[AISWorld] [CFP] Reminder - extended deadline: The 4th International Workshop on Software-intensive Business (IWSiB 2021)

[Werder, Karl]

Dear colleagues, 

The deadline for the 4th International Workshop on Software-intensive Business (IWSiB) has been extended to the 30th of April. The workshop will be hosted by the 22nd International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP2021) to be held online from June 14-18, 2021 (day to be confirmed) Software-intensive business research community investigates sustainable software-based value creation, capture, and delivery through arrangements and methods i) within organizations (e.g., product management, business models, agility) and ii) between organizations (e.g., ecosystems, platforms, app stores, OSS communities). The unique characteristics of software have important implications toward businesses and society: For example, software startups have shown us how quickly they can pivot, thanks to the malleability of their product. The German startup “rausgegangen” was a software-based startup to find venues and events in one’s area. Needless to say, this startup was particularly hit by the covid-19 restrictions, so the company pivoted to “dringeblieben” a platform that let people connect to artists and entertainers, so they can join their events through an online stream. 

IWSiB seeks submissions describing novel research, experience reports, as well as emerging ideas. We are interested in studies describing original and unpublished results in the field of software-intensive business. The focus of the workshop is to have vivid and energizing discussions. Hence, we welcome very much new promising ideas and work-in-progress reports. The paper length should not exceed 8 pages. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited, to the following aspects of software-intensive business: 

• Software product management (e.g., strategy, planning, pricing) 
• Software ecosystem (e.g., engineering ecosystems, analysis of ecosystem data, modeling of ecosystem structure and behavior, management of developer ecosystems and platforms) 
• Continuous practices (e.g., experimentation, innovation, improvement) 
• Agile & lean projects & portfolio (e.g., methods & practices, management and organizing, behavioral and cognitive factors) 
• Organizational management (e.g., managing technical and social debt, integrating product and business development, managing human-AI symbiosis) 
• Software startups (e.g., scaling, privoting, funding, business models) • Software platform (e.g., orchestration, governance, architecture, evolution and lifecycle) 
• Software engineering economics (e.g., in engineering of software or in the software industry) 
• Emerging trends and research areas (e.g., implications of COVID-19 to the software industry, AI ethics, digital twins, etc. ) 

Important Dates:

Submissions Due (extended deadline):	due April 30, 2021 
Notifications to authors: 				due May 21, 2021 
Workshop : 						June 14-18, 2021 (day to be confirmed) 
Camera Ready Copy: 				(post-conference date to be defined) 

You’ll find more details at the workshop website iwsib.org or at the conference website: https://www.agilealliance.org/xp2021/call-for-submissions/research-workshops/workshop-on-software-intensive-business-submissions/ 

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. 

Thank you and best regards, 

IWSiB2021 Organisers 
Karl Werder <werder at wiso.uni-koeln.de> 
Sami Hyrynsalmi <Sami.Hyrynsalmi at lut.fi> 
Xiaofeng Wang <xiaofeng.wang at unibz.it>