<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">*** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS AND OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS ***</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">*** Extended Deadline: February 17, 2013 ***</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">14th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES 2013)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">June 12-14, 2013, Paphos, Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; "><a href="http://www.profes-conferences.org">http://www.profes-conferences.org</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">CONFERENCE BACKGROUND AND TOPICS</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">PROFES is the premier forum for practitioners, researchers, and educators to present and discuss experiences, ideas, innovations, as well as concerns related to software process and product quality improvement. PROFES 2013 will be the 14th edition of the conference and will take place in Azia Resort Hotel in Paphos, Cyprus (<a href="http://www.aziaresort.com">http://www.aziaresort.com</a>).</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">The technical program will feature keynote talks, research papers, and experience reports on the most relevant topics related to process diversity management. Empirical studies (i.e. experiments, industrial experiences, cases studies, etc.) are welcome. In addition, we will host a number of workshops and tutorials. We will also host a Doctoral Symposium. Details about the program can be found on the conference website.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">The proceedings of PROFES 2013 will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series (<a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs</a>).</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">Traditionally, PROFES has provided topics, which are up-to-date, important, and interesting. To ensure that PROFES will retain its high standards and that it will keep focusing on the most relevant research issues, we are looking for original research on software engineering techniques, methods, and technologies for product-focused software development and process improvement as well as their practical application in an industrial setting. The topics of interest include, but are not restricted to, the following:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Product quality models for software, systems, and services</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Project management techniques</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Service orientation and cloud</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Software development for Cyber Physical Systems</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Evidence-Based Software Engineering</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Software Process Improvement (SPI)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Agile and lean processes</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Global software development</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Outsourcing, near-shoring, and off-shoring</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Process modeling, management, and assessment</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Processes for COTS and OSS-based development</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Service engineering processes</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Software business models</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Industrial experiences and case studies on the topics above</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">SUBMISSION OF TECHNICAL PAPERS AND EXPERIENCE REPORTS</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous peer review process. Papers will be selected based on originality, quality, soundness and relevance. All contributions must be original, not published, accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers should be submitted in PDF format through Easychair (<a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=profes2013">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=profes2013</a>). The maximum length of the research and experience report papers is 15 pages. Submitted papers must conform to the Springer LNCS layout rules (<a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0</a>).</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">SUBMISSION OF OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">The submission details for short papers, posters, PhD descriptions and proposals for workshops and tutorials, will soon be available at the conference website.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">TENTATIVE DATES</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Paper Submission Deadline: Feb. 17, 2013 (extended deadline)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Notification of Acceptance: Mar. 18, 2013</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">* Camera-Ready Version: Apr. 1, 2013</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">General Chair</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">Andreas Jedlitschka, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">Program Committee Co-Chairs</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">Markku Oivo, University of Oulu, Finland</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">Jens Heidrich, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">Andreas Andreou, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">Michael Klaas, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">Ph.D. Consortium Chair</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">Barbara Russo, Free University of Bozen Bolzano, Italy</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">Organizing Chair</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Monaco; ">For a complete listing of all chairs and program committee members, please visit the conference website.</div><div><br></div></body></html>