Grigoris Antoniou
 Grygoriy Zholtkevych
 (Eds)




PhD Symposium
At the 14th International Conference
on ICT in Education, Research,
and Industrial Applications
(ICTERI 2018)

Proceedings




Kyiv, Ukraine
May, 2018
Antoniou, G. and Zholtkevych, G. (Eds.): Proc. PhD Symposium at the 14 th
Int. Conf. on ICT in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications (ICTERI
2018). Kyiv, Ukraine, May 16, 2018, CEUR-WS.org, online



This volume represents the proceedings of the PhD Symposium co-located with
the 14th International Conference on ICT in Education, Research, and Industrial
Applications (ICTERI 2018), held in Kyiv, Ukraine, in May 2018. It comprises
11 contributed papers that were carefully peer-reviewed and selected from 14
submissions. The accepted papers present the ideas and early results of PhD
projects.




Copyright © 2018 for the individual papers by the papers authors. Copying
permitted only for private and academic purposes. This volume is published
and copyrighted by its editors.
Preface
It is our pleasure to present you the proceedings of PhD Symposium held in con-
junction with ICTERI 2018, the fourteenth edition of the International Confer-
ence on Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Research,
and Industrial Applications: Integration, Harmonization, and Knowledge Trans-
fer. The symposium took place in Kyiv (Ukraine) on May 16, 2018. This volume
thematically follows the scope of ICTERI and is focused on research advances,
information systems technologies and applications, business/academic applica-
tions of Information and Communication Technologies and the role of ICT in
Education. These aspects of ICT research, development, technology transfer,
and use in real world cases are important for both the academic and industrial
communities. Therefore, giving the floor to young researchers from academia
and industry working towards receiving their PhD was considered a key exten-
sion for ICTERI 2018.
     The Call for Papers of this PhD Symposium was aligned with the thematic
scope of ICTERI. It also emphasized that the contributions are sought in the
form of extended abstracts explaining and justifying the ideas for PhD projects,
or short papers presenting the initial results obtained. The authors were en-
couraged to present the results of their research to prove that their ideas are
tractable.
     Young researchers joined the Symposium to take part in discussions and pos-
sibly present their papers. They were offered the opportunity to exchange and
discuss their research ideas with their peers, supervisors, and senior scientists
working in all fields within the scope of ICTERI 2018.
     Overall the PhD Symposium attracted 14 submissions. Out of these, we
have accepted 11 high quality and most interesting papers to be presented at
the symposium and published in our proceedings.
     The PhD Symposium would not have been possible without the support of
many people. First of all, we would like to thank all the authors who submitted
papers and thus demonstrated their interest in the research problems within the
scope of the Symposium we organised. We are very grateful to the members of
the Program Committee for providing timely and thorough reviews. Finally we
would like to thank the local organizers of the conference whose devotion and
efficiency helped our event to become a success.


   May, 2018                                          Grigoris Antoniou
                                                      Grygoriy Zholtkevych