Your proposal should contain the following information:

1.1 Title

The title should be short and concise. Please avoid syntactic sugar like "Proposal for a Dagstuhl Seminar on" etc.

1.2 Organizers

Names and affiliations of all proposers. A proposal is submitted by at most four organizers from different institutions. Proposals involving female researchers in the organizer team are very welcome.

1.3 Type of event, duration, and size

• State the type of event: Dagstuhl Seminar oder Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop.
• State the duration: 3 or 5 days.
• State the size:
  • for a Dagstuhl Seminar: 30 or 45 participants,
  • for a Dagstuhl Perspectives Worskhop: 30 participants.

1.4 Topics

Please provide at least one and at most three topical categories:

• 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

1.5 Keywords

Please provide  keywords detailing the proposal's topic.

1.6 Proposed Dates for the Seminar

In general, desired dates cannot be scheduled. Instead, you shoud list exclusion dates to prevent overlap with other conferences. Potential dates for seminars are typically scheduled within the half year term which begins 16 months after the proposal deadline.  

1.7 Further Information

Please rate the following issues:

• Relevance for industry: How important is the seminar topic for industrial research fields (ranging from "very relevant" to "less relevant").
• Relevance for mainstream media: Is the seminar topic suitable to be communicated to a broader audience?
• Interdisciplinarity: Are research disciplines outside of informatics involved in the proposed seminar?

Description of the seminar (3-5 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.)

• Names and affiliations
• Addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, URLs
• brief research/academic CV
• at most 5 relevant publications per organizer

• Title, last name, first name, institution/company, country, e-mail address of each participant; optional the URL of a homepage
• 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.