The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss the current state of Software Engineering (SE) research and Industrial Practice (IP), and advance collaboration to reduce the gap between research and practice. Research and business are coupled for the software companies which are transforming intellectual property into products, services and business concepts. However, dissatisfaction regarding the state of interaction between research and practice is not hard to find. Therefore, the challenges are to identify the gaps and to discover ways of improving collaboration, for the mutual benefit of research and industrial practice.

The workshop will have paper presentations and round table discussions. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers on topics related to the workshop. These topics include, but are not limited to:
* Business models and/or collaboration mechanisms between researchers and practitioners
* Challenges, issues, bottlenecks and gaps in adoption of research; Existing research and systematic methods which are beneficial but ignored by the industry
* Challenges, mistakes, and pitfalls in SE research-practice partnerships
* Examples of what industry wants from research
* Examples of what research wants from industry
* Industry issues, needs, and demands in which SE research can participate
* Issues, needs, and demands of SE research in which Industry can participate
* National and cultural differences in collaborations
* Practical challenges having potential for research
* Success stories and best practices from SE research-practice partnerships

SER&IP 2015 is soliciting regular and short papers. Regular papers should not exceed 7 pages and short papers should not exceed 4 pages. Papers should conform to the ICSE submission format and guidelines available at http://2015.icse-conferences.org/submission-guidelines. Please submit the papers in PDF format on EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=serip2015.

Organizing Committee
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Rakesh Shukla, Infosys Labs, Infosys Limited, India, rakesh_shukla@infosys.com*
Judith Bishop, Microsoft Research, USA, jbishop@microsoft.com
Sagar Sen, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway, sagar@simula.no
Forrest Shull, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, fjshull@sei.cmu.edu