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PROFES

- International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement

Description

This year we are arranging Profes (Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement) conference in Lasaretti, Oulu, located in the Northern Finland, June 15-17, 2009.

Profes conferences have continuously attracted participants interested in software process and product quality improvement. Traditionally, attendees were coming in equal numbers from industry, research, and academia. This confirms that the conference has provided topics, which are up-to-date, important, and interesting. To ensure that Profes will retain its high standards and that it will keep focusing on the most relevant research issues, the conference is widening its scope to the research areas collaborative and agile software development and software business. We believe that this will enable us to cover software development in a more comprehensive manner and tackle one of the most important current challenges identified by software industry and software research community - namely the shift of focus from "products" to "services".

Profes 2009 conference will offer a unique forum for industry and academic professionals to discuss their needs and ideas especially from a software as a business perspective.

Profes 2009 facilitates the exchange of ideas in a number of ways, including high-profile keynote speakers and professionals on the cutting edge, technical presentations, special activity sessions, panels, posters, code camps, workshops, tutorials, and other opportunities to exchange and elaborate the new findings.

Profes 2009 also features a PhD Symposium for PhD students.

The proceedings of Profes 2009 will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes of Computer Science (LNCS) Series (acceptance by Springer pending).

The conference brings together both industrial practitioners and researchers. New openings, domains and insights are highly appreciated. The topics of interest in the conference include, but are not restricted to, the following:

Publication opportunities in software business

• Product Focused Software Process Improvement (SPI)
• SPI in Different Software Development Areas
• SPI Methods and Tools
• Systems and Software Process Improvement
• Agile Software Development
• Systems and Software Quality
• Experimental Software Engineering
• Evidence-based Software Engineering
• Industrial Experiences and Case Studies
• Process Modeling and Management
• Outsourcing, Nearsourcing, Offshoring
• Process Assessment
• Software Business Models
• Business Relationships and Agile Processes
• Community-Based Business
• Software in Emerging Markets
• Business Relationships
• Software-as-Service
• Virtual Software Business

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