Call for Research Papers to XP2013

We are soliciting full and short research papers. Full papers are limited to 15 pages and short papers to 8 pages. Formatting guidelines can be found through: http://www.springer.com/series/7911. Papers not following the guidelines will be rejected. The conference proceedings will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing.

Areas of interest

We are inviting innovative and high quality research papers related to agile software development. Topics of particular interest in the conference include, but are not restricted to, the following:

* Foundations and conceptual studies of and for agile methods
* Living examples of agility in all areas
* Current practices and future trends, agile evolution and revolution
* Empirical studies and experiences
* Experiments in software development and their relation to agile methods
* Implications for industrial practice
* Tools and techniques for agile development
* Social and human aspects including teams
* Forming agile organizations and its implications
* Management and governance aspects
* Measurement and metrics
* Global software development and offshoring
* Systems engineering and safety critical systems
* Software- and systems architecture
* Legacy systems
* Usability
* Using agile methods in education and research
* Teaching agile methods in particular in an university contextCall for Research Papers to XP2013