-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] CfP: 12th International Conference on Software Business ICSOB – Theme: Software Sustainability Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 20:47:55 +0000 From: Sonja Hyrynsalmi Sonja.Hyrynsalmi@lut.fi To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

Welcome to 12th International Conference on Software Business ICSOB – This year theme: Software Sustainability!

The 12th International Conference on Software Business ICSOB will be organized by School of Business, University of South-Eastern Norway, 2nd-3rd December 2021. We plan for a hybrid conference with possibility for physical meetings. However, the detailed setup is a subject to change depending on the development of the pandemic.

Although the business of software shares common features with other international knowledge-intensive businesses, it carries many inherently unique features. It is making it a challenging domain for research. The examples of many successful companies show that software provides a unique benefit to its users. Moreover, software has spread all over the world and has permeated in many industries, which are not usual for software. 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. Companies that were engineering-driven become software intensive and struggle to keep up with the required speed of development and planning.

Theme of the year: Software Sustainability

Sustainability is derived from the concept of sustainable development and is defined by the World Commission on Environment and Development as “a process of change in which the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development, and institutional change are made consistent with future as well as present needs“. There is an urgent need for sustainability management in many domains and areas, including software business. The special theme of ICSOB2021 is Software Sustainability. Research about software sustainability addresses sustainability concerns regarding aspects such as software product, software development process, strategy and policy, people, partnership, ecosystem, and business model.

We welcome 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 short position and practice papers (maximum 6 pages) that provide insights on the life cycle management of software products and industry case studies as well as full research papers (maximum 15 pages) describing novel approaches to software business for software products and services.

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

• Software Sustainability – sustainability of software products, sustainable software development, sustainable software business model, sustainable management in software development and operation • Software Ecosystems and App Stores – aspects related to software ecosystems health, ecosystem orchestration and governance, app economy, actors and supply network analysis, incentives and ecosystem-based business models • Software Business Development – aspects related to developing business models and 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 these business models. • Licensing, intellectual property and patents aspects and other legal aspects associated with software business – privacy and security is also welcome here • Software startups – aspects related to environment success factors for software business and startups, entrepreneurial process in software development, software startup processes, disruptive innovation and adoption of startups, competence, risk management and managing startup growth • Engineering and Management – aspects related to software product management, life-cycle perspective, continuous delivery, agile development, technical debt, platform governance, digital platforms, matchmakers, and value co-creation • Human value, morale, ethics and believes – human-centered design, ethical software engineering, AI ethics, transparency, etc. • Other aspects – games and gamification, software business education, disruptive trends in software business and the future of software business

A selection of best papers will be invited to submit extended versions for tentative publication in a Special Section of Information and Software Technology published by Elsevier https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-and-software-technology

You are very welcome to submit your papers to one of these tracks via the EasyChair submission system : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsob2021

Important Dates

• Abstract submissions: August 27th, 2021 • Full paper submissions: September 3rd, 2021 • Notification of acceptance: October 10th, 2021 • Camera-ready copies: October 29th, 2021 • Conference: December 2nd-3rd, 2021

A selection of best papers will be invited to submit extended versions for tentative publication in a Special Section of Information and Software Technology published by Elsevier https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-and-software-technology You are very welcome to submit your papers to one of these tracks via the EasyChair submission system : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsob2021

Submission Formats

Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer’s LNCS format and should not exceed 16 pages, including all text, figures, references, and appendices. Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding 16 pages (for full papers) or 8 pages (for short papers), or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without review.

Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract. The type of paper (technical/empirical evaluation/experience/exploratory paper) should be indicated in the submission. Submission is done through Easychair. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Accepted papers will be presented at ICSOB ’21 and published in the conference proceedings, which is published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

Organizers: Anh Nguyen-Duc, Business school University of South Eastern Norway (Conference Chair) XiaoFeng Wang, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Program Chair) Antonio Martini, University of Oslo (Program Chair) Viktoria Stray, University of Oslo (Proceeding Chair) Kryzstof Wnuk, Blekinge Institute of Technology (Publicity Chair) Sonja Hyrynsalmi, LUT University (Publicity Chair) Dimitris Polychronopoulos, Entreprenerdy (Startup Community Chair) Orges Cico, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Startup Community Chair) Sonja Hyrynsalmi, LUT University (PhD Symposium Chair) Salah Uddin Ahmed, University of South Eastern Norway (Local Chair)

More info: https://icsob2021.org/ and in Twitter @ICSOBconf

ICSOB 2021 Publicity Co-Chair,

Sonja Hyrynsalmi Junior Researcher | Software engineering LUT University, Lahti

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