We cordially invite doctoral students to submit their extended abstracts to, and participate in, the doctoral consortium of the 6th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2012).

The doctorial consortium is expected to offer a supportive learning opportunity for doctoral students in the early stage of their research on Information Science related problems to discuss their work in progress and to receive feedback and guidance from the RCIS audience. The topics eligible for extended abstract submissions is the same as that of the RCIS2012 and include:

• Information System Engineering
• Business Applications
• Database and Information System Integration
• Decision Information Systems
• Data Management
• Internet Computing
• Knowledge Management
• Knowledge Discovery from Data
• Management Applications
• Spatial Information Systems
• Software Testing
• Human-Computer Interaction

Each extended abstract should be 6-page in length, containing title, motivation, problem statement, proposed methodology, progress/results so far, outstanding issues, and related work and references. Submissions must not have appeared in, or be under consideration for, another conference, workshop, journal, or other target of publication.

Submissions must adhere to the IEEE 2-column format (IEEE templates). The submission site address is: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2012. Authors should activate the Doctoral Consortium radio button which refers to the DC track.

All extended abstract submissions for the doctoral consortium will be formally reviewed by the RCIS Program Committee to ensure every accepted submission is appropriate for the consortium.

The conference organizers will work on ensuring that the doctoral consortium is well attended and have a vibrant discussion environment.

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Submission deadline :	Febuary 3, 2012 11:59pm EST
Notification of acceptance:	February 27, 2012 11:59pm EST
Camera-ready copy due :	March 30, 2012 11:59pm EST