[AISWorld] Workshop on Software Ecosystems: Call for Papers

Slinger Roijackers (Jansen) slinger at slingerjansen.nl
Fri Mar 30 08:38:14 EDT 2012 

Dear Colleagues,

please note that the maximum number of pages for submissions has been
changed to 15 after multiple requests. The deadline will still be 15th of
April, no extensions are possible. Thank you,

Slinger

Workshop on Software Ecosystems: CALL FOR PAPERS
(co-located with ICSOB: the International Conference on Software Business)

After three successful workshops (2009 <http://iwseco.wordpress.com/>,
2010<http://www.software-ecosystems.com/Software_Ecosystems/Ecosystems.html>
, 2011 <http://iwseco10.wordpress.com/>) IWSECO continues its world tour to
Boston, MA, in 2012. Due to its more business oriented nature, this year we
seek submissions specifically geared towards governance and coordination
mechanisms for software ecosystems.

Software vendors no longer function as independent units, where all
customers are end-users, where there are no suppliers, and where all
software is built in-house. Instead, software vendors have become
networked, i.e., software vendors are depending on (communities of) service
and software component suppliers, value-added-resellers, and pro-active
customers who build and share customizations. Software vendors now have to
consider their strategic role in the software ecosystem to survive. With
their role in the software ecosystem in mind, software vendors can become
more successful by opening up their business, devising new business models,
forging long-lasting relationships with partnership networks, and
overcoming technical and social challenges that are part of these
innovations. The focus of the first workshop was the definition of the
research field. The second workshop’s focus was the ‘ideal’ architecture of
a software platform.  The third workshop on software ecosystems focuses on
the management of software ecosystems, i.e., how a software vendor can
manage its network of partners, developers, service deliverers, and other
third parties that play a role in the software ecosystem.

Typically, software vendors have several instruments available to them for
managing their ecosystem, such as the creation of partnership models or the
introduction of component and service certification. The effects of these
decisions on the software ecosystem have not yet been made measurable,
which can be considered one of the main challenges of the field of software
ecosystems. We welcome submissions that specifically address this topic.

A software ecosystem is a set of actors functioning as a unit and
interacting with a shared market for software and services, together with
the relationships among them. These relationships are frequently
underpinned by a common technological platform or market and operate
through the exchange of information, resources and artifacts. Several
challenges lie in the research area of software ecosystems. To begin with,
insightful and scalable modeling techniques for software ecosystems
currently do not exist. Furthermore, methods are required that enable
software vendors to transform their legacy architectures to accommodate
reusability of internal common artifacts and external components and
services. Finally, methods are required that support software vendors in
choosing survival strategies in software ecosystems.

The Workshop on Software Ecosystems aims to further increase the body of
knowledge in this specific area of software reuse and software engineering
by providing a forum to exchange ideas and discuss state-of-the-art
results. It will build and shape the community of leading practitioners and
research experts. Given the relevance of software ecosystems, and the
rather unexplored scientific and industry contribution in this field, the
workshop will deliver a state-of-the-practice overview of the available
knowledge on software ecosystems, as well as an overview of challenges for
further research.

*Relevant Topics*
Submitted papers shall address topics of interest to software ecosystems
and software business. Topics of interest include, but are certainly not
limited to:

   - Organizational openness
   - Two and N-sided markets
   - Application Stores
   - Strategic benefits analyses of ecosystem management
   - Partner management
   - Software development governance
   - Software ecosystem modeling
   - Software ecosystem practices and experience
   - Software business models
   - Product software and software licensing
   - Economic impact of software ecosystems
   - Software ecosystem creation
   - Keystone and niche player survival strategies
   - Formal modeling of business models
   - Architectural implications of reusability
   - API development
   - Publishing APIs
   - Software product management
   - Software product lines
   - Software development community management
   - Software ecosystem orchestration
   - Market-specific domain engineering
   - Open source software ecosystems
   - Virtualized software enterprises
   - API compatibility over subsequent releases

*Workshop proceedings
*The papers will be published with CEUR-WS.

*Paper preparation, submission and evaluation*
We welcome both research and industry papers to IWSECO. They must be
original and not submitted to or accepted by any other conference or
journal. To encourage industrial participation we also welcome short
industry papers and case studies. Papers should be submitted in electronic
form (PDF) using EasyChair at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwseco2012 . Max page length is
15.

*Objective*
IWSECO 2012 pursues the following objectives:

   1. Build upon the body of knowledge in software ecosystems, and identify
   challenges and future avenues for research relevant for both academia and
   industry.
   2. Establish software ecosystems as a research field within the greater
   field of software engineering, software management, and software reuse.
   3. Provide to software product managers and researchers a dedicated
   forum for exchanging ideas and best practices and thus foster
   industry-academia collaboration.

The field of software ecosystems is rather unexplored both from scientific
and industrial perspectives. This mandates IWSECO to participate in
bringing researchers and industrial representatives together, for the
purpose of exchanging ideas, but also to iteratively set the research
agenda based on industry needs. The IWSECO 2012 workshop aims at continuing
to increase the body of knowledge for software ecosystems by providing a
forum to exchange ideas and publish research results. It will build and
shape the community of leading practitioners and research experts.

*Organizing Committee
*

Slinger Jansen – Utrecht University, the Netherlands (s.jansen at cs.uu.nl)
Jan Bosch – Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (jan at janbosch.com)
Carina Frota Alves – Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil (
cfa at cin.ufpe.br)

*Steering Committee*

Sjaak Brinkkemper (s.brinkkemper at cs.uu.nl)
Anthony Finkelstein (a.finkelstein at cs.ucl.ac.uk)

*Important dates*
*15 April 2012: *Deadline for submissions
*15  May 2012*: Notification of authors
*1 June 2012*: Camera-ready papers due
*18  June 2012*: The International Workshop on Software Ecosystems
All deadlines are 23:59 Apia, Samoa time

-- 
Slinger Jansen (Roijackers)
Utrecht University
http://www.slingerjansen.nl
0031 6 19 884 880
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