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XP 2017
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The 18th International Conference on Agile Software Development
May 22-26, 2017, Cologne, Pullman Hotel, Germany

Theme: Uncovering better ways of developing software

The 18th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2017,
is the leading international conference on agile and lean methods in
software development.
The conference aims to bring together industrial practitioners and researchers
in the fields of agile software development, to collaboratively generate new
insights, and to ultimately discover better ways of developing software.

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CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS
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We invite original, unpublished high-quality research papers related to agile
and lean software development and organization.
Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the international
program committee, but we reserve the right to desk reject submissions after a
first screening on rigor and relevance.
The XP 2017 conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP). Submitted papers need
to be submitted in the LNBIP format. The paper length of at most 15 pages will
be strictly enforced.

Areas of Interest
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The topics of interest to the conference include, but are not restricted to,
the following:
* Agile approaches to requirements gathering, testing, release management
and deployment
* Tools and techniques for agile development
* Qualitative/quantitative improvement techniques for agile
processes and products
* Empirical studies and evaluations
* Agile sustainability, evolution and revolution
* Adopting and adapting agile and lean in large projects and organizations
* Agile practices in global software development and off-shoring
* Foundations and conceptual studies of and for agile methods
* Measurement and metrics for agile projects, agile processes, agile software
and agile teams
* Teaching and using agile methods in education and research

Important dates
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- Dec 23, 2016: Submission deadline
- Feb 17, 2017: Acceptance notification
- Mar 04, 2017: Camera ready deadline

Submission
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Papers should be submitted through EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=xp2017researchpapers

In addition the XP 2107 conference also solicits proposals for tutorials,
workshops, experience reports and a PhD workshop. For more information about
these, please visit the conference website at https://www.xp2017.org/

Academic Program Chairs, XP 2017
Hubert Baumeister, Technical University of Denmark
Horst Lichter, RWTH Aachen University
Matthias Riebisch, Universität Hamburg