PROFES, the International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, is among the top recognised software development and process improvement conferences. PROFES organisation is composed of local and international recognised researchers in software engineering.

The objective of the PROFES is to provide a premier forum for practitioners, researchers, and educators to present and discuss experiences, ideas, innovations, as well as concerns related to professional software process improvement motivated by product and service quality needs.

PROFES 2017 has explicitly committed itself to take the first step in fostering open science in our community as a key to increase the accessibility, reproducibility, and replicability of our research outcomes.

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Submissions
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We invite submissions of

- full papers (16 pages)
- short papers (8 pages)
- workshop papers & tutorials (12 pages)
- posters and tool demos (4 pages)

related to all the topics of interest of the conference.

The conference further explicitly encourages submissions of evidencebased research papers ranging from controlled experiments to case studies and from quantitative to qualitative studies. A detailed list of important topics is available on our website.

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Important Dates
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Full Research Papers
- Abstract submission: June 9, 2017
- Submission: June 16, 2017
- Notification: July 18, 2017

*an abstract submission by June 9 is a must* to identify relevant experts from Profes PC.

Workshop/Tutorial Proposals
- Submission: March 31, 2017
- Notification: April 7, 2017

Short Papers, Tools, Demos, and Posters
- Submission: August 4, 2017
- Notification: August 22, 2017

Workshop Papers Submission details will be announced on the website after the notification of the workshop proposals.

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Open Science Practices
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PROFES 2017 has explicitly committed itself as the first conference in our field to take the first step in fostering open science in our community as a key to increase the accessibility, reproducibility, and replicability of our research outcomes. The steering principle is that all research output should be accessible to the public and that empirical studies should be reproducible.

The following web page explains our guidelines and recommendations for open data and open source, open access, and transparent discussions of the papers.
https://profes2017.q-e.at/open-science-practices/

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Organisation
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General Chair
- Michael Felderer, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Program Co-Chairs
- Daniel Méndez, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- Burak Turhan, University of Oulu, Finland

Short Papers Co-Chairs
- Federica Sarro, University College London, UK
- Marcos Kalinowski, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil

Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs
- Dietmar Pfahl, University of Tartu, Estonia
- Rudolf Ramler, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Austria

Posters and Tool Demos Co-Chairs
- Ayse Tosun, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
- Sousuke Amasaki, Okayama Prefectural University, Japan

Proceedings & Open Science Co-chairs
- Dietmar Winkler, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Daniel Graziotin, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Social Media and Publicity Chairs
- Martin Solari, Universidad ORT Uruguay, Uruguay
- Davide Fucci, University of Hamburg, Germany
- Masateru Tsunoda, Kindai University, Japan

Local Organization Chair
- Ilona Zaremba, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Boban Celebic, University of Innsbruck, Austria