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[email protected] Symposium Website: https://web.fe.up.pt/ prodei/dsie19/index.html FOREWORD STEERING COMMITTEE DSIE - Doctoral Symposium in Informatics Engineering, now in its 14th Edition, is an opportunity for the PhD students of ProDEI (Doctoral Program in Informatics Engineering of FEUP) and MAP-tel (Doctoral Program in Telecommunications of Universities of Minho, Aveiro and Porto) to show up and prove they are ready for starting their respective theses work. DSIE is a series of meetings that started in the first edition of ProDEI, in the scholar year 2005/06; its main goal has always been to provide a forum for discussion on, and demonstration of, the practical application of a variety of scientific and technological research issues, particularly in the context of information technology, computer science and computer engineering. DSIE Symposium comes out as a natural conclusion of a mandatory ProDEI course called "Methodologies for Scientific Research" (MSR), this year also available to MAP-tel students, leading to a formal assessment of the PhD students first year’s learned competencies on those methodologies.