The second International Conference on Software Business
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The 2nd International Conference on Software Business will be held on June 8.-10. 2011, at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Brussels. You can find all information about the ICSOB 2011 schedules in the Scientific Program and the Industry Track. Below we present the complete conference program at a glance. A brochure with the complete program can be downloaded here.

The ICSOB 2011 conference brings together academic researchers and industry
leaders interested in the software industry, with a specific focus on the business of software.
The conference is addressing contemporary issues emerging on the intersection of the software and business domains. The topics of interest for the conference include, 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