CfPart: Int. Workshop on Software Ecosystems (IWSECO'09)

Call for Participation INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON SOFTWARE ECOSYSTEMS (IWSECO'09) Collaboration, competition, partnership and reuse September 27, 2009, in Falls Church, Virginia, USA http://www.softwareecosystems.org/workshop/ in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR'09) http://icsr11.isase.org/ September 27 - 30, 2009, Falls Church, Virginia, USA Registration deadline: 18th of September Registration site: http://icsr11.isase.org/index.php/attendees/registration.html * PROGRAM * 09:30-09:40 Introduction and Welcome to the IWSECO by Slinger Jansen 09:40-10:35 Keynote: Building Software Ecosystems from a Reuse Perspective by Claudia Werner 10:50-11:20 The Role of Software Licenses in Open Architecture Ecosystems by Thomas Alspaugh, Hazeline Asuncion and Walt Scacchi 11:20-11:50 Requirements Communication Networks: Towards Understanding Requirements Negotiation Strategy by Samuel Fricker 11:50-12:20 Business Network Management as a Survival Strategy: A Tale of Two Software Ecosystems by Slinger Jansen 12:20-12:50 Discussion * ADDRESS * Virginia Tech Northern Virginia Center 7054 Haycock Road Falls Church, VA 22043 * WORKSHOP THEME * 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. 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. We welcome papers that specifically address these topics. 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 * Software ecosystem modeling Software ecosystem practices and experience Formal modeling of business models Software business models Product software and software licensing Communities of practice and software reuse Economic impact of software ecosystems Software ecosystem creation Keystone and niche player survival strategy Architectural implications of reusability API development Publishing APIs API compatibility over subsequent releases Software product management Software product lines Software development communities Software ecosystem orchestration Market-specific domain engineering Open source software ecosystems Virtualized software enterprises * PROCEEDINGS * The proceedings of the conference will be published by CEUR-WS. * ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Slinger Jansen (s.jansen@cs.uu.nl) - Utrecht University, The Netherlands Anthony Finkelstein (a.finkelstein@cs.ucl.ac.uk) - University College London, United Kingdom Jan Bosch (jan@janbosch.com) - Intuit, USA Sjaak Brinkkemper (s.brinkkemper@cs.uu.nl) - Utrecht University, The Netherlands Please contact the organizing committee in case of inquiries. * PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Bala Iyer - Babson College, USA Tony Wasserman - Carnegie Mellon University, USA Tony Gorschek - Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Clemens Szyperski - Microsoft Research, USA Kari Smolander - Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Ernesto Damiani - University of Milan, Italy Bjorn Regnell - Lund University, Sweden Armin Heinzl - Mannheim University, Germany Dan Stan - University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania Elizabeth Chang - Curtin University, Australia Autere Jussi - Software Business Laboratory, Finland Martin Pinzger - Delft University, The Netherlands Samuel Fricker - University of Zurich, Switzerland Oza Nilay - Software Business Laboratory, Finland Inge van de Weerd - Utrecht University, The Netherlands Andy Zaidman - Delft University, The Netherlands Andreas Metzger - University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Slinger Contact me at +31 6 19 884880 or through http://www.slingerjansen.nl/ To contribute to SEWORLD, send your submission to mailto:seworld@sigsoft.org http://www.sigsoft.org/seworld provides more information on SEWORLD as well as a complete archive of messages posted to the list.