OSS 2018: 14th International Conference on Open Source Systems Harokopio University Athens, Greece, June 8-10, 2018 |
Conference website | https://www.oss2018.org/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=oss2018 |
Abstract registration deadline | January 12, 2018 |
Submission deadline | January 19, 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.
Submission Guidelines
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. All authors should submit abstracts and papers through www.easychair.org website at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=oss2018
OSS 2018 also invites proposals for tutorials and workshops, submissions to the doctoral consortium, and submissions of panels. All proposals should be sent by e-mail at oss2018@hua.gr
List of Topics
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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
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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
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FLOSS practices and methods
- FLOSS and traditional / agile development methods
- FLOSS and decentralized development
- Knowledge and documentation management in FLOSS
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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.)
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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
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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
Committees
General Chair
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Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Program Chairs
- Ioannis Stamelos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Jesus Gonzalez-Barahoña, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
- Iraklis Varlamis, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Poster & Demo Chair
- Dimitrios Michail, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
Program Committee
- Akinori Ihara, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
- Alexandros Chatzigewrgiiou, University of Macedonia, Greece
- Andrea Capiluppi, Brunel University, U.K.
- Angelos Tzotsos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Antonios Andreatos, Hellenic Air Force Academy, Greece
- Anwar Al Assaf, KADDB, Jordan
- Apostolos Ampatzoglou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Barbara Russo, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
- Cornelia Boldyreff, University of East London, U.K.
- Costas Vassilakis, University of Peloponnese, Greece
- Davide Taibi, University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy
- Dimitrios Michail, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
- Dirk Riehle, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
- Fabio Kon, University of São Paulo, Brazil
- Filippo Lanubile, University of Bari, Italy
- George Kakarontzas, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly, Greece
- Guilherme Travassos, COPPE/UFRJ, Brasil
- Igor Steinmacher, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brasil
- Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Thessaly, Greece
- Ioannis Voyiatzis, Athens University of Applied Sciences, Greece
- Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
- Jens Weber, University of Victoria, Canada
- Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University, U.S.A.
- Khalid El Baamrani, Université Cadi Ayyad, Marocco
- Konstantinos G. Margaritis, University of Macedonia, Greece
- Konstantinos Tserpes, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
- Lefteris Angelis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
- Luigi Lavazza, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Italy
- Manolis Vavalis, University of Thessaly, Greece
- Maria Nikolaidi, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece
- Mei Nagappan, Rochester Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
- Minas Dasygenis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
- Mohammad Ashraf Ottom, Yarmouk University, Jordan
- Nikolaos Papaspyrou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Panagiotis Louridas, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
- Panagiotis Rizomiliotis, University of the Aegean, Greece
- Sandro Morasca, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy
- Stamatia Bibi, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
- Stefan Koch, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
- Stéfane Fermigier, Nuxeo, France
- Stefano Zacchiroli, Paris Diderot University, France
- Tommi Mikkonen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
- Valentina Lenarduzzi, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
- Vasileios Vlachos, TEI of Larissa, Greece
- Walid Karam, University of Balamand, Lebanon
Publication
OSS 2018 proceedings will be published in Springer IFIP AICT series. Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for a Journal submission.
Venue
The conference will be held in Harokopio University of Athens, Greece.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to oss2018@hua.gr