[Om-announce] 9th IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE)

[Nordio Dario Martin]

Call for Contributions

Ninth IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE)

Fudan University, Shanghai, China

August 18-21, 2014

http://www.icgse.org

Important Dates

Main Technical Track
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Paper abstract submissions:	February 10, 2014
Paper submissions:		February 17, 2014
Notification to all authors	April 28, 2014
Camera-ready copies 		May 19, 2014

Collocated Events
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Workshop proposals	January 10, 2014
Tutorial proposals	March 3, 2014
Students Events 	March 10, 2014
Industrial abstracts: 	May 12, 2014

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Conference Overview and Theme
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Main Theme: Global Software Development and Engineering – Trends and Evolution

Globally collaborative software and IT industries are bringing huge opportunities for each and every country all over the world. The diversity of culture and the dispersion over time and space require novel techniques, tools, and practices from many disciplines to overcome challenges and to take advantage of all the opportunities.

The 9th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) brings together researchers and practitioners interested in solving the challenges of distributed software development. ICGSE 2014 invites academic and industrial individuals and teams to contribute to the fast growing field of global software development and engineering.

Practice: Global Software Engineering addresses real-world challenges, and so we especially seek industry knowledge. We invite industrial participants to share observations and experiences in the conference by publishing papers and making presentations.

Research: We invite academic researchers to submit papers discussing GSE research and GSE education. Papers with empirical evidence are encouraged and will be given preference.

Topics

- Project management of distributed software projects
- Collaborative requirement development
- Software design and architecture for distributed development
- Agile and lean development in distributed teams and organizations
- Software testing in a globally distributed environment
- Communication, coordination and collaboration
- Strategic issues in distributed development
- Working with globally distributed contractors
- Industrial offshoring and out sourcing experiences
- Tools and infrastructure support for distributed software development
- Cloud computing and crowdsourcing
- Methods and processes for global organizations
- Education in global software engineering

Paper Submission

Submissions are invited for papers describing unpublished, original work, in any of the following categories:

+ Research Papers that describe theoretical frameworks, technical solutions, or empirical studies. Maximum length: 10 pages.

+ Practice Papers that describe problems, lessons learned, solutions implemented, and challenges and opportunities encountered in industrial global software engineering environments. Maximum length: 5 pages.

All papers will be handled electronically through ICGSE 2014 online submission system and peer reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers should conform to the two-column IEEE CS Press format. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by IEEE CS Press and be available in the IEEE CS Digital Library.

***Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit a revised and extended version of their papers to a special section in an issue of the Information and Software Technology journal published by Elsevier.

We also invite industry abstracts, contributions to different students events, and proposals for workshops and tutorials.

For further details, please visit ICGSE 2014 website (http://www.icgse.org)


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Organizing Committee
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General Chair

Wenyun Zhao, Fudan University, China

Program Chairs

Yuanfang Cai, Drexel University, United States
Jude Fernandez, Infosys, India

Steering Committee Chair

Christof Ebert, Vector Consulting Services, Germany

Local Organizing Chair

Xin Peng, Fudan University, China

Workshop Chairs

Qianxiang Wang, Peking University, China
Aurora Vizcaino, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Doctoral Symposium Chair

M. Ali Babar, The University of Adelaide, Australia

Tutorial Chairs

Raghu Sangwan, Pennsylvania State University, United States
Cleidson de Souza, Vale Technological Institute, Brazil

Proceedings Chair

Liwei Shen, Fudan University, China

Poster & Panel Chairs

Tony Clear, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

Bedir Tekinerdogan, Bilkent University, Turkey

Industry Liaison

Alberto Avritzer, Siemens, US
Gang Zhang, University of Shanghai for Science & Technology, China

Publicity Chairs

Eduardo Almeida, UFBA, Brazil
Martin Nordio, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Mansooreh Zahedi, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Shilpi Jain, IMI, India
Junchao Xiao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Finance Chair

Yijian Wu, Fudan University, China

Webmaster

Qingtao Jiang, Fudan University, China

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More information about ICGSE 2014 is available at: http://www.icgse.org
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