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 | | From: | Carol Biesecker | | Subject: | Call for Papers - "Software Process - Improvement and Practice" | | Date: | Mon, 13 Dec 2004 18:35:33 +0000 (UTC) |
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 | For a special issue on "Free/Open Source Software Processes," a publication of Wiley InterScience (a group of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
*** All inquiries to Brian Fitzgerald (brian.fitzgerald@ul.ie) ***o
Important Deadlines: - Abstract submission (required): 15 February 2005 - Full paper submission: 1 March 2005 - Expected publication: Winter/Spring 2006.
Web sites: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/15482/ProductInformation.html http://www.sei.cmu.edu/community/call-opensource.html
Free/open source software (F/OSS) products and processes (development methods and practices) are being adopted on a global basis throughout the software community. However, it is unclear whether the enthusiastic adoption of F/OSS processes is justified or not. Specifically, it is unclear what processes and practices are specific to, or characteristic of the development, deployment, use, or evolution of F/OSS systems. This special issue of Software Process - Improvement and Practice seeks papers that investigate F/OSS processes from a variety of perspectives and approaches. We are particularly interested in empirical studies of F/OSS processes found in different F/OSS projects, as well as studies that employ tools and techniques for studying, mining, or modeling F/OSS processes through analysis of F/OSS source code, development artifacts, computer-mediated communications (public discussion forums, chat archives, Wikis/Blogs), Web sites, and public repositories.
For a listing of potential topics of interest, see http://www.sei.cmu.edu/community/call-opensource.html
Manuscripts should be in the range of 6000 words or 30 pages, double-spaced and with figures included. Prospective authors are advised to consult the guidelines "For Authors" at the SPIP Web site at Wiley-Interscience, http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jabout/15482/ForAuthors.html
Authors are also encouraged, where appropriate, to consider prior studies of F/OSS published in the Information Systems Journal 11(4), 2001, 12(1), 2002; IEEE Proceedings-Software 149(1), 2002; Research Policy 32(7), 2003; Systemes d'Information et Management 8(1), 2003; IEEE Software 32(1), 2004; the online proceedings of the 1st through 4th International Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering or the MIT Open Source research paper repository. See: http://opensource.ucc.ie and http://opensource.mit.edusee:
Abstracts and full papers should be submitted in either .sxw (OpenOffice), .pdf, .rtf or LaTeX format by email: To: brian.fitzgerald@ul.ie Subject: SPIP F/OSS Special Issue Submission
Or mail or fax to: Professor Brian Fitzgerald Dept. of Computer Science & Information Systems University of Limerick Limerick, Ireland Fax: +353-61-202734 ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and operated by Carnegie Mellon University.
Copyright 2004 Carnegie Mellon University.
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