Call for papers
International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2011,
5-8 October 2011, Salvador, Brazil
Software Reliability of FLOSS
Over the past decade, the Open Source Software (OSS) phenomenon has had a
global impact on the way organisations and individuals create, distribute,
acquire and use software and software-based services. OSS has challenged
the conventional wisdom of the software engineering and software business
communities, has been instrumental for educators and researchers, and has
become an important aspect of e-government and information society
initiatives. OSS is a complex phenomenon and requires a interdisciplinary
understanding of its engineering, technical, economic, legal and
socio-cultural dynamics.
The goal of OSS 2011, the first to be held in South America, is to provide
an international forum where a diverse community of professionals from
academia, industry and public administration can come together to share
research findings and practical experiences. The conference is also meant
to provide information and education to practitioners, identify directions
for further research, and to be an ongoing platform for technology
transfer.
***The major OSS2011 theme is Software Reliability. ***
Conference Topics
The conference will consist of research and industry papers presentations,
workshops, tutorials, panels, and project demonstrations. The major
OSS2011 theme is Software Reliability.
Software reliability and trust in FLOSS is key concern that is influencing
the adoption, use and development of FLOSS since its origins. How can the
community of researchers and practitioners help and shed some lights on
this issue? Authors are invited to contribute to the debate. In
particular, authors are invited to submit papers and proposals on a
variety of topics, including but not limited to:
Software reliability of FLOSS
• Measuring software reliability
• Mining FLOSS repositories for software reliability
• FLOSS vs. proprietary software
• Qualitative analysis of software reliability
• Models of software reliability
• Estimating / Predicting software reliability
• Testing and inspecting FLOSS
• Tools for software reliability
FLOSS as innovation
• Adoption/ use / acceptance of FLOSS
• Dissemination / redistribution / licensing of FLOSS
• Open Science and Open Knowledge
• Adopting innovation in FLOSS projects
FLOSS practices and methods
• FLOSS and traditional / agile methods
• FLOSS and distributed development
• Knowledge and documentation management in FLOSS
FLOSS technologies
• FLOSS over the Internet
• Security of FLOSS
• Interoperability / portability / scalability of FLOSS
• Open Data Standards
• Reuse in FLOSS
• FLOSS for entertainment
• FLOSS for education
• FLOSS architecture and design
Economic / organizational / social issues on FLOSS
• FLOSS project communities, building and sustaining
• Economic analysis of FLOSS
• Cost models of FLOSS
• Business models of FLOSS
• Maturity models of FLOSS
• FLOSS in public sector
• FLOSS in education
• FLOSS IPR and licensing
Important Dates:
5th October 2011, workshops / tutorials and doctoral consortium
6-7 October 2011, main conference
8th October 2011, workshops
8th April 2011, paper submission
8th May 2011, result to the authors
8th May 2011, early registration
OSS 2011 web site: http://oss2011.org
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Antonio Cerone
Research Fellow
UNU-IIST, Macau SAR China
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