Open Source Workshop Call For Papers

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CALL  FOR  PAPERS

The 3rd Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering
http://opensource.ucc.ie/icse2003/

International Conference on Software Engineering 2003
http://cs.oregonstate.edu/icse2003/

May 3, 2003
Portland, Oregon, USA

Building on the success of the 1st and 2nd Workshops on Open Source Software
Engineering (hosted at ICSE 2001 and ICSE 2002), the 3rd workshop will bring
together researchers and practitioners for the purpose of discussing the
diverse array of techniques - as well as supporting tools and
social/organizational contexts - which can be
observed in the domain of open source software (OSS).

Despite the constantly growing body of research on OSS, our knowledge of the
open source family of
software engineering processes is far from complete, a point raised
repeatedly by the participants of the 2nd
workshop in this series. To address this knowledge gap, we are seeking
position papers for the 3rd workshop that bring to the table empirical
descriptions and/or theoretically grounded discussions of:

- OSS tool kits and their use in addressing both general and OSS specific
software engineering challenges,
- techniques (both successful and not) utilized at any stage in the software
engineering life-cycle within OSS projects,
- social and organizational structures that support the effective and
efficient use of these tools and techniques.

Participants will be encouraged to address the tools, techniques and
structures that are involved in critical software engineering activities
such as requirements elicitation; systems analysis and design; leadership,
management and decision making; coordination and collaboration;
configuration management and version contol; testing, validation and quality
assurance; release management; debugging; system evolution; documentation
and support; translation and localization, etc.

How to Submit Position Papers:

Position papers should be submitted in PDF format to jfeller@afis.ucc.ie.
Your paper must
conform to the ICSE proceedings publication format (see
http://cs.oregonstate.edu/icse2003/) 
and should not exceed five pages, including all text, references,
appendices, and
figures. 

Submission Due Dates:

* Submission Date:         February 1, 2003
* Accceptance/rejection:   March 1, 2003
* Camera-ready Copy:       April 1, 2003

Review Process:

Submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop committee, and
blindly-reviewed by relevant subject area experts if required. Accepted
papers will appear in the printed workshop proceedings and be posted to the
workshop website for pre-workshop dissemination and post-workshop reference.
Authors of accepted position papers will be given priority for workshop
registration, provided they register by March 15, 2003. After March 15
workshop registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Selected
authors of accepted position papers will be asked to deliver
mini-presentations during the workshop.


Organizing/Programme Committee:

Dr. Joseph Feller (Committee Chair), University College Cork, Ireland,
jfeller@afis.ucc.ie
Prof. Brian Fitzgerald, University of Limerick, Ireland, bf@ul.ie
Scott Hissam, Software Engineering Institute, USA, shissam@sei.cmu.edu
Karim Lakhani, MIT Sloan School of Management/Boston Consulting Group, USA,
karim.lakhani@sloan.mit.edu

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Joseph Feller
Business Information Systems
University College Cork, Ireland
jfeller@afis.ucc.ie
http://www.josephfeller.com
http://opensource.ucc.ie