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Software is created by people - software engineers working in varied environments, under various different conditions. Thus understanding the human and cooperative aspect of software development is crucial to understanding how methods and tools are used, and thereby improving both the creation and maintenance of software. Recently, a renaissance is occurring in this research area, with a large amount of research being published in software engineering venues as well as other research discourses. (See e.g. a special issue on Qualitative Software Engineering Research for Information and Software Technology - June 2007). Thus the time is ripe to bring together researchers to share knowledge, and further build the research area.
The goal of this workshop is therefore to provide a forum for discussing high quality research on the human and cooperative aspects of software engineering, as well as a meeting place for the nascent community that is currently distributed over several research domains (e.g. HCI, SE, CSCW, and IS).
| Cleidson de Souza |
UFPA |
cdesouza at ufpa.br |
| Yvonne Dittrich |
IT University of Copenhagen |
ydi at itu.dk |
| Helen Sharp |
Open University |
H.C.Sharp at open.ac.uk |
| Janice Singer |
NRC |
janice.singer at nrc-cnrc.gc.ca |
The main goal of this workshop is to present current research and to explore new research directions that will lead to improvements in the creation, evolution and maintenance of software in terms of both tools and processes.
A secondary goal is to consolidate the research community working on the human and cooperative aspects of software engineering, including those who typically attend ICSE and those who hail from other disciplines.
As the main goal of the workshop is to provide a venue for presenting existing work and exploring new research directions, we are interested in receiving a broad range of submissions that address the human and cooperative side of software engineering from a variety of perspectives. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
Examples of possible types of contributions include:
Prospective participants are invited to submit position papers on a topic of relevance using the same format required for the ICSE technical papers (posted at http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/events/icse2009/calls/format/). Three types of submission are available. Eight-page papers go into detail about the research, 4-page Notes papers discuss preliminary findings, and 1-page topic papers should cover very preliminary results or research ideas. Up to 6 papers will be selected to be presented to the entire group during the morning session based on the potential of the paper to raise fundamental issues of wide interest to the audience. All other papers will be presented during the poster session (see above). At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the workshop. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two reviewers, with relevance to the workshop goals, paper content and quality, and ability to generate discussion as the criteria used to determine acceptance.
All submissions will be gathered in a proceedings. The proceedings will be published to the ACM library.
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