<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">*** Call for Workshop Proposals ***</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">Fifth International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB 2014)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">Azia Resort and Spa, Paphos Cyprus</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">June 15-18, 2014</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; color: rgb(87, 157, 255);"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://www.icsob.org">http://www.icsob.org</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">Deadline for proposals: December 23rd </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">Notification: December 31st </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">We invite proposals for workshops. Workshops are intended to provide a</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">forum for the discussion of a specific topic from the field of software</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">business between an international group of researchers. Software business</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">creates a noticeable spillover within other industries (e.g. manufacturing,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">entertainment industry) enabling new business models: companies bundle</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">their physical products and software services into solutions (e.g. using</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">subscription models or in-app purchases) and start to sell independent</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">software products in addition to physical products. Therefore, we invite</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">workshop proposals that focus on software business in new and emerging</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">industries. Finally, we also warmly welcome workshop proposals aligned</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">with the theme of ICSOB 2014: “Shortening the time-to-market”. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">Each workshop should have at least four paper presentations. The workshop</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">organiser will be responsible for advertising the workshop, reviewing and</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">selecting the papers. Financial assistance for the workshop organiser will be</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">limited to one fee waiver for the conference. Papers accepted for workshops</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">are planned to be published under the CCIS proceedings,</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;"><a href="http://link.springer.com/search?facet-series=%227899%22&facet-content-type=%22Book%22">http://link.springer.com/search?facet-series=%227899%22&facet-content-type=%22Book%22</a> . </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;"> Proposals to organise workshops should include the following information:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Title of the workshop</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Name, affiliation, mailing address and e-mail address of the proposer(s).</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A brief introduction of the proposer, explaining his/her qualifications.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Names of at least three PC members for the workshops</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A description of the topic of the session (not exceeding 100 words)</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A short description on how the session will be advertised so as to ensure</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;"> a sufficiently wide range of authors.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A description of how the workshop will contribute to the field of Software Business.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">Please send your proposals to the Program Chairs of ICSOB 2014 and to workshop chair:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;"> Casper Lassenius, Aalto University, Finland, <a href="mailto:workshops@icsob.org">workshops@icsob.org</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;"> Kari Smolander, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland, <a href="mailto:workshops@icsob.org">workshops@icsob.org</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px;"> Krzysztof Wnuk, Lund University, Sweden, <a href="mailto:workshops@icsob.org">workshops@icsob.org</a></div><p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva; min-height: 21px;"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">Papers for workshops should be submitted directly to the workshop using our paper</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">submission system. The workshop organizer will be required to use the ICSOB 2014</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">paper submission engine and to review the papers on basis of the same criteria as</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">those in the main track. The list of papers accepted for a workshop should be sent</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Geneva;">to the Program Chairs before April 15, 2014.</div><div><br></div></body></html>