ICSOB2022 – Software for Digital Transformation

The International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB) attracts both researchers and practitioners who are concerned with software-intensive business in different ways, and brings them together to share their findings and experiences from the field of software-intensive business. The theme of ICSOB2022 is Software for Digital Transformation. Research about software for digital transformations addresses a wide range of concerns ranging from software products, software teams, software deployment, software startups, agility, strategy, and business models, among many others. As a contemporary topic, digital transformation presents an intersection between the software engineering, information systems, and business communities.

Further Information is available at: https://icsob2022.github.io

 

Where: Bolzano, Italy

 

When:

Deadline for submissions: 29 July 2022
Notification of acceptance: 31 August 2022
Camera-ready submission: 15 September 2022
Main conference date: 09-10 November 2022

Call for Paper Submissions

The conference welcomes 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 (i) full research papers (maximum 15 pages), (ii) short position papers (maximum 6 pages), and (iii) practice papers (maximum 6 pages) describing novel approaches to software business for software products and services within a digital transformation context. Papers should provide insights on and/or industry case studies on digital transformation and software business, software products, practices, and principles. Each paper will be reviewed by three reviewers. Accepted papers will be presented at ICSOB ’22 and published in the conference proceedings, which is published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP).

The topics that ICSOB welcomes, but not limited to, are listed below:

• Digital Transformation – initiating deep structural changes; managing digital transformation processes; large-scale transformation; sustaining software productivity and performance throughout a transformation process; development and implementation strategies; corporate and entrepreneurial culture; development of digital competencies.
• Responsible Software – responsible software for digital transformation; responsible enterprise; enterprise modeling; information and communication technology; sustainability; socio-environmental auditing; sustainability of software products; sustainable software development; responsible management in software development and operation; undesirable/unintended use of software business; societal issues of current and emerging software business developments.
• Software Platforms, Ecosystems and App Stores – open digital platforms; open innovation; app store architectures; application programming interface (API) architectures; digital and data platforms; software ecosystems health; ecosystem orchestration and governance; app economy; actors and network analysis; incentives and ecosystem-based business models.
• Software Business Development – developing and introducing new digital transformation business models; 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 new business models.
• Legal Issues – legal software-related implications for digital transformation, licensing, intellectual property and patents aspects and other legal aspects associated with software business, cybersecurity, privacy, and security.
• Software Startups – lean startup for digital transformation; environment success factors; entrepreneurial process in software development; novel software startup processes; disruptive innovation and adoption; establishing new competence; risk management; managing startup growth.
• Citizen Development – low-code/no-code (LCNC) platforms and initiatives for digital transformation; empowering non-technical users; role of citizen developers; new business models; governance; business processes; hyper-agile development; LCNC analytics; barriers, challenges, and enablers for citizen development.
• Engineering and Management – software product management for digital transformation; project portfolio management; life-cycle perspective; continuous delivery; agile development; technical debt; platform governance; digital platforms; value co-creation.
• Human Factors – education and training; human value morale, ethics and beliefs; human-centered design; ethical software engineering; artificial intelligence (AI) risks and ethics; transparency; user interaction with algorithms; algorithm aversion; algorithm appreciation.
• Emerging Industry Trends – emergence of new software business technologies (e.g., AI, big-data analytics, blockchain, cloud computing) and infrastructures (e.g., digital platforms and ecosystems); novel value-creation processes and work practices (e.g., IT consumerization, resource sharing); games and gamification; software business education; disruptive trends in software business; the future of software business.
• Journal Special Section: A selection of best papers will be invited to submit extended versions for tentative publication in a Special Section of a high-quality software engineering journal (details to follow).

 

Feel free to contact the organization team (https://icsob2022.github.io/organisation/) for further questions.

 

Best Regards

Dimitri Petrik