Special
Issue on Software Engineering from a Social Network
Perspective
SpringerOpen
Journal
of Internet Services and Applications (JISA)
Paper Submission: July
1 or October 1, 2014
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Guest editors:
Marco Aurelio Gerosa (University of São
Paulo) – <gerosa@ime.usp.br>
David
Redmiles
(University of California, Irvine) – <redmiles@ics.uci.edu>
Pernille
Bjørn (IT
University in Copenhagen) – <pbra@itu.dk>
Anita
Sarma
(University of Nebraska) – <asarma@cse.unl.edu>
MOTIVATIONÂ
In today’s Internet age, the concept of
social networks is emerging as both a useful means for
understanding software engineering activities and a key
principle for designing software tools. Social networks
model how people communicate, coordinate, cooperate, and
develop professional relationships, which are critical
activities for a software development project. Bringing
social networks to the foreground of software development
practice brings a focus to its stakeholders, including
developers, their managers, their support staff, QA
analysts, requirement engineers, and even end users.
Social networks include investigation of both the social
organization of the work as well as the technical
information infrastructures. The concept also helps
explore the notion of network-centric organizations that
are required to deal with socio-technical dependencies –
including handling the relations and connections between
complex software code, systems and subsystems, requirement
and specification documents, etc.
The structure of the social organization
often dictates the technical structure of the product, as
stated in Conway’s Law, and is a topic of ongoing
research. Researchers are investigating the interplay of
complex interdependencies among technical artifacts and
the people who create and maintain these artifacts. Others
have examined the relationships between the stakeholders
based on qualitative studies and have been developing
software tools to support awareness and trust in global
software development. As a last example, researchers have
been studying the effects of companies moving from
hierarchical to network-centric ways of organizing the
work and looking to leverage expertise within companies.
However, the roles and practices involved
with social networks within software development as well
as the technical challenges of social network technologies
within software development are yet to be further
explored. Thus, we seek submissions that employ the
concept of social networks either in studying software
development from an empirical approach or use the concept
as a central basis for developing software tool support,
or do both! We seek submissions that investigate how
social network technologies are currently being enacted by
software development practitioners, and how the
technology-in-use practices emerges. Current research on
social network in software engineering is spread across a
diverse set of research subareas, and we want to bring in
this diverse set of approaches into this special issue. We
encourage authors to specifically discuss the definition
and background of their particular use of social networks
in their work, as well as how the concept was beneficial
for exploring software development practices and/or how
designing collaborative technologies for software
development.
SCOPE & TOPICS OF INTEREST
Topics include but are not limited to
the following:
- Â Data mining for social networks in
software repositories
- Â Understanding software evolution from a
social network perspective
- Â Social network analysis for
enhancing specific aspects of software engineering, such as
bug prediction, expert recommendation, etc.
- Â Tools for supporting researchers and
practitioners in analyzing social networks in software
projects and ecosystems
- Â Socio-technical networks in software
development
- Â Enactment of social networks in software
development
- Â Communication practices in social
networks in software development
- Â Coordination practices and
organization structure as they relate to social network
- Â Information and knowledge sharing in
social networks
- Â Interactions between awareness,
visualization, and social networks
- Â The role of trust in software
development as enacted in social networks
- Â Social networks analysis in open source
software projects and ecosystemsÂ
- Â Large scale analysis of social networks
in software ecosystems
- Â Patterns and anti-patterns in social
networks in software development
- Â New requirements for supporting social
network infrastructure, such as middleware, frameworks, and
cloud computing environments
- Â Technologies-in-use practices of social
network within software development organizations
SUBMISSION
JISA is an
international Open Access journal published by Springer.
Several bases index the journal, such as SCOPUS, INSPEC,
Academic OneFile, DBLP, DOAJ, EI-Compendex, OCLC,
SCImago, and Summon by Serial Solutions. So far, JISA
papers have had a relative high impact (http://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=1869-0238&tip=iss).Â
JISA adopts the
Open Access policy, allowing free access to the papers.
Although the journal charges a fee to have a paper
published in the open access model, we have *fee
waivers* to assure that all quality articles will be
published, regardless of the funding capacity of the
authors. Please, enter in touch if you are interested in
a fee waiver.Â
Manuscripts are
submitted online as described in http://www.jisajournal.com/manuscript.
There is no minimum or maximum length imposed on papers,
but a typical length is around 15 pages in the Springer
template format. Reviewers will weigh the contribution
of a paper relative to its length. Thus, papers should
report research thoroughly but succinctly.Â
There will be
two independent cycles of submissions. The journal
will publish the papers as soon as they are ready,
thus the authors can choose in which one they want to
participate.
- Deadline for submissions:Â July 1
or October 1, 2014.
- Author’s notifications: September
19 or December 8, 2014.
Questions?
If you have any questions about the
suitability of your manuscript or any other query related to
this call do not hesitate to contact the theme editors.
EDITORIAL
COMMITTEEÂ (under formation)Â
Akinori Ihara
(NAIST, Japan)Â
Alexander Boden
(University of Siegen, Germany)Â
Andrew Begel
(Microsoft Research, USA)Â
Christian Bird
(Microsoft Research, USA)Â
Claudia Werner
(UFRJ, Brazil)Â
Cleidson de Souza
(ITV & UFPA, Brazil)Â
Kari Kuutti
(University of Oulu, Finland)Â
Kate Ehrlich
(IBM, USA)Â
Kim Herzig
(Microsoft Research, UK)Â
Marcelo Cataldo
(ConnReperio, LLC, USA)Â
Myriam Lewkowicz
(University of Technology of Troyes, France)Â
Patrick Wagstrom
(IBM Watson Group, USA)Â
Sabrina Marczak
(PUCRS, Brasil)Â
Yuanfang Cai
(Drexel University, USA)Â
Yvonne Dittrich
(IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)Â