Call for Papers
First International Conference on Software Business
June 21.-23. 2010, Jyväskylä, Finland
http://www.icsob.org

The advancement of software industry has had a substantial impact not only on productivity and on GDP growth globally, but also
on our daily work and life. Software business refers to commercial activity of the software industry, aimed at generating income
from delivery of software products and software services. Although software business shares common features with other
international knowledge-intensive businesses, it carries many inherent features making it an intriguing and challenging domain
for research. Until now, however, software business has received little to no attention from the academic community. The First
International Conference on Software Business brings together researchers interested in the software industry, with a specific
focus on the business of software.

The inaugural International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB 2010) will be held on June 21.-23. 2010 at the University of 
Jyväskylä, Finland. It is sponsored by the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Jyväskylä and is 
held in cooperation with Tekes, the National Technology Agency of Finland, and collaborating organizations. 

Relevant topics:
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You are invited to submit the papers addressing contemporary issues emerging on the intersection of software and business 
domains. Both papers reporting research results and industrial experiences are welcome. Invited are original submissions on the 
topics including, but not limited to:

- Business in Cloud, SaaS, PaaS and managed services
- Business models and strategies of software vendors
- Revenue generation models based on advertisements, subscriptions, packaged software, professional services 
- Resource-based view and competence in software business
- Internationalization of software firms, International outsourcing
- Vertical software markets, Impact of industry evolution 
- IPR, copyrights, innovation management and software assets
- Dominant design, open and closed interfaces and standards
- Open source software business 
- Software ecosystems: networks, ecologies and communities
- Internal software business processes, product pricing, product management, product life-cycles and product-lines
- Operational efficiency, lean enterprise and competitive advantage
- Quality and benchmarking
- Domain engineering for software business
- Measuring and competing with user experience, security and green software
- Software business management 
- Cases in software business 

Submission:
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Full papers (12 pages), short papers (6 pages), industrial best practices (abstract) and posters are all welcome. All paper 
submissions will be subject to a double-blind review process. Accepted full papers and short papers will be included in the 
conference proceedings published by Springer as a volume in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. For 
the accepted paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one author of the paper needs to attend the conference and present the 
paper.

Important Dates:
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Paper Submission:	
Jan 22, 2010
Notification:		
Feb 22, 2010
Camera-Ready:		
Mar 29, 2010

Conference Officers
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General Chair:
Michael A. Cusumano, MIT, Sloan School of Management

Program Chairs:
Pasi Tyrväinen, University of Jyväskylä
Slinger Jansen, Utrecht University

Steering Committee:
Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University 
Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University
Pekka Abrahamsson, University of Helsinki

Updated information and further details are available at http://www.icsob.org, where also the invitation to submit tutorial 
proposals and workshop proposals can be found. Please, send emails with further questions to info@icsob.org.