OSS 2013 - 9th International Conference on Open Source Systems (OSS2013)

Free Open Source Software (FOSS) is nowadays influencing the way organisations and individuals create, distribute, acquire and use software and software-based services. FOSS applications are supporting the web based economy and it is growingly beeing adopted by public institutions. It has become a useful instrument for educators and researchers as well as an important aspect of e-government and information society initiatives.
The transparency of its development process and its resulting open source code has become a viable alternative to closed source software. Publicly funded software development projects are often required to produce FOSS. The widespread adoption of FOSS has introcued new chalanges as new legal constraints between integrated FOSS and CSS components, requirement of a more structured development process that allows the collaboration of a larga number of stakeholders, or the requirement of a stronger quality control of the development prosess and the FOSS products. The FOSS verification is gaining momentum in FOSS communities; code debugging, and the adherance to code conventions have already an important role in FOSS projects. The adoption of other verification activites can further contribute to the quality of FOSS.
The goal of the 9th International Conference on Open Source Systems, FOSS 2013 is to provide an international forum where a diverse community of professionals from academia, industry and public sector, and diverse FOSS initiatives can come together to share research findings and practical experiences. The conference is also meant to provide information to practitioners, identify directions for further research, and to be an ongoing platform for technology transfer, no matter which form of FOSS is being pursued.
OSS 2013 accepts research papers, industry papers, formal tool demonstrations, lightning talks and posters. OSS 2013 also invites proposals for tutorials and workshops, submissions to the doctoral symposium, and submissions of panels. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, which are published by Springer. Authors are invited to submit papers and proposals on a variety of FOSS topics, including but not limited to the list of topics described in this call. The major conference theme is FOSS Verification.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
OSS Verification
Dynamic FOSS verification: FOSS testing, debugging, type of tests, use of test suits
Static FOSS verification - software analysis
Formal FOSS verification
Detection of bad practices and adoption of coding conventions
OSS metrics calculation: measuring FOSS performance, safety, and quality
Standardization of verification acitivities and availability of verification results
FOSS as innovation
Adoption/ use / acceptance of FOSS
Dissemination / redistribution / crowdsourcing of FOSS systems
Expanding scientific research and technology development methods through openness
Adopting innovation in FOSS projects
Role of FOSS in ICT and sustainable development
FOSS practices and methods
FOSS and traditional / agile development methods
FOSS and decentralized development
Knowledge and documentation management in FOSS
FOSS technologies
FOSS over the Internet
Security of FOSS
Interoperability / portability / scalability of FOSS
Open standards / open data / open cloud / open hardware / open exhibits
Reuse in FOSS
FOSS for entertainment
FOSS for education
Architecture and design of FOSS
Economic / organizational / social issues on FOSS
Economic analysis of FOSS
Sustainability business models of FOSS
Maturity models of FOSS
FOSS in public sector
FOSS intellectual property, copyrights and licensing
Non-Governmental Organizations and FOSS