The Doctoral Symposium at COMPSAC will provide an international forum for doctoral students to interact with other students and faculty mentors.

The Doctoral Symposium seeks to bring together PhD students working in computer software and applications and related fields. Selected students will have the opportunity to present and discuss their research goals, methodology, and preliminary results within a constructive and international atmosphere. Participants will obtain useful guidance for completion of their dissertation research and initiation of a research career.

The Symposium organizers will strive to provide useful guidance for completion of the dissertation research and motivation for a research career. The Symposium is intended for students who have already settled on a specific research topic and have produced limited preliminary results, but have enough time remaining before their final defense to benefit from Symposium discussions. Due to the mentoring aspect of the event, the Symposium will be open only to students and mentors participating directly in the event.

In coordination with the technical theme of COMPSAC 2011, topics pertaining to digital society building and beyond will be of particular interest, but the symposium is not limited to this topic.

All accepted papers will be published in the electronic proceedings by IEEE Computer Society.