Fourth International Workshop on Information Systems in Distributed Environment (ISDE’13)

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.

Suggested topics that this workshop will endeavour 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: June 16, 2013

Acceptance Notification: July 2, 2013

Camera Ready Due: July 16, 2013

Author Registration Due: July 16, 2013

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 a reputed SCI indexed international journal.

The paper submission site will be announced later. 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 (preliminary):

Adam Wojciechowsk, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Adel Taweel, King’s College, London, UK

Amar Gupta Arizona State University USA

Allen E. Milewski Monmouth University USA

Alexander Norta University of Oulu Finland

Anil Kumar Tripathi IIT-BHU India

Barbara Carminati University of Insubria Italy

Bernard Wong University of Technology Australia

Cagatay Catal Istanbul Kultur University Turkey

Charles Wallace Michigan Tech USA

Cigdem Gencel Blekinge Institute of Tech Sweden

Deo Prakash Vidyarthi Jawaharlal Nehru University India

Ian Allison Robert Gordon University UK

Ita Richardson Lero & University of Limerick Ireland

Juan Garbajosa Technical University of Madrid Spain

Marco Kuhrmann TU Munich Germany

Jukka Kääriäinen VTT Finland

Kassem Saleh, Kuwait University Kuwait

Liguo Yu Indiana University USA

M. Ali Babar Lancaster University UK

Mahmood Niazi Keele University UK

Orit Hazzan Technion Isreal

Qing YAO Shandong University China

Ricardo Colomo-Palacios Universidad Carlos III Spain