13TH IEEE

/ ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON

GLOBAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
“Succeeding in the Global Software Industry”

Gothenburg, Sweden
May 27-29, 2018
Photo: Göran Assner/imagebank.sweden.se

VENUE IMPORTANT DATES

ICGSE 2018 will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, in co-location with Research papers: Experience reports:
ICSE 2018. Paper submissions: Jan 29 Abstract
• May 27, 2018 - Doctoral symposium Acceptance notifications: Feb 28 submissions: Jan 15
• May 28 - 29, 2018 - Main conference Camera-ready due: Mar 19 Camera-ready: Mar 19

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Doctoral symposium: Industry Talks:

ICGSE 2018, to be held in conjunction with ICSE 2018, aims to bring Paper submissions: Feb 15 Talk proposals: Feb 15
together researchers and practitioners to share their research
findings, experiences and new ideas on diverse themes related to
global software engineering.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
We welcome diverse contributions in the following categories:
• Research papers – full (10 pages) and short papers (5 pages), General Chair Program Co-Chair
including those dedicated to training and education Maria Paasivaara Darja Šmite
• Experience reports (by industry) (5 pages) IT University of Blekinge Institute
• Industry talks Copenhagen | Aalto of Technology
• Contributions to Doctoral Symposium (4 pages) Denmark | Finland Sweden
Local Organizing Chair Program Co- Chair
TOPICS OF INTEREST Eric Knauss Roberto Evaristo
Global Business Strategy: Business models for GSE | Strategic Chalmers | Univ. of Exospect LTD
issues | Feasibility studies | Economics | Design thinking and global Gothenburg USA
product design | Crowdsourcing Sweden
Distributed Teams: Communication, coordination, and control | Experience Report Co-Chair Experience Report Co-Chair
Team-building | Social and human aspects | Cultural diversity Jutta Eckstein Kelly Blincoe
Agile and Lean: Global DevOps | Scaled Agile for distributed teams IT communication University of Auckland
| Agile project management | Lean in Global settings Germany New Zealand
Outsourcing: Sourcing models | IPR | Supplier management | Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair
Interfaces | Due Diligence John Noll Paolo Tell
Collaboration Tools: ALM/PLM for distributed teams | Sharing | IT University of IT University of
Infrastructure | Social media support to distributed teams East London Copenhagen
Global Software Engineering Education: GSE Educational studies | UK Denmark
Lessons learned on the organization of GSE courses | GSE curricula
Industry Talk Chair Industry Liaison
We are especially interested in eliciting experiences with Lars-Ola Damm V. S. Mani
organizing, setting up, kicking-off, managing, working in, Ericsson Siemens
evaluating, improving, terminating Large-scale distributed Sweden India
projects, Distributed Lean and Agile projects, and Virtual teams. Proceeding Chair Publicity Chair
Josiane Kroll Fabio Calefato
CONFERENCE SPONSORS PUCRS University of Bari
Brasil Italy
Web Master Steering Committee Chair
Abheeshta Putta Christof Ebert
Aalto University Vector Consulting
Finland Germany

www.icgse.org