7th IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE)

PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil | August 27-30, 2012 http://www.icgse.org

Resolving the Challenges of Time and Distance


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Paper abstracts:                        Feb 17, 2012
Paper submissions:                   Feb 27, 2012
Workshop proposals:                 Feb 27, 2012
Tutorial proposals:                     Mar 12, 2012
Doctoral Symposium papers:      Mar 12, 2012
Notification to paper authors:      Apr 30, 2012
Industry abstracts:                     May 21, 2012
Camera-ready papers due:         Jun 01, 2012
Notification to industry authors:  Jun 11, 2012

 

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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 all the opportunities that global software engineering offers. The 7th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE)  brings together researchers and practitioners interested in solving the challenges of globally distributed teams. The ICGSE 2012 organizing committee invites academic and industrial communities to contribute to the expertise of the international global software engineering.

Practice: Global Software Engineering addresses real-world challenges, and so we especially seek industry knowledge. We invite practitioners to share
observations and experiences in the conference by publishing papers and making presentations. Industrial experiences can be submitted by means of a
half-page abstract.

Research: We also invite academic researchers to submit papers discussing GSE research and GSE education strategies. Papers presenting empirical
evidence connecting industry and research are encouraged.

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, cost-benefit-risk analysis
- Managing 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
- Communication, coordination and collaboration
- Knowledge management in distributed development
- Getting started with global software engineering
- Empirical studies of distributed teams and lessons learnt
- Processes and methods for the global environment (planned, agile etc)
- Global software development education

Authors of selected high-quality papers will be invited to submit an expanded version for a special section on Global Software Engineering in the Empirical Software Engineering Journal, published by Springer.

Submissions are invited for 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 papers that describe problems, lessons learned, solutions implemented and challenges encountered in industrial global software engineering environments. Maximum length 5 pages.
- Industry extended abstracts that summarize global software engineering approaches and experiences in industry. Maximum length half page.
- Educational papers that report experiences in teaching global software engineering at universities and organizations. Maximum length 5 pages.

We also invite proposals for the doctoral symposium, tutorials, and workshops. Further information and updates will be available at the conference website.

All submissions will be handled electronically through the ICGSE’12 web site (www.icgse.org). Papers should be submitted as PDF files which conform to the two-column IEEE CS Press format. Accepted papers as well as extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings by IEEE CS Press and be available in the IEEE CS Digital Library.

 

ICGSE’12 will be in Brazil. Porto Alegre, in southern Brazil, is one of the key industry cities in Brazil and with two leading universities, PUCRS and UFRGS.  It is easy to reach by plane from SP or Rio.  Porto Alegre is also in the heartland of Brazilian gaucho (cowboy) country. 

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Program Committee

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Steve Abrams, IBM, USA 

Ban Al-Ani, University of California Irvine, USA 

Muhammad Ali Babar, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark 

Vizcaino Aurora, Escuela Superior de Informatica, Spain 

Raja Bavani, MindTree, India 

Bernd Bruegge, Technische Universität München, Germany 

Fabio Calefato, University of Bari, Italy 

Marcelo Cataldo, CMU, USA 

Darren Dalcher, Middlesex University, UK 

Daniela Damian, University of Victoria, Canada 

Cleidson R. B. de Souza, IBM, Brazil 

Yael Dubinsky, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel 

Kevin Dullemond, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands 

Christof Ebert, Vector, Germany 

Paulo Fernandes, PUCRS, Brazil 

Jude Fernandez, Infosys, India 

Tracy Hall, Brunel, UK 

Philip Hartman, IBM, USA 

Tomoji Kishi, Waseda University, Japan 

Ronny Kolb, Honeywell, Switzerland 

Marco Kuhrmann, Technische Universität München, Germany 

Patricia Lago, VU Netherlands, Netherlands 

Filippo Lanubile, University of Bari, Italy 

Christian Lescher, Siemens, Germany 

V S Mani, Siemens, India 

John McGregor, Clemson University, USA 

Allen Milewski, Monmouth University, USA 

Audris Mockus, Avaya Labs Research, USA 

Juergen Muench, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany 

Martin Naedele , ABB, Switzerland 

Mahmood Niazi, Keele University, UK 

Maria Paasivaara, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland 

Päivi Parviainen, VTT, Finland 

Daniel Paulish, Siemens Corporate Research, USA 

Mario Piattini, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain 

Rafael Prikladnicki, PUCRS, Brazil 

Narayanasamy Ramasubbu, Singapore Management University, Singapore 

Ita Richardson, Lero, Ireland 

Raghvinder Sangwan, Penn State University, USA 

Bikram Sengupta, IBM Research, India 

Darja Smite, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden 

Balasubramaniyan Suttamally, Wipro, India 

Bedir Tekinerdogan, Bilkent University, Turkey 

Guilherme H. Travassos, COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil 

Ben van Gameren, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands 

Claes Wohlin, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden 

Cai Yuanfang, Drexel University, USA

 

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Organizing Committee
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General Chair
Rafael Prikladnicki, PUCRS, Brazil

Program Chairs
Erran Carmel, American University, USA
Rini Van Solingen, Prowareness, The Netherlands

Steering Committee Coordinator
Christof Ebert, Vector Consulting Services, Germany

Finance Chair
Ricardo Czekster, PUCRS, Brazil

Doctoral Symposium Chairs
Filippo Lanubile, University of Bari, Italy
Ita Richardson, Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland

Tutorials Chairs
Darja Smite, Blekinge Inst. of Technology, Sweden
Tayana Conte, UFAM, Brazil

Workshop Chairs
Ban Al-Ani, University of California Irvine, USA
Maria Paasivaara, Aalto University, Finland

Publicity Chairs
Eduardo Almeida, UFBA, Brazil
Alberto Avritzer, Siemens, USA
Cleidson de Souza, IBM Research Brazil
Martin Nordio, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Jude Fernandez, Infosys, India

Local Organizing Chair
Sabrina Marczak, PUCRS, Brazil

Webmaster
Roni Orsoletta, PUCRS, Brazil