OSS 2018 Call For Papers
The 14th International Conference on Open Source Systems
Athens, Greece, 8 June - 10 June 2018
Scope of OSS 2018
Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) has had a disruptive effect on the
software industry and the ways that organizations and individuals create,
distribute, acquire, and use software and software-based services. Its adoption
continues to grow among businesses, governments, and other organizations. FLOSS
remains important for educators and researchers, as well as an important aspect
of e-government, smart cities, and information society initiatives, providing
access to high-quality software and the code used to create it. Open source
enterprise software has reached its highest point of popularity, since more and
more organizations recognize the benefits that FLOSS offers and, are bringing
open source software into their processes and even building whole businesses
around it. The implementation of open frameworks, containers and repositories
allows companies and researchers to build on a homogeneous cloud
infrastructure, where they care less about the infrastructure and more about
the services that power it.
The FLOSS movement has created new kinds of opportunities such as the emergence
of new business models, knowledge exchange mechanisms, and collective
development approaches. It has also created new challenges, by introducing
openness as a pervasive problem solving strategy in various problem domains.
FLOSS can be complex, widespread and cross-cultural and consequently, requires
an interdisciplinary understanding of their technical, economic, legal, and
socio-cultural dynamics.
The goal of 14th International Conference on Open Source Systems, OSS 2018, is
to provide an international forum where a diverse community of professionals
from academia, industry, and the public sector, and diverse FLOSS initiatives
can come together to share research findings and practical experiences. The
conference is also a forum to provide information and education to
practitioners, identify directions for further research, and to be an ongoing
platform for technology transfer, no matter which form of FLOSS is being
pursued.
OSS 2018 accepts submissions in the following categories: full research
articles, short articles, experience reports, formal tool demonstrations, and
posters. The page limit is 10 for full research articles, 5 for short articles,
experience reports and tool demonstrations, and 2 for poster submissions. To
allow for more complete and fully formatted reference lists, bibliographic
references do not count towards the page limit. OSS 2018 also invites proposals
for tutorials and workshops, submissions to the doctoral consortium, and
submissions of panels. More information on submission guidelines is available
on the conference web site: http://www.oss2018.org.
Accepted papers will be included in the
conference proceedings.
Topics of Interest
Open Source Enterprise Software and Solutions
Open source software for private and public clouds
Migration to open source software
Open source software in Development and Operation tasks
Scalability, reliability and security of FLOSS
Container technologies and solutions
Case studies and success stories
FLOSS as innovation
Adoption / use / acceptance of FLOSS
Publishing / dissemination / redistribution of FLOSS systems
Expanding scientific research and technology development methods through
openness
Adopting innovation in FLOSS projects
FLOSS practices and methods
FLOSS and traditional/agile development methods
FLOSS and decentralized development
Knowledge and documentation management in FLOSS
FLOSS technologies and applications
Security of FLOSS
Interoperability / portability / scalability of FLOSS
Open standards / open data / open cloud / open hardware
Reuse in FLOSS
Architecture and design of FLOSS
FLOSS for entertainment
FLOSS for education
FLOSS in the public sector
FLOSS in new Technologies (IoT, Wearables, AR, etc.)
Economic / organizational / social issues of FLOSS
Economic analysis of FLOSS
Business models for FLOSS
Maturity models for FLOSS
FLOSS intellectual property, copyrights and licensing
Non-Governmental Organizations and FLOSS
Integrating communities
Challenges of building and maintaining open source communities
Organization and interaction schemes in open source communities
Models and classification schemes of communities
Mining data from open source communities
Experience reports and lessons about integrating communities
Important Dates (Deadlines)
Abstracts due: January 12, 2018
Workshop, Tutorial etc Proposals due : January 12, 2018
Submissions due: January 19, 2018
Author notification: March 1, 2018
Camera-ready copy due: March 16, 2018
Early registration: April 9, 2018
Conference: June 8-10, 2018
Submission
Upload contributions in PDF format at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=oss2018
Organization
General Chair:
Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Program Chairs:
Ioannis Stamelos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Jesus Gonzalez-Barahona, King Juan Carlos University, Spain
Iraklis Varlamis, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Poster and Demo Chair:
Dimitrios Michail, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Local organizing chair:
Konstantinos Tserpes, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Advisory Committee:
Anthony Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon University, Silicon Valley, U.S.A.
Diomidis Spinellis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Gregorio Robles, King Juan Carlos University, Spain
Imed Hammouda, Chalmers and University of Gothenburg, Sweden
