Call for Papers
Third International Conference on Software Business
June 18-20, 2012, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
http://www.icsob.org
Theme: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Software Business
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Advancements in the software industry have had a substantial impact not only
on productivity and on GDP growth globally, but also on our daily work and
life. Software business refers to commercial activities in the software
industry, aimed at generating income from the delivery of software products
and software services. Although the software business shares common features
with other international knowledge-intensive businesses, it carries many
inherent features making it a challenging domain for research. In
particular, software companies have to depend on one another to deliver a
unique value proposition to their customers. New developments like Apps that
run on pre-existing platforms have emerged as a major force and are creating
what is being labeled as the App Economy.
Call for Papers:
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You are invited to submit papers addressing contemporary issues emerging at
the intersection of the software and business domains, broadly defined. Both
papers reporting research results and industrial experiences are welcome.
Invited are original submissions on the topics listed below, including but
not limited to:
Software Development and Product Management
− Software engineering management and productivity
− Software quality, benchmarking and strategic management
− Economic aspects of engineering of e.g. requirements, testing, design
− Software product management, product life-cycles and product-line
strategy
− Return on investment from software engineering process improvements
− Pricing strategies
Software Platforms and Ecosystems
− Dynamics of software ecosystems: networks, ecologies, communities
− Mobile APIs and platform competition
− Mobile apps and business models
− Managing complementors and external innovation
Organizational Transformation
− Business impact of the Cloud, SaaS, PaaS and managed services
− IPR, copyrights, innovation management and software assets
− Impact of new revenue generation models, e.g., ads, subscriptions, term
licenses
− Current issues in operational efficiency, lean enterprise and
competitive
advantage
− Internal software business processes
− A look at future resources and competences for the software business
Industry Transformation
− Increasing verticalization of some software markets
− Impact of industry evolution and technological change, e.g. mobile,
on-demand, cloud
− Open-source software business and management
− Empirical research issues in software business and management
− Issues in user experience, security and green software
− Internationalization of software firms and outsourcing
Emerging Trends in Technology and Entrepreneurship
− Mobile apps and app stores
− Software game business
− SaaS and Cloud-based enterprise software startups
− Economics of new business models for software startups
Submission:
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Full research papers (12 pages), short papers (6 pages), industrial track
presentations (abstract) and posters are all welcome. Accepted full papers
and short papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by
Springer as a volume in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
(LNBIP) series (if at least one author of the paper attends the conference
and present the paper). You may also submit tutorial proposals and workshop
proposals to the conference. For details and updates visit
http://www.icsob.org.
Important Dates:
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Paper Submission: Jan 21, 2012
Workshop & tutorial proposal submission: Dec 1, 2012
Notification: Mar 1, 2012
Camera-Ready: Mar 12, 2012
Conference: Jun 18-20, 2012
Conference Officers:
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General Chair
Michael Cusumano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Program Chairs
Bala Iyer, Babson College
N. Venkatraman, Boston University
Steering Committee
Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University
Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University
Pekka Abrahamsson,University of Helsinki
Slinger Jansen, Utrecht University
Pasi Tyrväinen, University of Jyväskylä
Björn Regnell, Lund University
Inge van de Weerd, Utrecht University
Updated information and further details are available at
http://www.icsob.org. Please, send emails with further questions to
info@icsob.org.