CALL FOR PAPERS

International Workshop on Software ENgineering within Social software
Environments (SENSE09)

http://www.prolearn-academy.org/Events/sense09

The SENSE workshop is held in conjunction with the Conference on Software
Engineering
(SE 2009 - http://www.se2009.de/),
Fraunhofer Institute Experimental Software Engineering, Kaiserslautern,
Germany, March 2-6, 2009

CONTEXT AND MOTIVATION

Due to the new business models of the Web 2.0 and the new generation of Web
users the development of social software requires a new SE approach. At the
same time social software brings new possibilities for the SE process.
Building on the positive experiences from the open source community we
propose the term “social software engineering” which should include both Web
2.0 style engineering and engineering of the social software. Communication
between different stakeholders, developers and end-users is an essential
aspect for successful software engineering (SE). SE presents a social
process that has to be supported by the communication enabling tools.
SE-participants can express their opinion and exchange their ideas. With the
globalization of software production, the social software can serve as a
good option for socialization of SE processes.
Special about social software is, firstly, its meritocracy; secondly, its
extreme user-orientation and, thirdly, its focus on emerging scale-free
structures. However, it is not enough to create tools using Web 2.0 business
models. The development of social software is a social process itself. Using
certain social software for SE, a community experiences endless evolution
and requires continuous adaptation of tools to their changing needs.
Therefore, the development of social software opens a new challenge for
design of SE.
The goal of the workshop is to bring together the researchers and practices
interested in engineering process of social software, which in turn
should/could be applied during software engineering. During the workshop a
state-of-the-art discussion on advanced research and open issues on social
software engineering will take place. The special focus will be put on
design process and design guidelines of social systems created for SE
support.


Workshop topics include but not limited to the following:

* Software engineering of social software
* Software engineering within social software
* Requirements engineering of social software
* Requirements engineering within social software
* Context-adaptive interaction
* Cooperative information systems
* Web 2.0 technologies
* Community-aware systems


SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research as full papers
(max. 12 pages) or work-in-progress as short papers (max. 6 pages). All
submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by three members of the program
committee for originality, significance, clarity and quality. Accepted
papers will be published online as SE2009 workshop proceedings as part of
the CEUR Workshop proceedings series. CEUR-WS.org is a recognized ISSN
publication series, ISSN 1613-0073. Revised papers of the workshop will be
published in the GI LNI series volume for SE 2009 workshops.

Authors should use the Springer LNI format.
(http://www.gi-ev.de/service/publikationen/gi-edition-lecture-notes-in-infor
matics-lni-2005/autorenrichtlinien/)

All questions and submissions should be sent to: klamma@dbis.rwth-aachen.de

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: December 13, 2008
Notification of acceptance: January 17, 2009
Workshop date: March 3, 2008

ORGANISERS

Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aaachen University
Volker Wulf, Siegen University
Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen University
Anna Glukhova, RWTH Aachen University


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Andreas Oberweis (Karlsruhe University, Karlsruhe, Germany)
Asarnusch Rashid (Forschungszentrum Informatik, Karlsruhe, Germany)
Balasubramaniam Ramesh (Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA)
Bernhard Rumpe (TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany)
Dirk Veiel (FernUniversität Hagen, Hagen, Germany)
Dominik Schmitz (RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)
Imed Hammouda (Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland)
Jörg Haake (FernUniversität Hagen, Hagen, Germany)
Matthias Betz (University Siegen, Siegen, Germany)
Matti Rossi (MetaCase, Jyväskylä, Finland)
Steffen Lohmann (University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany)
Stephan Lukosch (Delft Technical University, The Netherlands)
Tommi Mikkonen (Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland)
Volkmar Pipek (University Siegen, Siegen, Germany)
William Robinson (Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA)
Wolfgang Prinz (Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany)