Call for Papers Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering -- CHASE 2014 http://www.chaseresearch.org/workshops/CHASE2014 June 2 - 3, 2014
Important Dates: Workshop paper submissions due January 31, 2014 Notification of workshop paper authors February 24, 2014 Camera ready deadline March 14, 2014 Workshop June 2 - 3, 2014 Workshop Overview: Software is created for and with a wide range of stakeholders, from customers to management, to value-added providers, and to customer service personnel. These stakeholders work with teams of engineers to develop and evolve software systems that support their activities. All of these people and their interactions are therefore central to software development. Thus, it is crucial to investigate the constantly changing human and cooperative aspects of software development, both before and after deployment, in order to understand current software practices, processes, and tools. In turn, this enables us to design and build tools and support mechanisms that improve software creation, software maintenance, and customer communication. Researchers and practitioners have long recognized the need to investigate these aspects, however, their articles have been scattered across many conferences and communities. This workshop provides a unified forum for discussing high quality research studies, models, methods, and tools for human and cooperative aspects of software engineering. We provide a meeting place for the academic, industry, and practitioner communities interested in this area, and for those who are curious to see what it is all about. To all, we provide the opportunity to present and discuss your own works-in-progress. Workshop Theme: Software engineering is about making choices and decisions. Some of the critical decisions are informed by multiple viewpoints and experiences acquired from stakeholders. Methods, tools, and techniques have been shaped over many years by best practices learned from experience, but software engineers continually face new challenges and constraints. Addressing these challenges benefits from diverse perspectives, and this workshop welcomes submissions that embrace this variety. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Software design philosophies, engineering practices, and tools that leverage human and cooperative aspects of software engineering; * Adapting tools and processes to accommodate a range of organizational and cultural situations; * Sociological and cultural characterizations of software engineering (e.g. trust, conflicts, norms); * Psychological and cognitive aspects of software engineering (e.g. motivation, rewards, personality types); * Managerial and organizational aspects of software engineering that focus on people and their interactions; * Software engineering as collaborative work, including behavioral incentives, social networking, communication, coordination, and decision-support tools; * Teamwork and cooperation in various development methodologies (e.g. agile, spiral, lean, waterfall, RAD); * Models of community-based software development, such as Open Source, crowdsourcing, and public-private partnerships, and attributes of these models (e.g. recruitment and retention of contributors, risk management); * Coordination, mutual awareness, and knowledge sharing in small-scale and large-scale software development, e.g. distributed software development, semi-anonymous collaboration, and "borderless" software teams; * Stakeholder participation in regard to design, ownership, training, degree of involvement, communication, interplay, and influence with developers, sustainability, and deployment; * Processes and tools to support communication and cooperation between stakeholders, including software developers, professionals, and customers over the lifetime of a system (requirements, design, development, testing, and maintenance). Possible contributions include: * Empirical studies of software engineering teams or individuals in situ, using methods such as ethnographies, surveys, interviews, con-textual inquiries, data mining, etc.; * Laboratory studies of individual or team software engineering behavior; * Novel tools motivated by observed needs, such as new ways of capturing and accessing software-related knowledge, software orienteering systems, communication, collaboration, awareness tools, visualizations, etc.; * Novel processes motivated by empirical investigations; * Meta-research topics, such as effective validation of interventions or research methods. Submissions We welcome 8-page full papers, 4-page short papers, and 2-page notes, in order to allow prospective attendees who are at different stages in their research process the opportunity to benefit from workshop participation. Papers should be submitted to the workshop's EasyChair site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chase2014. Please follow the ICSE formatting guidelines: http://2014.icse-conferences.org/format. Note: anyone may register and attend this workshop, even if a paper has not been submitted and/or accepted. Workshop Organizers: Helen Sharp, The Open University, UK Rafael Prikladnicki, PUCRS, Brazil Andrew Begel, Microsoft Research, USA Cleidson de Souza, UFPA and ITV, Brazil Local Advisory Board: Sandeep Athavale, Tata Research Development and Design Centre, Pune, India Yvonne Dittrich, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark and visiting Associate Professor at IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India. Program Committee: Please see the workshop website: http://www.chaseresearch.org/workshops/CHASE2014. -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).
