Doctoral Consortium Research Articles

The 2022 PDMA Doctoral Consortium: Emerging research priorities in new product development and innovation and insights into community building

AbstractIn July 2022, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK) hosted the fifth Product Development Management Association (PDMA) Doctoral Consortium. As a critical vehicle to promote doctoral student research and scholarly networking, this consortium featured emerging research topics on new product development (NPD) and innovation by promising doctoral students and leading scholars, provided exposure to cutting‐edge practice in additive manufacturing, and facilitated opportunities for the NPD and innovation research community building. This article summarizes key insights and synthesizes important research topics emerging from the event.

Report on the 2nd ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO 2022)

The second annual ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO'22) was held from October 6-9 at George Mason University in Arlington, VA, USA. This was the first in-person version of the conference: the first event was held virtually in 2021. The conference builds on a line of workshops on Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) held previously at the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, and is affiliated with the broader MD4SG initiative. In both 2022 and 2021, SIGecom was a sponsor of the conference. EAAMO aims to highlight work where techniques from algorithms, optimization, and mechanism design, along with insights from the social sciences and humanistic studies, can help improve equity and access to opportunity for historically disadvantaged and underserved communities. A key goal of the conference is to bridge research and practice in this area. Accordingly, we aimed to foster an interdisciplinary community, including researchers from a computer science, operations research, economics, policy, and more, as well as practitioners and policymakers working in areas related to inequality. The conference featured contributed papers and posters as well invited keynote talks, a panel discussion, a doctoral consortium, and community-building activities and social events.

Report on the 8th ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2023)

The CHIIR 2023 conference was conducted as a hybrid event in Austin, TX, USA, attracting over 110 attendees both physically and virtually. The main conference program spanned over three days and comprised of single-track presentations. Two workshops were organized on the day prior to the main conference, while the doctoral consortium and tutorial took place one day after the main event. This report has been prepared by the conference General Co-Chairs. Date: 19--23 March 2023. Website: https://sigir.org/chiir2023/.

ACM WSDM 2023 Report

The 16th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2023) was successfully held on 2/27 - 3/3/2023 at Carlton Hotel, Singapore. It was held as in-person conference that also featured rich virtual elements. The five-day event began with tutorials and Industry Day. The middle three days were dedicated to keynote speeches, single-session presentations, poster reception, and demo sessions. The final day was event-filled with workshops, WSDM Cup Day, Doctoral Consortium, and Smart City Day. This brief report provides an overview of WSDM 2023 with organization and program details and statistics from Conference Chairs and Program Committee Chairs, as well as a message from the WSDM Steering Committee Chair. Further details can be found at https://www.wsdm-conference.org/2023/. At the conclusion of this report, we express our deep gratitude to authors, volunteers, special interest groups (SIGs), steering committee, sponsors and supporters.

Improving Social Belonging to Increase Success in an Online Doctorate Program

Institutions of higher education have long been plagued with difficulty in overcoming the high rates of incompletion of candidates who enroll in doctoral programs. As we continue to move through the post-pandemic era, online course delivery in doctoral programs continues to rise which brings an added layer of difficulty for EdD students to persist beyond their required coursework in the online environment (Rockinson-Szapkiw et al., 2019). As a result, it is incumbent upon online EdD program directors and faculty to not only identify barriers to online doctoral student success, but to also find solutions. In summer of 2020, a regional state university in the southeast accepted its inaugural class of doctoral students into a new higher education concentration of their existing on-ground K-12 EdD program. During the past few years between the program’s original design and inception, faculty have been examining factors related to doctoral student belongingness, from initial coursework through dissertation completion. Moreover, in 2021, the institution was fortunate to be admitted into the Carnegie Program on the Education Doctorate (CPED) consortium and as a result, has worked to adopt the CPED framework for EdD program design and application. It is through this new lens that the faculty at this institution have identified some lessons to share in pursuit of high rates of success while maintaining a demand of excellence in their work. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to use the newly designed Higher Education EdD program as a baseline case study towards improved online program student success.

A Rigorous and Relevant Research-Based Approach to Management Consulting: SEAM and Qualimetrics

Since 1997, ISEOR research center has been a partner of the MC Division along with a few other research centers focused on management consulting methodologies. This partnership has been an opportunity to set up debates between various scientific approaches to management consulting, in particular with the Tavistock Institute, Benedictine University, Center for Effective Organizations (USC), etc. In addition, international comparisons took place in the past 22 years through the organization of nine co-sponsored conferences and doctoral consortia in Lyon, France. Such conferences gave rise to an overall 900 papers, in addition to the 200 papers submitted by Iseor researchers to MCD over the past twenty years. In the wake of an overall 40 paper presentations at the MCD in the past twenty years and 9 co-sponsored MCD-ISEOR conferences in Lyon, the Socio-Economic Approach to Management has gained visibility through ten of the books edited by A. F. Buono in the Research Series in Management Consulting published by Information Age Publishing. Therefore, this proposed symposium to the MCD is an opportunity to formalize the learning of this long cooperation and its contribution to the scientific legitimacy of management consulting as a science that is as worthy as medicine, while focused on the health of companies and organizations.

Koli Calling 2021 report

Koli Calling is a single-track conference covering a range of topics related to education in the computing disciplines. The 21st Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research was held virtually from November 18-21, 2021. An affiliated Doctoral Consortium, "AI Education for All," was held in-person immediately prior to the conference. This year, the conference was held in cooperation with the ACM and SIGCSE and was organized by the University of Eastern Finland, Aalto University, and the University of Toronto Mississauga.

Autonomous agents and multiagent systems

The 2021 edition of AAMAS, the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, took place from the 3rd to 7th of May 2021 (aamas2021.soton.ac.uk). This year it was organized in the form of a virtual event and attracted over 1,000 registered participants. As every year, the conference featured an exciting programme of contributed talks, keynotes addresses, tutorials, affiliated workshops, a doctoral consortium, and more.

Report from ACM IMX 2021

Although the Covid-19 pandemic has forced international researchers and practitioners to share their research at virtual conferences, ACM Interactive Media Experiences (IMX) 2021 clearly invested significant time and effort to provide all attendees with an accessible, interactive, and vibrant online academic feast. Serving on the Organizing Committee of IMX 2021 as the Student Volunteer Chair as well as a Doctoral Consortium student, I was happy and honoured to take part in the conference, to help support it, and to see how attendees enjoyed and benefited from it.

CGIR Doctoral Consortium and Paper Development Workshop

Corporate Governance: An International ReviewVolume 29, Issue 4 p. 434-434 ANNOUNCEMENT CGIR Doctoral Consortium and Paper Development Workshop First published: 04 July 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/corg.12395Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume29, Issue4July 2021Pages 434-434 RelatedInformation

Narrative Intelligence Without (Domain) Boundaries

Narrative Intelligence (NI) can help computational systems interact with users, such as through story generation, interactive narratives, and believable virtual characters. However, existing NI techniques generally require manually coded domain knowledge, restricting their scalability. An approach that intelligently, automatically and economically acquires script-like knowledge in any domain with strategic crowdsourcing will ease this bottleneck and broaden the application territory of narrative intelligence. This doctoral consortium paper defines the research problem, describes its significance, proposes a feasible research plan towards a Ph.D. dissertation, and reports on its current progress.

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List of organizers of the AIIDE-13 Doctoral Consortium held during the Ninth Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference.

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List of organizers of the 2012 Doctoral Consortium held at the AAAI AIIDE Conference.

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List of organizers of the 2014 AIIDE Doctoral Consortium.

Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Health IT & Analytics

The Conference on Health IT and Analytics (CHITA) is an annual health information technology and analytics research summit, including a doctoral consortium that each year gathers prominent scholars from more than 40 research institutes, and leading policy and practitioner attendees in a vibrant setting to discuss opportunities and challenges in the design, implementation and management of health information technologies and advanced analytics including artificial intelligence and machine learning systems. CHITA’s goal is to deepen our understanding of strategy, policy and systems fostering health IT and analytics effective use, to stimulate new ideas with both policy and business implications, and to support the development of a health IT and healthcare advanced analytics research agenda. These Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Health IT & Analytics (CHITA 2020) represent the work of 45 papers and 146 authors working on the digitally-enabled future of healthcare. Convened by the Center for Health Information & Decision Systems (CHIDS), support for CHITA is provided by the Robert H. Smith School of Business, the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Innovation and Reform on Technology Empowered Education: The 24th Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education.

The 24th Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education (GCCCE) was held September 12–16, 2020 at Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China. The GCCCE adopted a hybrid conference format for the first time, combining traditional face-to-face sessions and online live streaming to reduce the impact from the Covid-19 pandemic. The GCCCE hosted over 300 current presentations, roundtables, and poster sessions in its nine sub-conferences and one English paper session. With a theme of “Innovation and Reform on Technology Empowered Education,” the GCCCE organized four keynote speeches, two expert symposiums, six workshops, one teacher forum, and one doctoral consortium. Over 300 attendees were at the GCCCE site in Lanzhou, China. The presentations, roundtables, and posters were live steaming during the conference. The live streaming conference sessions and their video recordings achieved a total of accumulative views over 330,000 times by the end of October 2020 with their viewers from different countries and regions. This report synthesizes the keynote speeches and award-winning presentations at GCCCE to share some highlights with readers.

Reflections on planning and running a virtual doctoral consortium at CHI 2020

Reflections on planning and running a virtual doctoral consortium at CHI 2020

ICAIL Doctoral Consortium, Montreal 2019

This is a report on the Doctoral Consortium co-located with the 17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law in Montreal.

Quantum Probabilistic Models Using Feynman Diagram Rules for Better Understanding the Information Diffusion Dynamics in Online Social Networks

This doctoral consortium presents an overview of my anticipated PhD dissertation which focuses on employing quantum Bayesian networks for social learning. The project, mainly, aims to expand the use of current quantum probabilistic models in human decision-making from two agents to multi-agent systems. First, I cultivate the classical Bayesian networks which are used to understand information diffusion through human interaction on online social networks (OSNs) by taking into account the relevance of multitude of social, psychological, behavioral and cognitive factors influencing the process of information transmission. Since quantum like models require quantum probability amplitudes, the complexity will be exponentially increased with increasing uncertainty in the complex system. Therefore, the research will be followed by a study on optimization of heuristics. Here, I suggest to use an belief entropy based heuristic approach. This research is an interdisciplinary research which is related with the branches of complex systems, quantum physics, network science, information theory, cognitive science and mathematics. Therefore, findings can contribute significantly to the areas related mainly with social learning behavior of people, and also to the aforementioned branches of complex systems. In addition, understanding the interactions in complex systems might be more viable via the findings of this research since probabilistic approaches are not only used for predictive purposes but also for explanatory aims.

Accessible web dev

This Doctoral Consortium submission outlines my planned dissertation work, in which I aim to develop and evaluate a web development course designed specifically for people that are blind. Here I introduce the issue of low participation in development and previous attempts to make coding more accessible. My proposed dissertation activities include the refinement of curriculum and tactile learning tools, as well as an evaluation of a two-week course in web development.