IWSiB 2024 will be a one-day workshop hosted by the 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024), that will be held between April 14th to 20th, 2024, in Lisbon, Portugal.

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) and the resultant development of generative artificial intelligence promise profound modifications to society regarding not only economical but also social and psychological aspects. Software engineering will also be affected by the employment of these technologies to several tasks of software development. These changes will dictate but also be influenced by the business being supported by the software. The 7th International Workshop on Software-intensive Business (IWSiB) aims to bring together different research communities working on topics relevant to software-intensive business, to jointly investigate these challenges, and to bridge the gap between different research communities. The workshop is expected to spread knowledge through vivid discussions about contemporary issues and exchange information and experiences. As such, the workshop seeks to improve research contributions through swift feedback from the community, and to develop new projects between researchers and practitioners. To this end, the workshop will be a mix of research work, interactive discussions and group activities, to maximize the potential synergy among the participants from different research fields and industry.

IWSiB seeks submissions describing novel research and emerging ideas. We are interested in studies describing original and unpublished results in the field of software-intensive business. The focus of the workshop is on new promising ideas and therefore work-in-progress reports are welcome to ignite discussion in the workshop. The paper length should not exceed 8 pages. Topics of interest include, but are not limited, to the following aspects of software-intensive business:
Software product management (e.g., strategy, planning, pricing)
Software ecosystem (e.g., engineering ecosystems, analysis of - ecosystem data, modeling of ecosystem structure and behavior, management of developer ecosystems and platforms)
Continuous practices (e.g., experimentation, innovation, improvement)
Agile & lean projects & portfolio (e.g., methods & practices, management and organizing, behavioral and cognitive factors)
Organizational management (e.g., managing technical and social debt, integrating product and business development)
Software startups (e.g., scaling, pivoting, business models)
Software platform (e.g., orchestration, governance, architecture, evolution and lifecycle)
Software engineering economics (e.g., in engineering of software or in the software industry)
Emerging trends and research areas (e.g., remote work, deep learning, AI ethics, digital twins, management of human-AI symbiosis, etc.)

Important Dates:
Paper submissions: December 7th, 2023
Paper notifications: January 11th, 2024
Camera-ready versions: January 25th, 2024
Workshop: TBD


You’ll find more details at the workshop website https://iwsib2024.github.io/


Organizers:
Jorge Melegati - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Dimitri Petrik - University of Stuttgart, Germany
Andrey Saltan - LUT University, Finland