[AISWorld] Deadline Extension: IWSECO-03 - Software Ecosystems

[Slinger Roijackers (Jansen)]

*Deadline Extension*

Call for Papers: Third International ACM Workshop on Software Ecosystems
(IWSECO’10)
Managing Innovation Networks through Openness

http://www.softwareecosystems.org/workshop/

October 29th 2010, in Bangkok, Thailand

in conjunction with the The International ACM Conference on Management of
Emergent Digital EcoSystems (MEDES 2010)

*Workshop Objective*
After a successful workshop in Virginia and another one in Denmark, IWSECO
goes to Bangkok in collaboration with ACM MEDES 2010. Software vendors no
longer function as independent units, where all customers are end-users,
where there are no suppliers, and where all software is built in-house.
Instead, software vendors have become networked, i.e., software vendors are
depending on (communities of) service and software component suppliers,
value-added-resellers, and pro-active customers who build and share
customizations. Software vendors now have to consider their strategic role
in the software ecosystem to survive. With their role in the software
ecosystem in mind, software vendors can become more successful by opening up
their business, devising new business models, forging long-lasting
relationships with partnership networks, and overcoming technical and social
challenges that are part of these innovations. The focus of the first
workshop was the definition of the research field. The second workshop’s
focus was the ‘ideal’ architecture of a software platform.  The third
workshop on software ecosystems focuses on the management of software
ecosystems, i.e., how a software vendor can manage its network of partners,
developers, service deliverers, and other third parties that play a role in
the software ecosystem.

Typically, software vendors have several instruments available to them for
managing their ecosystem, such as the creation of partnership models or the
introduction of component and service certification. The effects of these
decisions on the software ecosystem have not yet been made measurable, which
can be considered one of the main challenges of the field of software
ecosystems. We welcome submissions that specifically address this topic.

A software ecosystem is a set of actors functioning as a unit and
interacting with a shared market for software and services, together with
the relationships among them. These relationships are frequently underpinned
by a common technological platform or market and operate through the
exchange of information, resources and artifacts. Several challenges lie in
the research area of software ecosystems. To begin with, insightful and
scalable modeling techniques for software ecosystems currently do not exist.
Furthermore, methods are required that enable software vendors to transform
their legacy architectures to accommodate reusability of internal common
artifacts and external components and services. Finally, methods are
required that support software vendors in choosing survival strategies in
software ecosystems.

The Workshop on Software Ecosystems aims to further increase the body of
knowledge in this specific area of software reuse and software engineering
by providing a forum to exchange ideas and discuss state-of-the-art results.
It will build and shape the community of leading practitioners and research
experts. Given the relevance of software ecosystems, and the rather
unexplored scientific and industry contribution in this field, the workshop
will deliver a state-of-the-practice overview of the available knowledge on
software ecosystems, as well as an overview of challenges for further
research.

*Relevant Topics*
Submitted papers shall address topics of interest to software ecosystems and
software reuse. Topics of interest include, but are certainly not limited
to:

Organizational openness
Strategic benefits analyses of ecosystem management
Partner management
Software development governance
Software ecosystem modeling
Software ecosystem practices and experience
Software business models
Product software and software licensing
Economic impact of software ecosystems
Software ecosystem creation
Keystone and niche player survival strategies
Formal modeling of business models
Architectural implications of reusability
API development
Publishing APIs
Software product management
Software product lines
Software development community management
Software ecosystem orchestration
Market-specific domain engineering
Open source software ecosystems
Virtualized software enterprises
API compatibility over subsequent releases
Workshop proceedings
The proceedings of the conference will be published by ACM. We are in search
of a scientific journal for publishing of extended and revised versions of
the best papers.

*Paper preparation, submission and evaluation*
We welcome both research and industry papers to IWSECO. They must be
original and not submitted to or accepted by any other conference or
journal. To encourage industrial participation we also welcome short
industry papers and case studies. Papers should be submitted in electronic
form (PDF) using EasyChair (
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=medes10). The ACM format
descriptions can be found here:
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. The length of
papers is restricted at eight (8) pages.

*Objective*
IWSECO 2010 pursues the following objectives:

Build upon the body of knowledge in software ecosystems, and identify
challenges and future avenues for research relevant for both academia and
industry.
Establish software ecosystems as a research field within the greater field
of software engineering, software management, and software reuse.
Provide to software product managers and researchers a dedicated forum for
exchanging ideas and best practices and thus foster industry-academia
collaboration.
The field of software ecosystems is rather unexplored both from scientific
and industrial perspectives. This mandates IWSECO to participate in bringing
researchers and industrial representatives together, for the purpose of
exchanging ideas, but also to iteratively set the research agenda based on
industry needs. The IWSECO 2010 workshop aims at continuing to increase the
body of knowledge for software ecosystems by providing a forum to exchange
ideas and publish research results. It will build and shape the community of
leading practitioners and research experts.

*Expert Meeting*
Before the third workshop on software ecosystems, an expert meeting will be
organized to further strengthen the community. The expert meeting will be
organized to get key figures from industry and academia to discuss the
emergent topics in software ecosystems and to further detail the research
agenda on software ecosystems. Topics of interest include research funding,
ecosystem management, future developments, and ecosystem visualization.
Please contact Slinger Jansen (s.jansen at cs.uu.nl) if you wish to attend this
meeting.

*Organizing Committee*
Slinger Jansen (s.jansen at cs.uu.nl)
Anthony Finkelstein (a.finkelstein at cs.ucl.ac.uk)
Jan Bosch (jan at janbosch.com)
Sjaak Brinkkemper (s.brinkkemper at cs.uu.nl)

*Important dates*
16. July 2010: Deadline for workshop submissions
15. August 2010: Notification of authors
15. September 2010: Camera-ready papers due
29. October 2010: The International Workshop on Software Ecosystems
All deadlines are 23:59 Apia, Samoa time

*Program Committee*
Tony Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft Research, USA
Kari Smolander, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy
Sten Minor, Software Innovation and Engineering Institute, Sweden
Bjorn Regnell, Lund University, Sweden
Samuel Fricker, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Nilay Oza, VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland
Inge van de Weerd, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Andy Zaidman, Delft University, The Netherlands
Andreas Metzger, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Liming Zhu, University of New South Wales, Australia
Epaminondas Kapetanios, University of West Minster, United Kingdom
Michel Chaudron, Leiden University, the Netherlands
Eetu Luoma, Jyvaskyla University, Finland
Pasi Tyrväinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Peter Buxmann, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Walt Scacchi, Institute for Software Research, USA
Zhigang Zeng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Nan Niu, Mississippi State University, USA
Mircea Lungu, University of Lugano, Switzerland
(this list should be up to date. Please send me an e-mail if your name is
missing)
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