Call for Papers (* deadline extension *)
Second International Conference on Software Business
June 8.-10. 2011, Brussels, Belgium
http://www.icsob.org/

Managing Software Innovation for Tomorrow's Business
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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 life. Software business refers to commercial activities in 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. The Second International Conference on Software 
Business brings together researchers with a specific focus on the 
business of software.

Important Dates:
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Paper submission: Jan 22, 2011 (extended from Jan 15)
Workshop &  tutorial proposal submission: Jan 15, 2011
Notification: Feb 21, 2011
Camera-Ready: Mar 12, 2011
Conference: June 8-10, 2011

Relevant topics:
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You are invited to submit papers addressing contemporary issues emerging 
on the intersection of the software and business domains. Both papers 
reporting research results and industrial experiences are welcome. 
Invited are original submissions on the topics including, but not 
limited to:

- Software business management and profitability
- Software engineering management and productivity
- Software quality, benchmarking and strategic management
- Software ecosystems: networks, ecologies and communities
- Open source software business and management
- IPR, copyrights, innovation management and software assets
- Empirical research in software business and management
- Return on investment of software engineering process improvements
- Economical aspects of engineering of e.g. requirements, testing, design
- Software product management, product life-cycles and product-lines
- User experience, security and green software
- Business in Cloud, SaaS, PaaS and managed services
- Business models and strategies of software vendors
- Revenue generation models, e.g. advertisements, subscriptions etc
- Resources and competences in software business
- Internationalization of software firms, international outsourcing
- Vertical software markets, Impact of industry evolution
- Internal software business processes and product pricing
- Operational efficiency, lean enterprise and competitive advantage
- Domain engineering for software business

In addition, ICSOB also provides an Industry Track for the exchange of 
innovative experiences that are worthwhile to be shared in the software 
industry. Details can be found at http://www.icsob.org/.

Submission:
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Full research papers (12 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 present the paper). You may also 
submit tutorial proposals and workshop proposals to the conference.

Conference Officers
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General Chair:
August-Wilhelm Scheer, Saarland University

Program Chairs:
Björn Regnell, Lund University
Inge van de Weerd, Utrecht University

Steering Committee:
Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University
Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University
Pekka Abrahamsson,University of Helsinki
Slinger Jansen, Utrecht University
Pasi Tyrväinen, University of Jyväskylä

Local Organizing Chair:
Olga DeTroyer, Vrije Univerisiteit Brussel, Belgium

Updated information and further details are available at 
http://www.icsob.org/, where also the invitation to submit tutorial 
proposals and workshop proposals can be found. Please, send emails with 
further questions to info@icsob.org.

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