<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1257"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">************************************************************************************ <br>8th IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) <br>Aug 26-29, 2013, Bari, Italy <br><a href="http://www.icgse.org/">http://www.icgse.org</a> <br>************************************************************************************ <br>From Challenges to Opportunities of Global Software Engineering<br><br>Software and IT industries are today truly global – and so is software development. The diversity of culture and the dispersion over time and space require novel techniques, tools, and practices from many disciplines to overcome challenges and to take advantage of all the opportunities that global software engineering offers. The 8th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) brings together researchers and practitioners interested in solving the challenges of globally distributed teams. The ICGSE 2013 organizing committee invites academic and industrial communities to contribute to the expertise of the international global software engineering.<br><br>Practice: Global Software Engineering addresses real-world challenges, and so we especially seek industry knowledge. We invite industrial participants to share observations and experiences in the conference by publishing papers and making presentations. Industrial experiences can be submitted by means of a half-page abstract. <br><br>Research: We also invite academic researchers to submit papers discussing GSE research and GSE education strategies. Papers presenting empirical evidence connecting industry and research are encouraged and will be given preference over systematic literature reviews and systematic mapping studies. <div><br>**********************<br>* Topics of interest * <br>**********************<br>Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:<br>- Strategic issues in distributed development: business models (offshoring, nearshoring, outsourcing etc.), business case development, work distribution models, supplier selection and management, cost-benefit-risk analysis<br>- Managing distributed software development: planning, team building, project and SLA management, managing diversity, measurements and evaluation<br>- Methods and tools for distributed software development: requirements engineering, design, coding, verification, testing and maintenance<br>- Communication, coordination and collaboration<br>- Knowledge management in distributed development<br>- Getting started with global software engineering<br>- Empirical studies of distributed teams and lessons learnt<br>- Processes and methods for the global environment (planned, agile etc)<br>- Global software development education<br><br>Authors of selected high-quality papers will be invited to submit an expanded version for a special section on Global Software Engineering in the Empirical Software Engineering Journal, published by Springer.<br><br>Submissions are invited for papers describing unpublished, original work, in any of the following categories:<br>- Research papers that describe theoretical frameworks, technical solutions, or empirical studies. Maximum length 10 pages. <br>- Practice papers that describe problems, lessons learned, solutions implemented and challenges encountered in industrial global software engineering environments. Maximum length 5 pages.<br><br>All submissions will be handled electronically through the ICGSE 2013 web site (<a href="http://www.icgse.org/">www.icgse.org</a>). Papers should be submitted as PDF files which conform to the two-column IEEE CS Press format. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by IEEE CS Press and be available in the IEEE CS Digital Library. <br><br>We also invite industry abstracts, submissions for the doctoral symposium, and proposals for workshops and tutorials. Further information and updates will be available at the conference website.<br><br>*********************<br>* Important Dates * <br>*********************<br>Workshop proposals:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Jan 11, 2013 <br>Industry abstract submissions: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Feb 15, 2013<br>Paper abstract submissions: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Feb 15, 2013<br>Paper submissions: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Feb 25, 2013 <br>Tutorial proposals:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Mar 04, 2013 <br>Doctoral Symposium submissions:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Mar 11, 2013 <br>Notification to paper authors:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Apr 29, 2013<br>Camera-ready papers due: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>May 31, 2013 <div><br>***********<br>* Venue * <br>***********<br>ICGSE 2013 will be hosted by the University of Bari, in the heart of the city. Bari is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy. There are daily direct flights from Milan, Munich, Rome, Turin, Venice and Zurich.<br><br>****************************<br>* Organizing Committee * <br>****************************<br>General Chair<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br>Filippo Lanubile, University of Bari, Italy<br><br>Program Chairs<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br>Marcelo Cataldo, Bosch Corporate Research, USA<br>Juergen Muench, University of Helsinki, Finland<br><br>Steering Committee Coordinator<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br>Christof Ebert, Vector Consulting Services, Germany<br><br>Doctoral Symposium Chairs<br>Ban Al-Ani, University of California Irvine, USA<br>Sarah Beecham, LERO, Ireland<br><br>Workshop Chairs<br>Marco Kuhrmann, TUM, Germany<br>Sabrina Marczak, PUCRS, Brazil<br><br>Tutorials Chairs<br>Maria Paasivaara, Aalto University, Finland<br>Xin Peng, Fudan University, China<br><br>Industry Liaison<br>Alberto Avritzer, Siemens, USA<br>Giuseppe Visaggio, DAISY-Net, Italy<br><br>Publicity<br>Jude Fernandez, Infosys, India <br>Martin Nordio, ETH Zurich, Switzerland<br>Nicole Novielli, University of Bari, Italy<br>Rafael Prikladnicki, PUCRS, Brazil <br>Darja Smite, Blekinge Inst. of Techn., Sweden<br><br>Finance Chair<br>Danilo Caivano, SER&Practices Spin Off, Italy<br><br>Proceedings Chair<br>Fabio Calefato, University of Bari, Italy<br><br>Local Organizing Chair<br>Teresa Baldassarre, University of Bari, Italy<br><br>Webmaster<br>Adriana Napolitano, University of Bari, Italy<br><br><br>*************************<br>* Program Committee * <br>*************************<br>Ban Al-Ani, University of California Irvine, United States<br>Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Copenhagen, Denmark<br>Alberto Avritzer, Siemens Corporate Research, United States<br>Rajesh Balan, Singapore Management University, Singapore<br>Len Bass, NICTA, Australia<br>Sarah Beecham, LERO, Ireland<br>Andrew Begel, Microsoft Research, United States<br>Fabio Calefato, University of Bari, Italy<br>Darren Dalcher, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom<br>Daniela Damian, University of Victoria, Canada<br>Cleidson R. B. de Souza, VALE Institute of Technology, Brazil<br>Yeal Dubinsky, IBM Research - Haifa Lab, Israel<br>Christof Ebert, Vector, Germany<br>Kate Ehrlich, IBM Research, United States<br>Jude Fernandez, Infosys, India<br>Terrill Frantz, Peking University, China<br>Tracy Hall, Brunel University, United Kingdom<br>James Herbsleb, Carnegie Mellon University, United States<br>Yasushi Ishigai, Mitsubishi Research Institute Inc., Japan<br>Marco Kuhrmann, Technische Universität München, Germany<br>Casper Lassenius, Aalto University, Finland<br>Christian Lescher, Siemens, Germany<br>V S Mani, Siemens, India<br>Sabrina Marczak, PUCRS, Brazil<br>Allen Milewski, Monmouth University, United States<br>Audris Mockus, Avaya Labs Research, United States<br>Martin Nordio, ETH Zurich, Switzerland<br>Maria Paasivaara, Aalto University, Finland<br>Rafael Prikladnicki, PUCRS, Brazil<br>Narayan Ramasubbu, University of Pittsburgh, United States<br>Ita Richardson, LERO, Ireland<br>Anita Sarma, University of Nebraska Lincoln, United States<br>Bikram Sengupta, IBM Research, India<br>Darja Smite, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden<br>BedirTekinerdogan, Bilkent University,Turkey<br>Guilherme Travassos, COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil<br>Peppo Valetto, Drexel University, United States<br>Aurora Vizcaino, Escuela Superior de Informatica, Spain<br>Patrick Wagstrom, IBM Research, United States<br>Qing Wang, ISCAS, China<br>Claes Wohlin, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden<br>Rini van Solingen, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands<br>Hans van Vliet, University Amsterdam, Netherlands<br><br><br></div></div><br><br>
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