[22 January 2011] CfP 2nd International Conference on Software Business, Belgium

Call for Papers
Second International Conference on Software Business
June 8.-10. 2011, Brussels, Belgium
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Managing Software Innovation for Tomorrow's Business
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Advancements in the software industry have had a substantial impact not only
on productivity
and on GDP growth globally, but also on our daily work and life. Software
business refers to
commercial activities in the software industry, aimed at generating income
from the delivery
of software products and software services. Although the software business
shares common
features with other international knowledge-intensive businesses, it carries
many inherent
features making it a challenging domain for research. The Second
International Conference on
Software Business brings together researchers with a specific focus on the
business of
software.


Relevant topics:
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You are invited to submit papers addressing contemporary issues emerging on
the intersection
of the software and business domains. Both papers reporting research results
and industrial
experiences are welcome. Invited are original submissions on the topics
including, but not
limited to:

- Software business management and profitability
- Software engineering management and productivity
- Software quality, benchmarking and strategic management
- Software ecosystems: networks, ecologies and communities
- Open source software business and management
- IPR, copyrights, innovation management and software assets
- Empirical research in software business and management
- Return on investment of software engineering process improvements
- Economical aspects of engineering of e.g. requirements, testing, design
- Software product management, product life-cycles and product-lines
- User experience, security and green software
- Business in Cloud, SaaS, PaaS and managed services
- Business models and strategies of software vendors
- Revenue generation models, e.g. advertisements, subscriptions etc
- Resources and competences in software business
- Internationalization of software firms, international outsourcing
- Vertical software markets, Impact of industry evolution
- Internal software business processes and product pricing
- Operational efficiency, lean enterprise and competitive advantage
- Domain engineering for software business

In addition, ICSOB also provides an Industry Track for the exchange of
innovative experiences
that are worthwhile to be shared in the software industry. Details can be
found at
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Submission:
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Full research papers (12 pages), short papers (6 pages), industrial track
presentations (abstract)
and posters are all welcome. Accepted full papers and short papers will be
included in the
conference proceedings published by Springer as a volume in Lecture Notes in
Business Information
Processing (LNBIP) series (if at least one author of the paper attends the
conference and present
the paper). You may also submit tutorial proposals and workshop proposals to
the conference.


Important Dates:
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Paper submission:   January 22, 2011 (extended from january 15)
Workshop & tutorial
proposal submission:    Jan 15, 2011
Notification:      Feb 21, 2011
Camera-Ready:      Mar 12, 2011
Conference:          June 8-10, 2011


Conference Officers
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General Chair:
August-Wilhelm Scheer, Saarland University

Program Chairs:
Björn Regnell, Lund University
Inge van de Weerd, Utrecht University

Steering Committee:
Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University
Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University
Pekka Abrahamsson,University of Helsinki
Slinger Jansen, Utrecht University
Pasi Tyrväinen, University of Jyväskylä

Local Organizing Chair:
Olga DeTroyer, Vrije Univerisiteit Brussel, Belgium

Program Committee:
Aybuke Aurum, Jan Bosch, Peter Buxmann, David Callele, Erran Carmel, Michael
Cusumano,
Jaelson Freire de Castro, Michel Chaudron, Joao Falcao e Cunha, Daniela
Damian, Ernesto Damiani,
Christof Ebert, Marko van Eekelen, Samuel Fricker, Frederik Gailly, Leah
Goldin, Tony Gorschek,
Volker Gruhn, Thomas Hess, Patrick Heymans, Martin Höst, Slinger Jansen,
Epaminondas Kapetanios,
Lena Karlsson, Marjo Kauppinen, Olli Kuivalainen, Patricia Lago, Casper
Lassenius, Nazim Madhavji,
Michele Marchesi, Rod McNaughton, Sten Minör, Peter Axel Nielsen, Oscar
Pastor, Jan Pawlowski,
Klaus Pohl, Karl-Michael Popp, Austen Rainer, Per Runeson, Motoshi Saeki,
Camile Salinesi,
Pete Sawyer, Steve Sawyer, Kari Smolander, Dan Stan, Pasi Tyrvaïnen,
Vasudeva Varma,
Hans van Vliet, Tony Wasserman, Claudia Werner, Claes Wohlin, Stan Wrycza


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