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Special Issue on <i>Software Engineering from a Social Network Perspective</i></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">SpringerOpen Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA)</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">Deadline: July 1</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">=========================================</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><b>Guest editors:</b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">Marco Aurelio Gerosa (University of São Paulo) – <<a href="mailto:gerosa@ime.usp.br" target="_blank">gerosa@ime.usp.br</a>></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">David Redmiles (University of California, Irvine) – <<a href="mailto:redmiles@ics.uci.edu" target="_blank">redmiles@ics.uci.edu</a>></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">
Pernille Bjørn (IT University in Copenhagen) – <<a href="mailto:pbra@itu.dk" target="_blank">pbra@itu.dk</a>></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">Anita Sarma (University of Nebraska) – <<a href="mailto:asarma@cse.unl.edu" target="_blank">asarma@cse.unl.edu</a>></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><b>MOTIVATION </b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">
In today’s Internet age, the concept of social networks is emerging as both a useful means for understanding software engineering activities and a key principle for designing software tools. Social networks model how people communicate, coordinate, cooperate, and develop professional relationships, which are critical activities for a software development project. Bringing social networks to the foreground of software development practice brings a focus to its stakeholders, including developers, their managers, their support staff, QA analysts, requirement engineers, and even end users. Social networks include investigation of both the social organization of the work as well as the technical information infrastructures. The concept also helps explore the notion of network-centric organizations that are required to deal with socio-technical dependencies – including handling the relations and connections between complex software code, systems and subsystems, requirement and specification documents, etc.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">The structure of the social organization often dictates the technical structure of the product, as stated in Conway’s Law, and is a topic of ongoing research. Researchers are investigating the interplay of complex interdependencies among technical artifacts and the people who create and maintain these artifacts. Others have examined the relationships between the stakeholders based on qualitative studies and have been developing software tools to support awareness and trust in global software development. As a last example, researchers have been studying the effects of companies moving from hierarchical to network-centric ways of organizing the work and looking to leverage expertise within companies.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">However, the roles and practices involved with social networks within software development as well as the technical challenges of social network technologies within software development are yet to be further explored. Thus, we seek submissions that employ the concept of social networks either in studying software development from an empirical approach or use the concept as a central basis for developing software tool support, or do both! We seek submissions that investigate how social network technologies are currently being enacted by software development practitioners, and how the technology-in-use practices emerges. Current research on social network in software engineering is spread across a diverse set of research subareas, and we want to bring in this diverse set of approaches into this special issue. We encourage authors to specifically discuss the definition and background of their particular use of social networks in their work, as well as how the concept was beneficial for exploring software development practices and/or how designing collaborative technologies for software development.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><b>SCOPE & TOPICS OF INTEREST</b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">
Topics include but are not limited to the following:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">- Data mining for social networks in software repositories</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">
- Understanding software evolution from a social network perspective</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">- Social network analysis for enhancing specific aspects of software engineering, such as bug prediction, expert recommendation, etc.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">- Tools for supporting researchers and practitioners in analyzing social networks in software projects and ecosystems</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">
- Socio-technical networks in software development</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">- Enactment of social networks in software development</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">
- Communication practices in social networks in software development</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">- Coordination practices and organization structure as they relate to social network</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">- Information and knowledge sharing in social networks</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">- Interactions between awareness, visualization, and social networks</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">- The role of trust in software development as enacted in social networks</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">
- Social networks analysis in open source software projects and ecosystems </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">- Large scale analysis of social networks in software ecosystems</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">- Patterns and anti-patterns in social networks in software development</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">
- New requirements for supporting social network infrastructure, such as middleware, frameworks, and cloud computing environments</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">- Technologies-in-use practices of social network within software development organizations</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><b>SUBMISSION</b></div><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">JISA is an international Open Access journal published by Springer. Several bases index the journal, such as SCOPUS, INSPEC, Academic OneFile, DBLP, DOAJ, EI-Compendex, OCLC, SCImago, and Summon by Serial Solutions. So far, JISA papers have had a relative high impact (<a href="http://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=1869-0238&tip=iss">http://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=1869-0238&tip=iss</a>). </span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">JISA adopts the Open Access policy, allowing free access to the papers. Although the journal charges a fee to have a paper published in the open access model, we have *fee waivers* to assure that all quality articles will be published, regardless of the funding capacity of the authors. Please, enter in touch if you are interested in a fee waiver. </span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">Manuscripts are submitted online as described in <a href="http://www.jisajournal.com/manuscript">http://www.jisajournal.com/manuscript</a>. There is no minimum or maximum length imposed on papers, but a typical length is around 15 pages in the Springer template format. Reviewers will weigh the contribution of a paper relative to its length. Thus, papers should report research thoroughly but succinctly. </span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">There will be two independent cycles of submissions. The journal will publish the papers as soon as they are ready, thus the authors can choose in which one they want to participate.</span></font></div>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><b>- Deadline for submissions:</b> July 1 or October 1, 2014.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><b>- Author’s notifications:</b> September 19 or December 8, 2014.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px"><b>Questions?</b></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.666666984558105px">If you have any questions about the suitability of your manuscript or any other query related to this call do not hesitate to contact the theme editors.</div>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">Akinori Ihara (NAIST, Japan) </span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">Alexander Boden (University of Siegen, Germany) </span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">Andrew Begel (Microsoft Research, USA) </span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">Christian Bird (Microsoft Research, USA) </span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">Claudia Werner (UFRJ, Brazil) </span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">Cleidson de Souza (ITV & UFPA, Brazil) </span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">Kari Kuutti (University of Oulu, Finland) </span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">Kate Ehrlich (IBM, USA) </span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">Kim Herzig (Microsoft Research, UK) </span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">Marcelo Cataldo (ConnReperio, LLC, USA) </span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">Myriam Lewkowicz (University of Technology of Troyes, France) </span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">Patrick Wagstrom (IBM Watson Group, USA) </span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">Sabrina Marczak (PUCRS, Brasil) </span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">Yuanfang Cai (Drexel University, USA) </span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.666666984558105px">Yvonne Dittrich (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) </span></font></div></div></div>
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