[AISWorld] CfP: 10th International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB), November 18-20, 2019

Tue Apr 23 04:08:15 EDT 2019

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 10th International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB 2019) will 
be held November 18-20, 2019 in Jyväskylä, Finland. ICSOB 2019 brings 
together researchers and practitioners to share their findings and 
experiences from the field of software-intensive business. The ICSOB 
conference attracts both researchers and practitioners who are concerned 
with software-intensive business in different ways.

Authors are invited to submit papers addressing contemporary issues 
emerging at the intersection of the software and business domains, 
broadly defined. Both papers reporting research results and industrial 
experiences are welcome.

Opportunity to participate to SLUSH 2019

The world’s leading startup event will be held November 21-22, 2019 in 
Helsinki, Finland. During the past few years, SLUSH has been able to 
attract several thousand startups, investors, academic and journalist 
from more than 130 countries to share experiences and meet new promising 
business ideas. The participants of ICSOB 2019 are highly encouraged to 
utilize the opportunity and take part in the SLUSH 2019.

CONFERENCE THEME: THE FIRST DECADE AND BEOND

Software is pervasively crosscutting all industries and it is nowadays 
hard to name a business field, which has not been revolutionized by 
software products and services. While software business has a number of 
similarities with other knowledge-intensive field, it still has unique 
features, which has made it a challenging domain for research.

ICSOB 2019 will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the software-intensive 
business conference and welcomes submissions summarizing the development 
during the past decade as well as addressing the future of 
software-intensive business. We are especially welcoming studies 
addressing new and emerging ideas.

We welcome both research and industry papers to the conference. The 
papers should be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other 
conference or journal. We are looking for short position and practice 
papers (maximum 8 pages) that provide insights in industry case studies 
or in promising new areas; and full research papers (maximum 16 pages) 
describing novel approaches to software-intensive business for software 
products and services.

The topics that ICSOB welcomes, but are not certainly limited to:
•	Software Development and Product Management
	o	Software engineering management and productivity 	
	o	Lifecycle perspective
	o	Speeding up time-to-market
	o	Effective business model transformation and improvement
	o	Continuous delivery and agile development to support software businesses
	o	Economic aspects of engineering of e.g. requirements, testing, design
	o	Software product management, product life-cycles and product-line 
strategy
	o	Return on investment from software engineering process improvements
	o	Pricing strategies
	o	Design thinking
•	Software Ecosystems and Platforms
	o	Emerging ecosystems and platforms
	o	Ecosystem health and dynamics in ecosystems
	o	Ecosystem orchestration and platform governance
	o	App economy
	o	Ecosystem actors and supply network analysis
	o	Platform-based business models and value co-creation
	o	API economy
•	Software Business Development
	o	Business modeling for software products and services
	o	Economics of software companies
	o	Internationalization of software-intensive companies
	o	Outsourcing
	o	Mergers and acquisitions in the software industry
•	Startups and new venture creation
	o	Success factors for software-intensive startups
	o	Software startup processes
	o	Disruptive innovation and adoption of startups
	o	Managing startup and growth hacking
	o	Intertwined software product and business model development
•	New ideas and emerging areas
	o	Impact of megatrends on software business such as Artificial 
Intelligence,
	o	Blockchain, AR, VR etc.
	o	Disruptive trends in software business
	o	Business Analytics, data analytics
	o	The future of software-intensive business
	o	Software business and entrepreneurship education
	o	Game business and gamification in software-intensive business

You are very welcome to submit your papers to one of these tracks via 
the EasyChair submission system: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsob2019

Important Dates
Full paper submissions: August 12th, 2019
Notification of acceptance: September 2nd, 2019
Camera-ready copies: September 16th, 2019
Conference: November 18-20th, 2019

Submission Format
Papers should be submitted in PDF format. The submission should be 
anonymized. The results described must be unpublished and must not be 
under review elsewhere. Submissions must conform to Springer’s 
LNBIP/LNCS format and should not exceed 16 pages, including all text, 
figures, references and appendices. Three to five keywords 
characterizing the paper should be indicated at the end of the abstract. 
Submissions are done through Easychair.

Information about the Springer LNBIP/LNCS format can be found at 
http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

The papers should be submitted through Easychair at 
ttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsob2019

Each paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers 
will be presented at ICSOB 2019 and published in the conference 
proceedings, which is published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Busines 
Infomation Processing (LNBIP).

WORKSHOPS, TUTORIALS AND PANELS

ICSOB 2019 will host workshops, tutorials and panels that will 
complement the main conference program, widening and deepening the 
perspective of the conference. Workshops are either half or full day.

Please use the following format for workshop, tutorial and panel proposals:
•	Title
•	Abstract, suitable for inclusion in conference’s webpage, and possible 
website for the workshop
•	Description, to be used for evaluation, including aims and/or objectives
•	Target audience and estimated number of participants (minimum and 
maximum) as well as requirements for facilities, equipment, and materials
•	Biography and contact information of workshop/tutorial organizers

Proposals should be sent by email to: sami.hyrynsalmi at tuni.fi

Important dates for workshops
Workshop proposals: June 3rd , 2019
Notification of acceptance: June 16th, 2019

Important dates for tutorials and panels
Tutorials proposals: August 12th , 2019
Notification of acceptance: September 2nd, 2019

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

General Chairs:
Prof. Pekka Abrahamsson — University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Prof. Pasi Tyrväinen — University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Program Co-Chairs:
Dr. Sami Hyrynsalmi — Tampere University, Finland
Dr. Mari Suoranta — University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Worshop Chair:
Prof. Dhrubes Biswas — University of California Berkeley, USA

Program Committee:
Sergey Avdoshin — National Research University Higher School of 
Economics, Russia
Richard Berntsson Svensson — University of Gothenhurg, Sweden
Sjaak Brinkkemper — Utrecht University, the Netherlands
David Callele — University of Saskatchewan, Canada
João M. Fernandes — University of Minho, Portugal
Samuel A. Fricker — University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern 
Switzerland FHNW, Switzerland
Ville Harkke — University of Turku, Finland
Georg Herzwurm — University of Stuttgart, Germany
Helena Holmström Olsson — Malmö University, Sweden
Slinger Jansen — Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Casper Lassenius — Aalto University, Finland
Ulrike Lechner — Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
Andrey Maglyas — Maglyas Consulting, Russia
Tiziana Margaria — University of Limerick & Lero, Ireland
Konstantinos Manikas — University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Tommi Mikkonen — University of Helsinki, Finland
Jürgen Münch — Reutlingen University, Germany
John McGregor — Clemson University, USA
Efi Papatheocharous — SICS, Sweden
Samuli Pekkola — Tampere University, Finland
Björn Regnell — Lund University, Sweden
Arto Ojala - University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Henri Pirkkalainen — Tampere University, Finland
Dirk Riehle — Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Matti Rossi — Aalto University, Finland
Markus Salo — University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Pertti Seppänen— University of Oulu, Finland
Kari Smolander — Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
Marcus Wagner — Augsburg University, Germany
Karl Werder — University of Cologne, Germany
Krzysztof Wnuk — Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Xiaofeng Wang — Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

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Pekka Abrahamsson
Professor of information systems and software engineering
IT-Faculty, University of Jyväskylä, Finland