Your proposal should contain the following information:
1 Basic Information about the Seminar
1.1 Title
The title should be short and concise.
1.2 Organizers
Names of all those submitting the proposal and subsequent organizers. Proposals with a minimum of one female researcher in the organizer team are very welcome. A proposal is submitted by at most four organizers from different institutions.
1.3 Topics
Please indicate the general topic of the seminar by picking one or more of the following categories. This information is needed for internal purposes.
- artificial intelligence / robotics
- computer graphics / computer vision
- data bases / information retrieval
- data structures / algorithms / complexity
- hardware
- multimedia
- mobile computing
- modelling / simulation
- networks
- optimization / scheduling
- programming languages / compiler
- security / cryptography
- semantics / formal methods
- society / HCI
- soft computing / evol. alg.
- sw-engineering
- verification / logic
and/or indicate other categories as appropriate.
1.4 Keywords
The keywords are intended to provide a precision classification of the special topic. They are used as metadata for the Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings to facilitate searching.
1.5 Proposed Dates for the Seminar
With nearly 50 seminars per year it is impossible to schedule preferred dates. Please list several dates or time intervals and mention exclusion dates to prevent overlap with other conferences. Possible dates should be chosen within the half year term, which begins 14 months after the proposal deadline.
1.6 Further Information
Provide a short assessment of how important the seminar topic is for industrial research fields (ranging from "very relevant" to "less relevant").
2 Detailed information on the Seminar
Description of the seminar (1-2 pages, in English):
- Brief, general introduction to the topic
- In-depth description of the topic
- Questions and issues addressed by the seminar; objectives and results expected to be produced by the seminar
- As applicable: relationship to previous seminars or how the proposed seminar differs from similar seminars. Which new developments and issues are to be addressed? (Tip: Try our Seminar/Events search on the homepage.)
3 Information on the Organizers
- Names
- Addresses, phone nos., fax nos., e-mail addresses, URLs
- brief research/academic CV
- <= 5 relevant publications
4 Invitation List
- Title, last name, first name, institution/company, country of each participant; e-mail address, URL
- Designation of young scientists and researchers, women, participants from the industry sector. Dagstuhl is making effort to increase the number of participants from these groups.
- Research field: the list should reflect the structure of the topic or the research areas of the participants should be entered.







