ICGSE 2010 - CFP

5th IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering Princeton, USA August 23-26, 2010 http://www.icgse.org Call for Papers Solutions for Global Software Engineering challenges Software and IT industries are today truly global – and so is software engineering. 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 opportunities global software engineering offers. The 5th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) will bring together researchers and practitioners interested in exploring how globally distributed teams work and how the challenges can be met. The ICGSE-10 organizing committee invites the academic and industrial communities to contribute to the expertise of the international global software engineering community. Conference attendees will get an opportunity to explore the current state of practice in this area as well as new thoughts and trends that will shape the future. In 2010, to increase the focus on Industry, we are including an industry track, for which papers will be separately reviewed. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - Strategic issues in distributed development: business models (offshoring, nearshoring, outsourcing etc.), business case development, work distribution models, supplier selection and management, governance frameworks for distributed environment, cost-benefit-risk analysis; - Managing and governing distributed software development: planning, team building, project and SLA management, managing diversity, measurements and evaluation; - Methods and tools for distributed software development: requirements engineering, design, coding, verification, testing and maintenance, development governance; - Communication, coordination and collaboration; - Knowledge management in distributed development; - Getting started with global software engineering; - Empirical studies and lessons learnt on distributed development; - Software Process paradigms in the global environment (planned, agile etc); - Teaching global software development; - Human behaviors in distributed development environments. Paper submission Submissions are invited for technical papers describing unpublished, original work, in any of the following categories: - Research papers that describe theoretical frameworks, technical solutions, or empirical studies. Maximum length 10 pages. - Industry track papers that describe problems, lessons learned, solutions implemented and challenges encountered in industrial global software engineering environments. Maximum length 5 pages. - Educational papers that report experiences in teaching global software engineering. This includes not only education at the university level, but also corporate training. Maximum length 5 pages. All submissions will be handled electronically through www.icgse.org. Papers should conform to the two-column IEEE CS Press format(http://www2.computer.org/portal/ web/cscps/formatting) and be submitted as PDF files. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by IEEE CS Press and be available in the IEEE CS Digital Library. Other contributions We also invite proposals for doctoral symposium, tutorials, workshops, panels, and posters. Further information and updates will be available on the conference website. Important Dates Paper abstracts: February 12, 2010 Paper submissions: February 26, 2010 Workshop submissions February 12, 2010 Other contributions: March 13, 2010 Notification of authors: April 23, 2010 Camera-ready papers due: May 28, 2010 Organizing Committee General Chair Alberto Avritzer, Siemens Corporate Research, USA Program Chairs Yael Dubinsky, IBM Haifa Research Lab , Israel Allen Milewski , Monmouth University, NJ, USA Steering Committee Coordinator Christof Ebert, Vector Consulting, Germany Finance Chair Andre Bondi, Siemens Corporate Research, USA Publicity Chairs Marcelo Cataldo, Bosch Corporate Research, USA Paulo Fernandes, PUCRS, Brazil Aurora Vizcaíno, Univ. of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Doctoral Symposium Chairs Jürgen Münch, Fraunhofer IESE & University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Yuanfang Cai, Drexel University, USA Tutorial and Workshop Chairs Ban Al-Ani, UCI, USA Rafael Prikladnicki, PUC-RS, Brazil Posters Chairs Sarah Beecham, Lero, Ireland Steve Masticola, Siemens Corporate Research, USA Proceedings Chair Raghu Sangwan, Penn State University, USA Local Organization Andre Bondi, Siemens Corporate Research, USA Angela Wright, Siemens Corporate Research, USA Webmaster Ricardo Czekster, PUC-RS, Brazil -- Paulo.Fernandes@pucrs.br www.inf.pucrs.br/~paulof PUCRS - FACIN phone: +55(51)3320 3611 Av. Ipiranga, 6681 fax: +55(51)3320 3621 90.619-900 - Porto Alegre - BRAZIL