Paper submission
June 10, 2011
June 17, 2011
(23:55 - Brazil time)
Author notification
July 14, 2011
July 21, 2011
Camera-ready copy
July 30, 2011
WDDS
September 29, 2011
PRESENTATION
The requirements and complexity of current software systems impose the cooperation of several development teams with different skills. Recently, these teams started working in geographically distributed settings. The software industry has been exploring distributed resources as a mean to reduce cost and development time, and also to expand to new markets. However, geographical distance has a significant impact on coordination and communication processes among members of dispersed development teams. Thus, problems and challenges intrinsic to software development processes become more critical in Distributed Software Development (DSD).
DSD is a common practice in the national and international markets. In Brazil, we find companies located in different regions that jointly develop software projects. Besides that, several multinational organizations have been developing Software projects in Brazil. In order to deal with distribution issues, several technological, organizational and social approaches and solutions have been proposed. The study of such proposals is aligned with Brazilian government programs that aim to increase the quality of software processes, and products and services, making more competitive the national software industry in the global software development context.
Following the world-wide trend of scientific events on DSD, the fifth edition of the Workshop on Distributed Software Development (WDDS 2011) constitutes a forum for researchers and industry practitioners to present and discuss their results and experiences in the area. The goal is to provide an opportunity to generate knowledge and to exchange experiences, facilitating the adoption, evaluation and execution of academic and industrial DSD projects in Latin America.
Authors are invited to submit technical papers describing research results and innovation on the state-of-the-art in DSD. Experience reports are welcome, particularly those which bring advancements on the state-of-the-practice in DSD.
TOPICS OF INTEREST (non-exhaustive list):
WDDS 2011 invites researchers, students and practitioners to submit papers related to innovation and consolidation in the DSD area. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Communication, collaboration, and coordinatino in DSD projects;
- DSD and agile methods;
- Case studies of successful and unsuccessful DSD projects;
- Empirical studies of DSD projects (quantitative and qualitative);
- Tools for DSD (requirements management, configuration management, distributed teams management, document sharing);
- Management of diversity in DSD projects (cultural, technical, social, and organizational aspects);
- Project management in DSD (human resources, project planning, mentoring, awareness);
- Teaching distributed and global software development;
- Models and environments for DSD (internal offshoring, offshore outsourcing, outsourcing);
- Report on industrial experiences presenting lessons learned.
FORMAT AND PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers can be written either in Portuguese or in English. All submissions must follow the guidelines established by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) available here. Submitted papers must be unpublished original work.
Two types of submissions are expected:
- Technical papers;
- Experience reports on industrial case studies.
All submitted papers will be evaluated by at least three members of the program committee, on the basis of originality and contribution to the DSD area. Technical papers will be judged according to their adequacy to workshop scope, originality, relevance, technical soundness and clarity of expression. Experience reports will be judged based on their adequacy to workshop scope, practical applicability, clarity of expression and contribution to advancements on the state-of-the-practice.
Papers should not exceed 08 pages and must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). The paper must be submitted using the JEMS system. For accepted submissions, at least one of the authors must register in the workshop for presenting the paper.
For further information, contact the Program Committee Chair at wdds2011@icmc.usp.br .
PUBLICATION
All accepted papers will be published in the CBSoft 2011 conference CD.
The best papers of the WDDS 2011 may be published in a journal.
COORDINATION
- Renata Fortes, ICMC/USP
- Sabrina Marczak, PUCRS
STEERING COMMITTEE
- Cleidson de Souza, IBM Brasil
- Renata Fortes, ICMC/USP
- Elisa Huzita, UEM
- Sabrina Marczak, PUCRS
- Rafael Prikladnicki, PUCRS
- Heitor Augustus Xavier, UFLA
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Alberto Avritzer, Siemens Research, EUA
- Alexander Boden, University of Siegen, Germany
- Cleidson de Souza, IBM Research Brazil, Brazil
- Daniel Lucrédio, UFSCar, Brazil
- Dante Antunes, HP Brazil R&D
- Eduardo Almeida, UFBA, Brazil
- Elisa Huzita, UEM, Brazil
- Gledson Elias, UFPB, Brazil
- Heitor Costa, UFLA, Brazil
- Jones Albuquerque, UFRPE, Brazil
- Jorge Audy, PUCRS, Brazil
- Leonardo Murta, UFF, Brazil
- Paulo Fernandes, PUCRS, Brazil
- Rafael Prikladnicki, PUCRS, Brazil
- Renata Fortes, ICMC-USP, Brazil
- Rodrigo Reis, UFPA, Brazil
- Sabrina Marczak, PUCRS, Brazil
- Tayana Conte, UFAM, Brazil
- Toacy Oliveira, COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil
