[Discussioni] call for papers - workshop su Free/Libre/Open Source Software

[Andrea Capiluppi]

Ciao a tutti,

sono tra gli organizzatori del workshop FLOSS 2007, incluso nella conferenza 
ICSE 2007 a Minneapolis. Allego la call for papers, spero che a qualcuno 
interessi e che mandi qualche contributo...

Andrea

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                     First International Workshop on
           Emerging Trends in FLOSS Research and Development
                     "Feeding Back the Communities"
                   http://opensource.ucc.ie/icse2007/
                     Minneapolis, Minnesota - USA

     In conjunction with 29th Int. Conf. on Software Engineering
                   http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/icse07/


Overview
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Much software engineering research relates to open source in one or
other way, as when software engineering prototypes and tools that are
offered under open source licenses and empirical studies which are based
on mining huge amounts of available open source project data. Many open
source projects have born and nurtured in academic environments. Despite
these clearly strong relationships, the software engineering community
(both academia and industry) and the open source communities have not
fulfilled the potential of a closer collaboration. These communities
need to be brought together. For example:
- software engineering researchers need to find out effective ways to
share results with open source developers
- open source development and evolution challenge classical good
software engineering approaches, models and practice and may provide new
insights
- open source offers a rich phenomenon and ad vast amount of data but
open source developers participation in empirical studies is needed in
contextualisation of empirical results
- open source developers may benefit from getting to know the software
engineering state-of-the-art, not having to "re-invent the wheel" in
their projects

The Workshop on ``Emerging Trends in FLOSS Research and Development" is
based on the growing interest of researchers practitioners and software
industries on Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS): its scope is
discussing the phenomenon of global open source software engineering and
how to reach out to the open source community.


Workshop Objectives & Topics of Interest
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The goal of this workshop is to bring together academic researchers,
industry members and FLOSS developers, for the purpose of discussing how
to improve the collaboration in research (including communication of
results) among researchers, practitioners and FLOSS communities of
software developers, including:
- how researchers should get their research ideas used by the FLOSS
community;
- tools produced in academic research which were successfully diffused
in FLOSS communities;
- approaches, techniques and tools originally invented for and tested in
academic or industrial environments and used successfully in the open
source community, and their results;
- creation and sustenance of a FLOSS community, triggered by research
results, or a commercial initiative;
- similarities and differences between proprietary and FLOSS-oriented
software engineering research and how to bring them together;
- reports on traditional approaches of software engineering (including
requirements engineering and testing) which were successfully
established into FLOSS communities;
- relevance of empirical studies on FLOSS software to the larger
software engineering community.

To this end, we invite position papers presenting position papers,
experience reports, case studies, emergent research results and key
research questions, which serve to report on feedback obtained from or
given to FLOSS communities, and to improve the collaboration,
communication and the impact of FLOSS products, methods, tools and
organizational structures in a variety of application domains.

Relevance 
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FLOSS is now well recognized as an important research area within both
the Software Engineering and Information Systems fields, as evidenced by
the growing number of related journal papers, conference papers,
workshops and seminars. As FLOSS development continues to grow and
become an evermore pervasive and global approach to the development of
dependable software through non-traditional means (i.e., does not simply
follow the software engineering paradigm found in textbooks), this ICSE
workshop will be an appropriate place for leading FLOSS and SE scholars
to come together to discuss and exchange their research work in
progress. This workshop should also serve as a bridge between the
ACM/IEEE (ICSE) and OSS research communities, and should  provide an
opportunity  for the Software Engineering community to interact  with
and learn more about the advances of research into FLOSS development and
communities. 


Submission Process
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Submissions are maximum five pages long (max). Papers must be original
and previously unpublished. Submissions which include cases studies of
successful dissemination of results, and feedback received and/or given
to the communities, will be given the highest priority. 
Accepted papers and other materials for the Proceedings must be revised
to incorporate reviewers   comments and to conform to IEEE style
guidelines defined at:
http://www.computer.org/portal/site/ieeecs/menuitem.c5efb9b8ade9096b8a9ca0108bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=ieeecs_level1&path=ieeecs/publications/cps&file=cps_format1.xml&xsl=generic.xsl&

Templates for submissions are found at:
     * Latex:    http://opensource.ucc.ie/icse2007/style/latex/
     * Word:     http://opensource.ucc.ie/icse2007style/word/

Accepted file formats are Postscript and PDF. The details of paper and
data  submission process are available at:
http://opensource.ucc.ie/icse2007/cfp.html

Submission of papers
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     * http://cross.lincoln.ac.uk/floss2007/openconf/openconf.php

Each paper will be reviewed by the program committee based on their
technical content and their relevance to the scope of the workshop, as
well as its ability to stimulate discussion. At least one author of
accepted papers is required to register and attend the workshop. Prior
to the workshop the accepted papers will be posted on the workshop web 
page at:
http://opensource.ucc.ie/icse2007
This is to facilitate a more fruitful discussion during the workshop.

Important Dates
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Submission of workshop papers           January   20, 2007
Notification of workshop papers         February  10, 2007
Publication ready copy                  March      5, 2007

Program Chairs
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Andrea Capiluppi        University of Lincoln - UK
Gregorio Robles         Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid - Spain

Program Committee
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Cornelia Boldyreff      University of Lincoln - UK
Megan Conklin   Elon University - USA
Joseph Feller           University College Cork - Ireland
Brian Fitzgerald        University of Limerick - Ireland
Scott Hissam            Carnegie Mellon University - USA
Karim Lakhani           Harvard Business School - USA
Daniel German   University of Victoria - Canada
Michael Godfrey         University of Waterloo - Canada
Letizia Jaccheri        Norwegian Univ. Science & Technology - Norway
Patricia Lago           University of Vrije - The Netherlands
Maurizio Morisio        Politecnico di Torino - Italy
Juan Fernandez-Ramil    The Open University - UK
Austen Rainer           University of Hertfordshire - UK
Walt Scacchi            University of California-Irvine - USA
Alberto Sillitti                Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - Italy
Frank van der Linden    Philips Research Laboratories - Netherlands
Charles Weinstock       Carnegie Mellon University - USA

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