We welcome submissions of research ideas that are mature enough to be presented and whose content can evolve to become the substantial part of a PhD dissertation. Reports on PhD dissertations and work in progress towards their dissertation should address research issues, challenges, and originality. Submissions should clearly describe the problem, explain its importance, detail why existing solutions are not sufficient, and give an outline of proposed solutions and preliminary experimental evaluation. Submissions should be written in English and pertaining to the topics mentioned in the Call For Paper page for the ASONAM 2024 conference.

Three categories of submissions will be accepted:

• Full papers up to 8 pages,
• Short communications up to 5 pages,
• Extended abstracts for posters up to 2 pages,

All papers must be in IEEE two-columns format.

Submissions should include the title, student as single author, affiliation, e-mail address, postal address and abstract on the first page. Authors should mention supervisor(s) name and affiliation as well as any funding source(s) in acknowledgements section. Papers should be submitted online using EasyChair.

The submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=phdtasonam2024.

Paper submission implies the main author of the paper is a graduate students and one of the authors must pay full registration fee and attend the PhD forum to present the paper. The PhD forum participants will also enjoy free access to the full program of ASONAM 2024 and all the accompanying symposia, tutorials and workshops.

Accepted and presented papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings and forwarded for inclusion in IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL), IEEE Xplore and the ACM Digital Library. The conference proceedings will be submitted for EI indexing through INSPEC by IEEE.

For general inquiries about the PhD forum and posters track, please contact the PhD forum and posters organizers.