| June 8-10, 2011, Brussels, Belgium | info@icsob.org |
Call For Papers (PDF / TXT)
Managing Software Innovation for Tomorrow's Business
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.
Relevant topics
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
Submissions
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.
Important Dates
| Paper submission by: | January 22, 2011 (extended from January 15) |
| Workshop & tutorial proposal submission: |
January 15, 2011 |
| Notification by: | February 21, 2011 |
| Camera-Ready: | March 12, 2011 |
| ICSOB 2010 conference: | June 8.-10. 2011 |