ICSOB 2012 - 3rd international conference on software business (ICSOB 2012)

The 3rd International Conference on Software Business will be held on June 18.-20. 2012 at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA. The ICSOB 2012 conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in the software industry, with a specific focus on the business of software.

Theme: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Software Business

Advancements in the software industry have had a substantial impact not only on productivity and on GDP growth globally, but also on our daily work and life. Software business refers to commercial activities in the software industry, aimed at generating income from the delivery of software products and software services. Although the software business shares common features with other international knowledge-intensive businesses, it carries many inherent features making it a challenging domain for research. In particular, software companies have to depend on one another to deliver a unique value proposition to their customers. New developments like Apps that run on pre-existing platforms have emerged as a major force and are creating what is being labeled as the App Economy.

Call for Papers

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. Invited are original submissions on the topics listed below, including but not limited to:

Software Development and Product Management
Software engineering management and productivity
Software quality, benchmarking and strategic management
Economic aspects of engineering of e.g. requirements, testing, design
Software product management, product life-cycles and product-line strategy
Return on investment from software engineering process improvements
Pricing strategies
Software Platforms and Ecosystems
Dynamics of software ecosystems: networks, ecologies, communities
Mobile APIs and platform competition
Mobile apps and business models
Managing complementors and external innovation
Organizational Transformation
Business impact of the Cloud, SaaS, PaaS and managed services
IPR, copyrights, innovation management and software assets
Impact of new revenue generation models, e.g., ads, subscriptions, term licenses
Current issues in operational efficiency, lean enterprise and competitive advantage
Internal software business processes
A look at future resources and competences for the software business
Industry Transformation
Increasing verticalization of some software markets
Impact of industry evolution and technological change, e.g. mobile, on-demand, cloud
Open-source software business and management
Empirical research issues in software business and management
Issues in user experience, security and “green” software
Internationalization of software firms and outsourcing
Emerging Trends in Technology and Entrepreneurship
Mobile apps and app stores
Software game business
SaaS and Cloud-based enterprise software startups
Economics of new business models for software startups
Submission:

Full research papers (12 pages), short papers (6 pages), industrial track presentations (abstract) and posters are all welcome. Accepted full papers and short papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer as a volume in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series (if at least one author of the paper attends the conference and present the paper). You may also submit tutorial proposals and workshop proposals to the conference.