Our call for papers is downloadable in pdf format here. We invite submissions on one of the three central themes at EPIC 2013:
1) How do science and software industry collaborate in a mutually beneficial way? What is the perceived value of empirical software engineering research, from practitioners’ standpoint? What reporting formats do practitioners in software businesses prefer from academic researchers? How to sell research ideas and how to acquire software industry partners? How to close communication gaps between research and software industry?
2) Approaches to caring out industry-relevant research and experiences in using these approaches, e.g. action research, explorative case studies, experiments, replication studies, validation and evaluation studies.
3) Software-industry-relevant empirical studies as follows:
- studies discussing lessons learnt in analyzing a problem and a solution in a specific software company (e.g., a study on improving the software process by introducing agile practices in a specific company or a study on reducing cost of software system operations by using cloud technologies);
- studies that apply theories from other fields to explain a software business phenomenon (e.g. a study applying the Net Promoter Score theory from marketing to explain a specific software business model; or a study applying social network theories to explain the collaboration patterns in open source software businesses);
- studies that present state-of-the-art practices in the software businesses (e.g. a country-specific survey on the industrial uptake of requirements engineering practices in companies);
- studies that present the impact of empirical research on software business practice (e.g. the impact on software architecture research on industry practice).
Types of Submissions
EPIC 2013 invites experience reports and research papers. We encourage both practitioners and researchers to submit papers on their experiences from participating in projects that involved university-company collaborations. We accept experiences that include successful as well as unsuccessful projects. We welcome both:
- full papers (max. 10 pages) and
- position papers (max. 6 pages).
We also invite student session papers (full paper or position paper): these papers will be work-in-progress as experienced by master students who work on their graduation projects at company sites. Such papers will be reviewed, but more ”helpfully” than “critically”, for the student session.
All submissions must use the Springer LNCS style.
Please submit your contributions here:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsobws2013
A best paper award will be bestowed on the best paper submitted.
1) How do science and software industry collaborate in a mutually beneficial way? What is the perceived value of empirical software engineering research, from practitioners’ standpoint? What reporting formats do practitioners in software businesses prefer from academic researchers? How to sell research ideas and how to acquire software industry partners? How to close communication gaps between research and software industry?
2) Approaches to caring out industry-relevant research and experiences in using these approaches, e.g. action research, explorative case studies, experiments, replication studies, validation and evaluation studies.
3) Software-industry-relevant empirical studies as follows:
- studies discussing lessons learnt in analyzing a problem and a solution in a specific software company (e.g., a study on improving the software process by introducing agile practices in a specific company or a study on reducing cost of software system operations by using cloud technologies);
- studies that apply theories from other fields to explain a software business phenomenon (e.g. a study applying the Net Promoter Score theory from marketing to explain a specific software business model; or a study applying social network theories to explain the collaboration patterns in open source software businesses);
- studies that present state-of-the-art practices in the software businesses (e.g. a country-specific survey on the industrial uptake of requirements engineering practices in companies);
- studies that present the impact of empirical research on software business practice (e.g. the impact on software architecture research on industry practice).
Types of Submissions
EPIC 2013 invites experience reports and research papers. We encourage both practitioners and researchers to submit papers on their experiences from participating in projects that involved university-company collaborations. We accept experiences that include successful as well as unsuccessful projects. We welcome both:
- full papers (max. 10 pages) and
- position papers (max. 6 pages).
We also invite student session papers (full paper or position paper): these papers will be work-in-progress as experienced by master students who work on their graduation projects at company sites. Such papers will be reviewed, but more ”helpfully” than “critically”, for the student session.
All submissions must use the Springer LNCS style.
Please submit your contributions here:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsobws2013
A best paper award will be bestowed on the best paper submitted.