*** Call for Papers: Third International Workshop on Software
Ecosystems (IWSECO’11) ***
*** Managing Innovation Networks through Openness ***
7th of June 2011, Brussels, Belgium (deadline: 1st of April,
no extensions)
in conjunction with the The Second International Conference
on Software Business (ICSOB 2011) from June 8-10, Brussels,
http://www.icsob.org
* Workshop Objective *
After a successful workshop in Virginia and another one in
Denmark, IWSECO goes to Brussels. Software vendors no longer
function as independent units, where all customers are
end-users, where there are no suppliers, and where all software
is built in-house. Instead, software vendors have become
networked, i.e., software vendors are depending on (communities
of) service and software component suppliers,
value-added-resellers, and pro-active customers who build and
share customizations. Software vendors now have to consider
their strategic role in the software ecosystem to survive. With
their role in the software ecosystem in mind, software vendors
can become more successful by opening up their business,
devising new business models, forging long-lasting relationships
with partnership networks, and overcoming technical and social
challenges that are part of these innovations. The focus of the
first workshop was the definition of the research field. The
second workshop’s focus was the ‘ideal’ architecture of a
software platform. The third workshop on software ecosystems
focuses on the management of software ecosystems, i.e., how a
software vendor can manage its network of partners, developers,
service deliverers, and other third parties that play a role in
the software ecosystem.
Typically, software vendors have several instruments
available to them for managing their ecosystem, such as the
creation of partnership models or the introduction of component
and service certification. The effects of these decisions on the
software ecosystem have not yet been made measurable, which can
be considered one of the main challenges of the field of
software ecosystems. We welcome submissions that specifically
address this topic.
A software ecosystem is a set of actors functioning as a unit
and interacting with a shared market for software and services,
together with the relationships among them. These relationships
are frequently underpinned by a common technological platform or
market and operate through the exchange of information,
resources and artifacts. Several challenges lie in the research
area of software ecosystems. To begin with, insightful and
scalable modeling techniques for software ecosystems currently
do not exist. Furthermore, methods are required that enable
software vendors to transform their legacy architectures to
accommodate reusability of internal common artifacts and
external components and services. Finally, methods are required
that support software vendors in choosing survival strategies in
software ecosystems.
The Workshop on Software Ecosystems aims to further increase
the body of knowledge in this specific area of software reuse
and software engineering by providing a forum to exchange ideas
and discuss state-of-the-art results. It will build and shape
the community of leading practitioners and research experts.
Given the relevance of software ecosystems, and the rather
unexplored scientific and industry contribution in this field,
the workshop will deliver a state-of-the-practice overview of
the available knowledge on software ecosystems, as well as an
overview of challenges for further research.
* Relevant Topics *
Submitted papers shall address topics of interest to software
ecosystems and software reuse. Topics of interest include, but
are certainly not limited to:
* Organizational openness
* Strategic benefits analyses of ecosystem management
* Partner management
* Software development governance
* Software ecosystem modeling
* Software ecosystem practices and experience
* Software business models
* Product software and software licensing
* Economic impact of software ecosystems
* Software ecosystem creation
* Keystone and niche player survival strategies
* Formal modeling of business models
* Architectural implications of reusability
* API development
* Publishing APIs
* Software product management
* Software product lines
* Software development community management
* Software ecosystem orchestration
* Market-specific domain engineering
* Open source software ecosystems
* Virtualized software enterprises
* API compatibility over subsequent releases
* Workshop proceedings *
We have no specific information about the publisher as of
yet, but we are looking for IEEE or ACM support. We are in
search of a scientific journal for publishing of extended and
revised versions of the best papers. The proceedings of 2010
were published by ACM.
* Paper preparation, submission and evaluation *
We welcome both research and industry papers to IWSECO. They
must be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other
conference or journal. To encourage industrial participation we
also welcome short industry papers and case studies. Papers
should be submitted in electronic form (PDF) using EasyChair.
The proceedings will be printed using the Lecture Notes in
Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series format. More
information can be found here:
http://www.springer.com/series/7911
* Objective *
IWSECO 2011 pursues the following objectives:
* Build upon the body of knowledge in software ecosystems,
and identify challenges and future avenues for research relevant
for both academia and industry.
* Establish software ecosystems as a research field within
the greater field of software engineering, software management,
and software reuse.
* Provide to software product managers and researchers a
dedicated forum for exchanging ideas and best practices and thus
foster industry-academia collaboration.
The field of software ecosystems is rather unexplored both
from scientific and industrial perspectives. This mandates
IWSECO to participate in bringing researchers and industrial
representatives together, for the purpose of exchanging ideas,
but also to iteratively set the research agenda based on
industry needs. The IWSECO 2011 workshop aims at continuing to
increase the body of knowledge for software ecosystems by
providing a forum to exchange ideas and publish research
results. It will build and shape the community of leading
practitioners and research experts.
* Organizing Committee *
* Steering Committee *
* Important dates *
1. April 2011: Deadline for workshop submissions
1. May 2011: Notification of authors
1. June 2011: Camera-ready papers due
7. June 2011: The International Workshop on Software
Ecosystems
All deadlines are 23:59 Apia, Samoa time
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Slinger Jansen (Roijackers)
Utrecht University
PO Box 80.089
3508TB Utrecht
The Netherlands
http://www.slingerjansen.nl
0031 6 19 884 880