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9th International Workshop on Learning Software Organizations (LSO 2007)
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in conjunction with Conference on Professional Knowledge Management (WM2007)
at March 2006 in Potsdam, Germany
http://www.wm-tagung.de/LSO2007
Background and Motivation of the Workshop
Software is a key element for most modern organizations. To keep pace in the accelerating business, software and software processes have to be improved continuously. However, achieving improvement requires leveraging the knowledge of highly educated, skilled, and experienced employees. A learning software organization establishes the means to manage this knowledge and turns intellectual capital into market shares and profit. This workshop will focus on experience from companies in achieving learning and tools supporting this learning.
On their way towards a learning organization, companies have to create a culture that promotes continuous learning and fosters the exchange of experience. This requires an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together experts from computer science and information systems, business and organization science as well as cognitive science. However, many questions are still unresolved in organizational learning and its application to the software business.
Furthermore, companies use knowledge management tools to support such organizational learning. Tools could be rather generic, task-independent tools or highly specialized support tools for learning in the context of specific software engineering tasks (e.g., requirements reuse tools, experience-based inspections tools).
The goal of the workshop is to discuss all aspects of learning organizations and knowledge management solutions in the Software Engineering domain. The workshop aims at the discussion of existing applications in practice, the examination of problems and limitations experienced in practice, and the search for innovative approaches to overcome problems, improve existing approaches and enable the wide-spread establishment of learning organizations in practice.
Topics
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Examples of learning software organizations and knowledge management solutions
- Experience reports on what worked and what did not work in practice
- Knowledge generation, acquisition, representation, dissemination, and maintenance in software organizations
- Tool support for learning organizations and knowledge management solutions
- Tacit knowledge capture and dissemination
- Continuous improvement of knowledge management and LSO activities
- Establishment of learning organizations in practice
- Evaluation techniques for Knowledge Management and LSO activities
- Knowledge Management approaches for agile software development processes
- Lightweight Knowledge Management approaches for LSO
- Learning software organizations and software process improvement
- Software communities that generate and maintain knowledge
- LSO approaches for open source software
Addressed Audience
The LSO workshop series is designed as a communication forum that addresses researchers and practitioners who are concerned with Knowledge Management, Organizational Learning, or experience handling in the software business in order to enable an open discussion of ongoing activities regarding the establishment of learning organizations in software industries.
Practitioners are encouraged to submit papers on successful as well as unsuccessful projects. Researchers are asked to submit papers of innovative approaches on learning organizations and knowledge management solutions. Both are also invited to present demos of systems that support organizational learning in the software business.
Important Deadlines
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1. October 2006 Submission of workshop papers
15. November 2006 Notification of acceptance/rejection
23. December 2006 Submission of final version
Submission
Papers should not exceed eight (8) pages and have to follow the WM2007 formatting guidelines (http://www.wm-tagung.de/format). Furthermore they must be submitted using the conference system in the PDF format. Papers will be evaluated anonymously by two independent evaluators from the program committee.
At least one of the authors of the accepted article has to be registered for the conference before the delivery of the camera-ready paper. Otherwise the article will not be included in the proceedings. All participants of the workshop need a registration for the conference.
Contact and Organisation
Dr. Markus Nick
Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE)
Fraunhofer-Platz 1
67663 Kaiserslautern
markus.nick@iese.fraunhofer.de
Tel +49 631 6800-1202
Fax +49 631 6800-1299
Program Committee
Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Ralph Bergmann, University of Trier, Germany
Andreas Birk, sd&m, Germany
Frank Bomarius, University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern, Germany
Bj=88rn Decker, Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Torgeir Dings=AFyr, SINTEF ICT, Norway
Raimund Feldmann, Fraunhofer USA Center for Experimental Software Engineering, USA
Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim, Universidade do Vale do Itaja=CC, S=84o =
Jos=C8/SC, Brazil
Scott Henninger, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Harald Holz, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
Knut Hinkelmann, University of Applied Sciences Solothurn Northwestern Switzerland
Grigori Melnik, University of Calgary, Canada
Michael M. Richter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
G=B8nther Ruhe, University of Calgary, Canada
Kurt Schneider, University of Hannover, Germany
Rini van Solingen, LogicaCMG and Drenthe University, Netherlands
Carsten Tautz, MITSCo-Seekport, United Arab Emirates
Rosina Weber, Drexel University, USA
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