The Doctoral Consortium on Computational Intelligence is intended to bring together Ph.D. students within the aforementioned fields to discuss their research in an international forum. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics in the call for papers of the sub-conferences, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in the main topic areas of IJCCI conference: More precisely, the Doctoral Consortium will provide students with an opportunity to:

- Present their research work in a relaxed and supportive environment;

- Receive feedback and suggestions from peers and experienced faculty members;

- Gain an overview of the breadth and depth of computational intelligence members;

- Obtain insight into directions for computational intelligence research taken by other doctoral candidates;

- Discuss concerns about research, supervision, the job market, and other issues;

- Network with peers and future colleagues.

	Maïssa Abdallah ESEO France e-mail
Brief Bio Maissa Abdallah is an associate professor at ESEO in Angers, France, a graduate engineering school specializing in electronics, computer science, networking, and telecommunications. She holds an engineering degree in Computer Science from the University of Technology of Compiegne (France) and earned her PhD in Real-Time Systems from the University of Nantes in 2014.Since 2024, her research has focused on biomedical applications, with a particular interest in classification methods and feature selection techniques aimed at improving the predictive performance and interpretability of models applied to healthcare data.

	Daniela Barreiro Claro Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) Brazil e-mail
Brief Bio Daniela B. Claro is a Full Professor at the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil). She earned a degree in Computer Science from Salvador University (1998) and obtained her Master's degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (2000) and her Ph.D. in Computer Science - Université d'Angers - ESEO / France (2006). In 2009, she founded the FORMAS - Research Center on Data and Natural Language at CNPQ and she was its leader during the last 15 years, promoting research on Data Intelligence and Natural Language Processing covering Semantic and Pragmatic approaches from Texts, Clouds, and Devices. Her main research areas are Semantic and Pragmatic Data Interoperability challenges, particularly Open Information Extraction, working with single and multilingual solutions.

ADVISORY BOARD

The Doctoral Consortium advisory board will comment each presentation and at the end of the consortium there will be a general discussion, including a reflection about current and future research topics in the area.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM REQUIREMENTS AND RULES

The Doctoral Consortium is based on the following requirements and rules:

• It is open only to Doctoral Students who have started their research;
• Each paper must have a single author, i.e. a PhD student. Other contributors, including supervisors, could be acknowledged in the “Acknowledgements” section of the paper.
• Each student with an accepted paper at the Doctoral Consortium must register and attend IJCCI: a special student fee applies;
• Each paper must be presented by the student
• Submissions will be judged mainly on relevance, originality, technical quality and clarity;
• Paper length: 8,000 to 50,000 characters (excluding white spaces);
• Papers must be written in MS-Word or Latex including the following information:
• research problem;
• outline of objectives;
• state of the art;
• methodology and
• expected outcome;
• stage of the research.

Registered Doctoral Consortium papers will not be included in the book of proceedings as archival publications or in the Digital Library and therefore will remain free of copyright.

HOW TO APPLY TO THE DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM

To apply for participation at the Doctoral Consortium, please submit your paper through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and follow the instructions and templates (MSWord and LaTex ) that can be found under Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

ACCEPTED STUDENTS SHOULD PREPARE:

1. An introduction of themselves and their Ph.D. project for the introductory session. 1 slide only. Duration: 60 sec max.
2. A 10 minute presentation of their Ph.D. project to be used for introducing discussion about their project and its main issues during the small group sessions.
3. Students are also invited to prepare a poster about their Ph.D. for the main conference poster session.

BEST PhD PROJECT AWARD

A "Best PhD Project Award" will be conferred to the student of a paper presented at the conference doctoral consortium, selected by the Doctoral Chair based on the combination of paper reviewing marks and the feedback of the Advisory Board. The award will be announced and bestowed at the conference closing session. The author of an awarded paper will be entitled to:

• A signed and stamped official award certificate;
• The announcement of their achievement on a special conference webpage;
• A one year free membership of INSTICC (http://www.insticc.org), warranting full access to the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. If already an INSTICC member, then this offer adds one year to her/his current membership.
• A voucher for a free or reduced registration* in one event sponsored by INSTICC, valid during a 12 months period, including all conference materials (without the printed proceedings). This voucher is only available if the presenter attends the closing session and receives the award.

* Speakers are entitled to a 50% discount over the basic registration fee; non-speakers are entitled to a free registration.

Important Deadlines