ICGSE 2012 - 7th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE)

Software and IT industries are today truly global ? and so is software engineering. The diversity of culture and the dispersion over time and space require novel techniques, tools, and practices from many disciplines to overcome challenges and to take advantage of all the opportunities that global software engineering offers.
The 7th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE) brings together researchers and practitioners interested in solving the challenges of globally distributed teams. The ICGSE 2012 organizing committee invites academic and industrial communities to contribute to the expertise of the international global software engineering community.
Practice: Global Software Engineering addresses real-world challenges, and so we especially seek industry knowledge. We invite industrial participants to share observations and experiences in the conference by publishing papers and making presentations. Industrial experiences can be submitted by means of a half-page abstract.
Research: We also invite academic researchers to submit papers discussing GSE research and GSE education strategies. Papers presenting empirical evidence connecting industry and research are encouraged.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:
Strategic issues in distributed development: business models (offshoring, nearshoring, outsourcing etc.), business case development, work distribution models, supplier selection and management, cost-benefit-risk analysis
Managing distributed software development: planning, team building, project and SLA management, managing diversity, measurements and evaluation
Methods and tools for distributed software development: requirements engineering, design, coding, verification, testing and maintenance
Communication, coordination and collaboration
Knowledge management in distributed development
Getting started with global software engineering
Empirical studies of distributed teams and lessons learnt
Software Process paradigms in the global environment (planned, agile etc)
Teaching global software development
Authors of selected high-quality papers will be invited to submit an expanded version for a special section on Global Software Engineering in the Empirical Software Engineering Journal, published by Springer.

Submissions are invited for papers describing unpublished, original work, in any of the following categories:

Research papers that describe theoretical frameworks, technical solutions, or empirical studies. No more than 10 pages.
Industry papers that describe problems, lessons learned, solutions implemented and challenges encountered in industrial global software engineering environments. Maximum length 5 pages.
Industry extended abstracts that summarize global software engineering approaches and experiences in industry. Maximum length half page.
Educational papers that report experiences in teaching global software engineering at universities and organizations. No more than 5 pages.
We also invite proposals for doctoral symposium, tutorials, and workshops. Further information and updates will be available at the conference website.
All submissions will be handled electronically through the ICGSE-12 web site (www.icgse.org). Papers should be submitted as PDF files which conform to the two-column IEEE CS Press format. Accepted papers as well as extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings by IEEE CS Press and be available in the IEEE CS Digital Library.