[AISWorld] CFP: 12th International Conference on Open Source Systems, Gothenburg, Sweden, 30 May - 02 June 2016

[Kevin G Crowston]

OSS 2016 Call For Contributions 

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The 12th International Conference on Open Source Systems 
(http://oss2016.org) 

Gothenburg, Sweden, 30 May - 02 June 2016 


Scope of OSS 2016 
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Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) has had a disruptive effect on 
the software industry and the ways that organizations and individuals 
create, distribute, acquire and use software and software-based 
services. The FLOSS movement has created new kinds of opportunities 
such as the emergence of new business models, knowledge exchange 
mechanisms, and collective development approaches. On the other hand, 
the movement has introduced new kinds of challenges, especially as 
different problem domains embrace openness as a pervasive problem 
solving strategy. FLOSS can be complex yet widespread and often 
cross-cultural. Consequently, they require an interdisciplinary 
understanding of their technical, economic, legal and socio-cultural 
dynamics. 

Many organizations that have been known for developing proprietary 
software are now actively involved with FLOSS. FLOSS adoption 
continues to grow among businesses, governments, and other 
organizations. FLOSS remains important for educators and researchers, 
as well as an important aspect of e-government and information society 
initiatives, providing access to high-quality software and the code 
used to create it. 

The goal of 12th International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 
2016 is to provide an international forum where a diverse community of 
professionals from academia, industry and public sector, and diverse 
FLOSS initiatives can come together to share research findings and 
practical experiences. The conference is also a forum to provide 
information and education to practitioners, identify directions for 
further research, and to be an ongoing platform for technology 
transfer, no matter which form of FLOSS is being pursued. 

OSS 2016 accepts submissions in the following categories: research 
papers, industry papers, formal tool demonstrations, and posters. The 
page limit is 12 for full papers, 6 for short papers, industry papers, 
and tool demonstrations, and 2 for poster submissions. To allow for 
more complete and fully formatted reference lists, bibliographic 
references do not count toward the page limit. OSS 2016 also invites 
proposals for tutorials and workshops, submissions to the doctoral 
consortium, and submissions of panels. More information on submission 
guidelines is available on the conference web site: 
http://www.oss2016.org. Accepted papers will be included in the 
conference proceedings, which are published by Springer. The major 
conference theme is integrating communities. 


Topics of Interest 
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Integrating communities 
- Challenges of building and maintaining open source communities 
- Organization and interaction schemes in open source communities 
- Models and classification schemes of communities 
- Mining data from open source communities 
- Experience reports and lessons about integrating communities 

FLOSS as innovation 
- Adoption / use / acceptance of FLOSS 
- Publishing / dissemination / redistribution of FLOSS systems 
- Expanding scientific research and technology development methods 
through openness 
- Adopting innovation in FLOSS projects 

FLOSS practices and methods 
- FLOSS and traditional / agile development methods 
- FLOSS and decentralized development 
- Knowledge and documentation management in FLOSS 

FLOSS technologies and applications 
- Security of FLOSS 
- Interoperability / portability / scalability of FLOSS 
- Open standards / open data / open cloud / open hardware 
- Reuse in FLOSS 
- Architecture and design of FLOSS 
- FLOSS for entertainment 
- FLOSS for education 
- FLOSS in the public sector 

Economic / organizational / social issues of FLOSS 
- Economic analysis of FLOSS 
- Business models for FLOSS 
- Maturity models for FLOSS 
- FLOSS intellectual property, copyrights and licensing 
- Non-Governmental Organizations and FLOSS 


Important Dates (Deadlines) 
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Submissions due: January 4, 2016 

Workshop proposals: January 4, 2016 

Panels and tutorials proposals: February 22, 2016 

Results to authors: February 15, 2016 

Camera-ready copy due: March 07, 2016 

Early registration: February 29, 2016 


Submission 
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Upload contributions in PDF format at http://oss2016.org. 


Organization 
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General Chairs: 
Imed Hammouda, Chalmers and University of Gothenburg, Sweden 
Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University, USA 

Program Chairs: 
Björn Lundell, University of Skövde, Sweden 
Gregorio Robles, King Juan Carlos University, Spain 

Local organizing chair: 
Juho Lindman, Hanken School of Economics, Finland 

Advisory Committee: 
Alberto Sillitti, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy 
Tommi Mikkonen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland 
Tony Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon University, USA