[AISWorld] Call for papers: Agile2011 Conference

[Torgeir Dingsøyr]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Agile 2011 - Research at Work
http://agile2011.agilealliance.org/
August 7-13, 2011, Salt Lake City, USA

The Research at Work track of the Agile Conference focuses on bringing the results of rigorous scientific research on agile software development to researchers and practitioners. 

We invite researchers to contribute to the body of knowledge on agile methods and processes, agile teams and people, and the tools and practices that support them. We aim at bridging the gap between research and practice, and encourage submission of case studies, action research studies, experiments, surveys and literature reviews. In 2011, the Agile Manifesto celebrates its 10th anniversary. This is an opportunity for scholars to examine the myriad of changes that have occurred in software development in the past decade. We especially ask for contributions critically reflecting on the current status of research and practice in agile development on topics including:
- Large-Scale & Distributed Development
- Testing & Quality Assurance
- Coaching & Mentoring
- Adoption & Transformation
- Collaboration, Culture, & Teams
- User Experience and Interaction Design
- Working with Customers 
- Development Languages & Environments
- Business & Project Management
- Management and Business Aspects
- Agile for Embedded Systems Development
- Leadership

In addition, we would particularly like contributions exploring and questioning the theoretical underpinnings of agile and lean development and the Agile Manifesto.

Important dates:
- Deadline for requesting paper shepherding: 15 December 2010 
- Submission deadline: 25 February 2011
- Author notification: 15 April 2011
- Camera-ready version due: 1 May 2011

We seek two types of contributions for Agile 2011 Research at Work:

- Regular research papers - full papers for research that has led to significant and validated results.
- New ideas and emerging results - position papers discussing what will appear or should be researched in the field.

Regular research papers
We are looking for original, finished research, with implications for both theory and practice. Motivation for research and discussion of the related work must be included, as well as a description of the research method applied. As research papers will be included in the main conference tracks, authors of accepted papers will be assigned a mentor who will advise and assist in adapting the presentation to suit a mixed audience of practitioners and researchers. 
Authors of accepted regular papers are also invited to give a short presentation of their research method at a separate workshop on research methods in studies of agile software development. Papers are limited to 10 pages.

New ideas and emerging results
We are looking for papers that describe new research directions, synergies with other disciplines or results not mature enough to be full papers. These ideas will be further developed with feedback actively sought from the practitioner community. This will provide a great opportunity to develop your ideas with others. Papers are limited to 4 pages. More details will follow in a separate workshop call.

Submission
Papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer-review process, by three reviewers selected from the program committee. Both regular research papers and new ideas and emerging results papers will be published in the electronic proceedings and indexed in IEEE Xplore. Papers must follow the IEEE Proceedings format to be reviewed (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting). Author information must be removed from submissions. Submissions must be in PDF format.

Papers must be submitted electronically through EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=agile2011

Upon notification of acceptance, all authors of accepted papers will be asked to complete a copyright form and will receive further instructions for preparing their camera ready version. At least one author of each paper is expected to register and present the results at Agile 2011.

Journal special issue
Authors of high quality papers relevant to a special issue call will be invited to revise and extend the contribution for the Journal of Systems and Software (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jss). A separate call for papers will be announced with instructions on direct submission, but we encourage authors to submit to the conference to receive more feedback.

Best paper award
The IEEE Software Agile 2011 Best Research Award will be chosen from the highest-quality regular research papers having significant potential to impact software practice.

Paper Shepherding
If you would like to receive help from an experienced agile researcher to shepherd you in developing a submission, please contact the stage producers by the time indicated in the important dates list.


Organization

Research at Work Stage Co-Producers
Torgeir Dingsøyr, SINTEF, Norway
Nils Brede Moe, SINTEF, Norway

Special Issue Editors
Torgeir Dingsøyr, SINTEF, Norway
Nils Brede Moe, SINTEF, Norway
Venugopal Balijepally, Prairie View A&M University, USA
Sridhar P Nerur, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

New Ideas and Emerging Results Coordinators 
Sallyann Freudenberg, Freelance Agile Coach, UK
Johanna Hunt, University of Sussex, UK

Speaker Mentoring Coordinators
Johanna Hunt, University of Sussex, UK
Sallyann Freudenberg, Freelance Agile Coach, UK

Program Committee
Pekka Abrahamsson, University of Helsinki, Finland
Silvia Acuña, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Muhammad Ali Babar, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Venugopal Balijepally, Prairie View A&M University, USA
Robert Biddle, Carleton University, USA
Kieran Conboy, National University of Ireland, Galway
Yvonne Dittrich, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Tore Dybå, SINTEF, Norway
Sallyann Freudenberg, Freelance Agile Coach, UK
Juhani Iivari, University of Oulu, Finland
Andreas Jedlitschka, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Karlheinz Kautz, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Philippe Kruchten, University of British Columbia, Canada
Gwanhoo Lee, American University, USA
Kim Man Lui, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Michele Marchesi, University of Cagliari, Italy
Angela Martin, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Frank Maurer, University of Calgary, Canada
Grigori Melnik, Microsoft, USA
Maurizio Morisio, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Sridhar Nerur, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Minna Pikkarainen, VTT, Finland
Jan Pries-Heje, Roskilde University, Denmark 
Václav Rajlich, Wayne State University, USA
Bala Ramesh, Georgia State University, USA
Hugh Robinson, Open University, UK
Carolyn Seaman, University of Maryland, USA
Kurt Schneider, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Helen Sharp, Open University, UK
Darja Smite, Blekinge Insittute of Technology, Sweden
Bjørnar Tessem, University of Bergen, Norway
Richard Vidgen, University of New South Wales, Australia
Xiaofeng Wang, Lero, Ireland
Agustín Yagüe, Technical Universify of Madrid, Spain

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Torgeir Dingsøyr
Senior Scientist, SINTEF ICT,
Department of Software Engineering, Safety and Security, PO Box 4760 Sluppen, Norway
Phone: +47 930 08 714, Fax: +47 73 59 29 77 www.sintef.no

Adjunct Associate Professor,
Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology www.idi.ntnu.no