CALL FOR PAPERS
June 8th 2020
in Copenhagen, Denmark

Hosted by XP 2020.

Software producing organizations face the challenges of changing demands, rapidly evolving technology, and a dynamic ecosystem in which their products and services need to operate. The International Workshop on Software-intensive Business: Unleashing the business potential of Software (IWSiB) brings together communities working on software-intensive business research and bridges the gap between software engineering and business research. The workshop supports the development of a research agenda for the emerging area of software-intensive business, maps challenges and best practices in the industry, and proposes new avenues for business-oriented software engineering research and practice.

THEMES
There are two paper categories: i) 8-page full papers; and ii) 2–4 page short position papers and industrial experience reports. We encourage submissions of contributions describing different stages of research, from position papers to full research reports. We welcome both research and industry papers.

IWSiB seeks submissions describing novel research, experience reports, as well as emerging ideas. We are interested in studies describing original and unpublished results in the field of software-intensive business. The focus of the workshop is on new promising ideas and therefore work-in-progress reports are welcome to ignite discussion in the workshop.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited, to the following
aspects of software-intensive business:

Business-oriented software development practices
Business practices in software development
Software product management
Business aspects of continuous, agile and lean development
Software engineering economics
Value-based software engineering
Interweaving product and business development
Software ecosystem and platform architectures, evolution and lifecycle
Ecosystem and platform orchestration and governance
API economy solutions and challenges
Software development practices in software startups
Business models of software startups
Organizational practices in software businesses
Observations of software industry and its trends
Impact of new technological and business model trends on software-intensive businesses
Industrial experience reports on challenges and best practices
that connect software engineering and business

SUBMISSIONS
We encourage submissions of contributions describing different stages of research, from position papers to full research reports. We welcome both research and industry papers.

There are two paper categories:
- Full research workshop papers (maximum 7 pages); and
- Short research workshop position papers or industrial experience reports (4 pages)

Both types of papers will be published in the post-conference proceedings, which will be archived by Springer (open access). All submissions must conform to the LNBIP formatting; please, see Springer’s instructions for authors. Papers must be submitted electronically via EasyChair.

Submit your paper in https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=xp2020. Please, remember to select ”XP2020 Research WS – The 3rd International Workshop on Software-intensive Business” as the track for yous paper.

Papers will be evaluated based on their originality, relevance to the workshop, and potential for discussion. Three members from the international program committee will review each submission.

ORGANIZERS
Xiaofeng Wang – Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
(xiaofeng.wang@unibz.it)
Paul Grünbacher – Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria
(paul.gruenbacher@jku.at)
Sami Hyrynsalmi – LUT University, Finland
(sami.hyrynsalmi@lut.fi)
Kari Smolander – LUT University, Finland
(kari.smolander@lut.fi)

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission March 17th, 2020 (AoE)
Notification April 17th, 2020
Workshop June 8th, 2020
Camera-ready July 7th, 2020

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Ville Alkkiomäki, F-Secure Corporation
Stefan Biffl, Vienna University of Technology
Jan Bosch, Chalmers University of Technology
Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University
Christoph Bussler, Google
Christoph Elsner, Siemens AG
Robert Heinrich, Karlsruher Institute of Technology
Georg Herzwurm, University of Stuttgart
Helena Holmström Olsson, University of Malmo
Slinger Jansen, Utrecht University
Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, InnoTivum Consulting
Andrey Maglyas, Maglyas Consulting
Juergen Muench, Reutlingen University
Alexander Mädche, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Anh Nguyen Duc, University College of Southeast Norway
Alexander Nolte, University of Tartu
Rafael Prikladnicki, PUCRS
Jurka Rahikkala, Vaadin Ltd
Bala Ramesh, Georgia State University
Guenther Ruhe, University of Calgary
Pasi Tyrväinen, University of Jyväskylä
Karl Werder, University of Cologne