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Welcome to 12th International Conference on Software Business
ICSOB – This year theme: Software Sustainability!
The 12th International Conference on Software Business ICSOB will
be organized by School of Business, University of South-Eastern
Norway, 2nd-3rd December 2021. We plan for a hybrid conference
with possibility for physical meetings. However, the detailed
setup is a subject to change depending on the development of the
pandemic.
Although the business of software shares common features with
other international knowledge-intensive businesses, it carries
many inherently unique features. It is making it a challenging
domain for research. The examples of many successful companies
show that software provides a unique benefit to its users.
Moreover, software has spread all over the world and has permeated
in many industries, which are not usual for software. In
particular, software companies have to depend on one another to
deliver a unique value proposition to their customers or a unique
experience to their users. Companies that were engineering-driven
become software intensive and struggle to keep up with the
required speed of development and planning.
Theme of the year: Software Sustainability
Sustainability is derived from the concept of sustainable
development and is defined by the World Commission on Environment
and Development as “a process of change in which the exploitation
of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of
technological development, and institutional change are made
consistent with future as well as present needs“. There is an
urgent need for sustainability management in many domains and
areas, including software business. The special theme of ICSOB2021
is Software Sustainability. Research about software sustainability
addresses sustainability concerns regarding aspects such as
software product, software development process, strategy and
policy, people, partnership, ecosystem, and business model.
We welcome both research and industry papers to the conference.
The papers should be original and not submitted to or accepted by
any other conference or journal. We are looking for short position
and practice papers (maximum 6 pages) that provide insights on the
life cycle management of software products and industry case
studies as well as full research papers (maximum 15 pages)
describing novel approaches to software business for software
products and services.
The topics that ICSOB welcomes (but not limited to) are listed
below:
• Software Sustainability – sustainability of software products,
sustainable software development, sustainable software business
model, sustainable management in software development and
operation
• Software Ecosystems and App Stores – aspects related to software
ecosystems health, ecosystem orchestration and governance, app
economy, actors and supply network analysis, incentives and
ecosystem-based business models
• Software Business Development – aspects related to developing
business models and business modeling for software products and
services, effective business model change, and improvement,
economics of software companies, mergers and acquisitions,
internationalization, outsourcing and other strategies for
realizing these business models.
• Licensing, intellectual property and patents aspects and other
legal aspects associated with software business – privacy and
security is also welcome here
• Software startups – aspects related to environment success
factors for software business and startups, entrepreneurial
process in software development, software startup processes,
disruptive innovation and adoption of startups, competence, risk
management and managing startup growth
• Engineering and Management – aspects related to software product
management, life-cycle perspective, continuous delivery, agile
development, technical debt, platform governance, digital
platforms, matchmakers, and value co-creation
• Human value, morale, ethics and believes – human-centered
design, ethical software engineering, AI ethics, transparency,
etc.
• Other aspects – games and gamification, software business
education, disruptive trends in software business and the future
of software business
A selection of best papers will be invited to submit extended
versions for tentative publication in a Special Section of
Information and Software Technology published by Elsevier
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-and-software-technology
You are very welcome to submit your papers to one of these tracks
via the EasyChair submission system :
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsob2021
Important Dates
• Abstract submissions: August 27th, 2021
• Full paper submissions: September 3rd, 2021
• Notification of acceptance: October 10th, 2021
• Camera-ready copies: October 29th, 2021
• Conference: December 2nd-3rd, 2021
A selection of best papers will be invited to submit extended
versions for tentative publication in a Special Section of
Information and Software Technology published by Elsevier
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-and-software-technology
You are very welcome to submit your papers to one of these tracks
via the EasyChair submission system :
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsob2021
Submission Formats
Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The results described
must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere.
Submissions must conform to Springer’s LNCS format and should not
exceed 16 pages, including all text, figures, references, and
appendices.
Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding 16 pages
(for full papers) or 8 pages (for short papers), or being
obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected
without review.
Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be
indicated at the end of the abstract. The type of paper
(technical/empirical evaluation/experience/exploratory paper)
should be indicated in the submission. Submission is done through
Easychair.
Each paper will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Accepted
papers will be presented at ICSOB ’21 and published in the
conference proceedings, which is published in the Springer Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
Organizers:
Anh Nguyen-Duc, Business school University of South Eastern Norway
(Conference Chair)
XiaoFeng Wang, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Program Chair)
Antonio Martini, University of Oslo (Program Chair)
Viktoria Stray, University of Oslo (Proceeding Chair)
Kryzstof Wnuk, Blekinge Institute of Technology (Publicity Chair)
Sonja Hyrynsalmi, LUT University (Publicity Chair)
Dimitris Polychronopoulos, Entreprenerdy (Startup Community Chair)
Orges Cico, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
(Startup Community Chair)
Sonja Hyrynsalmi, LUT University (PhD Symposium Chair)
Salah Uddin Ahmed, University of South Eastern Norway (Local
Chair)
More info:
https://icsob2021.org/ and in Twitter @ICSOBconf
ICSOB 2021 Publicity Co-Chair,
Sonja Hyrynsalmi
Junior Researcher | Software engineering
LUT University, Lahti
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