-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] LESS2013 CFP Datum: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:33:38 +0000 Von: Kieran Conboy kieran.conboy@nuigalway.ie An: AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org

LESS 2013 - Lean Enterprise Software and Systems Conference

Galway, Ireland

1st - 4th December, 2013 www.less2013.org

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 4th International Conference on Lean Enterprise Software and Systems (LESS2013) will be hosted by the National University of Ireland Galway on the west coast of Ireland. The conference brings together both industrial practitioners and researchers in the fields of information systems and software engineering, and focuses specifically on theory, practical applications and implications of agile and lean development methods. LESS joins three strong communities to form a platform for innovative ideas and future developments. We foster the interaction between the lean product development community and the agile community, coupled with innovative ideas nurtured by the Beyond Budgeting School of thinking.

The LESS 2013 conference will have five key tracks:

(i) Enterprise Transformation: This track examines a broad range of emerging issues concerning transformation of how business is conducted in order to help cope with shifts in environments. (ii) Lean Startups: Lean Startup is an approach for launching businesses and products that relies on validated learning, scientific experimentation, and iterative product releases to shorten product development cycles, measure progress, and gain valuable customer feedback. In this way, companies, especially startups, can design their products or services to meet the demands of their customer base without requiring large amounts of initial funding or expensive product launches (iii) Lean & Agile Project & Portfolio Management: This track examines emerging issues in the area of agile and lean methods. Papers are also welcome on the application of these methods in project portfolios.

(iv) Scaling Software: Software is increasingly scaling in importance in companies in different industry sectors who would not have traditionally seen themselves as primarily software companies. As a consequence, software development environments need to scale in various dimensions, e.g., Processes and Methods; Products, Systems and Services; Organization and Business Domains.

(v) Beyond Budgeting: Because the world changes constantly, companies, not just projects, must adapt to the new conditions as innovation comes in many forms. Beyond Budgeting started as a learning journey for management communities in Europe and is now a major active movement seeking a different approach to the management of organisations.

You are invited to submit original papers addressing contemporary issues emerging in the specific or intersections among the proposed areas. Papers for sessions that fit any of these tracks are welcome, and we are constantly looking for new ideas to promote and review in the community. Novelty and applicability are important factors in the choice of sessions for the conference. LESS is a conference at the intersection of different ideas and trends.

Topics include but are not limited to:

- Agile/Lean software development

- Complexity Thinking, Complexity Science and Complex Adaptive Systems in the context of Agile and Lean - Case studies of agile-lean

- Lean principles and values

- Kanban cases

- Lean education

- Agile enterprise

- Beyond Budgeting studies

- Control in agile/lean environments

- Scaling agile/lean development

- Combining or streamlining business processes and agile/lean development

We encourage a range of submissions including:

Full research papers. Research papers are limited to 15 pages. Accepted completed research papers will be presented at LESS2013 and published in the LESS2013 proceedings.

Research-in-progress submissions are papers developed from promising but incomplete research projects that will benefit from feedback of other LESS participants. Research-in-progress papers are limited to 8 pages in length. Accepted research in progress papers will be presented as posters at LESS2013 and published in the LESS2013 proceedings.

Experience reports and demonstrations with a focus on presentations and interactive sessions, experience report presentations or hands-on engineering sessions. We are looking for lightning talks (10min), presentations (60 or 90min) and interactive sessions (90min) related to any of the conference themes. Please specify in your proposal: the title as it should appear in the program, an abstract of 200 words or less, the organizers (include a short 100 word bio), the theme covered, the format (including duration), a justification for being included and the proposed length (10min/60min/90min).

Workshops and tutorials for interesting and innovative half-day and full-day experiences based on established material or interactive formats. We invite research, technical papers, and work-in-progress investigating cases and business models enabled by various technologies and developed in different countries. Please specify in your proposal: the title of the workshop/tutorial, an abstract of 200 words or less, the organizers (include a short 100 word bio), the theme covered, the format (including duration) and a justification for being included.

Ph.D. symposium inviting Ph.D. students to present their research. Participants will be asked to prepare a presentation including a discussion of the main research challenges, solution directions, results obtained thus far, evaluation plan, and research plan towards the completion of the Ph.D. Presentation should be limited to twenty minutes. An expert panel will provide feedback to help students shape their work.

Panel proposals should be submitted to the track chairs. We invite proposals that provide a forum to present, explore and debate timely proactive topics and emergent trends. Panel sessions should complement the program by allowing for the discussion of emerging issues as well as new research ideas. In a panel proposal, submit the title and a 500-word description.

Papers must present new research not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions are subject to a thorough peer-review process. At least one author per paper is required to register upon acceptance. The LESS2013 conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information processing (LNBIP). We are also discussing a special issue of the Journal of Enterprise Transformation (http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ujet20), to which successful conference papers will be invited.

IMPORTANT DATES

1 July 2013: Submission of academic papers for review

1 Sep 2013: Acceptance decision on academic papers

1 Oct 2013: Submission of industry, papers and workshop, tutorial, panel proposals

1 Oct 2013: Early-bird registration deadline

AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS

All submissions must follow the guidelines as set by Springer: http://www.springer.com/series/7911

ORGANISATION

General Chair - Brian Fitzgerald, Lero, University of Limerick

Program Chairs - Kieran Conboy, National University of Ireland, Galway & University of New South Wales; Ken Power, Cisco Systems, Galway, Ireland; Ricardo Valerdi, University of Arizona, USA

Organising Chairs - Lorraine Morgan, Lero, NUI Galway; Klaas-Jan Stol, Lero, University of Limerick

Doctoral Symposium Chair - Xiaofeng Wang, Free University of Bozen Bolzano

Executive Track Chair - JK Srinivasan, MIT, USA

For further information on the conference, please visit the main website: http://less2013.org

or email: less2013@lero.ie

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