[AISWorld] Call for contributions: Workshops at the 14th International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP2013)

[Torgeir Dingsøyr]

Call for contributions to workshops at the 14th International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP2013):
* The Second International Workshop on Agility of Enterprise Systems (AgilES2013)
* Workshop on Research Challenges in Large-Scale Agile Development

Further details of each call below:

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The Second International Workshop on Agility of Enterprise Systems (AgilES2013)
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~xchge/agiles.html

Collocated with
 XP2013, 14th International Conference on Agile Software Development
http://xp2013.org
June 3rd - 7th, Vienna

Paper Submission Due: 31st March, 2013
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Aims and Scope
Organizations large and small, private and public, have come to rely on information systems for their day-to-day operation, planning, and decision making. As strategic and operating environments become increasingly turbulent due to the factors such as competions, regulatory changes, and technological advancements, agility, the ability to sense and react to change effectively using information technologies, has become a critical sucess factor in modern society. Yet, success is not easily achieved.
The information system of a mordern enterprise is usually a complex socio-technical system. To enable the agility of such a system is challenging and becomes an important topic for both software engineers and academic researchers. For example, it is natural to relate the process of transforming an enterprise architecture to make it ‘business agile’ to the Agile Manifesto and agile software development, which are the reflection of the agility of software development processes. The common interests of researchers and engineers are the frameworks for safely, pragmatically, and incrementally introducing agile methods to help organisations achieve their business goals.
AgilES2013, the Second International Workshop on Agility of Enterprise Systems, is focused on the results of rigorous scientific research and experience of industrial practices on enterprise systems, especially on enhancing the agility of enterprise systems. In conjunction with XP2013, one of the main international agile conferences well attended by both academics and practitioners, AgilES2013 intends to bring together the researchers and practitioners working on enterprise systems and related fields to create a shared vision, and to bridge communication and understanding gaps.
To have a successful event, we both invite researchers to share their research and reviews related to the agility of enterprise systems, and encourage practitioners to submit valuable experience reports and practical insights. We especially welcome the contributions that critically reflect on the current status of research and practice on enterprise systems and agile development on topics including but not limited to:
- Agile enterprise architecture
- Agile development, adoption and transformation of enterprise system
- Agile development and service oriented architecture
- Agile development and enterprise system in future (e.g., for/in cloud computing)

Submission Guidelines
We are looking for two kinds of submissions. The first type is the original and finished research, with implications for both theory and practice. Motivation for research and discussion of the related work should be included, as well as a description of the research method applied. Regular papers must not exceed twelve (12) pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.
The second type is work-in-progress, which describes new directions, synergies with other disciplines or results not mature enough to be a full papers. These ideas will be further developed with feedback actively sought from the agile practitioners. Short papers are limited to six (6) pages, including all text, references, appendices, and figures.
Papers have to be written in English and formatted according to Springer’s LNBIP format: http://www.springer.com/series/7911.
Paper submissions will be managed via the workshop submission web site using the EasyChair service: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=agiles2013
All submissions must be original work, and must not have been previously published, nor be under consideration for publication, elsewhere. All submissions will be formally evaluated by three reviewers. At least one author of each accepted paper should register for the conference and participate in the workshop.

Important Dates
Deadline for submission: 31st March, 2013
Notification to authors: 19th April, 2013
Resubmission due: 30th April, 2013
Workshop date: 3rd June, 2013

Workshop Organisers
Xiaocheng Ge, University of York, UK (xiaocheng.ge at york.ac.uk<mailto:xiaocheng.ge at york.ac.uk>)
Nour Ali, University of Brighton, UK (n.ali2 at brighton.ac.uk<mailto:n.ali2 at brighton.ac.uk>)
Xiaofeng Wang, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (xiaofeng.wang at unibz.it<mailto:xiaofeng.wang at unibz.it>)

PC Members
Rami Bahsoon, University of Birmingham, UK
Joseph Chao, Bowling Green State University, US
Maya Daneva, University of Twentee
Torgeir Dingsøyr, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Juan Garbajosa, Technical University of Madrid (UPM), Spain
Ricardo Martinho, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal
Ivan Mistrik, Independent Consultant, Germany
Richard Paige, University of York, UK

Raman Ramsin, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
Juha Rikkilae, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Dina Salah, University of York, UK

Carlos Solis, Amazon, Ireland

Masoumeh Taromirad, University of York, UK

Any inquries regarding the workshop, please contact one of the workshop organizers.



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Call for contributions: Workshop on Research Challenges in Large-Scale Agile Development
7. June, 14th International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP2013), Vienna, Austria
www.xp2013.org<http://www.xp2013.org>
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Agile software development methods were made for small, co-located development teams, but are increasingly applied in other settings. Several large projects, with a number of teams that develop complex systems have started to use agile methods. How to apply agile methods to large projects was identified as the "top burning research question" by practitioners at XP2010. This workshop seeks to identify the main research challenges in conducting agile software development in large-scale. Such challenges include portfolio management, team coordination, development of the system architecture, knowledge sharing and facilitating self management. The workshop will also focus on appropriate research designs to address the main challenges.

The results of the workshop will be published as an article in ACM Software Engineering Notes.

We ask for contributions in the form of 2-page extended abstracts describing research challenges, ongoing or planned studies, research designs or research needs as seen from industrial or academic perspectives. The abstracts will be reviewed by two members of the program committee.
The workshop will be interactive, with short presentations of the accepted submissions and discussions. The workshop is organized as a part of the International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP2013) in Vienna, Austrila (www.xp2013.org<http://www.xp2013.org>).

Key dates:
* Extended abstract submission: 5. April 2013
* Notification of acceptance/rejection: 19. April 2013
* Early bird registration for XP2013: 27. April 2013.
* Workshop: 7. June 2013.

Submission instructions:
Papers should be submitted electronically as a self-contained PDF file using the EasyChair submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/conference_dir.cgi?a=3965588. Papers have to be written in English and formatted according to Springer’s LNBIP format: http://www.springer.com/series/7911. Papers not following the guidelines will be rejected.

Registration to XP2013:
Authors of accepted abstracts must register for the workshop through the XP2013 website.

Primary organizers:
Torgeir Dingsøyr, SINTEF, Norway
Nils Brede Moe, SINTEF, Norway

Program committee:
* Kieran Conboy, National University of Ireland, Galway
* Jutta Eckstein, IT Communication, Germany
* Casper Lassenius, Aalto University, Finland
* Helen Sharp , Open University, UK
* Darja Smite, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
* Hans van Vliet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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Torgeir Dingsøyr
Senior Scientist, SINTEF ICT,
Department of Software Engineering, Safety and Security, PO Box 4760
Sluppen, NO-7465 Trondheim, Norway
Phone: +47 930 08 714, Fax: +47 73 59 43 02 www.sintef.no<http://www.sintef.no>
<http://www.sintef.no/>

Adjunct Associate Professor,
Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of
Science and Technology www.idi.ntnu.no<http://www.idi.ntnu.no> <http://www.idi.ntnu.no/>


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