CFP - Profes 2010

-- Call for Papers -- PROFES 2010 - The 11th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement. June 21 - 23, 2010, Limerick, Ireland Submission deadline: January 18, 2010 http://www.lero.ie/profes2010 Keynote Speakers: Professor Bashar Nuseibeh, Chief Scientist Lero, Ireland Dr. Christof Ebert, Managing Director Vector Consulting Services Conference Background and Themes: Profes is the premier forum for practitioners, researchers, and educators to present and discuss experiences, ideas, innovations, as well as concerns related to software process and product quality improvement. Profes 2010 will be the 11th gathering of the Profes community and will take place in Limerick, Ireland. Traditionally, Profes has provided topics, which are up-to-date, important, and interesting. To ensure that Profes will retain its high standards and that it will keep focusing on the most relevant research issues, the conference is widening its scope to the research areas agile and lean software development and Service-Oriented systems Main themes: Agile and Lean Processes and Engineering Service-Oriented Systems These two main themes will enable us to cover the contemporary software development demands and trends in comprehensive manner and tackle the most important current challenges identified by software industry and software research community - namely agility and the shift of focus from "products" to "services". The technical program will feature keynote talks, research papers, experience reports on the most relevant topics related to processes for developing software intensive services and products. In addition, we will host a number of workshops and tutorials. We will also host a Doctoral Symposium (Details about these events can be found by visiting www.lero.ie/PROFES2010). The proceedings of PROFES 2010 will be published by Springer http://www.springer.com/ in the Lecture Notes of Computer Science http://www.springer.com/lncs (LNCS) Series. The topics of interest in the conference include, but are not restricted to, the following: - Service Engineering Processes - Software as a Service - Agile and Lean Processes - Software Process Improvement (SPI) for Quality Products and Services - SPI in Different Software Development Areas (e.g., requirements, architectures, and testing) - Global Software Development - Systems and Software Quality - Evidence-Based Software Engineering - Empirical Studies - Processes for COTS and OSS Based Development - Industrial Experiences and Case Studies - Process Modeling and Management - Outsourcing, Near sourcing, Off shoring - Process Assessment - Software Business Models Submission of Technical Papers and Experience Reports: All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous peer review process. Papers will be selected based on originality, quality, soundness and relevance. All contributions must be original, not published, accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. All sort of Papers should be submitted in PDF format using online sumission system whose details will be made available through PROFES2010 website. The maximum length of the research and experience report papers should be 15 pages. Submitted papers must conform to the Springer LNCS layout rules, as can be found here: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0. See (website for details). Submissions of short papers and proposals for workshops, tutorials, and panels The submission details for the short papers and proposals for workshops, tutorials, and panel discussions will be available on the conference website (http://www.lero.ie/profes2010). Please submit Workshop, Tutorial and Panel proposals to their respective chairs whose details can be found on the conference website. Important Dates for submitting research papers: Paper Submission Deadline: Jan. 18, 2010 Notification of Acceptance: Mar. 29, 2010 Camera-Ready Version: Apr. 12, 2010 For other submission deadlines, please visit the conference website. Organizing Committee: General Chair: Markku Oivo, University of Oulu, Finland Program Committee Chairs: M. Ali Babar, Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland Matias Vierimaa, VTT, Oulu, Finland Organizing Chair: Lorraine Morgan, Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland Publicity Chair: Andreas Jedlitschka, IESE, fraunhofer, Kaiserslautern, Germany Short Papers & Poster Chairs: Tracy Hall, Brunel University, UK Jason Zhang, Lero, Ireland Doctoral Symposium Chairs: Martin Höst, Lund University, Sweden Mahmood Niazi, Keele University, UK Panel Chair: Silvia Abrahão, Tech. Uni. of Valencia, Spain Tutorial Chairs: Ken Power, Cisco, Ireland Rory O'Connor, DCU, Ireland Workshop Chairs: Davide Falessi, University of Rome "TorVergata", Italy Alok Mishra, Atilim University, Turkey For more information visit the conference website: http://www.lero.ie/profes2010