The CoopIS Ph.D. Symposium 2025 is an international forum for Ph.D. students working in all areas related to the Cooperative Information Systems. It is intended to bring together Ph.D. students working in different related computing areas, such as: distributed systems, coordination technologies, collaborative decision making, enterprise architecture, business process management and conceptual modelling, and provide them an opportunity to present and discuss their research to an audience of peers and seniors in a supportive environment.
The goals of this Ph.D. Symposium are:
● To provide an opportunity to meet experts from different backgrounds working on topics related to CoopIS aeras
● To bring together Ph.D. students and established researchers in the field of cooperative information systems
● To provide fruitful feedback and advice to the selected Ph.D. students on their research project, and to stimulate the exchange of ideas, suggestions, and experiences among participants
● To provide the opportunity to discuss concerns about research, supervision, job market, and other career-related issues
We particularly encourage Ph.D. students who are still developing their research methodology or are somewhere in the middle of their research program to submit their preliminary results to this symposium. Topics are restricted to their doctoral work within the scope of the CoopIS conference.
To be eligible for the Ph.D. Symposium, the candidate must be a current doctoral student within a recognized university. Ideally, the candidate should have at least 12 months work remaining before expected completion, and at least 12 months of work already performed.
However, all Ph.D. students are eligible regardless of their doctoral stage.
Important Dates
Submission deadline:
August 28, 2025
Paper notification:
September 12, 2025
Camera ready papers:
September 17, 2025
Paper Submission
Submitted papers should give a clear description of the Ph.D. work. In particular, papers must:
● Provide a clear problem statement
● Outline the research challenges that drive the proposed work
● Present the research methodology and techniques being applied
● Describe the proposed solution, its expected impact, the expected research plan, and preliminary results
● Discuss the progress beyond the state of the art of the envisioned research outcome compared to current literature and approaches (cite key papers)
All submissions must be conform to the formatting and submission instructions (for both LaTeX and Word users) that correspond to the one column style for CEUR-WS (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip).
Format and must be at most 6 pages in length (strictly enforced).
Submissions must be single-authored, and the name of the supervisor(s) must be clearly marked as (“supervised by …”) under the Ph.D. author name.
Papers must be submitted electronically, in PDF format.
The PhD candidates of the accepted proposals are expected to present their research at the Ph.D. Symposium and to discuss their work and plans with other PhD candidates and senior researchers.
Review Process
Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the Ph.D. Symposium Program Committee. The reviewers will assess each proposal based on its originality, its potential for advancing the CoopIS areas, and whether the work is at a stage where the PhD candidate can benefit from participating in the symposium.
Ph.D. Symposium Co-chairs
Ismail Bouassida, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Chouki Tibermacine, University of Southern Brittany, France
