Deadline extended to 31st Oct!
Now also accepting 2 page position papers.

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Agile India 2012 Research Stage

February 7-9, 2012, Bengaluru, India

http://agileindia2012.agilealliance.org

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We are proud to announce a Research Stage at the Agile India 2012
conference to be held in February, 2012 in Bengaluru, India.
Sponsored by the Agile Alliance, Agile India 2012 is a premier
international event on Agile Software Development for researchers and
practitioners alike.

We invite researchers to submit their contributions to the Research
Stage. We aim at bridging the gap between research and practice, and
encourage submission of case studies, action research studies,
grounded theory studies, experiments, surveys and literature reviews.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Architecture and Design
- Customer Collaboration
- Distributed Teams
- Large-scale Studies of Agile Practice
- Lean Principles and Applications
- Management and Business Issues
- Self-organization and Self-management
- Leadership
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Team Dynamics and Culture
- Tools and Applications
- User Experience and Interaction Design
- Agile in the classrooms

There are three types of submissions invited for the Agile India 2012 conference:

Full-paper: We invite researchers to submit original research work
that has led to significant and validated results. Full-papers are
limited to 10 pages. Authors are required to describe motivation for
research, research design/method and results. A discussion of
background and related literature is recommended. Authors of accepted
full-papers will be invited to give a short presentation at the
conference.

Short-paper: We invite researchers to submit original research work
that explore new ideas and/or have emerging results. Short-papers are
limited to 4 pages. Authors of accepted short-papers will be invited
to prepare a poster summarizing their work.

Position-paper: We now also invite 2 page position papers on proposed/early Agile research to allow researchers to benefit from early feedback from international experts on their proposed/emerging research as well as introduce innovative/speculative research topics.

Submission and Review
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Papers will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer-review process, by
reviewers selected from the program committee. Both full-papers and
short-papers will be published in the electronic proceedings and
indexed in IEEE Xplore. Papers must follow the IEEE Proceedings format
to be reviewed (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting).
Author information must be removed from submissions. Submissions must
be in PDF format.

Papers must be submitted via the EasyChair submission system by 31st
October 2011 (extended deadline):
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ai2012

Upon notification of acceptance, all authors of accepted papers will
be asked to complete a copyright form and will receive further
instructions for preparing their camera ready version. At least one
author of each paper is expected to register and present the results
at Agile India 2012.

Organization
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Conference Chair: Naresh Jain (Industrial Logic, Asia)
Research and Academic Chair: Rashina Hoda (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Stage Co-Producers: Rashina Hoda (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
and Nils Brede Moe (SINTEF, Norway)


Program Committee
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Noura Abbas, Colorado Technical University, USA
Muhammad Ali Babar, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Shilpa Bhalerao, AITR, India
Torgeir Dingsøyr, SINTEF, Norway
Yvonne Dittrich, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Yael Dubinsky, IBM Lab, Haifa
Tore Dybå, SINTEF, Norway
Jennifer Ferriera, Open University, UK
Sallyann Freudenberg, Freelance Agile Coach, UK
Orit Hazzan, Technion, Haifa
John Hosking, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Philippe Kruchten, University of British Columbia, Canada
Stuart Marshall, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
Frank Maurer, University of Calgary, Canada
Rabeb Mizouni, KUSTAR, United Arab Emirates
Sridhar Nerur, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
James Noble, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Norsaremah Salleh, IIUM, Malaysia
Helen Sharp, Open University, UK
Ahmed Sidky, Santeon, USA
Brian Toone, Samford University, USA
Ramrao Wagh, Goa University, India
Xiaofeng Wang, Lero, Ireland