OTM Academy 2010

OTMA 2010 is the 7th International OTM Academy

                      "7th OTM Academy"

      October 24-25, 2010, Hersonissou, Crete, Greece
          http://www.onthemove-academy.org/

                    In conjunction with
    OnTheMove Federated Conferences and Workshops (OTM'10)
          http://www.onthemove-conferences.org 

         Proceedings published by Springer LNCS

Deadline Extension: abstracts now due on July 1; papers due on July 6

if YOU are a Ph.D. student in information systems,

    interested in feedback on your research plans and research
    unable to sufficiently exchange ideas, experiences, 
    frustrations, hopes, … with peers
    planning to improve your scientific communication and 
    presentation skills
    hoping to meet in real life authors whom you only know by  
    their publications   
    needing to acquire paper reviewing expertise
    eager to widen your horizon of professional interests
    and looking for some fun moments during work

You should submit to this year’s OTM Academy. It offers you

    a means to publish your paper in the well known Springer 
    LNCS series
    dedicated feedback and exclusive time of prominent professors, 
    experienced researchers and experts in your field of research 
    during the OTM Academy
    targeted suggestions how to improve your scientific writing and 
    presentation skills by appropriate experts of the OTM Academy
    an international forum to present your research in a poster 
    session in one of the OTM conferences
    access to all OTM conferences and workshops at a highly reduced 
    registration fee
    a dedicated OTMA LinkedIn group as an international network 
    building platform
    a friendly and fun atmosphere (several OTM social events) to 
    meet other Ph.D. students and researchers in a nice and sunny 
    place close to the beach and ancient cultural heritage
    (Hersonissou in Crete - Greece)
    a chance to become a member of our Hall-of-Fame of past OTMA 
     PhD students on our web page. Join for free the OTMA community 
     and widen your network

What to do ?

coordinate your submission plans with your principal doctoral advisor 
take a look at the OTM Academy call-for-papers page
          http://www.onthemove-academy.org/
check if the topics match your research
write your paper according to the instructions
follow the instructions to upload your abstract and paper 
http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper/otmasub
respect formatting instructions: use the Springer style for 
camera-ready workshop papers
provide some extra administrative information
upload a camera ready version and register
respect the deadlines and specific instructions
prepare your presentation and bring along your poster
meet and greet, listen and learn,  and enjoy
and maybe bring along your advisors to the OTM Conferences

Also other (Ph.D.) students without an accepted submission to the OTM Academy are encouraged to register as participants as it proves to be fruitful for them to observe and interact with presenting authors like you, and expand the pool of ideas to be discussed.

   + OTMA 2010 will award the best paper  +
   

IMPORTANT DATES: Extended Abstracts Submission Deadline: July 1, 2010 Extended Paper Submission Deadline: July 6, 2010 Acceptance Notification: August 2, 2010 Camera ready received: August 13, 2010 Registration Deadline: September 3, 2010 OTM Academy '10: October 24 - 25, 2010 OTM’10 Conferences: October 25 - 29, 2010

For our young audience of PhD students we added a lot of details about all our faculty members on our web page (http://www.onthemove-academy.org/). You can contact us via: academy@onthemove-conferences.org

Anja Schanzenberger and Peter Spyns (OTMA'10 Organising Chairs)

The program committee currently consists of the following reviewers:

Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgary)
Christophe Bussler, (Saba SoftwareInc., USA)
Paolo Ceravolo (Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy)
Jaime Delgado, (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Ling Feng, (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
Avigdor Gal,(Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)
Alfred Holl (University of Applied Sciences Nüremberg, Germany), 
   OTMA Accompanying Professor
Frédéric Le Mouël (University of Lyon, France)
Chengfei Liu (Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, 
   Australia)
Erich J. Neuhold (University of Vienna, Austria), OTMA Dean
Hervé Panetto (Nancy University, Nancy, France)
Anja Schanzenberger (University of Applied Sciences Augsburg,
   Germany) OTMA organising chair
Peter Spyns (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
    OTMA organising chair
Maria Esther Vidal (Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela), 
    OTMA Accompanying Professor
Adam Wierzbicki (Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, 
   Poland), OTMA Accompanying Professor