<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Call for Contributions</div><div><br></div><div>Ninth IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE)</div><div><br></div><div>Fudan University, Shanghai, China</div>
<div><br></div><div>August 18-21, 2014</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.icgse.org/" target="_blank">http://www.icgse.org</a></div><div><br></div><div>Important Dates</div><div><br></div><div>Main Technical Track</div>
<div>---------------------</div><div>Paper abstract submissions:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>February 10, 2014</div><div>Paper submissions:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>February 17, 2014</div>
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Notification to all authors<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>April 28, 2014</div><div>Camera-ready copies <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>May 19, 2014</div><div><br></div><div>Collocated Events</div>
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--------------------</div><div>Workshop proposals<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>January 10, 2014</div><div>Tutorial proposals<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>March 3, 2014</div><div>Students Events <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>March 10, 2014</div>
<div>Industrial abstracts: <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>May 12, 2014</div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------</div><div>Conference Overview and Theme</div><div>-------------------------------</div>
<div><br></div><div>Main Theme: Global Software Development and Engineering – Trends and Evolution</div><div><br></div><div>Globally collaborative software and IT industries are bringing huge opportunities for each and every country all over the world. 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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The 9th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) brings together researchers and practitioners interested in solving the challenges of distributed software development. ICGSE 2014 invites academic and industrial individuals and teams to contribute to the fast growing field of global software development and engineering.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Research: We invite academic researchers to submit papers discussing GSE research and GSE education. Papers with empirical evidence are encouraged and will be given preference.</div><div><br></div><div>
Topics</div><div><br></div><div>- Project management of distributed software projects</div><div>- Collaborative requirement development</div><div>- Software design and architecture for distributed development</div><div>- Agile and lean development in distributed teams and organizations</div>
<div>- Software testing in a globally distributed environment</div><div>- Communication, coordination and collaboration</div><div>- Strategic issues in distributed development</div><div>- Working with globally distributed contractors</div>
<div>- Industrial offshoring and out sourcing experiences</div><div>- Tools and infrastructure support for distributed software development</div><div>- Cloud computing and crowdsourcing</div><div>- Methods and processes for global organizations</div>
<div>- Education in global software engineering</div><div><br></div><div>Paper Submission</div><div><br></div><div>Submissions are invited for papers describing unpublished, original work, in any of the following categories:</div>
<div><br></div><div>+ Research Papers that describe theoretical frameworks, technical solutions, or empirical studies. Maximum length: 10 pages.</div><div><br></div><div>+ Practice Papers that describe problems, lessons learned, solutions implemented, and challenges and opportunities encountered in industrial global software engineering environments. Maximum length: 5 pages.</div>
<div><br></div><div>All papers will be handled electronically through ICGSE 2014 online submission system and peer reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers should 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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>***Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit a revised and extended version of their papers to a special section in an issue of the Information and Software Technology journal published by Elsevier.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We also invite industry abstracts, contributions to different students events, and proposals for workshops and tutorials.</div><div><br></div><div>For further details, please visit ICGSE 2014 website (<a href="http://www.icgse.org/" target="_blank">http://www.icgse.org</a>)</div>
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<div><br></div><div>Program Chairs</div><div><br></div><div>Yuanfang Cai, Drexel University, United States</div><div>Jude Fernandez, Infosys, India</div><div><br></div><div>Steering Committee Chair</div><div><br></div><div>
Christof Ebert, Vector Consulting Services, Germany</div><div><br></div><div>Local Organizing Chair</div><div><br></div><div>Xin Peng, Fudan University, China</div><div><br></div><div>Workshop Chairs</div><div><br></div>
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Qianxiang Wang, Peking University, China</div><div>Aurora Vizcaino, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain</div><div><br></div><div>Doctoral Symposium Chair</div><div><br></div><div>M. Ali Babar, The University of Adelaide, Australia</div>
<div><br></div><div>Tutorial Chairs</div><div><br></div><div>Raghu Sangwan, Pennsylvania State University, United States</div><div>Cleidson de Souza, Vale Technological Institute, Brazil</div><div><br></div><div>Proceedings Chair</div>
<div><br></div><div>Liwei Shen, Fudan University, China</div><div><br></div><div>Poster & Panel Chairs</div><div><br></div><div>Tony Clear, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand</div><div><br></div><div>Bedir Tekinerdogan, Bilkent University, Turkey</div>
<div><br></div><div>Industry Liaison</div><div><br></div><div>Alberto Avritzer, Siemens, US</div><div>Gang Zhang, University of Shanghai for Science & Technology, China</div><div><br></div><div>Publicity Chairs</div>
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<br></div><div>Eduardo Almeida, UFBA, Brazil</div><div>Martin Nordio, ETH Zurich, Switzerland</div><div>Mansooreh Zahedi, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark</div><div>Shilpi Jain, IMI, India</div><div>Junchao Xiao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China</div>
<div><br></div><div>Finance Chair</div><div><br></div><div>Yijian Wu, Fudan University, China</div><div><br></div><div>Webmaster</div><div><br></div><div>Qingtao Jiang, Fudan University, China</div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div>
<div>More information about ICGSE 2014 is available at: <a href="http://www.icgse.org/" target="_blank">http://www.icgse.org</a></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Mansooreh Zahedi</div><div><br></div><div>PhD Researcher </div><div>IT University of Copenhagen</div></div></div>