*** Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers ***

The Doctoral Consortium will be held alongside the main Conference. See the topics of interest.

The Baltic DB&IS 2026 Doctoral Consortium is intended to bring together doctoral students working on the novel and innovative matters of developing reliable, secure and sustainable systems for digital business and intelligent systems. The Doctoral Consortium will provide PhD students with an opportunity to:

Present their research work in a relaxed and supportive environment;
Discuss their work and receive constructive feedback and advice from leading researchers;
Network with peers and future colleagues.
The language of the consortium is English. All submitted materials must be in English. Attendees must have sufficient proficiency in English to allow them to participate in the academic discussions at the Consortium.

Doctoral student papers (8-10 pages) present the progress of a doctoral research project. They will be presented during the Doctoral Consortium to be held on June 28, 2026. Submissions must conform to the CEURART 1-column format. Information about the CEURART format can be found at https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html (Scroll to section: “CEURART style files for papers”). Submissions must be single-authored (PhD student only). The supervisor should be mentioned in the Acknowledgement section.

The papers must cover the structural aspects:

- Introduce the field of research,
- Clearly formulate the research questions and objectives,
- Outline the state of the art of the domain,
- Sketch the research methodology,
- Introduce the proposed contribution,
- Indicate the issues still to be resolved and describe the next steps that are planned.

Submit your papers through the Easychair system: https://easychair.org/my2/conference?conf=balticdbis2026


*** Important Dates ***

Doctoral Consortium paper submission: 29 March 2026
Notification to authors: 27 April 2026
Camera-ready papers: 20 May 2026
Doctoral Consortium: 28 June 2026


*** Selection Process ***

All submitted papers will be reviewed regarding relevance, originality, technical quality and clarity of content by the doctoral consortium mentors. Doctoral students will receive feedback on which, in case of the paper acceptance, they need to respond with an answer letter submitted together with the camera-ready version of their paper.


*** At the Conference ***

Doctoral candidates of the accepted papers are expected to attend in person, where they will present his/her work (15 minutes). This is followed by a discussion between the doctoral student and mentors (ca 10min) and then the general public.


*** The presentation should include (recommendation): ***

- Presenting the doctoral student's name, advisor(s) name(s), and the university where you are conducting your doctoral work, current year of study,
- The context and motivation for your doctoral research,
- The main research objectives, goals or questions of your doctoral research and the specific objectives and research questions of the paper submitted to DC (i.e., where does it fit in the frame of your PhD research?),
- Research approach or method, its rationale,
- Results and contributions,
- Novelty and uniqueness,
- Expected next steps (i.e., future work).


*** Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs: ***

Mubashar Iqbal, University of Tartu, Estonia
Diana Kalibatienė, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania


*** Doctoral Consortium Mentors:***

Guntis Arnicans, University of Latvia, Latvia
Jānis Grabis, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Nikolaj Goranin, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania
Saulius Gudas, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Naveed Muhammad, University of Tartu, Estonia
Gunnar Piho, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia