Call for Papers and Proposals 4th International Conference on Software Engineering Approaches For Offshore and Outsourced Development (SEAFOOD 2010) Peterhof (Saint Petersburg), Russia, 17-18 June 2010 www.seafood.ethz.ch --------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------- * Abstracts Submissions: February 22nd, 2010 - 23:00, Apia time * Paper Submissions: March 1st, 2010 - 23:00, Apia time * Notification of acceptance: April 1st, 2010 * Camera-ready papers due: April 15th, 2010 * Preliminary program: April 15th, 2010 The deadlines are strict. --------------- Keynote speakers --------------- * Ivar Jacobson Ivar Jacobson International * Richard Soley Object Management Group, Inc. --------------- Conference location --------------- SEAFOOD 2010 will for the first time take place in Russia, site of a thriving software outsourcing industry. The conference will be held at Saint Petersburg State University in Peterhof (Petrodvorets), near Peter the Great's magnificent Summer Palace. Saint Petersburg, one of the most beautiful cities in the world and the site of the Hermitage museum, is easily accessible by bus or boat; pre- and post-conference tours of Saint Petersburg will be available for participants and their companions. --------------- About SEAFOOD --------------- Industrial software development as practiced today is increasingly distributed: teams cooperate across many different locations. This new state of affairs is in particular the result of software outsourcing and offshoring (see an article) on this topic, but exists even in the absence of outsourcing. The software engineering implications of distributed development are considerable. SEAFOOD 2010, the fourth in the SEAFOOD series, examines distributed software development from a software engineering perspective. Its goals include: * Highlighting problems faced by industry and provide a forum to share good practices. * Spotlighting new processes, models, techniques and tools emerging from research efforts that are crucial to distributed development, and provide an opportunity for industry transfer. * Building a community of educators either offering or planning to offer global software development experiences for students, so as to share project plans and lessons. SEAFOOD 2010 will provide a highly structured and interactive forum for its participants. The conference will include many practical sessios including an industry panel and a educational panel. --------------- Topics --------------- We particularly invite high-quality papers that focus on processes, techniques and tools to understand, communicate and deliver on business needs in globally distributed software projects. Broader topics of interest include, but are certainly not limited to, the following dimensions of globally distributed software projects: * Strategic dimensions - scope decisions; cost/benefit analysis; value propositions; risk assessment and management; vendor selection. * Process and management dimensions - process models, including distributed agile; project management; team organization; customer/supplier engagement and relationship management; supply chain management; knowledge transfer and management; project governance; quality assurance; metrics and measurement. * Development dimensions - requirements engineering; system specification; architecture; configuration management; traceability; testing; maintenance; deployment. * Infrastructure dimensions - technology and tooling. * Social dimensions - effect of cultural differences on communication, coordination and collaboration; socialisation and community building. * Foundational dimensions - requirements and constraints that characterise offshore and outsourced processes; comparative studies of globally distributed, near-sourced and co-located software development. --------------- Submissions --------------- We invite original submissions of high quality papers in 3 distinct categories. * Research papers - technical solutions, empirical studies and survey papers. Research papers are expected to explain how the problem being addressed is relevant to the conference topics, describe the research approach, and solution papers are further to include preliminary validation. * Industry practice papers - country, industry and domain-specific reports. Industry papers are expected to provide sufficient context for understanding the challenges and insights, and to make the more general lessons for global software development clear to others. * Education and training papers - experience and proposal papers. Education papers are expected to explain the pedagogical goals of the work, critique their attainment (or not) and provide guidance for other educators. In all 3 categories: * Full papers (up to 15 pages) * Short/position/vision papers (up to 6 pages) For more details see http://seafood.inf.ethz.ch/2010/submissions.html. --------------- Publication --------------- Pending confirmation by Springer, the SEAFOOD 2010 proceedings will be, as we SEAFOOD 2009, a volume in the Springer LNBIP series. --------------- Conference Organization --------------- Conference co-chairs: --------------- Andrey Terekhov, State University of Saint Petersburg and Lanit-Tercom, Russia Martin Nordio, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Program co-chairs --------------- Mathai Joseph, Tata Consulting Services, India Bertrand Meyer ETH Zurich and Eiffel Software Organization chair --------------- Andrey Petrov, Lanit Tercom, Russia Publicity Chair --------------- Nadia Polikarpova, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Program committee members --------------- * Alberto Avritzer Siemens, USA * Judith Bishop Microsoft, USA * Manfred Broy Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany * Lubomir Bulej Charles University, Prague * Jean Pierre Corriveau School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Canada * Al Davis University of Colorado and The Davis Company, USA * Barry Dwolatzky Wits University, SOUTH AFRICA * Gregor Engels University of Paderborn, Germany * Wolfgang Emmerich University College London, UK * Victor Gergel University of Nizhnyi-Novgorod, Russia * Olly Gotel Independent Researcher, New York City, USA * Nicolas Guelfi University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg * Amar Gupta University of Arizona, USA * Mike Hinchey LERO, Ireland * Gerti Kappel Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Vsevolod Kotlyarov Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University * Vinay Kulkarni Tata Research Development and Design Centre, INDIA * Vidya Kulkarni University of Delhi, INDIA * Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil * Claudia Pons University of La Plata, Argentina * Eduardo Santana de Almeida Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Brazil * Anthony Savidis Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Greece (Crete) * Anatoly Shalyto St.-Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Russia * Beijun Shen School of Software, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China * Giordano Tamburrelli Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Huynh quyet Thang Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam * Dang Van Hung Vietnam National University, Vietnam * Bernd Bruegge University of Munich, Germany