We are pleased to announce a Doctoral Consortium at the 18th International Conference on Asia- Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2016) and Asia-Pacific Forum of Information Schools (APIS 2016). ICADL 2016 and APIS 2016 are organized jointly as International Forum 2016 at the University of Tsukuba, Japan from December 5 to 9, 2016 under the main theme “Knowledge, Information and Data in Open Access Society”. ICADL is one of the major international conferences dedicated to digital library research – JCDL, TPDL and ICADL based in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, respectively. APIS is organized as a collaborative event of the Asia-Pacific chapter of iSchools (APiSchools) and Consortium of information Schools in Asia-Pacific (CiSAP) to promote exchange and collaboration among information schools in Asia-Pacific.

This Doctoral Consortium is planned to help doctoral students develop their research ideas and broaden their research perspectives. Another important purpose is to encourage students to develop their regional and international networks. Doctoral students doing research related to the conference topics are encouraged to submit their proposals for presentation at Doctoral Consortium.

Proposal submission has closed. However, those students who want to present their research at this Doctoral Consortium should contact the submission address shown at the bottom of this page.

 Best Paper Award

"A Study on LDA Topic Modeling Topic Word Interpretation Aided by Automatic Methods"

Wang Xiaodi and Li Guangjian

 Outstanding Paper Award

"Analysis of Attributes to Identify Opinion Leadership in Communities using Decision Tree Technique"

Sudarat Sangkeaw, Piyawan Siripraseotsin, and Marut Buranarach

"Re-intermediation in the Fashion Industry: A Qualitative Study on Brokers in the Dongdae-mun Fashion District"

Nuri Na and Jong-Seek Lee

Students of accepted proposals should prepare a full paper for presentation and discussion at the Doctoral Consortium, and for inclusion in a Doctoral Consortium proceedings that will be made available online.

*Proceedings of APIS2016 Doctoral Consortium*

 Accepted Papers

 Proposal

extended abstract at most 2 pages, A4 size
Proposal should include Title, Author Name and Affiliation, Name(s) of Supervisor(s), and Keywords followed by the body of the abstract

  NEW Final Full Paper Submission

The presenters of the APIS Doctoral Consortium should submit their final full paper by November 12th to the following address.
APIS-DCsubmitml.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp

The page limit is 8 pages, and recommended minimum length is 4 pages.
A template file can be downloaded from the following link.
APIS-DC_paper_template.docx

The presenter can also prepare his/her manuscript as pdf, using 11 pt font, single spacing, single coumn, and the Springer citation style, set to editable mode.

The proceedings of the doctoral consortium is not considered as a formal publication, so the presenters can publish their paper elsewhere later.

 Language

English

 Format

PDF or MS-Word

 Important Date

Submission Deadline : September 3 (Sat) Closed
Acceptance Notification : September 23 (Fri)
Proceedings Paper Submission : November 7 (Mon)

 Submission

by email to APIS-DCsubmitml.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp

 Endorsement Letter

a letter by a supervisor that endorses your submission and participation Students of AP-iSchools and/or CiSAP member schools do not need a letter of endorsement.