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ICSOB 2010 - Call for Workshop Papers: Global Outsourcing of Software Development

  • 1.  ICSOB 2010 - Call for Workshop Papers: Global Outsourcing of Software Development

    Posted 03-16-2010 06:31
    Dear Colleagues,

    The ICSOB 2010 pre conference workshop track on Global Outsourcing of
    Software Development will be held on 21st of June 2010 in Jyvaskyla Finland.

    Please, consider contributing to the ICSOB workshop on Global Outsourcing of
    Software Development and distributing this Call for Papers among your
    colleagues. More information about the call for papers is available at
    http://www.icsob.org/wsn/cfp.html If you have any question, please do not
    hesitate to contact us.

    The length of the paper is 6 pages. All submitted papers are subject to a
    double-blind review process. All accepted papers for this workshop are
    published at ceur-ws.org/ and in the workshop proceedings on CD-ROM.
    Papers to this workshop should be submitted to nazmun.nahar@icsob.org

    Important dates
    Workshop papers submission: April 15, 2010 Notification of acceptance:
    April 30, 2010 Final camera-ready copies: May 28, 2010

    The background and goal of this workshop The main goal of this workshop is
    intended to provide a forum for the discussion of current and emerging
    topics from the field of global outsourcing of software development. This
    workshop is designed for academics, scholars and practitioners. High-quality
    research and practice papers are welcome, including theoretical, empirical
    and analytical studies on global outsourcing of software development from
    the service provider’s and client’s viewpoints. Empirical papers can be from
    widely studied countries and least studied countries. Topics of interest may
    include, but are not limited to, the following:

    • Different strategies for global outsourcing • New types of outsourcing
    business models • The key challenges associated with each particular global
    outsourcing business model and their practical solutions • Global
    outsourcing business models innovation • Managing multi-sourcing engagements
    • Approaches to develop outsourcing relationships with the service providers
    of least known or unknown destinations • Strategies for long-lasting
    outsourcing relationships • New types of outsourcing partnership formation •
    Requirements analysis in distributed software development • Virtual teams
    management in distributed software development • Intellectual property
    rights protection • Mechanisms for conflicts management • Roles of and
    impacts on cloud computing in global outsourcing • Knowledge engineering,
    discovery, transfer and management in global outsourcing

    Workshop Chair:
    Nazmun Nahar, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

    Workshop Program Committee:
    Donald R. Chand, Bentley University, USA Nitya Karmakar, Curtin University
    of Technology, Australia Slinger Roijackers, Utrecht University, The
    Netherlands Veikko Seppänen, Elektrobit Corporation and University of Oulu,
    Finland Pasi Tyrväinen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Juhani Warsta,
    University of Oulu, Finland Anicet Yalaho, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

    Kind regards,
    nazmun

    Dr. Nazmun Nahar
    ICSOB 2010 – Workshops and Tutorials Chair Department of Computer Science
    and Information Systems University of Jyvaskyla P.O.Box 35 (Agora),
    FIN-40014 Jyvaskyla, Finland
    Tel: +358-14-260 3247
    Fax: +358-14-260 3011
    Email: nazmun.n.nahar@jyu.fi
    Workshop site: http://www.icsob.org/wsn/cfp.html
    ICSOB website: http://www.icsob.org/