[RTC List] Open Source Systems Conference Information and Call for Papers

[Daria Topousis]

In case anyone is interested, here's information on the 2007 Open Source
Systems (OSS) conference.
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OSS 2007: THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OPEN SOURCE SYSTEMS June
11-14 2007, Limerick, Ireland

CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOPS, TUTORIALS, PANELS AND DEMONSTRATIONS

 <http:///> http://oss2007.dti.unimi.it/

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 2007 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.

Conference Topics

Authors are invited to submit papers on a variety of OSS topics, including
but not limited to:

OSS Historical Foundations and Emerging Trends Public and Private Sector
Adoption of OSS Solutions OSS, Open Science and "Open Knowledge"

OSS, Health Services Management and E-Health Knowledge Management,
e-Learning and OSS OSS Education and Training Socio-cultural Dynamics of OSS
OSS and Social Networks OSS Usability, Scalability, Maintainability and
other quality issues Tools and infrastructures for OSS Development
Architectures and patterns for OSS Development Techniques and processes for
OSS Development OSS and Agile Development OSS and Distributed Development
Documentation of OSS projects Licensing, IPR and other legal issues in OSS
Free software and GPLv3 OSS and Innovation OSS and e-government OSS Business
models and strategies Cost, value and economic models of OSS Empirical
analysis of OSS including surveys, field studies, case studies, experiments
and experience reports

Important Deadlines:

Jan 12th, 2007 Submission of research papers Feb 9th, 2007 Notification of
acceptance Mar 1st, 2007 Submission of final papers

Instructions For Submission:

Submissions are invited for original research papers. The official language
of the conference is English.

Full papers should be between 3000-4000 words including references, with a
12pt serif font and 1.5 line spacing. Each submission must include a cover
page with the full title of the paper and the names of all authors. The body
of the paper should include title, abstract, list of keywords and a complete
list of references.

Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. All submissions
should be submitted electronically in either .sxw (OpenOffice.org), .doc,
.rtf, .pdf or LATEX format through the conference website.

General Chair:

Walt Scacchi

UCI Institute for Software Research

Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences University of
California, Irvine, USA  <http://www.ics.uci.edu/~wscacchi>
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~wscacchi

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