Workshop on Information System in Distributed Environment (ISDE 2009)

Vilamoura, Portugal

Held in conjunction with OTM’09 (Nov 1-6)
http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/

Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag

Distributed information systems development, deployment and operation are the new business paradigm that organizations are adopting to meet their business challenges and derive competitive advantage. Distributed information system development, deployment and operation efforts have increased in recent years. In distributed environment, 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 system 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 environment, 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.


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

Empirical evaluations of effectiveness of distributed information system projects
SE methodologies and processes for distributed information system development
Infrastructure required for distributed information system
Effectiveness of agile methods in distributed information system
Methods and tools for distributed information system: requirements engineering, architecture, design, coding, verification, testing and maintenance
Quality, process and configuration management for distributed information system
SE education support for distributed information system development
Operational and maintenance challenges of distributed information systems
Management of risks such as organizational and cultural differences
Methods and practices for effective project performance in a distributed information system projects
Task allocation in distributed information system development
Organizational and business views
Strategic issues in distributed information system development
Knowledge transfer, knowledge management strategies and informal sharing in distributed information system development
Cognitive issues in distributed information system development, deployment and operation
Communication and collaboration in globally distributed teams
Impact of cultural and geographical differences in distributed information system
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

All submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. Papers submitted to ISDE’09 must not have been accepted for publication elsewhere or be under review for another workshop or conference. All papers will be peer-reviewed by the PC members. Two types of papers in English (in PDF format) are invited from academia and industry:

Short paper: maximum 5 pages for position papers or work-in-progress
Full paper: maximum 10 pages for research results or experience
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 paper submission site is located at: TBA

Failure to comply with the above formatting instructions for submitted papers will lead to the outright rejection of the paper without review. Failure to commit to presentation at the conference automatically excludes a paper from the proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstracts Submission Deadline: June 15, 2009
Paper Submission Deadline: June 29, 2009
Acceptance Notification: August 10, 2009
Camera ready received: August 25, 2009
Registration Deadline: August 25, 2009
CONFERENCE dates: November 1-6, 2009


Workshop Co-Chairs:


Alok Mishra Atilim University Turkey
Deepti Mishra Atilim University Turkey
Ozlem Albayrak Bilkent University Turkey



Program Committee Members:


Amar Gupta Arizona State University USA
Allen E. Milewski Monmouth University USA
Anil Kumar Tripathi Institute of Technology, BHU India
Barbara Carminati University of Insubria Italy
Biplab Kumar Sarker Primal Fusion Inc. Canada
Cagatay Catal TUBITAK-Marmara Research Center Turkey
Bernard Wong University of Technology Australia
Brahim Hnich Izmir University of Economics Turkey
Charles Wallace Michigan Technological University USA
Darja Smite Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Deo Prakash Vidyarthi Jawaharlal Nehru University India
Eyas El-Qawasmeh University of Science & Technology Jordan
Fatma Cemile Serce Atilim University Turkey
Hazim El-Baz American University, Sharjah UAE
Ian Allison Robert Gordon University UK
Ita Richardson Lero Ireland
Ivan Luckovic University of Novi Sad Sarbia
Jeffrey Carver University of Alabama USA
Jukka Kääriäinen VTT Finland
Kassem Saleh Kuwait University Kuwait
M. Ali Babar Lero Ireland
M. Rehan Atilim University Turkey
Mahmood Niazi Keele University UK
Mitko Mitev Quality House Bulgaria
Nils. B. Moe SINTEF Norway
Orit Hazzan Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Israel
Pierre F. Tiako Langston University USA
Rajnath Singh Lucent Lab USA
Randy Weinberg Carnegie Mellon University USA
Qing YAO Shandong University China
Silvia Abrahao Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Spain
Stanislaw Wrycza University of Gdansk Poland
Tom Gilb GILB Company Norway