Paper submission
May 30th
(23:55 - Brazil time)
Author notification
July 17th
Camera-ready submission
August 1st
Workshop day
September 29th
The Program Committee of the WDDS 2013 invites authors to submit original scientific articles, describing research results state of art reports and practice experiences in DSD. The VII WDDS is a forum dedicated to investigating problems, possibilities and potential of DSD.
The workshop will seek, through papers presentation and discussion among attendees and exhibitors:
(i) Contribute to the production of new knowledge able to enrich the discussion on DSD in Brazil;
(ii) Continue to identify the Brazilian research groups interested in this topic and consolidate the formation of a network of Brazilian researchers;
(iii) Consolidate the identification of the main research topics, in order to relate to the practices of DSD in use in several companies in the country;
(iv) Define strategies to disseminate the DSD area nationwide, encouraging collaboration between research groups and;
(v) Discuss the DSD role for teaching Software Engineering in Brazil aiming to reach partnerships for planning DSD lessons, with the participation of undergraduate and graduate students in the country and potentially abroad.
Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:
- Software architectures in distributed projects;
- Communication, coordination and collaboration aspects in distributed software projects;
- Cloud computing in distributed software development;
- Follow-the-sun strategy;
- Software ecosystems and the impacts for DSD, including open ecosystems management, community
development, evolution and maintenance of ecosystems, ecosystem-based strategies for DSD
and experience reports;
- Teaching distributed software development;
- Strategies for setting / task allocation and components integration;
- Case studies of success or failure of distributed projects;
- Empirical studies, both quantitative and qualitative of distributed software development projects;
- Tools for distributed software development, including requirements management, configuration management,
management of distributed teams, identifying experts, document sharing, among others;
- Diversity management in distributed software projects (cultural, technical, social and organizational);
- Management of distributed software projects (team building, planning, mentoring, awareness, etc..);
- Risk management in DSD;
- Knowledge management in distributed software development environment;
- Productivity metrics in distributed development projects;
- Models of distributed software development (internal offshoring, offshore outsourcing, outsourcing);
- Agile methods in DSD; and
- Industry experience reports showing results achieved and lessons learned.
FORMAT AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
All submissions should follow the formatting style of the SBC (available on the sbc.org.br). Submissions are invited for papers describing unpublished, original work, in any of the following categories:
- Research papers that describe, technical solutions, empirical studies and presenting results of interest to
the advancement of research.
- Practice papers that describe problems, lessons learned, solutions implemented and challenges encountered in DSD practices.
All submissions (research and practice papers) will be handled electronically through JEMS. Articles and reports should have a maximum of eight (08) pages. Selected papers will be included in the annals of CBSoft.
At least three members of the program committee will evaluate articles and reports. Acceptance is subject to originality and contribution to the area.
