-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [WI] ICSOB 2014: Second CFP and workshop proposals Datum: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 15:06:47 +0200 Von: Announce Announcements announce@cs.ucy.ac.cy An: telespazio.com, WI@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de
HTML Message *** Second Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals ***
Fifth International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB 2014)
Azia Resort and Spa, Paphos Cyprus June 15-18, 2014
Online submission: _https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsob2014_
_Conference Theme _Shortening the time-to-market: from short cycle times to continuous value delivery
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 lives. Moreover there is a noticeable spillover within other industries (e.g. manufacturing, entertainment industry) enabling new business models: companies bundle their physical products and software services into solutions (e.g. using subscription models or in-app purchases) and start to sell independent software products in addition to physical products. Software business refers to commercial activities in and around 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. 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. Moreover recent developments like the emerging app economy offer a variety of opportunities for entrepreneurs or start-up companies. The recent acquisition of the three-year old Finnish mobile game startup Supercell with the total value of 2.2 billion Euros shows that the future of software is not only in utility and but also in entertainment and increasing freetime of people globally. This will have a profound effect on software business and requires novel business models and new approaches to software product development as well.
ICSOB 2014 addresses researchers and practitioners, who are concerned with software business in different ways as well as the start-up community, which is increasingly focusing on mobile and social software. The main theme of 2014 focuses on speeding up the time from idea to value delivery, towards continuous delivery of added value.
_Conference Topics _You are invited to submit papers addressing contemporary issues emerging at the intersection of the software and business domains, broadly defined. Both papers reporting research results and industrial experiences are welcome. Invited are original submissions on the topics listed below, including but not limited to:
*Special sessions this year: ** Speeding up time-to-market: towards continuous value delivery * Business models in game and entertainment software
*Regular themes of the conference series: ** Software Platforms and Ecosystems * Corporate networks between software companies / Software Supply Networks * Business impacts and business models of Cloud Computing * Software Product Management * Software business in the future * Licensing, Intellectual Property and Patent Issues (IP modularity) * Business models for software startups and existing software companies * App Economy * Productization, Servification, and Servitization * Impact of Megatrends on software business (e.g. Customization) * Effects of business models on software development * Global and cultural aspects of software business * Mobile software business trends
_Submission Instructions _Full research papers (15 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 presents the paper). Extended versions of the best papers selected from ICSOB 2014 will be published in a special issue of Journal of Systems and Software (_http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-and-software/_). PhD students are invited to submit research abstracts and present and discuss their work at the Doctoral Symposium. A separate CFP for the Doctoral Symposium will be published later. You may also submit workshop proposals to the conference. For details and updates visit _http://www.icsob.org_.
_Important Dates _Paper Submission: December 31, 2013 Workshop proposal submission: December 23, 2013 Notification: March 10, 2014 Camera-Ready: April 7, 2014 Conference: June 15-18, 2014
_Conference Officers _*General Chair *Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam
*Program Chairs *Casper Lassenius, Aalto University Kari Smolander, Lappeenranta University of Technology
*Local Organization Chair *George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus
*Industry Chair *Georg Herzwurm, Universität Stuttgart
*Workshops Chair *Krzysztof Wnuk, Lund University
*Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs *Anna-Lena Lamprecht, University of Potsdam Tobias Tauterat, University of Stuttgart
*Publicity Chair *Eetu Luoma, University of Jyväskylä
*Steering Committee *Slinger Jansen, Utrecht University Michael Cusumano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Pasi Tyrväinen, University of Jyväskylä Björn Regnell, Lund University Inge van de Weerd, Utrecht University Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University Jan Bosch, Chalmers University Georg Herzwurm, University of Stuttgart
*Program Committee *Sergey Avdoshin, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Jan Bosch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Peter Buxmann, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Michael Cusumano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Torgeir Dingsøyr, SINTEF, Norway Brian Fitzgerald, University of Limerick / Lero, Ireland Samuel Fricker, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Peter Gloor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Georg Herzwurm, Universität Stuttgart, Germany Thomas Hess, LMU Munich, Germany Slinger Jansen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Philippe Kruchten, University of British Columbia, Canada Thomas Kude, University of Mannheim, Germany Olli Kuivalainen, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Patricia Lago, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ulrike Lechner, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany Andrey Maglyas, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam, Germany Rory O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland Samuli Pekkola, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Wolfram Pietsch, FH Aachen, Germany Björn Regnell, Lund University, Sweden Dirk Riehle, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Germany Matti Rossi, Aalto University, Finland Günther Ruhe, University of Calgary, Canada Stefan Seidel, University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein Klaus-Dieter Thoben, Universität Bremen, Germany Pasi Tyrväinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland Krzysztof Wnuk, Lund University, Sweden
Updated information and further details are available at _http://www.icsob.org_. Please, send emails with further questions to _info@icsob.org_.
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