[wos] (Fwd) Call for Papers: Workshop on Open Source Software in an

[Volker Grassmuck]

CALL FOR PAPERS
 
                                   OSSIE '04
                     2nd Workshop on Open Source Software 
                          in an Industrial Environment
                 http://mysite.fh-coburg.de/wielandt/OSSIE04

                                 part of the  
                          Informatik 2004 Conference
                        http://www.informatik2004.de/
 
                              September 24, 2004
                                 Ulm, Germany
 

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Goal of the workshop
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Open source has become an established model for software development. It
is 
today well-known in the IT world, albeit not always fully understood.
While 
there are some obvious benefits already recognized, much doubt and
uncertainty 
remains. Several aspects were discussed in last year's successful
workshop. 
We have become aware, however, that the treatment of the Open Source
phenomenon 
differs considerably between IT industry, production industry and
service 
businesses. A bank, e.g., has naturally quite different requirements and
needs 
than a vendor of home consumer goods (like refrigerators or ovens). 

The implications of the decision in favour of Free and Open Source
software in 
service oriented businesses has often been the focus of workshops and 
conferences in this area. Yet there are also many ways in which software

development in industrial companies producing capital or consumer goods
can 
benefit from Open Source communities – and vice versa. In this workshop,
we will 
elaborate on different aspects which help to establish, understand and
leverage 
this mutual profit. Participants of this workshop will be encouraged to
address 
the following topics in the scope of development and reuse of
open-source 
software in an industrial context.


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Topics
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- Business models in industry 
- Specific problems of embedded software and their open distribution 
- Corporate internal open source as an instrument of knowledge
management 
- Success stories and case studies, especially from capital or consumer
goods 
  industry 
- Aspects of adaptation of software processes to involve Open Source
projects 
- Quality assurance in projects creating or involving open source
software 
- Technical infrastructure (e.g. portals) 
- Actual and assumed legal problems 
- Accelerators and inhibitors for industrial usage of open source
software 

(Workshop homepage: http://mysite.fh-coburg.de/wielandt/OSSIE04 )


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Important Dates / Submission guidelines:
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Submit your contribution in English, in MS Word or LaTeX format. It
should have 
a maximum of five pages and be formatted according to the guidelines of
the GI 
series "Lecture Notes in Informatics". For more details and templates
see 
http://www.gi-ev.de/LNI/

Submit your paper electronically, preferably via the web site
http://www.paperdyne.de/ossie04.html (open from beginning of April). 
In case of submission problems, send your paper to:
thomas.wieland at fh-coburg.de

Important Dates
Paper Submission: 30.04.2004
Acceptance Notification: 28.05.2004
Submission of Camera-Ready Papers: 30.06.2004
Workshop Date: 24.09.2004


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Publication
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The primary form of publication will be as part of the proceedings of
the 
INFORMATIK2004 conference which will appear as part of the Lecture Notes
in 
Informatics published by the Gesellschaft fuer Informatik (GI),
Germany's main 
association of computer scientists. Furthermore, the results of the
workshop 
will be put on the workshop home page, together with PDF versions of the
papers. 


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Program Comitee
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- Prof. Dr. Manfred Broy, Technische Universität München, Germany 
- Dr. Till Jäger, Institut für Rechtsfragen der Freien und Open Source
Software, 
  München, Germany 
- Dr. Christoph Niedermeier, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, München,
Germany 
- Dr. Christian Salzmann, BMW Car-IT GmbH, München, Germany 
- Prof. Dr. Thomas Wieland, Fachhochschule Coburg, Germany


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Contact
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Prof. Dr. Thomas Wieland
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
University of Applied Sciences Coburg
Friedrich-Streib-Str. 2 
D-96450 Coburg 
Germany 

Fax: +49 (9561) 317-171
 

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