7th International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB 2016)
Co-located with the 28th International Conference on Advanced Information System Engineering (CAiSE 2016)
Ljubljana, Slovenia, 13-14 June 2016
Please, don't forget to register for the conference when submitting your paper for publication. The registration is available at http://caise2016.si/registration/
Call for papers
The 7th International Conference on Software Business will be held on June 13-14, 2016 at Ljubljana, Slovenia. The ICSOB 2016 addresses researchers and practitioners, who are involved in software business in different ways including large organizations and startups with focus on different types of software products and services.
Conference Theme: Software as a new way of providing cutting-edge solutions
Advancements in the software industry have had a substantial impact on productivity and GDP growth globally. There is a noticeable spillover within other industries (e.g. manufacturing) enabling new business models. Software business refers to commercial activities in and around the software industry aimed at generating income from the delivery of software products and services.
Although the business of software shares common features with other international knowledge-intensive businesses, it carries many inherent features. It is making it a challenging domain for research. The examples of many successful companies show that software provides unique benefit to its users. Moreover, software has spread all over the world and has permeated in many industries, which are not usual for software. In particular, software companies have to depend on one another to deliver a unique value proposition to their customers or a unique experience to their users.
Cross-functional use of software is a challenge for industry and academia, studying not only use of software but also software business, software production, and other surrounding themes. This year the conference intends to attract practitioners and researchers, who are concerned with software business in different ways as well as its introduction to new areas of research and practice. The main theme of 2016 focuses on addressing the challenges that software faces in its application in different business domains.
ICSOB 2016 intends to attract researchers and practitioners who are concerned with software business in different ways. 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.
We invite to submit research papers on the topics of interest that include, but are not limited to:
- Software product management
- Software platforms and ecosystems
- Corporate networks between companies including software companies
- Software business today and in the future
- Licensing, intellectual property and patent issues
- Business models of software companies
- App economy
- Impact on megatrends (e.g. customization) on software business
- Effects of business models on software development
- Global and cultural aspects of software business
- Mobile software business trends
- Games and gamification
- Business models of cloud computing
- Software business education
- Mergers and acquisition in the software industry
- Economics of software companies
We welcome both research and industry papers to the conference. The papers should be original and not submitted to or accepted by any other conference or journal. We are looking for short position and practice papers that provide insights on the lifecycle management of software products and industry case studies as well as full research papers describing novel approaches to software business for software products and services.
Committees
Program Chairs
Andrey Maglyas, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
Anna-Lena Lamprecht, University of Potsdam, Germany
Program committee
Sergey Avdoshin, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
Jan Bosch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
David Callele, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
João M. Fernandes, University of Minho, Portugal
Samuel A. Fricker, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, Switzerland
Thomas Hess, Munich School of Management, Germany
Georg Herzwurm, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Slinger Jansen, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Thomas Kude, University of Mannheim, Germany
Stig Larsson, Effectve Change AB, Sweden
Casper Lassenius, Aalto University, Finland
Ulrike Lechner, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany
Ricardo J. Machado, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Konstantinos Manikas, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
John McFregor, Clemson University, USA
Rory O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland
Efi Papatheocharous, SICS, Sweden
Samuli Pekkola, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Wolfram Pietsch, Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Karl Michael Popp, SAP AG, Germany
Björn Regnell, Lund University, Sweden
Dirk Riehle, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Matti Rossi, Aalto University, Finland
Kari Smolander, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
Richard Berntsson Sventsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Tobias Tauterat, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Pasi Tyrväinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Krzysztof Wnuk, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Steering committee
Jan Bosch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
João M. Fernandes, University of Minho, Portugal
Georg Herzwurm, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Slinger Jansen, Utrecht University, the Netherlands (chair)
Casper Lassenius, Aalto University, Finland
Eetu Luoma, University of Jyväskylä, Finland (chair)
Ricardo J. Machado, University of Minho, Portugal
Tiziana Margaria, University of Limerick & Lero, Ireland
Björn Regnell, Lund University, Sweden
Kari Smolander, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
Pasi Tyrväinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Krzysztof Wnuk, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Submissions
We accept both full research papers (15 pages), short research papers (8 pages), and industry experience reports (15 pages). Submissions should be in PDF, on A4 page size and formatted in LNIBP style, see Springer’s Information for LNIBP Authors for details
You are welcome to submit papers written in English via the EasyChair submission system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsob2016
Extended versions of the best papers selected from ICSOB 2016 will be published in a special issue of Journal of Systems and Software
Important Dates
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Conference: June 13-14, 2016
Format of the conference
Monday, June 13
| 09:00–09:30 | Conference opening. Andrey Maglyas and Anna-Lena Lamprecht [pdf] |
| 09:30–10:30 | Keynote: “Software Product Categories in the Automotive Industry and How to Manage Them” by Peter Lick and Hans-Bernd Kittlaus |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00–11:45 | “PDISC – Towards a Method for Software Product DISCovery” by Karl Werder, Benedikt Zobel and Alexander Maedche | >
| 11:45–12:30 | “To network or not to network? Analysis of the Finnish Software Industry – A Netwrking Approach” by Katariina Yrjönkoski, Nina Helander and Hannu Jaakkola |
| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00–14:45 | “Leveraging Bitcoin blockchain technology to modernize security perfection under the Uniform Commercial Code” by David S. Gerstl |
| 14:45–15:30 | “Software Analytics for Planning Product Evolution” Farnaz Fotrousi and Samuel A. Fricker [pdf] |
| 15:30–16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00–16:45 | “Supporting the Evolution of Research in Software Ecosystems: Reviewing the Empirical Literature” by Konstantinos Manikas |
| 16:45–17:30 | “A Case Study of the Health of an Augmented Reality Software Ecosystem: Vuforia” by Lamia Soussi, Zeena Spijkerman and Slinger Jansen |
Tuesday, June 14
| 09:00–09:45 | “Supporting Strategic Decision-making for Selection of Software Assets” by Claes Wohlin, Krzysztof Wnuk, Darja Smite, Ulrik Franke, Deepika Badampud, and Antonio Cicchetti |
| 09:45–10:30 | “The impact of Internet of Things on Software Business Models” by Krzysztof Wnuk and Bhanu Teja Murari |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00–11:45 | “A Survey of Modeling Approaches for Software Ecosystems” by Oskar Pettersson and Jesper Andersson |
| 11:45–12:30 | “Ecosystems here, there, and everywhere. A barometrical analysis of the roots of ‘Software ecosystem’” by Arho Suominen, Sami Hyrynsalmi and Marko Seppänen |
| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00–15:00 | Keynote: “Software Production: the new research domain intersecting Software Engineering and Software Business” by Sjaak Brinkkemper |
| 15:00–15:30 | “A Dynamic Pricing Model for Software Products Incorporating Human Experiences” by Andrey Saltan, Uolevi Nikula, Ahmed Seffah and Alexander Yurkov [pdf] |
| 15:30–16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00–16:20 | “User Dimensions in ‘Internet of Things’ Systems: The UDIT Model” by Helena Holmström Olsson, Jan Bosch and Brian Katumba |
| 16:20–16:40 | “How do Software Startups Pivot? Empirical Results from a Multiple Case Study” by Sohaib Shahid Bajwa, Xiaofeng Wang, Anh Nguven Duc and Pekka Abrahamsson |
| 16:40–17:00 | “Towards ‘Human/System Synergistic Development’: How Emergent System Characteristics Change Software Development” by Helena Holmström Olsson and Jan Bosch |
| 17:00–17:20 | "Mobile Gamification Principles Applied to Social Engagement” by Ethan Hadar |
| 17:20–17:30 | Closing |
The Conference Proceedings
The proceedings entitled "Software Business" are published as a book by Springer, ISBN 978-3-319-40514-8.
The book is part of the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing series, volume 240, ISSN 1865-1348.
The editors are Andrey Maglyas and Anna-Lena Lamprecht.
For more information, please consult the webpage dedicated to the proceedings in the Springer website.
Previous ICSOB Conferences
ICSOB 2015 Braga, PortugalICSOB 2014 Paphos, Cyprus
ICSOB 2013 Potsdam, Germany
ICSOB 2012 Boston, USA
ICSOB 2011 Brussels, Belgium
ICSOB 2010 Jyväskylä, Finland