Workshop on Information System in Distributed Environment

Vilamoura, Algarve-Portugal

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

Proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag as LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

   
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.

  
TOPICS OF INTEREST

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: http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/submitpaper/isdesub/

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

  • Paper Submission Deadline: June 29, 2009   EXTENDED DEADLINE July 10, 2009 - 23:59 CET
  • Acceptance Notification: August 05, 2009
  • Camera ready received: August 15, 2009
  • Registration Deadline: August 20, 2009
  • OTM 2009 event: November 1-6, 2009

 


Workshop Co-Chairs:

Alok Mishra, Atilim University, Turkey
Deepti Mishra, Atilim University, Turkey
Ozlem Albayrak, Bilkent University, Turkey
Jürgen Münch, Fraunhofer-Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Germany


Program Committee Members:

Amar Gupta, Arizona State University, USA
Allen E. Milewski, Monmouth University, USA
Anil Kumar Tripathi, Institute of Technology BHU, India
Antti Valimaki, Metso Automation Inc., Finland
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 Lukovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
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
Nilay Oza, VTT Espoo, Finland
Nils. B. Moe, SINTEF, Norway,
June Verner, University of New South Wales, Australia
Jürgen Münch, Fraunhofer-Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Germany
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