Open Source
Development
Open Source Development appears as a new method to develop software that
is based on de facto rules arising spontaneously form a collaborative
environment of geographically distributed teams. On the one hand this
freedom of work practices opens the way to new techniques and practices
of software development. On the other hand it represents an opportunity
to experiment with existing techniques on a distributed and highly
collaborative environment. The success, the benefits, and the use of
techniques of the OSS development in both cases remain of local
property, though.
In this sense the overall goal of the track is to open and formalize the
knowledge about OSS development techniques with an empirical but
rigorous approach.
The track is addressed to researchers, practitioners, and industrial
people involved directly or indirectly with the development of OSS.
Contributors will participate with case and field studies that discuss
the efficiency, the applicability, and the extent of use of techniques
in the OSS development.
This includes:
- Requirements analysis in the OSS
- Design analysis in the OSS
- Agile and OSS practices of development; mutual interference or
benefit
- Testing and reliability of OSS
- Business and market strategies for OSS
- OSS development for critical systems
- OSS and Distributed Development
- Documentation of OSS projects
- CASE tool to support the development of OSS
- Management of the OSS development
- Strategies for maintenance
Submission Instructions
Submissions are invited for original research papers and proposals for
tutorials, workshops, panels, or demonstrations. The official language of the
conference is English.
Full papers should be between 3000-4000 words including references, following
the template provided in the Author's Kit section. Each submission must include
a cover page with the full title of the paper and the names of all authors. The
body of the paper should include title, abstract, list of keywords and a
complete list of references.
Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. All
submissions should be submitted electronically in either
.odt (OpenOffice.org), .rtf, .doc, .pdf or LATEX format through the
track submissions system.
Important Deadlines:
January 3rd, 2008 |
Extended Submission of Research Papers |
February 22nd, 2008 |
Results to Authors |
April 3rd, 2008 |
Camera Ready due |
7-10 September 2008 |
OSS2008 Conference in Milan |
Track Committee
Francesco Di Cerbo
Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
Jean-Michel Dalle
University Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, Paris, France
Kieran Conboy
National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Sandro Morasca
Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Varese, Italy
John Noll
Santa Clara University, US
Witold Pedrycz
University of Alberta, Canada
Gabriella Dodero
Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
Marco Scotto
Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
Stefano De Panfilis
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.a, Italy
Derrick Kourie
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Gerry Coleman
Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland
Alberto Sillitti
Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
Pär J. Ågerfalk
Uppsala University, Sweden
Olivier Berger
Dept. INF - Institut National des Télécommunications, France
Stéphane Laurière
Mandriva, France
External Board Reviewers
Morkel Theunissen
University of Pretoria, South Africa
Track Chair: Barbara Russo
Barbara Russo is associate Professor
at the Faulty of Computer Science of The Free university of
Bolzano-Bozen. She has a PhD oft he University of Trento in Mathematics.
She was visiting researcher at the Max-Plank Institut für Mathematik in
Bonn and The University of Liverpool. Her research interests are in the
field of Empirical Software Engineering and Software Measurement. Her
competences are: statistical models of software data for software
reliability and process improvement with focus in Open Source Software
and Agile Methods. She has more than 20 publications in International
journals in Mathematics and Software Engineering. Professor Russo has
experience in the coordination and development of European, national,
and local research projects (NAME (FP5), COSPA (FP6), UNISAD, ABITAE).
She is local coordinator of the European Master in Software Engineering
(in 2006 awarded as the Erasums Mundus top quality program) and the
Bachelor program for working students in Applied Computer Science (in
2006 awarded as national best project of collaboration with the
industrial sector by the foundation Giuseppina Mai of the National
Industrial Association).
