Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium Papers Presented at the 31st International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2019), Rome, Italy, June 3-7, 2019

In the tradition of the CAiSE conference series, the CAiSE’19 edition which has been located in Rome from June 3rd to June 7th hosted the 26th edition of the Doctoral Consortium which is intended to bring to-gether PhD students working on foundations, techniques, tools and ap-plications in the Information Systems Engineering field. The Doctoral Consortium provides them with an opportunity to present their research to and discuss it with an audience of peers and senior faculty in a sup-portive environment, as well as to participate in a number of plenary sessions with Information Systems academics.

This year the Doctoral Consortium has received 12 submissions and 8 of them have been selected to be presented during the event and to be included in these proceedings. These papers have been selected after a careful evaluation process involving 3 senior academics each, which goal is to give constructive feedback and advice on the research pro-jects presented in the papers. For the selected work, the Ph.D. student has the opportunity meet experts with different backgrounds working on topics related to the Information Systems Engineering field, interact with other PhD students and stimulate an exchange of ideas and sug-gestions among participants, and discuss concerns about research, su-pervision, job market, and other career-related issues.

We would like to thank the Doctoral Consortium mentors for their sup-port in reviewing the papers and stimulate the discussion during the four sessions at CAiSE. A great thanks to the students that have applied to the Doctoral Consortium for sharing their ideas, we wish them a long and fruitful career in academia or industry. We also thank the General Chairs Massimo Mecella and Barbara Pernici for their kind support to this initiative.