium. Participants should register for the main conference by selecting either the “Main conference” option or another option that includes the main conference.
Questions and Inquiries
Questions about eligibility and other inquiries can be sent to the CAiSE’26 Doctoral Consortium chairs at dc-caise2026@easychair.org
Key Dates
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Submission | February 23, 2026 |
| Notification of Acceptance | March 23, 2026 |
| Camera ready copy | April 3, 2026 |
| Doctoral Consortium | June 10-12, 2026 |