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


Abstracts due: July 1, 2016
Papers due: July 15, 2016
Acceptance Notification: August 14, 2016
Camera-ready copies: August 30, 2016 (firm deadline)
Registration due: August 30, 2016 (firm deadline)
OTM Conferences: October 24-28, 2016

Second Camera-ready upload (optional): December 1, 2016




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.


Paper submission site: http://otmconferences.org/index.php/paper-submission



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
Jürgen Münch, University of Helsinki
Deepti Mishra, Monash University



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 deAlcalá, 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
Marie-Hélène Abel, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
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