CFP: 7th IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering
(ICGSE)  
PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil | August 27-30, 2012 http://www.icgse.org  
 
Resolving the Challenges of Time and Distance

Software and IT industries are today truly global – and so is software
engineering. The diversity of culture and the dispersion over time and space
require novel techniques, tools, and practices from many disciplines to
overcome challenges and to take advantage of all the opportunities that
global software engineering offers. The 7th International Conference on
Global Software Engineering (ICGSE)  brings together researchers and
practitioners interested in solving the challenges of globally distributed
teams. The ICGSE 2012 organizing committee invites academic and industrial
communities to contribute to the expertise of the international global
software engineering.

Practice: Global Software Engineering addresses real-world challenges, and
so we especially seek industry knowledge. We invite practitioners to share
observations and experiences in the conference by publishing papers and
making presentations. Industrial experiences can be submitted by means of a
half-page abstract. 

Research: We also invite academic researchers to submit papers discussing
GSE research and GSE education strategies. Papers presenting empirical
evidence connecting industry and research are encouraged. 

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:
- Strategic issues in distributed development: business models (offshoring,
nearshoring, outsourcing etc.), business case development, work distribution
models, supplier selection and management, cost-benefit-risk analysis
- Managing distributed software development: planning, team building,
project and SLA management, managing diversity, measurements and evaluation
- Methods and tools for distributed software development: requirements
engineering, design, coding, verification, testing and maintenance
- Communication, coordination and collaboration
- Knowledge management in distributed development
- Getting started with global software engineering
- Empirical studies of distributed teams and lessons learnt
- Processes and methods for the global environment (planned, agile etc)
- Global software development education

Authors of selected high-quality papers will be invited to submit an
expanded version for a special section on Global Software Engineering in the
Empirical Software Engineering Journal, published by Springer.

Submissions are invited for papers describing unpublished, original work, in
any of the following categories:
- Research papers that describe theoretical frameworks, technical solutions,
or empirical studies. Maximum length 10 pages. 
- Industry papers that describe problems, lessons learned, solutions
implemented and challenges encountered in industrial global software
engineering environments. Maximum length 5 pages.
- Industry extended abstracts that summarize global software engineering
approaches and experiences in industry. Maximum length half page.
- Educational papers that report experiences in teaching global software
engineering at universities and organizations. Maximum length 5 pages. 

We also invite proposals for the doctoral symposium, tutorials, and
workshops. Further information and updates will be available at the
conference website.

All submissions will be handled electronically through the ICGSE’12 web site
(www.icgse.org). Papers should be submitted as PDF files which conform to
the two-column IEEE CS Press format. Accepted papers as well as extended
abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings by IEEE CS Press
and be available in the IEEE CS Digital Library. 

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* Important Dates * 
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Paper abstracts:               		Feb 17, 2012
Paper submissions:             	Feb 27, 2012  
Workshop proposals:		Feb 27, 2012  
Tutorial proposals:			Mar 12, 2012  
Doctoral Symposium papers:	Mar 12, 2012  
Notification to paper authors:   Apr 30, 2012
Industry abstracts:			May 21, 2012
Camera-ready papers due:       	Jun 01, 2012 
Notification to industry authors: Jun 11, 2012
 
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* Organizing Committee * 
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General Chair	
Rafael Prikladnicki, PUCRS, Brazil

Program Chairs	
Erran Carmel, American University, USA
Rini Van Solingen, Prowareness, The Netherlands

Steering Committee Coordinator	
Christof Ebert, Vector Consulting Services, Germany

Finance Chair
Ricardo Czekster, PUCRS, Brazil

Doctoral Symposium Chairs
Filippo Lanubile, University of Bari, Italy
Ita Richardson, Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland

Tutorials Chairs
Darja Smite, Blekinge Inst. of Technology, Sweden 
Tayana Conte, UFAM, Brazil

Workshop Chairs
Ban Al-Ani, University of California Irvine, USA
Maria Paasivaara, Aalto University, Finland

Publicity Chairs
Eduardo Almeida, UFBA, Brazil 
Alberto Avritzer, Siemens, USA
Cleidson de Souza, IBM Research Brazil
Martin Nordio, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Local Organizing Chair
Sabrina Marczak, PUCRS, Brazil

Webmaster
Roni Orsoletta, PUCRS, Brazil

ICGSE’12 will be in Brazil. Porto Alegre, in southern Brazil, is one of the
key industry cities in Brazil and with two leading universities, PUCRS and
UFRGS.  It is easy to reach by plane from SP or Rio.  Porto Alegre is also
in the heartland of Brazilian gaucho (cowboy) country.

Erran Carmel
Professor of Information Technology and International Business Research
Professor.
Kogod School of Business, American University, Washington D.C. 20016-8044
USA.
+1.202.885.1928        carmel@american.edu       web:
http://auapps.american.edu/~carmel/     blog:
http://errancarmel.blogspot.com/   New book:
http://www.timezonecoordination.com

 



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