Sixth International Workshop on Information Systems in Distributed Environment (ISDE’15)
part of the OnTheMove Federated Conferences & Workshops, Rhodes, Greece, 26-30 October 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS

The distributed development of information systems as well as their deployment and operation in distributed environments impose new challenges for software organizations and can lead to business advantages. In distributed environments, business units collaborate across time zones, organizational boundaries, work cultures and geographical distances, something that ultimately has led to an increasing diversification and growing complexity of cooperation among units. The real-world practice of developing, deployment and operation of information systems in globally distributed projects has been viewed from various perspectives, though technical and engineering in conjunction with managerial and organizational viewpoints have dominated the researcher’s attention so far. Successful participation in distributed environments, however, is ultimately a matter of the participants understanding and exploiting the particularities of their respective local contexts at specific points in time and exploring practical solutions through the local resources available.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

Suggested topics that this workshop will endeavor to address include, but are not limited to, the following:

Distributed development of information systems
Software engineering methodologies and processes for distributed development of information systems
Feature selection for distributed information systems
Evolution of distributed information systems
Ecosystems for distributed information systems
Agile methods for distributed development of information systems
Continuous integration and deployment of distributed information systems
Development of information systems in the cloud
Information system architectures suited for distributed development
Organizational and business views
Strategic issues in distributed development of information system
Management of risks
Knowledge transfer, knowledge management strategies and informal sharing in distributed development of information systems
Cognitive issues in distributed development of information systems, their deployment and operation
Empirical evaluations of effectiveness of distributed information systems projects
Infrastructure required for distributed information systems
Methods and tools for distributed information systems: requirements engineering, architecture, design, coding, verification, testing and maintenance
Quality, process and configuration management for distributed information systems


IMPORTANT DATES

Full Paper Submission Deadline: July 31, 2015
Acceptance Notification: August 25, 2015
Camera Ready Due: Sept 1, 2015
Author Registration Due: Sept 1, 2015
OTM Conferences: October 26-30, 2015


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. All submissions must be in English. Submissions should be in PDF format and must not exceed 10 pages in the final camera-ready format. The final proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Author instructions can be found at:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

The extended versions of the best papers will be selected for a special issue of reputed SCI indexed international journal (Computer Standards and Interfaces -Elsevier).

Paper submission site: http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper

Failure to comply with the above formatting instructions for submitted papers will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review.


WORKSHOP CHAIRS:

Alok Mishra
Atilim University, Turkey

Jürgen Münch
University of Helsinki, Finland

Deepti Mishra
Atilim University, Turkey


Program Committee Members:

Adam Wojciechowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Amar Gupta, Pace University, USA
Allen E. Milewski, Monmouth University, USA
Alexander Norta, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Adel Taweel, Kings College, London, UK
Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy
Cagatay Catal, Istanbul Kultur University, Turkey
Casper Lassenius, Aalto University, Finland
Daniel Rodríguez, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
Deo Prakash Vidyarthi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Ita Richardson, University of Limerick, Ireland
Juan Garbajosa, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Jukka Kääriäinen, VTT, Finland
Marco Kuhrmann, TU Munich, Germany
June Verner, University of New South Wales, Australia
Kassem Saleh, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Liguo Yu, Indiana University, South Bend, USA
Luis Iribarne, University of Almeria, Spain
M. Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia
Mahmood Niazi, Keele University, UK
Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK
Orit Hazzan, Technion, Israel
Ricardo Colomo-Palacios, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Silvia Abrahao, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Srini Ramaswamy, ABB, USA